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May 4th Voices: Kent State 1970
From: WKSU
Caption: From WKSU, Wick Poetry Center and Kent State University
The 67 shots that rang out at Kent State amid a May 4,1970 Vietnam War protest, killing four students and wounding nine, reverberate nearly 50 year...

Bought by KUT, KWGS, WVTF, KTEP, KQED and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 29
A Shortcut Through 2018-Part Two
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Stan Lee, Credit: Drew Friedman
More looking back through the past year with tributes, tragedies, traitors and comedians in another remix from the cutting room floor of 2018

Bought by KRCB 104.9 and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 59:38
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 3: Lost weekends
From: KCRW's Independent Producer Project
Series: Off The Block
Caption: Betty Peters, known as Mama Betty, shuttles jail visitors along the last mile of the journey. , Credit: George Lavender
Thousands of Los Angeles County prisoners are housed in Pitchess Detention center. For visitors, the journey to the jail can take all day. The clos...

Bought by PRX Remix, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 3
Berlin Journal - Richard Holbrooke's Legacy
From: The American Academy in Berlin
Series: Berlin Journal
Caption: Richard C. Holbrooke
On this first program we look at the legacy of one of the most important American diplomats in the post cold war era - Richard C. Holbrooke

  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: 52:36
RISE: Part I Sounding the Waters
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions threaten the nation's coastal towns, Credit: Jan Sturmann
The San Francisco Bay is a place of beauty and biological diversity. But sea level rise and extreme weather will change human life along its coastl...

Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
RISE: Part II Facing the Rising Tide
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Steve Mello is a farmer on Tyler Island in the San Francisco Bay Delta, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Rising waters threaten the lands of a farmer and of a developer, yet they and their families dismiss all warnings of danger. Why are so many of us ...

Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
RISE: Part III Chuey’s Story
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Chuey Cazares and his family live in the tiny coastal town of Alviso at the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Adapting to climate change will be a messy and painful business. And in the short term there will be winners and losers. Chuey Cazarez’s family is ...

Bought by WFHB, CI Dolphin Radio, WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Part 5: Press Freedoms
From: Vermont Public
Series: Iran Today
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Domestic problems are widely covered in Iran's newspapers, but there are some "red lines" journalists are warned not to cross. The red lines aren't...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 1
Part 4: Morals Police
From: Vermont Public
Series: Iran Today
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he para-military organization known as Basij has attracted an army of devout young men dedicated to fundamentalist Islamic principals. Their job is...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 1
Part 3: Power of Words
From: Vermont Public
Series: Iran Today
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In Iran writers, especially poets, enjoy pop-star status. Despite the dangers poet Simin Behbehani has used her work to speak out for human rights ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 08:13
Part 2: Beyond the Veil
From: Vermont Public
Series: Iran Today
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Women's lives in Iran defy stereotypes. Women are caught between modernity and tradition, and their rights under Iranian law reflect these paradoxes.

Bought by WBEZ, Radio Catskill, KVMR, WBEZ, KWCW and more


  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 07:57
  • Purchases: 6
Part 1: Making Ends Meet
From: Vermont Public
Series: Iran Today
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Poverty and unemployment are taking their toll on every from medical school graduates to those with little education.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 07:53
  • Purchases: 1
Central America After the Wars Part Four - The Press, Indigenous Identity & The Artists' View
From: Maria Martin
Series: Despues de las Guerras: Central America After the Wars
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Free Press, Identity & Discrimination

Bought by KUT, WSKG, WGBH Radio Boston, WLIU, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2005
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 7
Central America After the Wars Part Three - The Other Border, Community Radio & Peace-or-Pieces
From: Maria Martin
Series: Despues de las Guerras: Central America After the Wars
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After the peace, the other border and the medium is the message

Bought by KPFA, WSKG, KUT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2005
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 12
Central America After the Wars Part Two - Gangs, Women, A Look Back
From: Maria Martin
Series: Despues de las Guerras: Central America After the Wars
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Women, Identity, Youth, Gangs, Politics and Power

Bought by KPFA, WSKG, KUT, WLIU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2005
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 10
Central America After the Wars Part One - Downsizing Armies & A Tale of One Village
From: Maria Martin
Series: Despues de las Guerras: Central America After the Wars
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Have peace and democracy come to Central America?

Bought by KRZA, WSKG, KUT, WGBH Radio Boston, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2005
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 12