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Caption: Jeff Beck
This is an optional bonus hour of JEFF BECK: ESSENTIAL ARTIST – a remembrance of the multi-talented, multi-genre British guitar great JEFF BECK, wh...

Bought by WUTC, KUPR low power FM, WCBE, KSUT, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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JEFF BECK: ESSENTIAL ARTIST – a remembrance of the multi-talented, multi-genre British guitar great JEFF BECK, who passed away January 10, 2023 at ...

Bought by WUTC, KSJE, KUPR low power FM, KTNA, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Caption: Coke's zero-g soda can., Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
Our last episode of the Space Oddities Podcast is a hodgepodge of stories dealing with space related marketing ideas, a couple of which you may rem...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 13:11
Caption: The Apollo 15 mission patch, Credit: NASA
Episode 6 of Space Oddities takes a look at several of the lawsuits filed against NASA and its astronauts. Most were trivial, some very serious inc...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 19, 2022
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A sample of the Pan Am First Moon Flights Club membership card., Credit: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
Long before Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson began sending civilians into space, in the 1960s there was an American airline that had the same dream. ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 09:36
  • Purchases: 1
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Andy Truscott speaks with Maia Palmer, a 2022 Individual Artist Fellow and the current artist exhibiting in the Mezzanine Gallery at the Carvel Sta...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 21:58
Caption: Robin Armstrong, Credit: Robin Armstrong Facebook
Robin Armstrong's music project, Cosmograf, has released a new album entitled 'Heroic Materials'. It's a song cycle based on the life of a World Wa...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2022
  • Length: 01:56:11
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Learn about the basics of the ballot initiative, the history of how it caught on in the United States, and the pros and cons that she will explore ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 32:45
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Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people?

  • Added: May 17, 2022
  • Length: 18:14
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Students at CUNY's Hunter College in New York City are complaining about mice running the halls, broken windows, and leaky ceillings. But, the scho...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:43
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The demand for affordable housing has reached an all-time high in both Europe and North America. In this episode, Tomma Suki investigates the housi...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 1
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The following audio is a shortened segment featuring the story of preservationist, banjoist and fiddle player Bascom Lamar Lunsford, as told in the...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 08:23
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In early January, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 22:47
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HOUR 2 of 2. GEORGE HARRISON – BEST YEAR EVER celebrates two landmark events that rolled out from George Harrison in 197. In the first hour (alread...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KSJE, and KUHF


  • Added: Jan 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Tim Dowling speaks to three of the leading dog cognition experts in the world to learn all about dog intelligence. He attempts to find out how smar...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2021
  • Length: 33:58
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Has Colorado reached "peak beer?" Our state may be known for its ales, but there's something new fermenting in the mountains. In this episode, we g...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2021
  • Length: 36:08
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The first Native American Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, spoke to the activists who first occupied Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay in 1969. T...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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The biggest wildfires in Colorado, which have cost lives and millions of dollars, have unexplained origins. As the number and size of wildfires ris...

Bought by KSUT


  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Narratives are all around us. These big meta-stories tell us who we are as a nation and the values we share. Narratives help us explain why things ...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:12
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The Supreme Court case that said racial segregation was constitutional, and the landmark decision that, decades later, overturned it.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WCMU Michigan, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 11