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In this provocative radio essay, a commonplace encounter with racial profiling opens the door to the vast and painful reality of racism in the Unit...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WYAP
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Radio Curious visits with Orell Massey, a black sheriff's deputy in rural Mendocino County, Ca, who shares his experiences as a black sheriff in a ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 58:02
Nailah Stevenson talks candidly about why she stayed in an abusive relationship. And when she realized it was time to go.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 08:04
In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada lies the San Juan Ridge. On the Ridge, tucked away amongst towering pines, flanked by two forks of the Yuba R...
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 28:25
Radio Curios visits with former Pentecostal pastor turned athiest, Jerry DeWitt. He's the author of the memoir “Hope After Faith: An Ex-Pastor’s ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2013
- Length: 29:01
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
Radio Curious discusses incarceration and solitary confinement from the prisoner's perspective with Steven Czifra, a 38 year old undergraduate stud...
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 58:02
Notes, thoughts and observations from a lifelong NYC biker on the art of cycling ( I have the broken bones to prove it )and what the real lesson is...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 57:53
For some soldiers, post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, really is a four-letter word. A PTSD diagnosis means you may need treatment for the res...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KHNS
- Added: Aug 29, 2011
- Length: 08:54
- Purchases: 5
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
For many of Louisiana's oyster shuckers, shrimp peelers, and deckhands, survival after the BP oil spill meant accepting one-time payments of $5,000...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 17, 2011
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 1
Shailja Patel’s unique artistry is a provocative global mash-up of genres.
- Added: Jul 13, 2011
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 2
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
The 700-member Pointe-au-Chien indian tribe south of Houma, Louisiana was one of the first communities to take a direct hit from the BP oil spill. ...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 06, 2011
- Length: 07:59
- Purchases: 1
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton believe in forgiveness, but from different perspectives.
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 4
Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 29:03
Law professor Peter Keane believes even the worst criminals deserve to have someone on their side.
- Added: Jan 05, 2009
- Length: 04:12
- Purchases: 2
Can gender be a do-it-yourself project?
- Added: Jun 27, 2008
- Length: 28:07
- Purchases: 5
His seventh year in the competition, Marvin says this piece is about his love of graffiti. Marvin Gutierrez is 16 years old and a member of Kuumba...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 02:56
Anti-war activist, Medea Benjamin takes her pro-democracy and pro-environment activism to new heights with CODEPINK. And Burmese activist Saw Mya...
- Added: Feb 22, 2008
- Length: 29:00
Commentator Natasha Watts asks listeners to consider the real costs of the prescription drug addiction epidemic in communities across the country.
Bought by WITF and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 14, 2008
- Length: 02:10
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Sep 08, 2005
- Length: 58:56
"When All Else Fails" is a first-person account of a man undergoing electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock (Award Winner:...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 03, 2004
- Length: 21:19
- Purchases: 2
