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Political Junkie 12-17-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Republicans in Congress were prepared to agree to a fairly innocuous budget deal with the Democrats with little fuss. But many conservatives were n...

Bought by WRKF and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie 12-10-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Nelson Mandela's passing brought this week's Political Junkie show back to the mid-1980s, when Washington was split over how to deal with the South...

Bought by WRKF


  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
Political Junkie 12-3-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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We know for certain that President Obama pardoned a turkey this Thanksgiving. But is Healthcare.gov a turkey as well? Host Ken Rudin speaks with W...

Bought by WRKF and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie 11-26-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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The word of the week is “nuclear,” and the latest Political Junkie show is all over it. First, Political Junkie host Ken Rudin talks with Cameron ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WRKF


  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie 11-19-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Political Junkie Ken Rudin talks with Wall Street Journal congressional correspondent Siobhan Hughes about the changing fortunes on Capitol Hill. D...

Bought by WRKF and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie 11-12-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Host Ken Rudin welcomes back his old friend from NPR's Talk of the Nation, Neal Conan, to the Political Junkie. They talk about the emergence of Ch...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WRKF


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie 11-6-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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The 2013 Elections are over, and though the winners aren't a surprise, some of the insights are. Political Junkie Ken Rudin talks to NPR's Mara Lia...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
Political Junkie 10-29-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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With less than a week to go before the 2013 elections, Political Junkie Ken Rudin speaks to Stu Rothenberg, the editor and publisher of the Rothenb...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 29, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
Political Junkie 10-22-13
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Our long national nightmare is over! Political Junkie Ken Rudin and NPR's Senior Political Editor Ron Elving team up this week to tackle the world ...

Bought by KCRW


  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
Managed Car: An Additional 210 Seconds On How to Triple Car Insurance Premiums
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: The car would not start at all today., Credit: Susan Cook
"Whoa, the car won't start," our gentle car owner says to himself as he turns the key in the ignition only to hear a soft whimper, whimper, whimper...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:34
Shakeout Street: the Great California Earthquake Drill, 2012 edition
From: Sean Dillman
Caption: setup for TV crews onsite at Union Station
New to California, the narrator experiences his first earthquake drill: online, and at LA's Union Station

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
The Fracking Economy
From: Civic Commons
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New methods of drilling for natural gas and oil have opened up previously unreachable resources deep below the Earth’s surface in Ohio. Depending o...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 58:44
This American Life Parody: Hey, It's Our Thing
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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Brooklyn hipsters explore modern commerce through social networking, urban tribalism, and suspicious fires.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2012
  • Length: 05:25
Managed Car:210 Seconds on How To Triple Car Insurance Premiums
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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Think Managed Care has changed health care? Wait until your car insurance company switches to Managed Car!

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
Without Comment: The First 100 Days-Week Six"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "Without Comment:The First 100 Days"
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Without Comment is a 13 week series looking at the first 100 days of the Barack presidency.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 09:45
Is our Senator guilty? Do we care?
From: KRUA
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Alaskan's sound off on whether or not Senator "Uncle" Ted Stevens is guilty.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2008
  • Length: 02:45
Carol's Pub on the Chicago Smoking Ban
From: Melissa Townsend
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Folks at this Chicago honky-tonk, Carol's Pub, give their opinion on the Illinois smoking ban in effect 1-1-08.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:27
How to Win in Iraq: Not
From: Merle Kessler
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Iraq Study Group: the Pros from Dover tell Junior how things get done.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2007
  • Length: 01:50
CL 2006 Whit Ayres "Public opinion on the environment and global warming"
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Public opinion pollster Whit Ayres examines how Americans really feel about the environment.

Bought by KWCW


  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Referendum C Litigation
From: KRCC-FM
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Anti Ref C group files suit

  • Added: Sep 09, 2005
  • Length: 04:09
King Joe Harris
From: Patrik Angstrom Poore
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Interview Excerpt from Excessive Police force documentary

  • Added: Oct 03, 2004
  • Length: 08:33
Planning Anarchy (So Many Meetings!)
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC on the RNC
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Modern-day anarchy is actually… very structured.

Bought by WZBC, WBFO, and East Village Radio


  • Added: Aug 27, 2004
  • Length: :06
  • Purchases: 3
Infected By Optimism? Never!
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Lionizing Reagan and Clinton Curdles Ian's Spirits

  • Added: Jul 13, 2004
  • Length: 01:37
Taking the Pledge
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Against the Pledge of Allegiance

  • Added: Jul 13, 2004
  • Length: 01:32