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Episode 140: Cowboy Bob
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In May 1991, a bank robber walked into a bank in Irving, Texas, and without speaking handed the teller a note that read, “This is a bank robbery. G...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 31:54
The Aerial Tales of Bone Mother
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Bone Mother at the Musuem of Russian Art, Credit: Matthew Glover
The Slavic folklore of Baba Yaga flies high in Bone Mother, a world premiere by Sandbox Theatre’s aerial wing - The Swingset. Co-directed by Evelyn...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 05:18
Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On Sept. 27 and 28, the most notable poets of our time will gather in the nation’s capital to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Furious Flower ...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, KXCV, WRGY and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Healing Displacement (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-The American healthcare system can be tough to navigate. But it’s even more challenging when you’ve just arrived in the United States from a war-t...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WLIW, WVAS and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
Fire Mama, Doom Props, And A Monster Named Fred
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Amy Bloss, Credit: Francesca Bernardi
She spits fire. She spins fire. Amy Bloss is Fire Mama. She performs and teaches a variety of fire performance arts and safety. She is the Director...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In this sound-rich show, the authors of “We Gotta Get Out of this Place” play songs Vietnam soldiers listened and explore how that music became th...

Bought by WCNY, WGZS, WMPG, WCMU Michigan, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2019
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 11
GODDESS: THE FALL AND RISE OF SHOWGIRLS -- Lotti Pharriss Knowles Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Lotti Pharriss Knowles talks how to deal with a bully, the glory of excess, and why SHOWGIRLS was ahead of its time.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2019
  • Length: 17:05
Muggle Abroad (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-An English professor who loves the Harry Potter books brings a few lucky students each year to London to visit the magical sites in the fantasy se...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WVAS, WYAP and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
Unfreedom (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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- Children who interact in some way with the justice system—even if it’s just living near a justice system facility—have worse health and education...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRGY, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Voices of Vietnam: Women of War (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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From women who reported from the front lines of the Vietnam War, to the Red Cross volunteers who boosted morale and the nurses who treated injurie...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFAE, KCNP, KOSU, WGZS and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 23
Voices of Vietnam: Women of War (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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From women who reported from the front lines of the Vietnam War, to the Red Cross volunteers who boosted morale and the nurses who treated injuri...

Bought by WSGE, Kansas Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Harford Community Radio, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Year of the Woman (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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- In Virginia, an unprecedented number of women were elected to the House of Delegates last year. We hear from some of those women about what it wa...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, KXCV and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
Lauren Sarah Hayes
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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Composer and improviser Lauren Sarah Hayes on making and experiencing sound — in a mausoleum, next to a waterfall, and through specially built furn...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 27:55
Ladies' Next Choice (vol. 2)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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The women of JazzGrass, volume 2.

Bought by Bandon Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:55:18
  • Purchases: 1
#5 Period Piece
From: Side Effects Public Media
Series: Sick
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Lisa De Bode got curious about how homeless women deal with menstruation, so she wrote a story on it. Then, things started to change. Plus, Jake l...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2016
  • Length: 16:50
  • Purchases: 1
A Lifetime of Caregiving: Mom and Uncle Harold
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Mom and Uncle Harodl, Credit: Stephanie Guyer-Stevens
Most often family members are the ones that step up and provide care when a parent or loved one needs it. According to the Family Caregiver Allianc...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 12:39
Here We Come A Caroling (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A music therapist talks why holiday music feels right this year. Plus: a music video by an all female a-cappela group deals with the social pressur...

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, KRDP, WXDU, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Yellow Wallpaper
From: Rachel Liu
Series: Anthology
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Forced to ‘rest’ for months in an old Victorian estate, a woman begins to realize something strange about the horrendous wallpaper in the nursery.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2015
  • Length: 38:06
Body of Water
From: Veronica Simmonds
Caption: http://bodyofwater.ca/, Credit: Rebecca Roher
An ode to urban lake swimming

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
Centerstage Minnesota: A Charmin Michelle Feature, Sam Miltich & Clearwater Hot Club, Erik Koskinen, Barbara Jean, and More.
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Jazz Vocalist Charmin Michelle, Credit: Tom Corcoran
This edition of Centerstage Minnesota includes a feature on Jazz Vocalist Charmin Michelle. Music also from Sam Miltich & Clearwater Hot Club, Chas...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 01:47:35
  • Purchases: 2
Centerstage Minnesota Feature: Jazz Vocalist Charmin Michelle
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota Features
Caption: Charmin Michelle, Credit: JuliAnne Jonker
In this feature, Charlie Pulkrabek highlight's Twin Cities based Jazz Vocalist Charmin Michelle. Short excerpts of Sam Miltich interviewing Charmin...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 02, 2015
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1
Delivered with Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew reading an excerpt from her book "Hannah, Delivered."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 1
No Inoculation Without Representation!
From: Luke Quinton
Caption: Freedom Trail tour guide, Matt Wilding, in costume as Ebenezer Mackintosh, giving a tour of Boston's historic North End neighborhood, Credit: Christina Gustafson
How long would you guess vaccination has been around? 50? 100 years? In fact, it's an idea that's older than this country. In 1776 America's at war...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 09:04
  • Purchases: 3
Tracing the edge
From: Veronica Simmonds
Series: Visual Arts News podcast
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Artist Annie MacMillan is tracing the edge of Halifax's lakes, with her body.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 07:50
Centerstage Minnesota: Southwire
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Southwire at Tycoon's in Duluth, Credit: Charlie Pulkrabek - 4/20/13
A new band out of Duluth, Southwire, while drawing from some well established musical traditions, are operating in the realm of invention. When you...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2