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Voices of the Armistice

  • Added: Nov 14, 2008
  • Length: 02:28
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The enigma of the death of Socrates

Bought by Remix Radio and WMUB


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 2
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Young Urban Professionalism needs to be in vogue again

  • Added: Nov 05, 2008
  • Length: 02:56
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Reasons for the Viking Age.

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
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A new view of medieval garbage

  • Added: Oct 27, 2008
  • Length: 02:51
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October 22, this day in history.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2008
  • Length: 02:52
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The truth appears to be in short supply, especially when measured by the events of the past.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 06, 2008
  • Length: 18:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Reflection Manhattan's Columbus Park and the fluid nature of place.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:13
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David visits Boston and rewrites some history.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
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Three areas in which business leaders made mistakes leading to the current weak economy.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2008
  • Length: 03:00
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Syphilitic skulls, racial science, and some of the oldest non-western music recordings in history - come explore the beauty and pathos that is the ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2008
  • Length: 32:55
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A commentary noting that few women are more deserving of special attention during Women's History Month than farm worker leader Dolores Huerta.

Bought by KGLP and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 2
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David looks back to ancient Rome for an ideal Presidential model.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2008
  • Length: 03:25
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The pioneering Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters played a major role in the struggle of African Americans for equal rights.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WDBM, and WEZU


  • Added: Jan 27, 2008
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 3
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Few leaders have left a greater legacy than labor leader Jack Hall, a major figure in the transformation of feudalistic Hawaii into a democratic st...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2007
  • Length: 04:43
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Thoughtful commentary about the symbolic role of lights at Christmas

  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 03:30
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A commentary noting that author John Steinbeck was one of the best friends American workers ever had.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2007
  • Length: 04:18
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This commentary notes that although now largely forgotten, labor leader Lou Goldblatt was one of America's most influential leaders of any kind.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2007
  • Length: 04:13
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This commentary is about the fierce steelworkers strike of 1919 that was one of the key events leading to the mass unionization of American industry.

Bought by KZYX and WDBM


  • Added: Sep 13, 2007
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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A commentary on the Homestead strike, one of the most violent and most significant in labor history.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Jul 11, 2007
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 1
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It was 50 years ago this summer that a judge rejected attempts to ban poet Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" as obscene and virtually ended government book-b...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2007
  • Length: 03:30
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Everything's stuck in the past when Liza Minnelli plays a concert in Coney Island.

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 17, 2007
  • Length: 14:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Like many baseball seasons before it, the new season will be played largely under lights, although players and team owners alike once called night ...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2007
  • Length: 03:44
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Despite his extraordinary career, Lefty O'Doul has again been bypassed for admission to Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Mar 04, 2007
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1