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Caption: Elyce Bonnell, Credit: Vineyard Gazette
Guests include: Vineyard news of the week with Vineyard Gazette managing editor Bill Eville plus…Sean Driscoll, Nancy Gardella, Russ Hartenstine, K...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2020
  • Length: 55:02
Caption: Rick Bausman, Credit: Vineyard Gazette
Guests include: Vineyard news of the week with Vineyard Gazette managing editor Bill Eville plus… Katrina Delgadillo, Russ Hartenstine, Nancy Garde...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2020
  • Length: 49:51
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Nearly 40 million Americans live in poverty, making less than $26,200 a year for a family of four. Their stories and their struggles, however, are ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dan Bazile, Credit: Shefik
Revolution - In March 2004, Dan Bazile joined the news team at WNYT (a television affiliate of NBC), where he anchors "Weekend Today". Prior to tha...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:04
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NOT FOR BROADCAST: On this page is a programmers' audition sample of the program A SUDDEN LOSS which will be released for download on Wednesday, M...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KSJE, 90.5 WESA, WHRV, KWGS and more


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 15:13
  • Purchases: 8
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Sandip reflects on the connections between us, and the responsibility of us all to remain apart.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: John Carlos Frey, Sand and Blood, book cover art, Credit: John Carlos Frey
On today's program, John Carlos Frey, author of Sand and Blood: America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border, explores increased militarization at th...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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How does a soldier start bombing his own country? This is the question Houda asked her cousin after he was discharged from mandatory military servi...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2019
  • Length: 04:10
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Marina is a pediatric nurse from Austin and the Rio Grande Valley who deeply opposes the detention centers for children crossing the Texas-Mexico b...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 26:01
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Recent violence in El Paso made Ana in Austin reflect on immigrants in America. She talks about what she has learned living and working at the bor...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 17:17
  • Purchases: 1
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23-year-old Tim Cronin is running for Town Councilor At-Large in Weymouth, Massachusetts and he has a secret he doesn't want anyone to find out.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
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Oral History project about the Three Mile Island partial-meltdown.

Bought by WSKG, WHYY, WPSU, and 90.5 WESA


  • Added: Mar 25, 2019
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: empty flight, Credit: Diego Cupolo, creative commons
This week, we begin with the story of a woman who was in flight to the US when President Trump signed his first travel ban. We later hear about how...

Bought by WRIR and WVAS


  • Added: Jul 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
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This week we feature an interview with Patrick, who reflects on his experience with addiction and prison. His story is both deeply personal and ana...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 30:10
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In this episode, we speak to people with experience with both homelessness and incarceration. Often, there is a cyclical relationship between these...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:50
Caption: Mace , Credit: npr.org
A conversation with Simone Senogles and Noreen Hautala about the state of affairs in Standing Rock. This segment aired October 28, 2016.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 15:57
Caption: Kelly Cotton walks through the Westmont neighborhood with her kids, Credit: George Lavender
One small neighborhood of Los Angeles accounted for thousands of bookings into county jail over a five year period.

Bought by PRX Remix, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 3
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This week is our introduction to the topic of women, health, and prison. We speak with some prisoners from the Indiana Women's Prison about their e...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Gerald Moore
When Gerald Moore decided to try his had at journalism, his reasoning was very good. He needed a job. But what began, as a way to pay the rent beca...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 30, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Bounty hunters are kind of like human bloodhounds. They’re dogged. They won’t stop until they get who they’re looking for. Frank Abramovitz is a bo...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 20:22
Caption: Anthony Perez and his son Gage., Credit: Ben Allen/WITF
Heroin addiction has touched towns and cities across the Northeast. In this piece, WITF's Ben Allen goes beyond the numbers to talk to a family who...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 07:07
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Affordable Healthcare the programs and its effects

  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 27:37
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You're listening to Culture Clique, and our series on the Winona State University Winona Works Project. With interviews conducted by students from ...

Bought by KSRQ and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 25:55
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Hollie McNish, poet
We explore the role of the community in supporting moms to breastfeed their babies.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2013
  • Length: :47
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There's a battle going on for the soul of Kensington Market in downtown Toronto...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 22:00