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Cold Comfort | Episode 7 | Hello Central
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Richard Beneville, mayor of Nome, Alaska, Credit: Nick Mott
If there's one thing everybody's heard about the Arctic, it's that sea ice is melting, and that's bad news. But what's less well-known is that some...

Bought by KSKQ, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 4
All Mixed Up-2018 Election
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Fanning The Flames
A Mid-Term Mashup featuring examples of the importance of voting, and avoiding the pitfalls of political fear & loathing in 2018

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 1
Making the Decision to Fight (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-We talk with one of six people suing the Trump administration for rescinding DACA, a program that allows people who came to the U.S. as undocument...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KXCV, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 9
Making the Decision to Fight (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-We talk with one of six people suing the Trump administration for rescinding DACA, a program that allows people who came to the U.S. as undocument...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WJCT, KRZA, WFHB, WLPR and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 12
Cold Comfort | Extra 1 | Scenes From Svalbard
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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Take a trip through the Norwegian archipelago, meet workers in the tourism industry, and get a glimpse of some charismatic Arctic megafauna. Plus, ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 18:33
  • Purchases: 1
Can a Progressive Candidate Win in Rural America?: Anthony Flaccavento
From: Laura Flanders
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Anthony Flaccavento is running for the US House seat in Virginia's 9th district, a large, sparsely populated region in the southwestern corner of t...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
Kingston Calling: Making Media Into Action
From: Laura Flanders
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For many, mass movements have made them aware of media's failure to inform and represent them. Activists are now working to make their own media, a...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
Cold Comfort | Episode 6 | The Things I Can See On the Mountains
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Ulf Isak Aleksandersen is 10 years old, and speaks three languages: Norwegian, Sámi and English. , Credit: Amy Martin
After thousands of years of tradition, a shifting climate is forcing changes in the way Sámi families herd reindeer. But some climate solutions are...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 4
Cold Comfort | Episode 5 | Just Decide
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Amanda Kernell, film director and screenwriter, Credit: Carla Orrego Veliz
Everyone's heard of Vikings -- their daring North Atlantic voyages, their mysterious runes. But there's another ancient culture in Arctic Scandinav...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
Cold Comfort | Episode 4 | Becoming Arctic, Becoming Human
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: A trombonist plays on installation day, Credit: Studio Granada Architects
An eight-ton concrete ball and a 32,000-year-old needle collection. What's all this got to do with the Arctic? Find out on this episode of Threshold.

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMPG and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 6
Episode 2: How Puerto Ricans are restoring power to the people through Mutual Aid
From: Tom Llewellyn
Series: The Response
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After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, a group of activists formed a community kitchen to help feed those in need. That community ki...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Cold Comfort | Episode 3 | Impermafrost
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: A group of researchers collect data on methane releases from Arctic lakes and wetlands., Credit: Amy Martin
All across the Arctic, frozen soil is thawing out. A lot of stuff is buried there -- plants and animals that lived more than 10,000 years ago. What...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, PRX Remix, Wyoming Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 6
Cold Comfort | Promos
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Orbis et Globus from the air, Credit: Studio Granada Architects
Promos for Season Two of Threshold

Bought by Prairie Public, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Wyoming Public Radio, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 4
Two-Acre Nation: A Pilgrimage to Zaqistan
From: Benjamin Bombard
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In 2005, an artist in Brooklyn went on eBay, bought two acres of land in a remote part of Utah, and declared it a de facto sovereign nation: Zaqist...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 33:50
Cold Comfort | Episode 2 | Invisible Hands
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Winter storms are eating away at the island, but moving the whole community is expensive., Credit: Amy Martin
When a major storm hit Shishmaref, Alaska in 2005, it became a poster child for climate change in the Arctic. Dramatic pictures of houses falling i...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, KPIP-LP, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 5
The Year of the Woman (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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- In Virginia, an unprecedented number of women were elected to the House of Delegates last year. We hear from some of those women about what it wa...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, KXCV and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
Cold Comfort | Episode 1 | The Water is Wide
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Brent and Elmer play along the shoreline at dusk, Credit: Nick Mott
In Shishmaref, Alaska, no one’s asking if climate change is real. What they want to know is how bad it has to get before the world decides to act.

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio, KPIP-LP, KSFR and more


  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 6
Ganesh doesn't care
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The God Ganesh at a temple in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
The Fort Bend county Republican party in Texas tried to appropriate Ganesh and discovered that you can’t lasso an elephant so easily.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
10 years after the crash: Recovery Not for All
From: Making Contact
Caption: Nomi Prins and Julianne Malveaux
This month is the ten year anniversary of the stock market crash of 2018. Nomi Prins talks about her new book, “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigg...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
Michael Saunders Talks Water and Modern Medieval Warfare
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Meet another candidate for Director of Georgetown Divide Public Utilities District (GDPUD)

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 02:35:07
Minnesota Native News: Decisions Pending on Minneapolis Homeless Encampment
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
Caption: Joy Friedman with MIWRC hands out snacks to those gathered in the tent camp., Credit: Melissa Townsend
This week reporter Melissa Townsend has the latest on a homeless tent camp in Minneapolis. There are roughly 300 people - mostly Native - in the ca...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KMSU, KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 10
Cricket and the Goddess
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Author Devdutt Pattanaik, Credit: Sandip Roy
Now that the Indian Supreme Court has decriminalized homosexuality, the real battles begin. The battle over what is and isn’t “Indian."

  • Added: Sep 17, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Cold Comfort | Preview
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Grímsey Island from the air, Credit: Studio Granada Architects
What is the Arctic, how is it changing, and why does this matter to all of us?

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Right to Dissent (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-What happens when we push back against injustice? When we stand up for what we think is right? Does the Constitution protect us? All of us? From t...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 12
Cindy Garcia assesses GDPUD
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Welcome back to some more small town politics, this time it's the Georgetown Divide water district, and Cindy Garcia gets right to the heart of cur...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:21:35

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