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Is San Francisco a Sanctuary When You Don’t Have Housing?
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Increases in the number of migrants arriving in San Francisco have stress-tested the city’s shelter system, revealing the dire need for more housin...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
Unheard: The Plight of Mayans Struggling with Addiction in SF
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic led to a rise in fatal overdoses among the tens of thousands of Indigenous Mayans living in the Bay area. That...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
Season 1, Episode 30 - 'Sustainable Transportation' feat Giulia Marzetti
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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What can we do to make transporting humans more sustainable?

Bought by WOJB and KTRT RADIO INC


  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 57:41
  • Purchases: 2
The Catch: Of Cod and Country
From: Rob Sachs
Caption: The Catch Logo, Credit: Foreign Policy
On this episode of The Catch hear how one of the Arctic’s most valuable fisheries—cod—is being impacted by the politics of Russia’s war in Ukraine ...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting, WRKF, Prairie Public, WXXI Rochester, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Season 1, Episode 22 - 'A Different Kind Of Therapy' feat Sara Gael
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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A deep dive into MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:07
  • Purchases: 2
Hal Higdon discusses "Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, not even Al Capone was more notorious than two well-educated and highly intelligent Jewi...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:28
In a Game of Chicken with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, GOP Legislators Pass Somewhat Competitive Redistricting Maps in Effort to Avoid Truly Fair Maps
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
In a Game of Chicken with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, GOP Legislators Pass Somewhat Competitive Redistricting Maps in Effort to Avoid Truly Fair M...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Michael Wolraich discusses "The Bishop and the Butterfly:Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty cloth...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 25:44
Echoes of a Coup
From: Scene on Radio
Caption: Echoes of a Coup art, Credit: Zaire McPhearson
One-hour special (59:00 with 5-minute news hole), Echoes of a Coup, telling the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history -- the 189...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNYC, WUNC, WYPR, WFDD and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 25
John Nichols: Writing the Southwest
From: David Dunaway
Caption: John Nichols, Credit: Taos Writers' Conference
The writer John Nichols first achieved national fame at age 24 with 'The Sterile Cuckoo', but went on to a second act when he moved to Taos, New Me...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 27:14
The Negotiators: Confronting Conflict
From: Rob Sachs
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In this episode, we learn about two historic negotiations – one failed and one successful – from the negotiators themselves. We begin with a peace...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KUHF, WXXI Rochester, WLPR , Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 20
Monroe Doctrine Centenary - It's Our Hemisphere
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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The Monroe Doctrine on its 200th birthday. Messy American politics in 1823, messy American politics in 2023. And, Cambodia’s Great Lake, the Tonle ...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:39
J Reuben Appelman discusses "While Idaho Slept"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “University of Idaho Murders,” offering a memorable, tho...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 30:13
Elemental Forces: The Five Building Blocks That Shaped Our World
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reve...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 41:55
Poisonous Legacies
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:38
Whistle Stops: The 1948 Presidential Campaigns
From: Lester Graham
Caption: President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Tribune with the inaccurate headline: Dewey Defeats Truman., Credit: public domain
2023 is the 75th anniversary of one of the biggest political upsets in American political history (although the documentary does not mention the 75...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Michigan Radio, KUOW, and WAMU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 55:31
  • Purchases: 5
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 21
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Rwandan genocide museum, Credit: David Kattenburg
Bacteria in your gut tweak your brain. Sometimes friendly, sometimes not. The hundred-day genocide in Rwanda -- recalling the mayhem on its 29th an...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 58:49
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 18
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:14
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 16
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Sandra Witelson, Credit: David Kattenburg
Powerful new antibiotics discovered using artificial intelligence. Sitting in a restaurant, staring at a piece of fish. Is it really that expensive...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:52
Why Black San Franciscans Are Fighting for Reparations
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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San Francisco is considering reparations for Black San Franciscans. To understand why advocates are pushing for reparations in the city, we dive de...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KALW


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 13
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Long Covid -- a complex ailment driving lots of people down. Moms, babies and bacteria -- the relationship starts before you’re born, then you’re c...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 57:27
OutCasting 0022x – Being in a binational same-sex relationship before marriage equality
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: The Goodman family, Credit: The Goodman family
Before it was declared unconstitutional, the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) caused many binational same-sex couples to either break up or ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
60 – Michelle Zamora (Waffles + Mochi, A Black Lady Sketch Show, Viva La Puppet) – Under The Pu
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Under The Puppet
Caption: Michelle Zamora on the set of Waffles+Mochi, Credit: Michelle Zamora
Michelle Zamora puppeteers Waffles on the hit Netflix series Waffles + Mochi. She’s performed and built puppets for TV shows including A Black Lad...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 48:00
59 – Gord Robertson (Zoboomafoo, Fraggle Rock, The Jim Henson Hour) – Under The Puppet
From: Grant Baciocco
Series: Under The Puppet
Caption: Gord Robertson on Fraggle Rock, Credit: Gord Robertson
Gord Robertson was the puppeteer of Zoboomafoo, the talking Lemur from the television show of the same name. He also played Bill, the psychopathic...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 01:13:00
OutCasting 101 -- Healthcare issues faced by transgender people – part 2 of 2
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcasters Carys and Andrew
Transgender people face many obstacles in life. One of the most pressing is the difficulty they can find in getting appropriate healthcare. In th...

Bought by KMUN and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2

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