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Partnership vs Domination society.
Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB
- Added: Feb 04, 2024
- Length: 58:08
- Purchases: 2
As fires ravaged California’s wine country in 2017, farm and service workers, especially non-English speakers, were some of the hardest hit. Hear m...
Bought by KMUN and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 05, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Steel is the signature material of the Industrial Revolution. It’s also an essential component of the wind turbines, electric cars, and climate-fri...
Bought by KSKQ
- Added: Apr 20, 2022
- Length: 44:52
- Purchases: 1
We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 21:06
- Purchases: 1
It’s not an uncommon experience to be unstably housed in this country. From Brooklyn to San Francisco, communities often turn to public libraries f...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 24:46
- Purchases: 2
this is the conclusion of The Scotch Bonnet Republic, Ocracoke Island, and how local fisherman saved their way of life.
- Added: Aug 22, 2019
- Length: 24:42
Ocracoke Island is the Key West of the southeast. And where that notable Key claims the conch as its emblem, this remote island off North Carolina...
- Added: Aug 20, 2019
- Length: 27:26
Studs Terkel interviews a female advertising executive in the 1970's for his book "Working."
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and KZYX
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 03:19
- Purchases: 3
For decades, Ronnie Johnson woke up in the late afternoon, and fixed a lunch to bring with him 2,000 feet underground, as he worked all night in a ...
Bought by WMMT, KVLU, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 31:48
- Purchases: 4
Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
In this episode of Wish We Were Here, we tell the remarkable story of Bishop Castle--an incredible piece of folk architecture that is likely one of...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 59:08
On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events in the history of the American labor movement s...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 58:45
A conversation with Andrew Revkin, who's best known as a longtime New York Times environmental journalist but is also a songwriter and was for 20 y...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Sep 04, 2015
- Length: 15:58
- Purchases: 1
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 28:06
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
An artist living in Seattle has just had to move for the fifth time in four years. As he gets older it's becoming harder and harder for him to expo...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 04:44
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Martin Middle School Fall 2014
Series: Martin Middle School Fall 2014
In this short piece, students decide to talk about their neighborhood and interview folks at a nearby flea market, where they run into other studen...
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 04:14
Lupita Espinoza can often be seen pushing a stroller up one of those steep San Francisco hills that many of us try to avoid. She can’t avoid it, th...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 09:01
Thirteen year old Toby Choyt of Maine meets a retired lobsterman on Portland's historic Widgery Wharf and tells his story.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 06:18
We all know how sweet it is when our appetites are satisfied, but what's it like to be a satiator?
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 02:53
In the summer of 1950, Richard goes to work in the steel mills of Pittsburgh. The job was both part of his theological education and necessary to h...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 22:16
Richard looks forward to his studies under Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the most challenging theological thinkers of his generation. In his last summer...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 23:41
Richard receives an early political education from his Socialist cigar maker grandfather, by hearing over-the-counter conversations at the butcher ...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 24:25
- Purchases: 1
Stephanie and James worked together at the University of Illinois at Chicago before they both found out that they were going to be fired.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 1
It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Chec...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
