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Brazen Presents: The Closer
From: PRX
Series: Brazen Presents
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This is a special edition of The Closer, a series from Project Brazen and PRX that shares the inside story of the deals that changed the world. In ...

Bought by WILL, WRKF, WLPR , RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 52:29
  • Purchases: 19
Best of Making Contact, 2021
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In this special year-end episode, Making Contact producers and staff turn the spotlight on some the best shows they aired in 2021.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ominous Silence on the Anniversary of the ADA
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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The American with Disabilities Act turned 28 this July.Traditionally, Capitol Hill marks the day. The first two years of the Trump administration ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:30
Hidden in Plain Sight: Sensory Processing Disorder
From: Benedict Carrizzo
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Documentary on a developmental affliction called "Sensory Processing Disorder."

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 24:44
Art and Motorcycles
From: Rachel Ishikawa
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Fall off your bike, get a band aid. Have a headache, take an ibuprofen. Pain is often fleeting…and there’s a cure. But what happens when pain is co...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 3
Shackled Legacy: Universities and the Slave Trade
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
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
Episode Four: "The Race Beat"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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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
Episode Two: "The Small Town through the Literary Lens"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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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
The Golden Age of Black Baseball (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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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
Best of 2016: Insiders vs. Outsiders in Medicine
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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A look back at how outsiders have influenced medicine throughout time.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 13:51
Episode 15: Acre for Acre - The Fight For Strawberry Field
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we take a close look at all sides of a controversial land deal and that bitterly divided the Colorado Springs...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2016
  • Length: 58:58
Bought and Sold
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports
Caption: Javille Sutton was a 14-year-old runaway when she accepted a ride from a pimp who sold her across the country for the next six years. She was arrested multiple times as a juvenile. She now counsels girls at a horse ranch for young victims of trafficking.
Advocates for kids are pushing for a new approach to combating underage prostitution: treating young people caught up in sex trafficking as victims...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WRIR, WEKU, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Rethinking Jewish Identity and Jewish Education
From: Elizabeth DiNolfo
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If Jewish education is to respond to the needs of American Jews and their communities in the 21st century, we need to rethink the assumption that J...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 12:20
  • Purchases: 1
The Rise of Phoenix: For-Profit Universities Shake Up the Academy
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: A class at the University of Phoenix's Hohokam campus in Arizona. Phoenix is the nation's largest for-profit university and largely serves working adults. , Credit: Brian Pobuda/University of Phoenix
The rapid rise of career-oriented, for-profit colleges and universities has provoked heated debate about the costs, quality and purpose of higher e...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Some College, No Degree: Why So Many Americans Drop Out of College, and What to Do About It
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: A student picks up new job skills at the Tennessee Technology Center in Murfreesboro, a technical school where many people who have quit college go to improve their chances in an increasingly competitive economy. , Credit: Doug Strickland
37 million Americans are college dropouts. What wlll it take to get them back? (8/25/2011)

Bought by WMUU-LP, WTIP, KWIT, and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Aug 26, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Remembering Hondros
From: War News Radio
Caption: Chris Hondros in Libya, Credit: John Moore (Getty Images)
News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 07:57
Fresh Greens 2.0
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: Fresh Greens 2.0
NHPR teams up with Generation PRX and the Terrascope Youth Radio group at MIT for another one-hour youth special. "Fresh Greens 2.0" examines what ...

Bought by WNIJ, KBRP Community Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KSFR, WEKU and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2011
  • Length: 51:26
  • Purchases: 12
A Hidden Community
From: Liz Jones
Series: A Village Away from Home
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A look at how an indigenous Mexican migrants adapt to city life.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 08:58
Childhood Interrupted
From: Liz Jones
Series: A Village Away from Home
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A look at how immigrant teens grapple with identity issues.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 09:02
Battleship Missouri Memorial
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Battleship Missouri Memorial, Credit: USS Missouri Memorial Association
The Battleship Missouri is best known as the site where World War II officially ended on Sept. 2, 1945. Veterans share tales about the ship, nickn...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Delta College Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and KVMR


  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 4