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The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: How You Can Tell If a Government Is Becoming Corrupt
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Remember the sixty second moral inquiry asks questions about what is the right thing to do. Today, we ask "How can you tell If a government is bec...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 01:02
A Citizen's Guide to Freedom
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The parades and camaraderie of the Fourth of July celebrate freedom. This nation-wide celebration doesn't mean that the freedoms we have can’t be...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2013
  • Length: 03:58
Dance Until the World Ends
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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A look at the odd trend of "doomsday" music that took over the pop charts leading up to the Mayan end date.

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown: "I just love the feeling of good old papyrus in my hands."."
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...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: An essay from Erika Kooda previewing some TV and movies that might keep you cozy this winter
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Erika Kooda
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In thi...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 2
How I Got Here: The Dakota War of 1862
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Commentator Michael Goldberg on the Dakota War.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
The Last Word on Superstitions
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Michael Goldberg on superstitions.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
Casting A Blind Eye, Silencing Unspoken Words
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The peculiar thing about the News is that very often events of senseless tragedy and despair are juxtaposed with News of hope and compassion. Some...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:17
Sounds Familiar #5: Sex, Death and Morals in Horror.
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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In 1980, during a “very special episode” of Siskel & Ebert, Roger Ebert made a provocative claim about the emerging genre of “slasher” horror films...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 17:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sounds Familiar #4: The Rule of Threes
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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Is three really the magic number?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUT


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 2
Sounds Familiar #3: The Loudness War
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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Why is music getting louder? And why is it bad? Is it bad?

  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 13:06
Trapped in a Small Space
From: Blake Cooper
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From Archie Bunker to Murphy Brown, TV characters have been getting trapped in elevators, freezers and all other manner of small spaces for decades...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 2
"..Lights and Wires in a Box:"(JAN 2012 UPDATE AND REMIX) or.. Jon Stewart is NOT the new Edward R Murrow ...or ...Why Humorists are NOT Journalists
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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In 1958, legendary journalist, Edward R. Murrow, told his colleagues that they had a choice: to use television to "teach"...or they could render te...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 56:00
Studs Terkel: A Heart as Big as the World
From: A World of Possibilities
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Despite his best efforts, like the very establishments he excoriated, Studs Terkel became an American institution. A man of the people, he was also...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WZEN.org, KBGA 89.9 FM, WDSE and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 11
From The National Press Club: Harvey Levin
From: National Press Club
Caption: Harvey Levin, Credit: NPC
The founder of TMZ, Harvey Levin, talks to the National Press Club about his website, and of the business of celebrity news.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 53:56
The Frankenstein Trope
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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On Brinkmanship and Rebels Without a Cause

  • Added: Aug 19, 2011
  • Length: 08:16
Igor's Halloween Jazz Party
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics
Caption: Philly Joe Jones - Blues for Dracula , Credit: Fantasy Records
Hey! It's Halloween, it's Jazz and it's a party! Join Igor as he presents Halloween Jazz classics from John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Lambert Hendrick...

Bought by KHNS, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, Delmarva Public Media, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2011
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 12
One Last Word: Out
From: Mark Blackmon
Series: One Last Word
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Commentary on the recent series of videos being uploaded to YouTube in the wake of a round of gay teen suicides.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2010
  • Length: 03:15
One Last Word: Goodbye
From: Mark Blackmon
Series: One Last Word
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After 54 years, the soap opera "As The World Turns" has come to the end of its run. A passing worthy of note? Commentator Mark Blackmon thinks so. ...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2010
  • Length: 04:58
One Last Word: News
From: Mark Blackmon
Series: One Last Word
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News. Where do you get your news? More importantly, who do you trust to deliver that news? Commentator Mark Blackmon says he's given up newspapers ...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 05:12
Staff Sergeant Treen
From: Jake Warga
Series: Soldiers Soundtracks to War--IRAQ
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Artist: Barbra Streisand Song: Send in the Clowns

Bought by KZYX, KHNS, KCRW, The Story, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2010
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 6
Life as a small town reporter
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Colin McEnroe Show: Fresh Voices
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The road to writing a best seller has to start somewhere.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2010
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 1
Lucie
From: World Vision Report
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There are some stories that change a reporter’s life. In this reporter’s notebook, Michelle Betz tells us about one story that not only changed he...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
THE ENDLESS CENSORING OF LABOR
From: Dick Meister
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The mainstream media are in effect censoring labor news that's important to all of us.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:24
Water Rumor
From: World Vision Report
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Rumors are a bad thing to spread. In the middle of the night a few months back, Liberians woke each other up to fetch water from a well. They were...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 1

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