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A "newsical" to mark the 50th anniversary of the kidnap of Patty Hearst by The Symbionese Liberation Army ( Feb 4 1974). I was the “lucky” New...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2024
  • Length: 28:31
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Have you ever wished there was a different way to read – or hear - the news? For generations, through wars and political upheaval, poets have been ...

Bought by WRKF, Boise State Public Radio, KUOW, WKSU, and KECG


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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HOUR ONE: "Docupoetry" - Have you ever wished there was a different way to read – or hear - the news? For generations, through wars and political u...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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One woman's heartbreaking story of her husband's brain cancer diagnosis, and why cell phone manufacturers warn users never to hold the phone agains...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 28:17
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Host Martha Burk
If you're getting nervous these days about going to the grocery or taking your kid to the ballpark for fear of getting shot, rest easy. Republicans...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
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When you drink from a plastic bottle, you're getting much more than you think. An array of toxic chemicals is going down your throat.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2023
  • Length: 28:11
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After the news, author and investigative journalist Alden Wicker talks about toxic chemicals in the fashion industry.

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 2
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Capitalism is standing in the way of progress on our most critical environmental issue.

Bought by WRFA-LP, WMUU-LP, and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 3
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was just the beginning for author and photographer Erica Cirino.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:25
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NY Sierra Club's Tracy Frisch tells why spreading sewage sludge on farmland is a really bad idea that will contaminate fields forever.

Bought by WRFA-LP, WMUU-LP, and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 28:15
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Host Martha Burk
I grew up on country western music – but whether you’re a casual fan, love it or hate it, there’s a message, and it ain’t all good. Some very promi...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:38
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Tucker and The Jan 6 tapes. Kurtz &Fox: De-Fame and De-Fortune. A Texas judge could stop abortions nationwide. The GOP campaign debate calendar...

Bought by RADIOLEX and KMUN


  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 2
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After the news of the week, former Pro Publica food reporter Helena Evich talks about the failure of the FDA to handle food safety, the controversy...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:15
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HOUR ONE: "Saving Democracy from Demagogues" - Around the world, authoritarian leaders are on the rise – from Russia and Hungary to the U.S. We exa...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00

  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 36:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Dr. Synnika's Topical Poem of the Week is a weekly show that uses poetry to explore the social, political, and racial conditions in America. Each e...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: Hank Willis Thomas (American, born 1976), The Cotton Bowl, from the series Strange Fruit, 2011. Chromogenic print. , Credit: . Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Copyright Hank Willis Thomas
Artist Hank Willis Thomas’ first major retrospective, “All Things Being Equal” is open at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Thomas’s work addresses the on...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 05:29
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THIS VERSION ADDS LEBRON JAMES ON POLICE SHOOTINGS AND HURRICANE LAURA MAKING LANDFALL AS A CAT 4. The RNC's Alternate Reality. Jacob Blake of Ken...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KMUN, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
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Well you'll never guess who joined us all the way from Whitesburg, Kentucky, to talk about the particular desert landscape of SE New Mexico and Eas...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The rich, greedy and a value system that only cares about profit. Let's not let 45 and/or the media pit UAW striking workers against climate strik...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2019
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Hot piece on Sears, Eddie Lampert and workers severance. Hot piece. Preview first- true Money Matters stuff. Controversial for sure.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:21
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iPhone sales blocked in China, Apple’s getting into the A&R business, pump the breaks on the e-scooter hype, and forget the notch, 2019 might be th...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2018
  • Length: 20:11

  • Added: Jul 10, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: College student using Tinder as a way to keep busy during the day., Credit: © 2018 Morgan Trau
"Hookup culture" is seen as just a part of society for college students. But could dating apps be what is harming relationships? Click play to hear...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 04:04
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An in depth discussion of the historical social implications of misogony

Bought by High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 28, 2018
  • Length: 51:26
  • Purchases: 1