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2024-05-05 The Legacy of Freud
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Sigmund Freud was born May 6, 1856.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering September 11, 2001: "The Fall"
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets, Credit: Poems by Susan Cook
On the anniversary of September 11, In Memoriam , "The Fall" (submitted 9/16/2013 in "Blue: American Sonnets" to the Beatrice Hawley (now Alice Ja...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 1
Journal of Discovery
From: KALW
Caption: "Dispatches" Producer Eric Wayne and Host Sandip Roy enjoy a moment in San Francisco, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip began his Dispatches from Kolkata thinking he would tell listeners in the Bay Area stories from India to show that we were ultimately all co...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Smithsonian Associates: The Culture Wars: How Can We Lower the Temperature?
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
As the US nears its 250th anniversary, cultural conflicts risk overshadowing this milestone. Smithsonian Associate Clay Jenkinson, a public humanit...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 40:40
Too Soon? The First Family 60 Years On
From: Mike Flanagan
Caption: The First Family, Credit: Courtesy Cadence Records
A 60th Anniversary review of the funniest album of the Kennedy era. The Grammy Award winning Album of the Year that was ultimately withdrawn from c...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 57:17
25 years since Matthew Shepard: Where are we now?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Where are we with LGBTQ+ civil rights and safety since Matthew Shepard's brutal 1998 murder? How can we curtail ongoing hate-based violence? The Ma...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Oregon Public Broadcasting, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, KUOW and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 9
International Day of the Girl Child: We're NOT number one
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The United Nations designates October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, promoting empowerment and rights of girls to safe, educated, ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Hispanic Heritage Month: the United Farm Workers & a Surprise!
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
It's Hispanic Heritage Month, so let's recognize their leaders, and raise a glass to the founder of the United Farm Workers. If you’re thinking Ces...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 03:01
The Choirs Kept Singing of Freedom - Birmingham Sunday Remembered
From: David Kattenburg
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In the annals of racist terrorism, few acts were more hideous or cowardly than the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 34:47
The First 9-11
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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A year after SCOTUS banished abortion rights, millions of American women and girls face dire threats to their health and emotional well-being. Twen...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2023
  • Length: 56:42
Memorial Day - Honor the Military Dead, and Some Others Too
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Memorial Day is when we honor those who died while serving in the armed forces. It dates from 1866, when women decorated graves from both sides of ...

  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
Chuck D & Rosa Clemente: Hip Hop's Unfinished Revolution
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Chuck D of Public Enemy famously called Hip Hop "the Black CNN". As Hip Hop celebrated its 50th anniversary this year, Laura talks with him, and Br...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
A Day To Remember Radio Modules - April 3-7, 2023
From: KUCO
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Date-based history modules for broadcast April 3-7, 2023. Run time 02:45 for all episodes.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 13:45
2023-02-12 The Philosophical Legacy of Darwin
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Charles Darwin (born February 12, 1809) fundamentally changed our understanding of human life—for better or for worse?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, and KMUN


  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Howard Zinn at 100: A People’s History, Urgent Lessons for the Present
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Historian Howard Zinn would have turned 100 in 2022. His monumental work, A People’s History of the United States, published in 1980, continues to ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Crip Camp and The Disability Justice Movement
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Crip Camp is a Peabody Award-winning documentary from Netflix and Higher Ground Productions that tells the story of Camp Jened, a summer camp in th...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KWMR, KMUN and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Future of the AIDS Memorial Quilt
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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The AIDS Memorial Quilt is displayed in San Francisco. "Civic" hears from activists and officials about future plans for combating AIDS.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
While SF Fought COVID, HIV Prevention Efforts Stalled
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, resources were diverted from HIV prevention to battle the new health threat. "Civic" talks to doctors about how that ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Voices of the Past Cemetery Walk 2021: Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we went to the Winona County History Center to hear the 22nd annual voices from the past cemetery walk. They talked all abo...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 38:58
The Secret Meeting that Transformed the World Economy
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, NPR’s Chief Economics Correspondent Scott Horsley talks with Jeffrey Garten, former Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton Admi...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
We Knew JFK: Unheard Stories from the Kennedy Archives
From: WeKnewJFK.org
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Memories from JFK's confidantes recorded just after the assassination. Hosted by legendary journalist Robert MacNeil. (Also available short compan...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WCPN, WNIJ, WITF, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 105
The Chairman’s Corner-- a weekly podcast with Mary Anne Carter
From: National Endowment for the Arts
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The Chairman's Corner is a weekly podcast with Mary Anne Carter, Chairman of the Arts Endowment where we'll discuss issues of importance to the art...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:25
Amistad
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Oil painting of La Amistad off the coast of Long Island , Credit: Courtesy of the New Haven Museum
This week on World Ocean Radio: part four of the five-part Slavery: Heritage and Identity series. In this episode we discuss the history of La Amis...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 05:30
May 4th Voices: Kent State 1970
From: WKSU
Caption: From WKSU, Wick Poetry Center and Kent State University
The 67 shots that rang out at Kent State amid a May 4,1970 Vietnam War protest, killing four students and wounding nine, reverberate nearly 50 year...

Bought by KUT, KWGS, WVTF, KTEP, KQED and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 29
This Week in Water for October 27, 2019
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Climate Catastrophe Is Coming and Americans Could Face a Grim Future, Says the U.S. Army. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report abo...

Bought by WRIR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KKFI, KRZA and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2019
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 7

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