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In this special broadcast of episodes 5 and 6 of So Far From Care, we return to Marfa for two different stories. This tiny desert town is often ro...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
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In episodes 3 and 4 of So Far From Care, "What We're Capable Of" and "She's Not Here," you’ll hear about what it’s like to live even further out th...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 54:30
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Many incarcerated people are also parents. Their children navigate social stigma and barriers to staying in contact with their loved ones.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
Caption: Facing Eviction and Housing Insecurity cover, Credit: Shantanu Suman
Not every eviction is equal.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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In this episode, Emily speaks with writer and philosophy professor Chloé Cooper Jones about her memoir Easy Beauty, which chronicles her quest to w...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 53:50
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Hospitalist PJ Lally reflects on a time he got a second chance at life.

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 47:19
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We continue National Hispanic Heritage Month with essayist and fiction writer, Sergio Troncoso. A 2020 International Book Award winner for Best Col...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The Duffel Blog satire news website is known as The Onion of the armed services, fearlessly pilloring military culture, saying truths to power with...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:08
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We have two of the most entertaining, self-made, grunt-ass Marines I know on today’s show for you, and they really couldn’t be more different from ...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: 07-(37), Credit: Becker1999
It’s been one year since a gunman opened fire in Dayton’s Oregon District, killing nine people and injuring 27.

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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World Pieces Host Jason Kladiva arrives in Iceland and learns about how Icelanders identify themselves, a genealogy app and the importance of swimm...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2019
  • Length: 07:58
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Reporters ask people "If YOUR life was a TV Newscast, what would be your top story RIGHT NOW?" The result is a refreshing montage of what REALLY ar...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2016
  • Length: 28:45
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Reporters ask people "If YOUR life was a TV Newscast, what would be your top story RIGHT NOW?" The result is a refreshing montage of what REALLY ar...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:02
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Reporters ask people "If YOUR life was a TV Newscast, what would be your top story RIGHT NOW?" The result is a refreshing montage of what REALLY a...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2016
  • Length: 28:38
Caption: Natasha Wynn high-fives her daughter, Robin., Credit: Brian Bull, WCPN.
A single mom working a fast-food job aims high.

Bought by KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: AIDS Skeletons, Credit: Bob Smith
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 08:22
Caption: Curtis Billie from N'MPower
N’MPower participant and Program Manager, Curtis Billie, interviews Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, a potter from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, in a community ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 06:32
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Caption: John Gallegos, left, is interviewed by Antonio Martinez, right, with assistance from Marquell Hicks, center., Credit: Laura Marcus Green
N’MPower participant, Antonio Martinez, interviews Spanish Colonial artist John Gallegos, in a community engagement project between the Museum of I...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 06:34
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This time on Peace Talks Radio, we look at a program that seems to be having some success in quelling the violence in some men with histories of do...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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On this episode of, Culture Clique - we present the audience Q&A session with Will Steger and J. Drake Hamilton following their presentation at the...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 07, 2013
  • Length: 25:35
  • Purchases: 1
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Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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In 1965 the Southern Christian leadership Conference (SCLC) joined a Joanne Bland is the co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum and Insti...

Bought by KWMR and WJAB


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 31:50
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: John Register, Credit: johnregister.com
This week on Culture Clique, Olympian John Register speaks to us about the disabled community. While training for the 1996 Olympics, Register fell ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 31:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bruce A. Jacobs, Credit: via www.aliasbruce.typepad.com
Today we continue our conversation and lecture on Race Manners with Bruce A. Jacobs. In our interview we ask about what cities in the US are have t...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2010
  • Length: 31:29