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Caption: Julie Cataldo prepared to be lifted from her wheelchair into an accessible kayak on the Erie Canal., Credit: Veronica Volk
The Great Lakes region provides recreational opportunities all year – whether it’s hiking in the fall, ice fishing in the winter, or boating in the...

Bought by KSKA, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, Interlochen Public Radio, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 7
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Perry Mason themes galore and further trial episodes of the young lady who apportioned axe chops between her father and step-mother... and 911 was ...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:20:37
Caption: Kindergartners in an Ohio classroom learning letters. One in five American kids struggles to read, and many of them have dyslexia. But public schools are failing to identify or treat dyslexia, even though there are proven ways to help kids with dyslexia l, Credit: Emily Hanford
(9/11/17) Public schools are denying children with dyslexia proper treatment and often failing to identify them in the first place.

Bought by WUFT, WMUU-LP, KUER, KCBX, WOSU and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Frank Campbell was a teenager when he was sold to keep Georgetown University afloat. He was one of some 272 enslaved people sold by Jesuits in Maryland to plantations in Louisiana., Credit: Ellender Memorial Library, Nicholls State University
(9/4/2017) As more schools begin to confront their participation in slavery, they also consider how to make amends.

Bought by WWNO, WMUU-LP, WNCU, WUFT, KOSU and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
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Lizzy Borden had an axe...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:42:35
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Trump defended it... Obama derided it and the Pope wants to dictate it...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 02:23:52
Caption: Teacher Christopher McFadden is a member of The Fellowship, a group in Philadelphia trying to recruit and retain black male teachers. Only 2 percent of teachers in American public schools are black men., Credit: Emily Hanford
(8/28/2017) There may be nothing more important in the educational life of a child than having effective teachers. But the United States is struggl...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KOSU, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 10
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Sound clips from the 2009 comedic movie starring Will Ferrell and Danny McBride... and the full Tales of Topographic Oceans played for your underwa...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:51:09
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A sci-fi television series that debuted ahead of Star Trek in 1966... and a settlement constructed by gold miners in 1850 in a brand new state, sti...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:22:46
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Sir Boss... gold rush days... Planet P and pyramids in Antarctica...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:31:50
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Among other subjects, two historic American battles are examined...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:17:14
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Muslim pirates and encroaching immigrants inspire Greeks to wreak some havoc of their own... and then there was Saladin...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:26:40
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A deeply reported one-hour special that explores the ways a resurgence of meth use in Montana has affected families, cops, courts, lawmakers and ad...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 58:47
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Take note: On this episode we're following the "Race Beat." We talk with Hank Klibanoff who's book "The Race Beat" tells the story of journalists c...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 25:00
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A conversation with biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson on what winning a second Pulitzer Prize meant for him and his Harvard colleagues. A look ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 24:59
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In this episode we're looking at the small town through the literary lens. Hear how Shirley Ann Grau author of "Keepers of the House" hung up on th...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 24:59

  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
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The Coaches and Players of Clemson and North Carolina State Postgame remarks.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2017
  • Length: 21:06
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In the latest special edition of the Democracy in Crisis Podcast, hosts Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner talk with reporter Aura Bogado about a power...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2017
  • Length: 42:58
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Before Jackie Robinson, there were the Negro Leagues -- home to some of the greatest untold stories in baseball.

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 4
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Leah Carter speaks with activist as the protest at Standing Rock are reignited.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
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we hear a report from correspondent Leah Carter, who spent last week in Standing Rock, North Dakota.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 07:55
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Standing Rock Water Protector Loki reflects on our place in America

  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: :36
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The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of one Rob Roy MacGregor...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:29:26
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John Adams grows up in an overseas British colony... known as Braintree, Massachusetts...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:34:05