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Space Oddities: Episode 6-The Sue Me, Sue You Blues (With Apologies to George Harrison)
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Caption: The Apollo 15 mission patch, Credit: NASA
Episode 6 of Space Oddities takes a look at several of the lawsuits filed against NASA and its astronauts. Most were trivial, some very serious inc...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 19, 2022
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 1
Clash: Presidents and the Press in Times of Crisis
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jon Marshall
Former President Donald Trump attacked the press relentlessly before and after his term in office. A master at manipulation, he even admitted that ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, and KCBX


  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Here There Be Dragons: Part 2 of The State Made Visible
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Sir Francis Drake in Cartagena 1585" by Baptista Boazio, 1589
This is Part 2 of The State Made Visible with Rasul Mowatt, author of The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence, published by Routle...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Wide World of Video Games (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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For decades, video games have inspired hit songs and have been adapted into countless movies.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCNY, Royalton Community Radio, WNYO and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Wide World of Video Games (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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For decades, video games have inspired hit songs and have been adapted into countless movies.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WTJU, WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, KEDT and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Wide World of Video Games (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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For decades, video games have inspired hit songs and have been adapted into countless movies.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WJCU, WJCT, KYUK and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Wide World of Video Games (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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For decades, video games have inspired hit songs and have been adapted into countless movies.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
All Societies Die
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Samuel Cohn
The adage: If one does not learn from the past, one is doomed to repeat it. Although that doesn’t mean people or their governments are going to rep...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Serhii Plokhy
Twenty-five years before Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster occurred in the Soviet Union.

Bought by WUAL and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Trust
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Our program today focuses on the very timely word...TRUST and my special guest for the hour is Josh Morgan. He is a applied sociologist whose wri...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 51:26
Th FBI Figures Things Out
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh talks with historian Beverly Gage about the breakthrough technological innovation J. Edgar Hoover brought to his work at the FBI:...

Bought by Radio Newark, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 3
Rivers vs. Railroads
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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BackStory Producer Jess Engebretson brings us the story of the Effie Afton disaster – an 1856 steamboat crash that led to a legal showdown between ...

Bought by WOUB, KBRP Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, Radio Newark, Louisville Public Media and more


  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 06:34
  • Purchases: 6
The Worst Steamboat Money Can Buy…
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Ed Ayers talks with historian Walter Johnson about the rise of steamboats in the 19th Century, and how the cotton economy fueled an ever more ...

Bought by Radio Newark, KHNS, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 3
1992 Invasion of the Body Scanner
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Surveillance in America—needed or nightmare?

Bought by KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
Tesla vs. the United States
From: Deus Ex Machina
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Who invented radio? Marconi or Tesla? 90% of people get this wrong. Find out by attending the Supreme Court trial in 1943. The answer will surp...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2010
  • Length: 49:13
  • Purchases: 1
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1961: JFK Calls for the Moon!
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial air...

Bought by KREV-LP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: May 26, 2009
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 3