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This week, we’re taking a look at what economists and demographers are calling “the Silver Wave” — how the rapid aging of the world’s population wi...

Bought by Classic107.3, GCR (Global Community Radio), WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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This is the story of the ripple effect of one good deed. John and Olivann Hobbie had always thought of themselves as conscientious when it came to ...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:39
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Elder abuse by marrying to obtain wealth is on the rise. Understand the inadequate and new laws surrounding the issue.

  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: 11:34
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We'll meet the founders of the New Mexico Peace Choir, and also a military veteran and long-time peace activist Sally-Alice Thompson who, at 95, is...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Mar 30, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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We'll meet the founders of the New Mexico Peace Choir, and also a military veteran and long-time peace activist Sally-Alice Thompson who, at 95, i...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Ted Davis’ completed (and oddly shaped) Sudoku puzzles from a book called “Tricky Sudoku”
Pat and Ted Davis have been married for more than fifty years. But since Ted started showing signs of depression and dementia, he has become so qui...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 10:52
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Is retirement just an evil scheme invented by capitalists to get rid of higher-paid workers?

Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: The Man in the Black Hat: "I recall when things were very different..." What have left behind?
An acoustic story about growing up in the 1950s and society's loss of innocence since.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2016
  • Length: 26:05
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About thirty years ago, Bemidji churches got together to address a basic need: hunger. Since then, the Bemidji Community Food Shelf has provided me...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 11:51
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This American statesman's newest book is "The Negotiator." He knows a thing or two about heated negotiations from his role as Senate majority leade...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Doctors Medical Center is the biggest public hospital and is closing on April 21, 2015.

  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:46
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The main prayer hall at Gurdwara Sahib Fremont, the Fremont Sikh temple, is a cavernous room. A beautiful marble center aisle leads to an altar, wh...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:22
Caption: Long-time AC Transit rider Walter Davis gets off the bus at 14th and Market in Oakland., Credit: Isabel Angell
East Bay bus agency AC Transit doesn’t have the ridership or wide-reaching reputation of BART or San Francisco’s Muni. But about 100,000 people tak...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 08:31
Caption: Hope Fox of Oakland and her daughter, Pat McKern, Credit: Credit Visakha Som
The cost of living in the Bay Area has risen sharply, especially in the past few years, but the federal benefits that many seniors rely on are ofte...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 07:53
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As a follow up to last week's program, Radio Curious revisits a 2006 conversation with Dr. Dan Gottlieb, psychologist, quadriplegic and author of “...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender seniors are much more likely than their straight counterparts to be alone and isolated as they age. Housing ...

Bought by Wild Planet Radio and WXDU


  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Radio Curious presents a memorial to Michael Toms, the executive producer of New Dimensions Radio in an interview recorded at his home in Ukiah, Ca...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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People born at the leading edge of the Baby Boom turned 65 last year, with more and more Americans entering what experts call “young old age.” One ...

Bought by KENW, WXDU, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 4
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DENVER - Expect some experimentation in Colorado - the result of a bill passed by the state Legislature which offers a creative way for the state t...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:31
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Dr. Mary Jane Koren, vice president for the Picker-Commonwealth Fund Long-Term Quality Improvement Program, joins us today.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 25:50
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Helping the Elderly Through Natural Disasters – and The Favorite Child … this week on Prime Time Radio.

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Mar 09, 2010
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Older, middle and younger generations discussion Native American life covering many subjects...a rebroadcast

  • Added: Jul 19, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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Peg Collison documents her move from San Mateo, California - where she'd lived for almost 35 years - to a retirement community in Davis, California...

Bought by WCBU and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 37:09
  • Purchases: 2