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HOUR ONE: "Building Twisted Worlds" - What’s scary today isn’t haunted mansions but haunted… tape decks? Cassette recorders? HR manuals? We'll intr...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:58
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HOUR ONE: "Forged By Hand" - You would think that handcrafting, like iron forging and copper smithing, would be on the way out. But COVID has shown...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
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KQAL's Jiovani Bermudez meets with Mai'a Williams to discuss her project, Blooming Underground. Blooming Underground is a centers on their relation...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 26:03
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HOUR ONE: "The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace" - 1936 was an ominous year. A young George Orwell was headed to battle in Spain. But first, he plant...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: Dan Bazile, Credit: Shefik
Geography - In March 2004, Dan Bazile joined the news team at WNYT (a television affiliate of NBC), where he anchors "Weekend Today". Prior to that...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:28
Caption: SFHS Innovation Academy youth producers
Students at Santa Fe High School’s Innovation Academy discuss high school culture, the effects of technology on education, the challenges of media ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2017
  • Length: 27:54
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HOUR ONE: "Peak Performance" - Elite climber Alex Honnold just stunned the world with his free solo ascent of El Capitan. How do you do that? We'll...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
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Lets Travel Radio's February Show - Riding the MTA. With insight from the Long Island Railroad, NY By Rail Publishing, and MetroNorth Railroad boar...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:26
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How well does any nonfiction writer capture "The Truth?" Essayist Edward McPherson explores truth and memory in nonfiction.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 14:17
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One of the best mission statements I’ve read is the original NPR mission, which was written in 1969 by Bill Siemering. Bill is an amazing guy who, ...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 19:24
  • Purchases: 3
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Listen to how Pope Francis - the "people's pope" - fits into the longer history of the papacy.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: David DeGraw
We talk with David DeGraw, author, journalist and Occupy activist, credited with coining the rally cry, "We are the 99%." Two of his books, Econom...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2015
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 1
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We’re joined by Scott Herring, author of <em>The Hoarders</em>, a cultural history of the recent DSM-5 diagnosis of Hoarding Disorder. We talk abou...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2014
  • Length: 59:36
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
When we see the tools of discrediting the truth happily taken on, now or in history- we might say this. The cost of the truth is, it turns out, th...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:09
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:43
Caption: Phil Andrus, Joe Teehan, Rip Robbins
Joe, Rip, and Phil converse about radio from their various perspectives. KBAI, Bellingham, WA, KSVR, Skagit Valley, WA, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA

  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 27:57
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What's wrong with this list?

  • Added: Jun 10, 2014
  • Length: 03:24
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Gaylyn Studlar, the director of the film and media studies program at Washington University in St. Louis, takes us back to Hollywood films of the 1...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 16, 2013
  • Length: 11:56
  • Purchases: 1
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A look at the odd trend of "doomsday" music that took over the pop charts leading up to the Mayan end date.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
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Author Glenn Greenwald talks about his book, ‘With Liberty and Justice for Some.’ Americans claim to live under the rule of law; that no one is abo...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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People who show up make decisions, friends, playgrounds, art, history...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 31, 2011
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rosa Parks & Other Activists at Early Highlander
Action Speaks! - Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial a...

Bought by WMMT, WRPI, WGBH Radio Boston, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 27, 2009
  • Length: 58:48
  • Purchases: 4
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Young musicians' take on 60's and 70's music.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2009
  • Length: 07:58
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Although much media attention is being paid to "Milk," the movie about gay rights hero Harvey Milk, we shouldn't forget that not long ago media co...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:13
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Filmmaker Ralph Arlyck talks with P.O.V. about the making of his film "Following Sean"

  • Added: Sep 13, 2007
  • Length: 10:20