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Smithsonian Associate, Dr. Noah Whiteman: Toxic Allure: The Hidden World of Nature's Most Captivating Poisons
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
My guest today, Dr. Noah Whiteman, tells us to scratch beneath the surface of a coffee bean, a red pepper flake, a poppy seed, a mold spore, a foxg...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2023
  • Length: 35:16
Against The Grain
From: Things That Go Boom
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In this fall special from from Things That Go Boom, Inkstick Media, and PRX: how Indigenous knowledge is challenging the military industrial complex.

Bought by KCBX, KUOW, WXXI Rochester, Northwest Public Broadcasting, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
The Mothers of Gynecology
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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The history of why Black women are more likely to die when giving birth than White women.

Bought by WVTF and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 56:56
  • Purchases: 2
Bad Blood, Bad Science
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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The word “Tuskegee” has become shorthand for the Black community’s mistrust of the medical establishment. But what really happened?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:05
"Inside The Statue: The Inside Story...50 Years Later
From: Paul Fischer
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DEC 26TH IS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCCUPATION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY BY VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR. THIS IS THE DOCUMENTARY PRODUCED E...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 57:50
Defying the Odds, This Young Woman Recovers From a Childhood Police Trauma
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1.5, Episode 1 Being mistreated by the police, or seeing a family member mistreated by the police is traumatic, and it can cause lasting pr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 10:59
  • Purchases: 1
How are the record number of people returning from Louisiana prisons making their way in the world?
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 14 Here’s what it’s like when you’re released from prison. You’re given a $20 debit card and a bus ride home. You need housing, ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:21
What does "adult" mean in the eyes of the law? In Louisiana, many work to change the answer.
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 11 The legal system operates very differently for juveniles and for adults. Yet the age at which a person is considered an adult...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 1
Security and Discipline in New Orleans Charter Schools Make Many Students Feel Unsafe
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 10 Asha Lane, a senior at one of New Orleans' high schools (all of which are charter schools) investigates why security and disc...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:26
  • Purchases: 1
A New Orleans rabbi and her congregants are starting new conversations about mass incarceration
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 7 Congregants at a New Orleans synagogue study and educate themselves about mass incarceration and form bonds with formerly inca...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1
This Louisiana mother waits, and paints, and strives to free her son
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 6 What do you do when a member of your family is locked up for a crime you are sure he didn’t commit? Sheila Phipps paints. She...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 1
S2 Ep 8: Needle exchanges and harm reduction
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: David Venes (right) poses at the Tacoma Needle Exchange van with his dog, Ethel, and outreach worker, Laura Reynolds., Credit: Amber Cortes
In this episode we look at the idea of harm reduction and focus specifically on needle exchanges. Those are hundreds of places across the US that h...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 22:21
S2 Ep 7: Helping family members of people with addiction
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: True Hope Community Church.
At a book group meeting, women went around the circle and introduced themselves. They found out that nearly everyone there had a son addicted to he...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 30:42
BONUS: How Shannon got off drugs
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season One
Caption: Shannon McCarty on April 26, 2018 before all her teeth were pulled., Credit: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
For Shannon McCarty, two things were crucial in her recovery: connections and timing. It started with timing – a key encounter just when she wanted...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 30:30
Ep 1: Fighting the opioid epidemic with Suboxone and telemedicine
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season One
Caption: A patient video conferencing with a medical provider at Ideal Option the clinic in Everett, WA., Credit: Leah Nash for Finding Fixes
At a clinic in Everett, Washington, a nurse pushes his patients to work hard, and the patients embark on their road to recovery. This episode we're...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 25:34
  • Purchases: 1
Russia's Anti-Revolution: 100 years after the Revolution (director's cut)
From: Hechtech
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Communism ended in failure, capitalism corrupted Russia’s soul. Now Russians are looking inward. Our story follows the grandson of a once forgotten...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:48
  • Purchases: 1
Postcard from Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners
From: Sarah Holtz
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Often times a book can become just another piece of furniture in your home. But when your home is a prison cell, a book can be an open door.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 11:41
Rotunda Restoration (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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When Donald Trump takes the inaugural stage this month, he’ll be doing so in front of the newly restored Capitol Dome. But just over a hundred mile...

Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 2
Brightening the Shadows of Dementia
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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As we approach the shortest days of the year, we take a longing look at the therapeutic aspects of daylight. One researcher found that light therap...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2016
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 3
"Shout, Sister, Shout: The Sister Rosetta Tharpe Story
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Cutting Edge
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An interview/music mix with Gayle Wald, author of "Shout, Sister, Shout. The story of Rock and Roll trailblazer, Sister Rosetta Tharpe"

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUW, and WSGE


  • Added: Mar 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:26:14
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 27: No Place Like Home
From: Criminal
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In the early 90s, a wealthy magazine publisher was convicted of fraud and sentenced to 18 months in a minimum security prison in Louisiana. But whi...

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 24:53
  • Purchases: 1
Heartland, Missouri
From: KBIA
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For the past year, KBIA has been working on an investigative story about a place in Northeast Missouri called Heartland. It’s a story with threads ...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
Part 2: Freda and Toghestiy
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The Road to Unist'ot'en
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Freda Huson and Toghestiy live full time at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade. The kind folks at radio-net.com lent me some audio to use for this p...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:23
Fire on the Mountain: Climate Change, Fire, and the Ecological Future of the American West
From: Aengus Anderson
Caption: In the summer monsoon season, grass carpets the Chiricahua foothills., Credit: Aengus Anderson
In the wake of a catastrophic fire, researchers use Arizona's Chiricahua Mountains to look centuries into the future of climate change and ask "wha...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 2
Balancing being Mommy and Nanny
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Lupita Espinoza can often be seen pushing a stroller up one of those steep San Francisco hills that many of us try to avoid. She can’t avoid it, th...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 09:01