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A Shortcut Through 2020
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A final look at an impossible year, 12 months of incredible drama, played out over the world stage in an hour long retrospective

Bought by KMUN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Mississippi Public Broadcasting, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:09
  • Purchases: 13
201218: Biden's Climate Opportunity (Part 1), 12/18/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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President-elect Joe Biden says he will infuse climate change into every corner of his agenda. That’s becoming evident looking at his emerging team....

  • Added: Dec 17, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
The Big Ponder #1: I Love You, I Hate You
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
“We have the right to hate Germany because we love it,” German writer Kurt Tucholsky wrote. Listening to positions from both sides of the Atlantic ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Keepers: Archiving the Now with Host Frances McDormand
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Keepers
Caption: Host, Frances McDormand, Credit: Alison Rosa
The Keepers: Archiving the Now — a new hour-long special from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand. Storie...

Bought by Prairie Public, WJCT, WABE, WNMU-FM, WCQS and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:25
  • Purchases: 70
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part II): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish Studies (University of Notre Dame)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: From Episode 15: The Centennial of W.B. Yeats’ The Second Coming (Part 2): Things Fall Apart Today (Much Like A Century Ago). Featuring our discussion with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, Prize-winning documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish
Exactly one hundred years ago this month, at a time of political polarization and the Spanish Flu pandemic, William Butler Yeats published “The Sec...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 27:15
201106: The 2020 Election: Anxiety and Incrementalism, 11/6/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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About 70 percent of Americans - Democrats, Independents and Republicans - say the election caused a significant amount of stress. That’s up from ab...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
2020-11-06 The 2020 Election: Anxiety and Incrementalism
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The 2020 campaign season has finally come to a close. And days after November 3rd has passed, the country is still reeling. About seventy percent o...

Bought by WDSE, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
Election 2020 Special: More Than a Vote
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Voting in one of the most momentous presidential elections in the nation’s history is over. The morning after polls closed nearly 136 million ballo...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
New Mexico Youth Roundtable with U.S Senator Martin Heinrich
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Youth led Roundtable with U.S Senator Martin Heinrich
"Climate shouldn't be #13 on the priority list, it needs to be in the top with health care and economic justice.” US Senator Martin Heinrich joins ...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 56:38
Spotlight on "Jimmy Carter-Rock 'n' Roll President" Documentary
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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We talk with music documentary director Mary Wharton and writer Bill Flanagan. They’ve collaborated with others to create the documentary we’re sp...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Let Kids Vote! A special episode of THE FINA MENDOZA MYSTERIES
From: Kitty Felde
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A mysterious break-in, a congressional lobbying effort about voting, and a sneaky way to get kids excited about the upcoming election...without the...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 34:55
Top of Mind - 2020 Labor Day Special Episode
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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We're marking Labor Day with a special episode about a group of women in Appalachia who defied stereotypes to get better living conditions for thei...

Bought by WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUHF, and KOWS


  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:25
  • Purchases: 4
Safiya Noble: Algorithms of Oppression
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Dr. Safiya Noble
Is your search engine racist? Listen to Dr. Safiya Noble’s research on how search engines reinforce racial bias.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:44
200703: Real Talk: Racism and Climate, 7/3/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The national uprising ignited by the murder of George Floyd has cast a spotlight on the country’s embedded, institutional racism, including the fra...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
001 Amde Hamilton - Watts Prophets
From: Tim Ayres
Series: Borderland Jukebox
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On this program we talk with Amde Hamilton of the Watts Prophets, who reads poems from his book Me Today, You Tomorrow, and recounts how out of the...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:29
Debs In Canton
From: The National Audio Theatre Festivals
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American labor leader Eugene V. Debs gave a speech in June of 1918 to a movement rally in which he condemned US involvement in the First World War....

Bought by KUNM and KFCF FM


  • Added: May 01, 2020
  • Length: 57:48
  • Purchases: 2
The Digital Divide: Access to Technology During the Covid-19 is a Matter of Life and Death
From: Suzanne LaGrande
Series: We Are All In This Together
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An interview with interviews Hilary Shohoney who is the Director of Community Development at Free Geek in Portland, Oregon. Topics include: Free ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 09:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Best of Making Contact
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: best of making contact
We look at our favorite shows from 2019. From Artificial Intelligence, to the stigma around women's periods, from guns and restraining orders to th...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
Political Junkie 2019 Remembrances Special
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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As 2018 draws to a close, Political Junkie Ken Rudin remembers the lawmakers and newsmakers from the world of politics who passed away this year. K...

Bought by KISU, KTXK, WLPR , Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Troy Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 17
How do you win a local Texas election? - A talk with Sheri Soltes, candidate for Travis County Commissioner
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Sheri Soltes is a nonprofit CEO in Austin, Texas, and she's running for Travis County Commissioner, Precinct 3, covering parts of Austin, Lakeway, ...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2019
  • Length: 14:45
191206: High Risks, High Hopes: A Year of Climate Conversations, 12/6/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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2019 has been a year of climate rising. Youth activists skipped school and took to the streets, the Green New Deal thrust climate equity into the s...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
Conventions
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Spring break for political elites with a sprinkling of nomination on top.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 33:01
  • Purchases: 1
The John Grisham Writers Hour - Jon Meacham
From: WMRA
Series: The John Grisham Writers Hour
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WMRA and James Madison University present The John Grisham Writers Hour with special guest Jon Meacham.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
2019-12-06 High Risks, High Hopes: A Year of Climate Conversations
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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2019 has been a year of climate rising. Youth activists skipped school and took to the streets, the Green New Deal thrust climate equity into the s...

Bought by WJCT, WRIR, WGBH Radio Boston, KUPR low power FM, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 26
Women of Color Lead the Way
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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At the 2019 Progressive Strategy Summit members of Congress and progressive change makers came together to build a movement that won’t only win bac...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3

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