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Smackdown: City Hall vs Big Oil
From: Claire Schoen
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Richmond California is a working class town that grew up in the shadow of a Chevron refinery. The company ran both the economy – and the local gove...

Bought by KUOW, KUNM, WFAE, WAMU, WUTC and more


  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
Making Obama: Part 2
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Making Obama: Part 1
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 33
Charlie Chaplin on the Radio
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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How the heck do you get a silent film star on the radio?

  • Added: Sep 24, 2016
  • Length: 02:16:54
Contenders (Hour Special)
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
Caption: William Jennings Bryan
Portraits of some of America’s most groundbreaking and unusual presidential candidates...who never won the white house.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIK-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCQS, KALW and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:25
  • Purchases: 22
Episode 16: Liberty's Pitchman - Robert LeFevre & The Freedom School
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called Th...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Jun 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Part 6: Back at Home
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The Road to Unist'ot'en
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The Mount Polley taililngs pond breach happened a couple of weeks after Liz returned from the Action Camp. She speaks to author Arno Kopecky about ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2014
  • Length: 18:40
Part 5: The Activists
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The Road to Unist'ot'en
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Three activists explain their involvement at the annual Action Camp at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2014
  • Length: 24:43
Part 4: The Bunkhouse
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The Road to Unist'ot'en
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Dave Ages led construction of an insulated bunkhouse to allow volunteers to live year-round at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade. He talked to Liz ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2014
  • Length: 15:28
You Are How You Sound
From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language
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How may speech affect your perceived level of intelligence? Dr. John Baugh describes research that sheds light on linguistic profiling.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 12:31
  • Purchases: 1
Linguistic Insights
From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language
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In the late 1980s, a personal case of housing discrimination prompted Dr. John Baugh to launch decades of research into what he calls linguistic pr...

Bought by KRZA and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 11:30
  • Purchases: 2
Zelma On Strike: One Taco Bell Worker's View of the 2013 Fast Food Strikes
From: The Good Fight
Caption: Your new favorite podcast.
On December 5, 2013, fast food workers across the country walked out on a one-day strike, demanding fairer wages. But what's really at stake? The G...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 06:08
David Blankenhorn And The Battle Over Same-Sex Marriage
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Caption: Janet Peck and her partner of 33 years, Carol Coughlin, hold hands after the legalization of same-sex marriage in Connecticut in 2008., Credit: Chion Wolf
In the next hour, you’ll hear an exclusive interview in which America’s most famous opponent of same-sex marriage announces that he has changed his...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 44:26
Detention in the City of Destiny
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: GEO Guard at the Northwest Detention Center, Tacoma., Credit: Alex Stonehill
In 2004 a new detention center opened on the tideflats below downtown Tacoma. Owned and operated by a private corporation, it houses up to a thousa...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:19
  • Purchases: 1
Making a Difference
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2002
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Stories from gay folks who left their mark in the world

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KQED, WXXI Rochester, and KWCW


  • Added: May 28, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Living on the Fringe
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2003
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Stories of folks who lead their lives off the well-worn path of gay life in America.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WGDR, and KWCW


  • Added: May 27, 2006
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 4
In the Navy
From: Outright Radio
Series: Outright Radio Series 2000
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Stories of being gay & lesbian and out in the US Navy

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWCW


  • Added: May 25, 2006
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 2
Democracy on the Block
From: WFUV
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A music-filled, sound-rich tour of some of the quirky, idealistic and informal democracies that play a significant but understated role in American...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KPBS, KCLU, WBAA and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2003
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7