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Queens Memory Podcast- Seeing Signs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: The "Little Manila" Mabuhay mural, represents welcome, best wishes and life. It greets you in bright yellow on a sky-blue field on the wall of Amazing Grace Restaurant, evoking the taste and fragrance of the Filipines. Calamansi fruits and sampaguita blos, Credit: Jake Hofileña
This episode is from the Queens Memory Podcast, a project archiving stories from Queens, New York. “Little Manila” is a Filipino enclave dating ba...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
IE: Inside Europe, 5/19/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: It's gloves off as Turkey's presidential election goes to a second round. Hopes fade of finding those still missing months...

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Cryptomania: How Cryptocurrency Can Save—or Destabilize—a Country
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we take a deep dive into the global world of cryptocurrency.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Boris Out, Liz In: The Global Impact of the British Election
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we break down the global implications of new British leadership and then travel to Northern Ireland, where the fate of a B...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
World in Progress 01/20/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Uncertain futures - The COVID-19 pandemic has not only lead to a global health crisis, but also to economic hardships. S...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Help with Unvaccinated Adult Daughter & Holding Journalists Accountable
From: Chuck Wolfe
Caption: Protect your loved ones
Norm, like many others, is struggling with how to relate to his adult daughter who refuses vaccination. Bob has an idea for how to stop, or at leas...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 39:38
Tracing the Peace Line in Northern Ireland
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On the centenary of Northern Ireland’s birth, we look at the lines and borders that define it.

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Use the Emotion Roadmap to Handle Toxic Political Discussions in the Workplace
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Can't believe we are talking about politics again!
Caller really likes his job and the people he works with but he is constantly dealing with polarized political discussions. He wants help knowing h...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 10:23
Community Safety in a Time of Insurrection
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Democracy: A National Temperature Check
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Disinformation, polarization, growing economic inequality, attempts to undermine elections and the rights of women and racial minorities—all of the...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Life During COVID
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: unhappy masked man, Credit: https://snappygoat.com/free-public-domain-images-man_depressed_hoodie_unhappy/rbaXF2P4I275TeGAlqcCb1xcuuBZmgLxsv7PXwyGPcX1.html#,0,0.73b9015dfe5a5122dd72979ddbb7ad50a2964544
The COVID 19 pandemic has transformed all of our lives in some way. But some are feeling the impacts more than others. Take healthcare workers, for...

Bought by Radio Catskill, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Part 2 of The Pandemic Inside: Covid-19 and Prisons
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Joseph V. Conte Facility., Credit: Broward County Sheriff’s Office
In a two-part series, we look at how COVID-19 has torn through prisons and how organizers are trying to push state and local governments to release...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Mar 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Canada's Slavery Secret
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week we take a look at Canada and its history of Black enslavement. Canada, our northern neighbor, is rarely mentioned when we talk about the ...

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Spectrum/ Science unscripted 08/18/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Schools open, antibodies fall & horses and llamas help - In this episode, co-host Gabe returns from the worst-hit coun...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
The Captain's Log Project Volume 13
From: KXCI
Series: The Captain's Log Project
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Inspired by Star Trek and Captain Kirk’s logs recording his life in space, your host Amy A. explores life in the Covid19 era by asking community me...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 25:01
The Captain's Log Project Volume 12
From: KXCI
Series: The Captain's Log Project
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Inspired by Star Trek and Captain Kirk’s logs recording his life in space, your host Amy A. explores life in the Covid19 era by asking community me...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 25:01
Listening to Our Braver Angels
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Red, blue, rich, poor, country, city, left or right. Chances are you probably fall into one of those categories. And you may be quite happy where y...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Captain's Log Project Volume 11
From: KXCI
Series: The Captain's Log Project
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Inspired by Star Trek and Captain Kirk’s logs recording his life in space, your host Amy A. explores life in the Covid19 era by asking community me...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 25:01
The Captain's Log Project Volume 10
From: KXCI
Series: The Captain's Log Project
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Inspired by Star Trek and Captain Kirk’s logs recording his life in space, your host Amy A. explores life in the Covid19 era by asking community me...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 25:00
The Captain's Log Project Volume 9
From: KXCI
Series: The Captain's Log Project
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Inspired by Star Trek and Captain Kirk’s logs recording his life in space, your host Amy A. explores life in the Covid19 era by asking community me...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 24:57
The Captain's Log Project Volume 8
From: KXCI
Series: The Captain's Log Project
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Inspired by Star Trek and Captain Kirk’s logs recording his life in space, your host Amy A. explores life in the Covid19 era by asking community me...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 25:01
The Captain's Log Project Volume 7
From: KXCI
Series: The Captain's Log Project
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Inspired by Star Trek and Captain Kirk’s logs recording his life in space, your host Amy A. explores life in the Covid-19 era by asking community m...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jun 15, 2020
  • Length: 25:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Captain's Log Project Volume 6
From: KXCI
Series: The Captain's Log Project
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Inspired by Star Trek and Captain Kirk’s logs recording his life in space, your host Amy A. explores life in the Covid-19 era by asking community m...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2020
  • Length: 25:01
The Captain's Log Project Volume 5
From: KXCI
Series: The Captain's Log Project
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Inspired by Star Trek and Captain Kirk’s logs recording his life in space, your host Amy A. explores life in the Covid-19 era by asking community m...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 25:02