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Vintage Bernie Sanders 1991
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a 1991 conversation with Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who had just begun his political career as a freshman in congre...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 29:02
Wrapping up 2015 for Women
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Well we did it. Made it through another year. Women have had some good news, and some bad news. What with wars, floods, police shootings, terroris...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Dec 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
What To Do After Paris?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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With Amb. Chas Freeman, a freethinking veteran of foreign service, and the French journalist Sylvain Cypel, we’re in the Open Source situation room...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KMXT, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 4
Allan Wolper talk to Ed Kashi
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Ed Kashi is a photo journalist whose sensitive lens has captured the racial profiling in Europe, the turmoil in Syria and Iraq, the West Bank, the ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
Another Year of Republican Fools?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Halloween is behind us, but I’ve still got some scary news. We’ve started the one-year countdown to election day. We’ve already been bombarded fo...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
One Woman Onstage Won't Save the GOP
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
It was down to the wire before a decision was made to include Carly Fiorina, the only woman in the race, in this week’s Republican presidential deb...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Leanne Brown
From: Chad Dougatz
Series: Sandi Klein's Conversations with Creative Women
Caption: Leanne Brown
Kitchen skill, not budget, is the key to great food.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
What's Your Kid Packing for Campus?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The NRA won the gun control debate long ago. So with the right to bear arms no matter the consequences firmly established in U.S. law and psyche o...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Political Theater, Black Men and the Police
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Michael Gene Sullivan, the resident playwright, director and a principal actor in "2015: Freedomland," a political and th...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
Economist Robin Hahnel about the road ahead for Greece,
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Economist Robin Hahnel about the road ahead for Greece, their inspiring example to the world in the ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2015
  • Length: 27:43
Religious Freedom Laws: More Than Gay Weddings at Stake
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The so-called religious freedom laws Republican candidates seek are fig leafs for discrimination against gay couples.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
GOP Wish List on Obamacare Hurts Women Most
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
There’s an old saying “be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.” That applies in spades to Republicans who have voted over 50 ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 19, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Next Chapter - Program 78
From: Allen Hundley
Series: The Next Chapter
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Investigative reporter Judy Bachrach talks about her new book Glimpsing Heaven. Scientists may have underestimated green energy's potential for fi...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2015
  • Length: 57:53
Failing Our Youth: An Inadequate Foster Care System
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Nicole Rocke and daughter., Credit: Leticia Miranda
This show takes a look at issues within the foster care system in the U.S. from the high rate of teen pregnancy to the alarming use of psychiatric ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 2
Trans-Pacific Partnership and Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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The 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership has been causing conflict of late, with a broad range of disagreements over key provisions and debates inte...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 05:45
What Money Can't Buy
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Seven years after the credit crunch, we know the markets have rebounded. Executive pay is back up; the public sector’s still shrinking relatively a...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
#BlackLivesMatter: Alicia Garza on the Origins of a Movement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza tells the story of how that phrase, and the movement came to be.

Bought by WCPN, XRAY.fm, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
States of Censorship: Journalism Under Attack
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Imprisonment, oppressive laws, and harassment of journalists - these are just a few means of censorship around the world. The use of these repressi...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Love or Fear: Which Motivates Us More?
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Competing essayists Jennifer Nelson and Jason Steck debate the question "Love or Fear: Which Motivates Us More?" at the 2014 "Great American Think ...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Losing the Peace
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Our guest David Blight reminds us that Americans are re-fighting the Civil War 150 years after it ended. Historians, he said, “buried the questions...

Bought by WRPI and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Heat of the Moment: Sea Level Rise
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Climate change is here affecting weather conditions and sea levels. In India it's also having a more surprising influence on the country's tigers. ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
#23 MIW Christian Calinsky - Body Piercer and Homeless Youth Advocate
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Christian Calinsky on MIWq, Credit: Oddua Productions
With Akeisha Johnson, your show host, this episode of Making it Work, Christian will share his journey from being a homeless youth to becoming a ca...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jonathan Goff Says Let’s Redirect an Asteroid
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of an astronaut collecting a sample from a retrieved asteroid., Credit: NASA
ARM is the Asteroid Redirect Mission, and sometimes it seems that it doesn’t have a friend in the world. But it does, and Jonathan Goff of Altius S...

Bought by KMUD, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Racism in America:  One Man's Experience
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious continues its series on racism in a conversation with Bill Durham, a 59 year old black man from Ohio who now lives in Mendocino Count...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
Violent Extremism, East and West
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Next Wednesday the White House is convening a summit on ‘countering violent extremism.’ The details are sketchy — a press release announces that th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1

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