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Oud-player and composer Rahim AlHaj prisoner, exile, and brilliant musician
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Rahim AlHaj, Credit: Dan Merlo
Rahim AlHaj is quite simply one of the best oud players in the world. In this broadcast, Rahim performs and shares his story of leaving Iraq and c...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WABE, WMMT, WNJR, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Science fiction writer Paolo Bacigalupi & "The Water Knife"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This Paonia, Colorado National Book Award finalist describes a thriller version of possible future water wars in the American Southwest. Is this an...

Bought by KRZA, Radio Newark, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 3
Ending Extreme Inequality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton
Today, 47-million Americans live in poverty. That places this country at the bottom among industrial nations for the divide between the haves and h...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 25, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Elder Boom Challenge
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ai Jen Poo
Author Ai Jen Poo is Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. It’s no wonder considering her accomplishments.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Who Decides What’s Fair? Author Ausma Zehanet Khan
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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An international human rights lawyer, Ausma Zehanet Khan in “The Unquiet Dead” introduces two Canadian police inspectors, Rachel Getty and Esa Khat...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2015
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Dinaw Mengestu talks about his latest book, All Our Names
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dinaw Mengestu, Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
In All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu explores unlikely love in the midst of conflict.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Locked Down, Locked Out
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Maya Schenwar
America is the leading industrial country for incarcerated citizens. Editor-in-Chief of Truthout, Maya Schenwar, envisions the possibility of a fut...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Angels by the River: A Memoir
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Gus Speth
From Chair of the United Nations Development Group; Founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and World Resource Institute, law professor a...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Spring into Action
From: Anna Hamilton
Series: Watershed
Caption: Former Florida Governor and U.S. Senator Bob Graham; Former Environmental Advisor Estus Whitfield; Florida Wildlife Federation president Manley Fuller, Credit: Photo by Patrick Hamilton
In 2011, the Florida legislature slashed funding for statewide conservation programs. In September 2014, activists and policy makers gathered at Ho...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2014
  • Length: 08:40
Song and conversation with "Chunky" Sanchez
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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For forty years, Chunky Sanchez has playing and singing the stories of the Chicano people.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Juvenile Incarceration
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nell Bernstein, Credit: NPR
In her new book, award winner journalist Nell Bernstein takes us behind the scenes into the hidden lives of incarcerated children. She has spent mo...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Resister
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bruce Dancis
Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took p...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
OOC2: Chris Taylor
From: Jake Harper
Series: Out of Context
Caption: Wisconsin Rep. Chris Taylor , Credit: Jake Harper
State Rep. Chris Taylor tells the story of her difficult second pregnancy.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 17:40
The Chomsky Challenge
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Chomsky's Challenge, Credit: book jacket cover
Noam Chomsky is a polarizing figure in politics and foreign affairs. Although he is a pioneering scholar in the field of linguistics, he is better...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Author Doris Kearns Goodwin, a biographer of presidents
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “Bully Pulpit” Doris focuses on the friendship and eventual falling out of Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft while describing t...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Laskin
Bestselling author David Laskin unfolds a sweeping epic that spans the three major upheavals the affected Jews in the twentieth century: immigratio...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Middle Ground Pilot 2
From: Middle Ground
Series: Middle Ground
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The second pilot episode for the new show, Middle Ground, which focuses on news, politics and culture from middle America.

Bought by NPR Illinois


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 1
Reclaiming Our Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sam Daley-Harris
With his new book, Sam Daley-Harris shares how he and the citizens advocacy organizations he has founded (RESULTS and the Microcredit Summit Campai...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Running the Rift (pledge drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Naomi Benaron
The novel, Running the Rift, follows the life of young Jean Patrick. He’s a gifted Rwandan boy. He knows that running will be his future. What he ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 19:35
  • Purchases: 1
Fault Lines
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Beverly Bell
It’s referred to simply as douz. In Haitian it means twelve. January 12, 2010. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Haiti killing more the a quarter-...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Earth Day 2013
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frances Moore Lappe
Author Frances Moore Lappe describes herself as a “possibilist” rather than an optimist or pessimist. In her recent book, she argues that solutions...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Irish Author Roddy Doyle and "The Last Republic"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Winner of the Booker Prize, former teacher and one of Ireland’s most famous authors, Roddy talks about his last book in a trilogy, "The Last Republ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with Noam Chomsky
From: Liz Myers
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Air Occupy radio show interviews Noam Chomsky about Gaza, Occupy Wall Street movement, Labor, and the media.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 44:18
From the Jaws of Victory
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cesar Chavez
Professor Matt Garcia has written the most comprehensive history ever of the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Jason Kelly
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Designing a Creative Life
Caption: Jason Kelly
Jason Kelly is the author of nine books including The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing, a BusinessWeek best seller soon to be in its ...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2012
  • Length: 57:43