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Episode 5: Charting an uncertain future
From: Don Hill
Series: Research In Ukraine: Where has it gone?
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episode 5: Disinformation and media manipulation are everywhere. Nobody can really know what’s going on in a ‘fog of war’. You’ll hear from displa...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 15:21
Episode 4: The Road Ahead for Ukrainian Research
From: Don Hill
Series: Research In Ukraine: Where has it gone?
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episode 4: Not surprisingly, in a time of war, most of the funding available to science in Ukraine is gone. You’ll hear how Canada can help rebuild...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 19:09
Episode 2: Ukrainian Scholars in Times of War
From: Don Hill
Series: Research In Ukraine: Where has it gone?
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episode 2: How can you conduct research under extremely difficult conditions, such as they are in Ukraine? A sociologist and researcher at the Cen...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 19:25
Episode 3: Protecting data in wartime
From: Don Hill
Series: Research In Ukraine: Where has it gone?
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episode 3: The war in Ukraine is proving to be a real-time lab study of staying one step ahead of the hackers and finding ways to protect and prese...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 20:30
Episode 1: Our first look inside Ukrainian research
From: Don Hill
Series: Research In Ukraine: Where has it gone?
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episode 1: It's the early days of the war. Scientists in Canada and France offer a helping hand to Ukrainian colleagues. A research scientist at t...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 19:59
Life in the Age of Coronavirus
From: Felix Poon
Caption: Cover Art by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom
What’s changed because of the pandemic? And how is it different for different people? In this first episode of the Felixity podcast, I talk to a fe...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 18:01
  • Purchases: 1
Area Voices: Northern Minnesota Women Head to Women's March in St. Paul
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Women's March 2016, St. Paul, MN, Credit: Katie Carter
Area Voices producer Katie Carter rode along on a bus from Bemidji full of women and girls headed to the Women's March in St. Paul. This segment o...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 18:11
Blues America 37 - Jerry Lawson Project 3
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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Jerry Lawson was the lead singer, arranger and producer of the famed Persuasions for 40 years before launching a solo career at the age of 71.

Bought by Public Radio East, KDLG, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Blues America 27 - Alabama Mike
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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The downhome blues singer Alabama Mike is a “church house” tenor who was a Blues Award nominee for Traditional Male Artist of the Year by the Blues...

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRPS, KDLG, WEAA and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 54:20
  • Purchases: 6
Createch connects kids to learning
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Video game critics say computer-generated play keeps kids glued to a screen. But at Createch Studio--a community center in St. Paul--staff are usin...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:26
The East Side Freedom Library
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Last year, when the St. Paul Public Library vacated a building in East St. Paul, another venture moved in—and its dynamic focus is spelled out in i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 2
Nachito Herrera
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Cuban-born pianist Nachito Herrera moved to Minnesota in 2001, and quickly made a name for himself as a jazz player, composing and performing and w...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 19, 2014
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 1
A night with the projectionist
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Projectionist Nikki Weispfenning at Trylon Microcinema , Credit: Todd Melby
Fewer Americans are watching movies in theaters—ticket sales fell by 11 percent between 2004 and 2013. For those attending the cinema, just about e...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 03:46
Military Food - Is it healthy?
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Elements by Open Orchard Productions
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Military food has come a long way since the canned rations of World War I. However, has the overall quality of nourishment or taste necessarily imp...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 1
If a Moose Falls in a Forest
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Questioning the threat to moose in Maine

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:07
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 4 ~ Online Gaming Communities
From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design
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Randall Coleman and I talk about the impact video game communities have on the development of new titles.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2014
  • Length: 08:35
Artist Trish Jones
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Tish Jones is the Community Engagement Director for the St Paul Almanac, and Executive Director of TruArtSpeaks. She began performing at age 14, an...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:47
The Green Gold of Chocó: The Next Fever?
From: Lorenzo Morales
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How a small community of gold miners in the Colombian jungle is fighting to turn a toxic industry into a green and global market.

  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 34:24
All Around Giving
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The Trinity Jubilee Center in Lewiston, Maine is located in one of the poorest Neighborhoods in the state. It doubles as a soup kitchen and refugee...

Bought by Raven Radio, WRGY, WRIR, Raven Radio, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 11
Nipmuc Language Preservation, David White
From: Native Public Media
Series: We Shall Remain
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David White balances his day job as a Massachusetts electrician with his single-handed mission to save the Nipmuc language unused for 100 years but...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Troy Public Radio, and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Apr 14, 2009
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Welcome Wagon's InaugurART
From: Sam Greenspan
Caption: The Welcome Wagon's series, Credit: Tim Gibbon
DC artists and activists collaborate on a poster project to inform Inauguration-goers about the lack of DC voting rights.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2009
  • Length: 04:13
Persian Love Story
From: Joanna Feldman
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A love story emerging from the Iranian revolution

  • Added: May 16, 2008
  • Length: 08:06
Homelessness in San Francisco
From: Selwyn-Lloyd McPherson
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A portrait of homelessness in the city of San Francisco

  • Added: Nov 28, 2007
  • Length: 16:43
Major-league mariners
From: John Ryan
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A midnight run on a giant oil tanker

  • Added: Apr 07, 2007
  • Length: 06:39
Edge of the Rez, Hour Two
From: KNAU
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Edge of the Rez is a documentary exploring what happens when cultures converge in the towns neighboring the Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations in ...

Bought by KUT-HD, KUER, WGBH Radio Boston, KPFA, KGLT and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8