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Learning to appreciate the city pigeon
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Reporter Martina Castro interviews a pigeon, Credit: Elizabeth Young
So what? I’m a little obsessed with pigeons. I’m not sure when it started exactly, but at some point I realized I couldn’t keep my eyes off of them...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 3
ABMLI 1- Twisting In the Wind PSA
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: American Black Male Leadership Institute Radio
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The American Black Male Leadership Institute Public Services Announcement #1

  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: 01:10
Rice Bucket Challenge
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Shiva Shankar from Hyderabad gets his niece Vaishnavi from Pune to donate rice to a woman who works there
Sandip Roy investigates the latest social media challenge and finds out what all this 'Rice' is about.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Political Junkie 8-13-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Hillary Clinton's not known as someone who says whatever she’s thinking, certainly not when it has the potential to make headlines … or create wave...

Bought by KCCU Radio, KUER, WRKF, WXXI Rochester, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 5
Planetary Radio Live: LightSail Countdown Begins!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Bill Nye at the LightSail countdown celebration., Credit: Loren Roberts
LightSail, the Planetary Society’s innovative solar sail cubesat, will ride into space on the huge SpaceX Falcon Heavy, now in development. Bill N...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
Political Junkie 6-4-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Political Junkie host Ken Rudin and Washington Post political reporter Aaron Blake talk Tuesday's primary results in Mississippi, California, and N...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRKF, and KUER


  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 4
Political Junkie 5-21-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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The big primaries of the week were the Senate contests in Kentucky and Georgia. Al Cross of the Louisville Courier Journal talks about the Bluegra...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRKF, KUER, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 5
Political Junkie 5-14-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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It's going to be a long primary season. So maybe we should decide right now that the strength and influence of the Tea Party should not be determi...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRKF, and KUER


  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 5
Political Junkie 5-7-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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At long last, the 2014 primaries have arrived, in earnest. Judging by the results in Ohio and North Carolina, it was a great week for the GOP estab...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUER, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRKF and more


  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 6
Political Junkie 4-30-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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So how do you run your campaign in 2014 if you're a Democrat and your president's job approval numbers are not so good? That's the question host K...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRKF, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 6
Political Junkie 1-29-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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The State of the Union is... strong. And so is this week's Political Junkie! Former Clinton speechwriter Paul Glastris joins us with an assessmen...

Bought by WRKF and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jan 29, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Will Pullman Ever Be Revitalized?
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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A post-industrial neighborhood considers whether to market its history ... or start a Pullman 2.0

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 19, 2013
  • Length: 09:21
  • Purchases: 1
"Fourth of July: Firework Safety"
From: WFHB
Series: Better Beware!
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Happy Independence Day! Tomorrow is the 237th birthday of the United States and following long-established American tradition, lots of us are going...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 05:02
"Go But Don’t Get Taken: Tourist Cons"
From: WFHB
Series: Better Beware!
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Are you planning a summer vacation this year? Correspondent Rich Fish entertains us with a collection of classic tourist cons to make sure your mon...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2013
  • Length: 04:56
"Swiping and Smishing: Smartphone Scams and Tablet Trickery"
From: WFHB
Series: Better Beware!
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Host Rich Fish swipes away at scams targeting smartphones and tablets. From smishing to bluebugging, the mobile market has introduced a whole new p...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 04:48
"Move Your Money: Rental Scams and Moving Scams"
From: WFHB
Series: Better Beware!
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Summer is moving season and Rich Fish has advice for renters AND homebuyers on how to make sure your money moves with you.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2013
  • Length: 04:59
"A Nation Unto Myself: Sovereign Citizen Scams”
From: WFHB
Series: Better Beware!
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Rich Fish debunks the outrageous swindles of the so-called "sovereign citizen" movement whose members peddle home purchase scams, tax evasion scams...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 04:39
"Investment Scams: Too Good To Be True?"
From: WFHB
Series: Better Beware!
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Rich Fish has a red alert from the Secretary of State's office on an investment scam racing through the Hoosier state. We'll tell you how to spot a...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 04:51
31. Support Public Radio
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry
Caption: "Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry", Credit: Brittany Jencks
Some listeners take our pleas for support quite literally!

  • Added: May 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
"Spring Cleaning: Storm Damage and Contractor Scams"
From: WFHB
Series: Better Beware!
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Spring has finally sprung and that means spring SCAMS are cropping up like mushrooms with no morels. Rich Fish looks at storm damage repair scams a...

  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:34
"The Indiana Attorney General's Top Ten Complaint Categories"
From: WFHB
Series: Better Beware!
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Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has released the top ten consumer complaints received by his office in 2012 and FOUR of the categories are ne...

  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
"Tax Time Scams: Refund Anticipation Loans and Identity Theft"
From: WFHB
Series: Better Beware!
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Host Rich Fish kicks off our annual Tax Time series with a look at tax prep scams and the legal but outrageous ripoff known as the Refund Anticipat...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:59
"Home is Where The Money Is: Buying a House or Keeping the One You?ve Got"
From: WFHB
Series: Better Beware!
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Are you buying a house, or selling one? Or are you worried about losing the one you’ve got? We herald the arrival of homebuying season with a look ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
Episode 25: Teach a Man to Fish
From: Cate Morrison
Series: The Beauty Salon
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Let's go fishing in the Ocean State! Crabs, fish, clams and rods this week on the Beauty Salon

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 30:01
Episode 27: White snow, RED paint
From: Cate Morrison
Series: The Beauty Salon
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Winter is here! The sights, sounds and smells of winter, with Mark Rothko on the stage.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 30:00