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Author, journalist and public health expert Laurie Garrett discusses her new book about 911, "I Heard The Sirens Scream."
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Sep 11, 2011
- Length: 55:03
- Purchases: 1
Liam Carroll was a stock broker for Morgan Stanley and was working at the South Building of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11th when it was struck...
- Added: Sep 10, 2011
- Length: 59:10
The tenth anniversary of 9/11 is a good time to recognize the importance of public employees.
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 03:43
"Reflections of 9-11" is a one-hour program Hosted by KUMD's Lisa Johnson, commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a conversati...
Bought by 'The Sea' and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 55:48
- Purchases: 2
The response of the New York maritime community to the events of September 11, 2001.
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRGY, KHNS, WLRN and more
- Added: Aug 19, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 14
A recent poll shows forty percent of Americans still think Gulf seafood isn’t safe to eat. Commercial fishermen in Bayou La Batre are fighting to w...
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 05:34
The Alabama beach tourism industry was hit hard by the Gulf oil spill, and it could take years before local officials know if visitor businesses ha...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 05:39
One concern raised by the Exxon Valdez experience is the long term mental health impact, which didn’t hit residents near Prince William Sound until...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 05:46
Bob Donald is the talk of the town in Gulf Shores near Alabama’s beaches. Before moving to the beaches, he and his wife lived in Valdez, Alaska dur...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 05:11
President Obama's State of the Union 2011. Raw audio available for air, editing and excerpting.
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 01:02:02
Stories about the Corps of Discovery and the Endurance of Native Tribes who helped them.
Bought by WCPN, KISU, KQED, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Morehead State Public Radio and more
- Added: May 27, 2010
- Length: 58:52
- Purchases: 10
It was 40 years ago this month that Walter Reuther died, yet the auto workers' leader remains an important inspirational figure.
- Added: May 20, 2010
- Length: 04:33
A commentary on labor leader Harry Bridges, one of the 20th century's greatest leaders of any kind, on the anniversary of his death.
- Added: Mar 18, 2010
- Length: 04:21
We'll introduce you to the Catholic AIDS Action staff in Namibia and their commitment to improving the lives of their countrymen stricken with HIV/...
- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 28:00
It's a time of celebration in Eastern and Central Europe -- a time to recall the beginning of the "Velvet Revolution" in Prague that led to the end...
- Added: Nov 14, 2009
- Length: 03:20
Excerpts of KUOW-FM's live coverage of the WTO demonstrations.
- Added: Sep 28, 2009
- Length: 16:08
Non-narrative profile of Meredith Emmett, president of The Watts Hospital-Hillandale Neighborhood Association in Durham, North Carolina.
- Added: Sep 02, 2009
- Length: 06:04
It's the 75th anniversary of "Bloody Thursday," the day in July of 1934 when open warfare between police and striking longshoremen raged on San Fra...
- Added: Jul 02, 2009
- Length: 04:45
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan LipkeSeries: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:19
- Purchases: 3
It began on New Years Day 1923, when a white woman in a small Florida (saw-)milltown claimed that a black man had attacked her. By the week's end, ...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 59:31
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 20, 2008
- Length: 04:47
New Orleanians reflect on their lives in the three years since the failure of the Federal Levees resulting from Hurricane Katrina
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 28, 2008
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 1
One-hour documentary **UPDATED for the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Bought by WVAS, WMNF, WRVO Public Media, KMUN, KWIT and more
- Added: Aug 26, 2008
- Length: 55:36
- Purchases: 8
Updated documentary to mark 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel, the 1948 War, and the Palestinian "Nakba"
Bought by Room Tone Selects, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, WGBH Radio Boston, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Apr 21, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 18
Approaching the April 16 anniversary of Virginia Tech shootings, this show explores how healing can start to take place after atrocities, near and ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2008
- Length: 29:19
