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This program is about Matilda Joslyn Gage, who lived from 1826 to 1892 and was a vibrant and leading figure in the suffragist movement of that cent...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Civil disobedience often precedes most social or political change. The American political tradition has deep roots in civil disobedience. The Bosto...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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The Virtues of Aging Considering the alternatives, growing older is really not all that bad. The frame of mind that we develop and carry with us a...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Legal Notebook: How to Keep Open Meetings Open and Public Meetings Public The right of the public to know how our government acts is basic to our ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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In this edition of Radio Curious, we visit Dennis del Castillo and Mercedes Lu, two environmental activists from Peru. I met with them in Lima, Per...

  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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A look at why Rogers was so influential in his time and still talked about today

  • Added: Mar 05, 2020
  • Length: 01:01
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Spoiled: The Dangerous Truth About a Food Chain That Has Gone Wild In this Halloween, 1997, edition of Radio Curious, I spoke with Nicols Fox, the...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Professor Erika Lee
We like to think of America as a country that, until recently, welcomes immigrants. In reality, that’s never been the case. You may have read abou...

Bought by KCBX and KRZA


  • Added: Dec 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Few moments in American history have held the tension of the early 1970s. The nation was fundamentally divided between the jaded counter-culture an...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Attorney Linda Kremer, a Public Defender in Marin County, California, worked for thirteen months in Phnom Phen, Cambodia, in 1996 and 1997 as Direc...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of ...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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In Hong Kong Mixtape II, guest producer Him Cheung of Contemporary Musking Hong Kong introduces sound art projects that respond to volatile current...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 34:43
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The Greening of America & Opposing the System The market economy often seems to have many inherent problems. Indeed, a Marxist historical view pre...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Cherry Woodburn (left) and Gary Emmert (right) editing audio., Credit: Texas Folklife
Gary Emmert was interviewed by Cherry Woodburn about his military experience. Gary enlisted when he was 18-years-old as a combat engineer, and reti...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 06:37
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Democracy in America In 1831, a 25 year-old Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, trained as a lawyer, and preoccupied with democracy, came to the US t...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Domingo Sarmiento, a teacher and later President of the Republic of Argentina, spent several years traveling in Europe and the United States in the...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Lee McIntyre
We now live in what’s called “The Post-Truth Era.” That means feelings carry more weight than evidence, and alternative facts replace actual facts....

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Genetically engineered food products are an issue that concerns many. In more recent years, Mendocino County has gone so far as to pass a resolutio...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Freddie Meeks, sailor in the disaster at  weapons shipping depot in Port Chicago, Calif., holds a picture of himself as a young seaman  July 14, 1994. He died in 2003. , Credit: (AP Photo/Chris Pizzelo)
Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...

Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States of America, stands as one of the lead political theorists of American history. His ward...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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My guest in this program was Dr. David Kiersey, the author of a book called “Presidential Temperament.” Dr. Kiersey took the Meyers-Briggs Tempera...

  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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America’s Future: Transition into the 21st Century William Boyer, a Professor Emeritus and the former Chairman of the Department of Educational Fo...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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This archive edition of Radio Curious was originally recorded and broadcast in January of 1992 when Radio Curious was called “Government, Politics ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
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Mary Harris Jones, Mother Jones, was born in 1830. She lived a quiet, non-public life until she was approximately 47 years old and then, for almost...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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New releases from some Night Cafe favorites.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2019
  • Length: 58:56