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Where are we with LGBTQ+ civil rights and safety since Matthew Shepard's brutal 1998 murder? How can we curtail ongoing hate-based violence? The Ma...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, KUOW, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Frank transporting his first group of Ukrainian passengers. , Credit: Frank Pichel
In the first part of this story we heard from Uliana Bazar who, with her husband, Matthew Propert, left their home in Ukraine five hours before th...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 24:18
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Matthew Shepard was brutally killed 25 years ago for being gay. His mother Judy founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation 25 years ago this December a...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Self portrait., Credit: Uliana Bazar
Four years ago, Uliana Bazar, along with her spouse, Matthew Propert, left their home in the United States and flew to Ukraine, the land of her bir...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 27:20
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In the condensed version of our March special, hear about transgender experience from singer-songwriter and foster-parent educator Nick Lawrence. H...

Bought by WORT and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Hear and learn about the transgender experience from singer-songwriter Nick Lawrence, a family coach and former foster-parent educator on LGBTQ top...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGBH Radio Boston, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, KALW and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Hear about the transgender experience from singer-songwriter Nick Lawrence, a former foster-parent educator on LGBTQ topics. His album, "I Am A Man...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Despite massive evacuations after the Taliban takeover in August, tens of thousands of LGBTQ people remain in Afghanistan fearing for their lives, ...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Essayist Lauren Hough in 2018, Credit: Karl Poss IV / Vintage Books
In our queer nod to Veterans Day, we bring you writer Lauren Hough, who grew up in the infamous Christian free-love cult The Family. At 18, she joi...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Big Freedia is credited with bringing New Orleans "Bounce" music to the rest of the USA, Credit: Brad Hebert
New Orleans musician Big Freedia is famous for her music and twerking; her life story and anti-gun activism are less well known.

  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:29
Caption: Picture of Lance Williams, Credit: Provided by Lance Williams
Interview with investigative journalist, Lance Williams who broke the story on the use of steroids in professional sports. He also co-wrote the boo...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 18:14
Caption: Donna Kimball and Allan Trautman, Credit: Donna Kimball and Allan Trautman
In this first Puppeteer Roundtable, I am joined by Donna Kimball (Fraggle Rock, Dark Crystal Age of Resistance) and Allan Trautman (Muppets, Happyt...

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 57:35
Caption: Mark Bryan Wilson & Slimer, Credit: mark Bryan Wilson
Mark Bryan Wilson puppeteered Slimer in blockbuster film Ghostbusters.  His other credits include puppetry work on Beetlejuice, Hook, MuppetVision ...

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:18:32
Caption: David Stephens, Credit: David Stephens
My guest this episode is David Stephens of All Hands Productions. David creates family friendly, one person puppets shows that tour all across the ...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 01:19:14
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The 2008 Kingston, Tennessee coal ash spill was disastrous at the time, but what came a decade later would reveal the full devastation of the tragedy.

Bought by KRZA and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 22:22
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Nanticoke Heritage Day in Millsboro, November, 2014, Credit: KARL MALGIERO/DELAWARE PUBLIC MEDIA
1855, in Millsboro, Delaware, a man named Levin Sockum was doing very well for himself. He was a Nanticoke business owner. His name was clearly Na...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 06:12
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Greg Pierotti and members of New York City’s Tectonic Theater Project spent months in the small town of Laramie, Wyoming conducting interviews with...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 23, 2018
  • Length: 26:08
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Portrait of Melissa Wakefield (left) and Jessica Wakefield (right) in May 2018. , Credit: Photograph by Catherine Saint Louis
After Jeffrey Wakefield died unexpectedly in March, his daughter Melissa wrote a remembrance to run in the Falmouth Enterprise. Then the paper publ...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2018
  • Length: 07:19
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Women-owned businesses generated over $1.6 trillion in sales in 2017, but they still make up less than 2/5ths of all privately held companies. But,...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 04:20
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This is Show #143 of the Series-Blues For Modern Man, Pt. 2 Favs of 2017 from the Men...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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After the fall of the Soviet Union Ukrainian-born opera director Julia Lwowski was able to come to Germany because she was a Jew. But was she?

  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 26:59
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The national opioid drug abuse crisis is hitting Minnesota American Indian communities especially hard. In 2015, Minnesota had more American India...

Bought by KMSU, KSRQ, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KVSC, KQAL and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Fred L. Soper crossing a bridge to investigate an area where yellow fever occurred, Credit: Photo by Wilbur A. Sawyer courtesy National Library of Medicine
Eighty years ago, one man set out to eradicate the mosquito that now causes Zika virus—and it sullied his reputation forever.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 12:08
  • Purchases: 2
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When refugees come to a new country the language barrier that they face can be problematic. One challenge they face is being able to report crimes ...

  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:20
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Dr. Christopher Emdin, associate Professor of Math, Science and Technology at Teachers College of Columbia University) speaking about his new book,...

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  • Length: 01:00:03