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The Economics of Abolition (release date December 23, 2020)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Will the new abolition movement succeed in transforming how we invest public resources? And what really are the economic underpinnings of the syste...

Bought by KSPC and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 2
Transportation Is A Human Right
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The U.S. transportation system has long been rife with inequality, making it more difficult for low-income people, people of color, and people with...

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


  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Tracing the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Acclaimed white anti-racist scholar Mab Segrest, author of the influential book Memoir of a Race Traitor, takes Laura through the US South to trace...

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


  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Food Justice: A new way of Thinking about the Most Basic Stuff of Life
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Food justice is the notion that everyone should have access to healthful food as well as the opportunity to grow, market and serve it. It’s also th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Buffalo NY: Grappling with Gentrification in one of America’s Most Unequal Cities
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Buffalo, New York, was once a booming industrial town fueled by cheap power from Niagara Falls, a center of commerce and trade, the first city in t...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Future Is Public: Special Report from Amsterdam
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In just the last decade, more than 2,400 cities in 58 countries have brought privatized resources back under public control. In this episode, Laura...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Special Report: Making Buffalo Our City
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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How do you revitalize a city without gentrifying it? In this episode of the Laura Flanders Show, Laura goes to Buffalo, New York, where years of po...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Why Do Taxonomists Write the Meanest Obituaries?
From: Bishop Sand
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Taxonomists are scientists (usually in museums) who classify life. They're field has open boundaries which creates tension for the Taxonomists and ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 01:08:52
Running With Springs
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sport
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Running hasn't always been popular and neither has its research. A small group of biomechanists rethought the way we use our bodies to run and it's...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 3
Sport Fandom: Why we care about sports
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sport
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As sport fans, we subject ourselves to anxiety and depression nearly every week. Why do we do it? This episode explores the reasons why we care so ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 15:07
  • Purchases: 1
Exciting :30 Audio Transition or Introduction from 1970
From: Paul Messing
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Lots of exciting audio elements went into this montage, created in 1970. A great interstitial element...and exciting too!

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: :34
Coleman Hawkins
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins was known as "Hawk" or "Bean" among his contemporaries because of his keen intellect and ingenious approach to common tunes. He was...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Engineering Gotham From Below
From: Bishop Sand
Caption: This is a look up from the 86th Street Station construction site.
The New York City Subway is a complex system that keeps NYC running and it is still being built. Hear the reasons for the initial construction, the...

Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI Minneapolis, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 14, 2013
  • Length: 08:43
  • Purchases: 5
"The Creature in the Attic"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bev Shorts
Caption: Joe Bev reads "The Creature in the Attic", Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
A short fiction by Pedro Pablo Sacristan, read by Joe Bevilacqua. Great for Halloween, Christmas Day (Rod Serling's birthday), the anniversary of...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 07:36
"The Mysterious Thieve of Thieves"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bev Shorts
Caption: Joe Bev reads "The Mysterious Thieve of Thieves", Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
A short fiction by Pedro Pablo Sacristan, read by Joe Bevilacqua. Great for Christmas Day (Humphrey Bogart's birthday), a funny film noir or anyt...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 05:12
The West Cambridge Youth Center
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
Series: Green Audio Tour of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Caption: Find the full-size tour map at: http://web.mit.edu/tyr/tours/Cambridge-Green-Audio-Tour/CambridgeGreenAudioTourMap-8.5x11.pdf
An older building in West Cambridge is renewed in an eco-friendly way

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:46
Fresh Pond
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
Series: Green Audio Tour of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Caption: Find the full-size tour map at: http://web.mit.edu/tyr/tours/Cambridge-Green-Audio-Tour/CambridgeGreenAudioTourMap-8.5x11.pdf
Fresh Pond. A great name for where Cambridge's water comes from.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
Danehy Park
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
Series: Green Audio Tour of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Caption: Find the full-size tour map at: http://web.mit.edu/tyr/tours/Cambridge-Green-Audio-Tour/CambridgeGreenAudioTourMap-8.5x11.pdf
A park built on reclaimed land?

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
Sustainable Transportation
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
Series: Green Audio Tour of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Caption: Find the full-size tour map at: http://web.mit.edu/tyr/tours/Cambridge-Green-Audio-Tour/CambridgeGreenAudioTourMap-8.5x11.pdf
Getting around Cambridge without a car.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 03:01
Politics 101 BC: Voter fraud in the ancient world
From: Oregon Public Broadcasting
Caption: Ellen Millender, Professor of Classics and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Credit: Michael Clapp, OPB
How do we know that there was voter fraud in ancient Athens? Pottery shards tell the tale.

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 1
Best Craigslist Ad Ever?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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A humorous reading of a looking-for-work ad posted by a copywriter on Craigslist in Atlanta.

Bought by WABE and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:28
  • Purchases: 2
"Helpful the Dwarf"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Caption: Illustration for "Helpful the Dwarf," published in the book UNCLE DUNKLE AND DONNIE, Credit: Joe Bevilacqua
A funny fable written by Daws Butler, performed by Joe Bevilacqua, published in the book and audio book: UNCLE DUNKLE AND DONNIE, by BearManor Medi...

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Feb 18, 2010
  • Length: 08:37
  • Purchases: 1
"Donnie and the Piggy Bank"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Caption: Illustration for "Donnie and the Pggy Bank," published in the book UNCLE DUNKLE AND DONNIE, Credit: Joe Bevilacqua
A funny fable written by Daws Butler, performed by Joe Bevilacqua, published in the book and audio book: UNCLE DUNKLE AND DONNIE, by BearManor Medi...

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Feb 18, 2010
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 1
"Britty the Starfish"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Caption: Illustration for "Britty the Starfish," published in the book UNCLE DUNKLE AND DONNIE, Credit: Joe Bevilacqua
A funny fable written by Daws Butler, performed by Joe Bevilacqua, published in the book and audio book: UNCLE DUNKLE AND DONNIE, by BearManor Medi...

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Feb 02, 2010
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 1
"Bigelow Bee and the Honey Factory"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Caption: Illustration for "Bigelow Bee and the Honey Factory," published in the book UNCLE DUNKLE AND DONNIE, Credit: Joe Bevilacqua
A funny fable written and performed by Joe Bevilacqua, published in the book and audio book: UNCLE DUNKLE AND DONNIE, by BearManor Media and BearMa...

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Feb 02, 2010
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 1