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Ai Weiwei: How Do We Save Our Humanity?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In “ZODIAC: A Graphic Memoir”, the renowned artist Ai Weiwei writes that artists should “ignite stories”, “fight for freedom” and “help us hope.” O...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: May 01, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
In Good Faith - Grief
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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On this podcast, our guests discuss how to respond to grief, and how their faith helps them do so.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
In Good Faith - Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg and Barbara Brown Taylor
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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Women of faith share their beliefs in holistic repentance and religious envy.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 1
Grandma inspired first lesbian Calif. Supreme Court Justice
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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California Supreme Court Associate Justice Kelli Evans, the first out lesbian on the state's high court, was raised by her grandmother in public ho...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
In Good Faith - Lt. Cl. Ruth N. Segres & Elissa Bjeletich
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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Exhibitions of spirit as one commits themselves to daily faith.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
761: You're Not OK. That's OK. / 762: Writing The Climate Change Story, 1/21/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "You're Not OK. That's OK." - One of our producers created a yard sign. It reads: "You're not OK. That's OK." 300 signs later, it's causi...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
743: Going For Broke: Can Work Be Love? / 744: Everything Is Exhausting, 11/19/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Can Work Be Love?" - In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, t...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
739: Going For Broke: Change Of Address / 740: Traditional Knowledge, 11/5/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Change of Address" - In the first episode of a three-part series on the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Man...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
Going For Broke, Part One: Change Of Address
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
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In the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke," all about the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Many of us would consider it a basic...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WGBH Radio Boston, WKSU, WGUC/ WVXU, Iowa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Coping 101: Recovery Programs
From: C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
Series: Coping 101
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Doing the work to help ourselves makes it possible for us to be able to help others. In this episode of C89.5's student-hosted Coping 101 podcast, ...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 35:31
Gay Calif. Supreme Court Justice values struggle
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Martin Jenkins makes history as the first openly gay Supreme Court of California justice, and only the third Black man ever to serve on the state's...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Finding Reliability
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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On October 3rd, 2010 Jeremy Bigelow was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. It's been a long road, but the road cont...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Albert Woodfox
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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WDET's Jerome Vaughn talks with Albert Woodfox, author of "Solitary."

Bought by Michigan Radio, WKAR, and WCMU Michigan


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
531: The Personal Politics Of Sports / 532: Artificial Creativity, 11/7/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Personal Politics Of Sports" - Silent protest on the football field. Basketball on the reservation. This hour: When sports get polit...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:59
United We Dream and the Fight for Immigration Justice
From: When We Fight, We Win!
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How was the largest student immigrant movement in the US built? What are the deep-rooted issues and adversity that immigrants face in the USA today...

  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 44:40
RDD: Bright Young People
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In the 1920s, "The Bright Young Things," or "Bright Young People," was a nickname given to young aristocrats or socialites in London. There were on...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2019
  • Length: 06:20
297: Against Cynicism / 298: Repeat When Necessary, 8/11/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Against Cynicism" - Why is the world so cynical? This hour, an irony-free exploration of cynicism. HOUR TWO: "Repeat When Necessary" -...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
RDD: There's still Hope
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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We're traveling outside northwest Ohio on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries meeting Tarek Ismail, the Senior Staff Attorney in the Creating L...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 1
Making Her Bed
From: Matthew Simonson
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19 million Americans are affected by hoarding. Cape Cod resident Maryanne found help through Clutterer's Anonymous. She is dedicated to improving h...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 3
Susan Alan, Interim Director of the National Farm Worker Ministry, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Susan Alan, NFWM
Interview: Susan gives the history, mission, and actions of the National Farm Worker Ministry, a faith-based organization committed to justice for...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 1
The Areng Valley Listening Project with Kat Eng
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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On this episode of "Don't Cha Know", we visit with a former Winonan who is traveling to the Areng Valley in the Cardamoms Protected Forest in south...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2014
  • Length: 09:56
Dave & Amy Freeman back from 2,000-mile expedition Paddle to D.C.
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Minnesotans and National Geographic Adventurers of the Year Amy and Dave Freeman just returned from canoeing, portaging and sailing over 2,000 mile...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 19:14
  • Purchases: 1
Off-Ramp Presents: Norman Lear, legendary TV producer, helped TV grow up
From: john rabe
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Patt Morrison interviews legendary TV producer Norman Lear, whose credits include groundbreaking shows "Maude" and "All in the Family."

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 06:15
Make Dreams a Reality
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Don L. Brown, author of “Morphine Dreams: Delusions of Grandeur or Relentless Ambition?  Sometimes it’s Hard to Tell the ...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
John Register on Hurdling Adversity & Disability: Mind Over Matter Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: John Register, Credit: johnregister.com
This week on Culture Clique, Olympian John Register speaks to us about the disabled community. While training for the 1996 Olympics, Register fell ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 27:47