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Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 43
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes about people coming to terms with reality.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 36
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes from two of WPR’s award-winning podcasts.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 34
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes about finding alternative solutions for very different problems.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 33
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes from our Award-Winning Podcasts.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 50:03
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 32
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories about people finding stability when things feel out of control.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 31
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories about parents doing everything they can for their kids.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 51:00
  • Purchases: 1
Closing the TaB
From: WFIU
Caption: John Bailey with a cart full of TaB, Credit: John Bailey
After years of languishing at the far end of the soda aisle, TaB has at last fallen victim to a decision by its parent company, Coca-Cola, to end p...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 1
“It’s not my responsibility to educate you.”
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcaster Declan
Unfairly burdening LGBTQ teens.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2022
  • Length: 07:29
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
Finding Hope in a Haircut
From: Anya Schultz
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My parents, Randy and Vicki, were high school sweethearts in the 1960s, but they broke up when my mom went off to college. Twenty years later their...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 03:48
F-Word: We Treasure What We Measure
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"Transparency is important, especially in matters of public health. We treasure what we measure..." The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring tim...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
Solve for X
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place
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On her kids' last day of school, Laura draws from Susan Wise Bauer's research, writing, and experience on how we can rethink the way we approach ou...

  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 22:02
All in the Same Boat
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we bring you an abbreviated special edition of World Ocean Radio in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. In this edition we'll reite...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Indifference Diaries, Part Four: Adventures in the Skin Trade and Child Maltreatment
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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The murders of four children at the hands of caretakers were adjudicated by Maine's court system recently. As the last days of a child whose grandf...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2019
  • Length: 07:17
The Leisure Edge: Part Four of a Seven Part Series on the Ocean Edge
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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We have long enjoyed the ocean edge for leisurely ends: as a place to gather with family and friends to enjoy surf and sand, and to relax in the fr...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2019
  • Length: 04:35
Dear Santa: A Request From A Veterinarian Mom
From: Jennifer Oles
Caption: Dr. Julie Bailey
A mom and veterinarian politely asks Santa not to bring her children the item that tops their Christmas lists: a puppy. With love and detail, Dr. ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
OutCasting Overtime - May 2018 – Marlon Bundo
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
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A pet bunny gets recast as gay in a children’s book parodying a similar book created by members of VP Mike Pence’s family.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Apr 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 1
Beyond Choice: Organizing for Reproductive Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Loretta Ross, Credit: Speak Out
Loretta Ross, co-founder of SisterSong breaks down the reproductive justice framework; and Tina Reynolds, co-founder and Chair of Women on the Rise...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, XRAY.fm, WRIR, and WXDU


  • Added: Apr 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Beginning of Mean: This Country's Epidemic of Permission For Meanness
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The widespread permission in this country to be mean, to arm oneself to be as mean as possible is deeply alarming. The beginning of this permissio...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 07:01
It's Not What You're Given, It's What You Do: A Parenting Guide to Understanding Presidentialism
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Human Growth and Development textbooks may be the ‘go to’ reference to explain ‘what the hell is going on’ as the new Republican opponent appar...

  • Added: May 04, 2016
  • Length: 04:52
TSR16-05 Michael Franti & Spearhead
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
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Tune in tonight as Tent Show host and author Michael Perry welcomes our very own Blue Canvas Orchestra in the first set followed by bluegrass outfi...

Bought by KFCF FM, KMXT, KALH, KPIP-LP, KSJE and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2016
  • Length: 59:19
  • Purchases: 12
The Happiness of the Human Family and Its Familiar Enemy
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, Tolstoi wrote as the first sentence in Anna Karenina. The epitaph he c...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:45
03 - Growing Up Curious
From: Peabody Essex Museum
Series: The PEMcast
Caption: The PEMcast, Credit: Chip Van Dyke
Are you, or were you a curious kid? How do museums fuel your curiosity?

  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 18:04
Why Cooking Sucks
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
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This is an essay about cooking and all the shame and rage and frustration that can accompany this art. Writer Sarah Miller describes her desire to ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 10:13
  • Purchases: 1
TSR15-09 Jason Isbell
From: Tent Show Radio
Caption: Tent Show Radio
After working as a songwriter, in 2001 at the age of 22, Isbell joined the rock band Drive-By Truckers while they toured in support of their album ...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WKMS, KSRQ, WUMB, WDSE and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 8