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Sandcastles
From: Adriana Cargill
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Sandcastles is a podcast about home, how we create it, and why we fight so hard for it.

Bought by Capital Public Radio, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 04, 2023
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 3
Harlem Keeps Jazz Traditions Alive As Pandemic Restrictions Ease
From: Catharine Smith
Caption: Josh Morris, 15, onstage in Harlem.
While New York City reopens, Harlem musicians continue one of jazz's most revered traditions at the historic Minton's Playhouse.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:20
Episode 1: America's Urban-Rural Fault Line
From: Elia Powers
Series: Areas of Agreement
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A deep exploration of the urban-rural divide and how one group is trying to bring both sides together

  • Added: Sep 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:37
How We Got Here, Part 3: The Fight For Meaningful Work
From: Sam Harnett
Series: How We Got Here
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The final section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and acceptable to crisis like the current pandemic. Part 3 lo...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Monacan Voices:True History of First Contact & Paper the Genocide of Virginia Indians
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: Native American Heritage
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Please join us for a rare journey through poetry and conversation with the Monacan Nation of Virginia regarding first contact, the birth of our nat...

Bought by WCPN, KWIS 88.3 FM, KWMR, WRNC-LP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:17
  • Purchases: 8
The Fix: Chapter 1 – The History You Never Heard
From: The GroundTruth Project
Series: The Fix: Treating New York's Opioid Crisis
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The South Bronx, New York's poorest neighborhood, has been dealing with a deadly heroin epidemic for generations. We look at the origins of the epi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Radio Catskill


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 17:32
  • Purchases: 2
The Wishes of the Dead
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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Our lives are controlled by the invisible hand from the grave. Death does not prevent people from influencing the world with their wealth, but such...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 46:43
One Nation Under Commerce: Marketing God and Country. The Middle Edges #104
From: Teosson Wells
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The U.S. chose to link God, money, business, and government. But it’s important to remember that America was originally established to keep God ind...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 24:45
Puerto Rican Americana: Nuyorican Bicycle Clubs in Brooklyn
From: Jack D'Isidoro
Caption: Roberto proudly shows off his bike in front of the original headquarters of the Puerto Rican Schwinn Club near Knickerbocker Ave. in Bushwick., Credit: Jack D'Isidoro
The Schwinn bicycle has a rich history in New York’s Nuyorican communities. In many of these enclaves, you’ll find members of riding clubs showing ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 25, 2016
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
Life of the Law #79: Sterilized
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Virigina State Colony for the Feebleminded
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 22:29
  • Purchases: 1
From Frogs To Wands of Destiny: The Invention of the Home Pregnancy Test
From: Mother
Caption: Meg Crane's home pregnancy test prototype, 1968., Credit: Courtesy of Bonhams.
Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 3
The Codex Underground
From: Israel Story
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The Aleppo Codex is a thousand year-old manuscript that medieval scholars declared an accurate biblical text. It has been worshiped, pillaged, salv...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 17:18
Latitude News Podcast #7 — From War on Drugs to legal weed, where will the U.S. lead the world next?
From: Latitude News
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A short, strange history of marijuana in the U.S., Mexico and everywhere else

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 15:06
  • Purchases: 1
COINTELPRO 101 (Part 2)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Willie McGee and the Traveling Electric Chair: A Granddaughter's Search for the Truth
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Bridgette McGee holds a photo of her grandfather, Credit: Teri Havens
In 1951, Willie McGee was executed in Mississippi's traveling electric chair for raping a white woman. Six decades later, his granddaughter is on a...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KUT, WRPI, KUOW and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 22:59
  • Purchases: 8
The 100 Year Legacy of the Big Burn
From: Amanda Loder
Caption: The Aftermath of the 1910 Big Burn, Credit: US Forest Service
Evergreen Documentary: About a hundred years ago, one of the largest wildfires in US history taught Americans to fear flames. The Big Burn of 1910...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 29:04
Probing Through Whiskers
From: NPR Intern Edition
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The secret meaning of mustaches, dissected.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:31
Amongst the Ruins
From: Avishay Artsy
Caption: The courtyard for the violently insane, New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, Concord, NH, Credit: Christopher Payne
A tour of the abandoned buildings and decrepit remains of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane proves that mental hospitals aren’t that scary af...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 07:34
Undark
From: Jenna Hammerich
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Glow. Green. Light. Radium. Even the words are beautiful.

Bought by Remix Radio and CKMO


  • Added: Sep 01, 2009
  • Length: 30:13
  • Purchases: 2
Looking Back to Look Forward: Inheriting Unpopular Wars
From: KNKX
Series: Looking Back to Look Forward: Election 2008
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Examining how unpopular wars are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes

  • Added: Oct 27, 2008
  • Length: 08:00
Looking Back to Look Forward: Social Safety Nets
From: KNKX
Series: Looking Back to Look Forward: Election 2008
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Examining how social safety nets are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes

  • Added: Oct 24, 2008
  • Length: 08:09
Looking Back To Look Forward: Health Care
From: KNKX
Series: Looking Back to Look Forward: Election 2008
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Examining how health care is being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes

  • Added: Oct 15, 2008
  • Length: 09:17
Looking Back to Look Forward: Energy and the Environment
From: KNKX
Series: Looking Back to Look Forward: Election 2008
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Examining how energy and the environment are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' att...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 07:56
Looking Back to Look Forward: Science and Technology
From: KNKX
Series: Looking Back to Look Forward: Election 2008
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Examining how science and technology are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 07:52
Looking Back to Look Forward: Identity Politics
From: KNKX
Series: Looking Back to Look Forward: Election 2008
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Examining how identiy politics is playing out in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 08:06