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Special Episode - This Is Science Thanks
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Need some pumpkin pi to go with that leftover turkey? Jess highlights her favorite reasons to be thankful for science in this season of gratitude.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 18:00
The Big Ponder #26: Krampus
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the U.S., Santa keeps tabs on who’s been naughty or nice, but there isn’t much follow through on the naughty list. In much of Europe, however, S...

Bought by WBEZ and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 27:27
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Ponder #4: Anatomy of an Apology
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Katie Davis tells the story of an inadvertent provocation between two boys at a teen center in her Washington, D.C. neighborhood, the conflict that...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 24:52
  • Purchases: 1
Sonnet For The Baseball Teams Playing "Sweet Caroline"
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
This is a sonnet for the baseball teams who after the tragedy at the Boston Marathon each played the song the Boston Red Sox play during a game w...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 12, 2020
  • Length: :54
  • Purchases: 1
The 2017 Musician Memorial Hour
From: Paul Ingles
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Some of the prominent popular musicians who passed away in 2017 are celebrated in a one-hour special hosted by public radio music historian Paul In...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WVAS, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KDUR and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
Capitalism in Crisis Ep16: Knowing When We Do Not Know
From: Jim Sawyer
Series: Capitalism In Crisis
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Science is a process of determining what is reality objectively. How do we sift the subjective from the objective for understanding economic propos...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2016
  • Length: 03:59
In the Department of Poetic Justice (The song and dance genre): All I Want Is My Debt Deferred
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Contaminating Maine for Corporate Favors, Credit: Susan Cook
Well, in my state the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting published a lengthy article about a veteran lawmaker who is strongly supporting a ...

  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 03:23
1970s Black Rock, or the Ties that Bind
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
Caption: a band called death
Recently at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, Ayana Contreras caught a documentary about Death, a 1970s all-black proto-punk band out of Detroit. The do...

Bought by WFHB and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 2
TSR14-22 Della Mae
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
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Tent Show Radio welcomes from Nashville, Tennessee, Grammy Award bluegrass Nominees Della Mae.

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, WDSE, KSRQ, Wisconsin Public Radio, and KMXT


  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 5
Acoustic Stories : Aaron Brown - "Cherries"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
A Sense of Belonging and Health: The Limits of Logic in Creating Well-being
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
As the Supreme Court Justices listen to lawyers try to find the legal logic in requiring people to buy health insurance, let us remember that peopl...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 06:45
Ash Wednesday
From: Dan Heidt
Series: Living Histories
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Hopefully each of us want to improve upon ourselves, if only day to day. A moment of truth on a day of significance.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:19
Practically Speaking: What's in a Name
From: Ayana Contreras
Series: Practically Speaking
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Are African-American parents that choose unique or African-sounding names putting their children at a disadvantage? Is society unduly prejudiced ag...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2010
  • Length: 10:22
  • Purchases: 1
Our American Generations - War - This I Believe Essays
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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5 Generaitional Essays - Special- This Believe essays on War

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Sep 04, 2007
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
Paul McCartney: An Appreciation (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Paul Ingles
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Producer Paul Ingles joins with Richard Goldman, an L.A. musician, writer and fan, to detail why Paul McCartney matters in this program of commenta...

Bought by KSUT, WCMU Michigan, WUTC, KRCB 104.9, KGLT and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2007
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 11
Orange Juice
From: NAISA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Orange Juice: The transglobal nature of drink production.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:03
Food, Culture, and Immigration
From: Carl Nabozny
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This piece links food with culture.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2006
  • Length: 06:03
King's Solutions Could Fix Our Secondary Schools
From: Ellen Weber
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Many secondary schools today are in crisis, because they lack basic solutions King offered in the belief, vision and passion seen in his speeches a...

Bought by KSJD


  • Added: Dec 25, 2005
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 1
Teens are Smarter than Their Schools
From: Ellen Weber
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Teens bring extravangant minds to school daily, and deserve the best back.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2005
  • Length: 03:57
Norwegian Wood Deconstructed
From: Paul Ingles
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On the 40th anniversary of the recording and release of The Beatles song "Norwegian Wood," commentator Sarah Karni says the song's been a riddle to...

Bought by KLCC and WKMS


  • Added: Oct 15, 2005
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 2
Ever Consider Mental Reinvention As a Way of Life?
From: Ellen Weber
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You can grow more intelligence at pretty much any age.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2005
  • Length: 09:45