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S2 E2 Compassionate Release
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Michele DiTomas, a hospice physician who cares for incarcerated men, races against the clock and slashes through bureaucratic tape to help a dying ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 37:16
Gilbert King reads from his Pulitzer-winner, Devil In The Grove: Thurgood Marshall, The Groveland Boys, and The Dawn of A New America (5/20)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Before becoming the first African American on The Supreme Court, Marshall risked his life in ...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
In The Time of The Butterflies: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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A radio program featuring author Julia Alvarez along with Neko Case, Edwidge Danticat, and Junot Diaz, among others.

Bought by KMUN, Kansas Public Radio, KPIP-LP, KQED, and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:55
  • Purchases: 5
The Near Death of Reagan National Airport After 9/11
From: David Schultz
Caption: Reagan National Airport was almost permanently closed in the days after the 9/11 attacks., Credit: WikiCommons
How one Congressman's bald-faced bluff saved Reagan National from permanent closure.

  • Added: Sep 09, 2010
  • Length: 06:07
The Progressive
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
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A high school student publishes an anonymous lefty newsletter . . .

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Sep 06, 2006
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 1