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Underground Trade Part 1: Hiding in Plain Sight
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
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On a warm night a Boston suburb saw its image altered with the arrests of individuals connected to a massage parlor. Behind the closed doors poli...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 5
The Opening Door Show - Sally Kempton
From: Wendy Strgar
Series: The Opening Door - Positivity Series
Caption: Sally Kempton
The Opening Door with Wendy Strgar, Loveologist, entrepreneur, & educator, is a joyful refocusing on love as the transformative force of life. The ...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 27:12
  • Purchases: 1
Gloria Gaynor
From: South Carolina Public Radio
Series: Song Travels with Michael Feinstein News Friendly Version
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News-Friendly Format (1:00 billboard; 5:00 news hole; 52:00 program) Gloria Gaynor is best known for her sensational 1978 hit, “I Will Survive,” w...

Bought by KISU, KFOK-LPFM, and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 3
Centerstage Minnesota: Reina del Cid talks to Charlie Pulkrabek
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Reina del Cid
Reina del Cid grew up in Fargo. She attended the University of Minnesota on a scholarship awarded to her by The Jackie Robinson Foundation. Despite...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Broad Experience 9: Ambition and Power
From: Ashley Milne-Tyte
Series: The Broad Experience
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Are women ambitious? Will they be judged harshly if they admit it? The latest episode of The Broad Experience explores women's relationship with am...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 08:27
  • Purchases: 1
Nazleen's Story
From: Christine Beaderstadt
Series: Indian Ornamentation and Globalization
Caption: Nazleen holds a photo from her wedding day, a combination of Western and Indian traditions.
With Indian parents, a childhood spent in Pakistan, and now living in America, Nazleen has a unique perspective on Indian dress. She tells us her s...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2013
  • Length: 03:48
Nose as Destiny
From: Bending Borders
Series: Love is Complicated
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Plastic surgery is growing in Afghanistan and more and more women see it as the key to their fate.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, Outer Voices, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2013
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 7
The Beat : LouAnn Shepard Muhm - "Shoveling Out"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:38
Sex and Punishment Part Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious continues our conversation about the struggle to regulate the most powerful engine of human behavior-sexuality-with Eric Berkowitz, t...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Tales from the South 111: Assumptions
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Fall Season
Caption: Jim Frey reads "Prism Riot"
This week's stories are about assumptions-- and we all know what happens when people make them. Stories by Kay Brockwell, Jim Frey, and Patrice Mel...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
ANNA KARENINA -- Joe Wright Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Joe Wright, San Francisco, CA 11/11/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Joe Wright talks dancing through class distinctions, the seduction of ego, and the magic of the intangible.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2012
  • Length: 12:04
1965 Griswold v. Connecticut
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!

Bought by KZYX, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
The Broad Experience, episode 4: getting ahead
From: Ashley Milne-Tyte
Series: The Broad Experience
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There is no glass ceiling. So says Financial Times columnist Mrs. Moneypenny. If women aren't getting to the top, she says, they have no one to bla...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 11:51
WorldCanvass: Women, Hysteria and Medicine
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:52:09
Controversial Pepsi Ad - "Love Hurts"
From: Dawn Newton
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Director Brad Bosley said he's completely surprised by the controversy surrounding his Pepsi Super Bowl commercial that has confused Bill O'Reilly ...

  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
99% Invisible #41- The Human-Human Interface (Standard 4:30 Version Only)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
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We're used to interacting with objects. But we're not used to objects that teach us how to interact with each other.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, WOUB, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, KVNF and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 16
Live Wire! Radio Episode 161 - NEWSHOLE Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Isabel Wilkerson, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Graphic Novelist Craig Thompson, Pulitzer Prize winning Author Isabel Wilkerson, Musical guest Stephanie Schneiderman w/ chorus and string quartet.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio Episode 161-Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Pulitzer Prize- winning Author Isabel Wilkserson, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Graphic Novelist Craig Thompson, Pulitzer Prize winning Author Isabel Wilkerson, Musical guest Stephanie Schneiderman w/ chorus and string quartet.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Native American Art of the Southwest at the Heard Museum
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, with communications manager Debra Krol. The museum is dedicated to the sensitive and acc...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Girl Scouts: Beyond Campfires and Cookies
From: With Good Reason
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The Girl Scouts of the United States of America have recently revamped their image and program with new badges focusing on skills like robotics and...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Nov 04, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN -- Wayne Wang Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Wayne Wang talks high heels, bound feet, and radical Quakers

  • Added: Jul 12, 2011
  • Length: 16:21
Louisa Van Velser (mother of Walt Whitman), May 23, 1873
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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The mother of one of our greatest American writers. Long thought to be illiterate ... revealed by her letters to have a distinctive writing voice t...

  • Added: May 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Tom Perrotta on Flannery O'Connor -- a literary affinity
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Flannery O'Connor in 1962, Credit: Joe McTyre/Atlanta Constitution
Tom Perrotta, the author of "Little Children", "Election" and the upcoming novel "The Leftovers", speaks with ThoughtCast about a writer who fascin...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 30:00
Pantera Blacksmith - Competitive Pole Dancer
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: Pantera Blacksmith
As a pole dancer, Pantera travels all over the world performing and giving workshops. She has won titles (who knew such things were awarded for pol...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 25:01
  • Purchases: 1
Africa in a Chinese Century, Firecracker Prose - Howard French & Lydia Davis
From: Open Source
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This hour we sit with Lydia Davis as she reads her beautifully honed, firecracker prose. She writes in the company of Montaigne, Emerson, Proust, B...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 27, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1