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Echoes of a Coup
From: Scene on Radio
Caption: Echoes of a Coup art, Credit: Zaire McPhearson
One-hour special (59:00 with 5-minute news hole), Echoes of a Coup, telling the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history -- the 189...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WNYC, WUNC, WYPR, WFDD and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 25
The Negotiators: Confronting Conflict
From: Rob Sachs
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In this episode, we learn about two historic negotiations – one failed and one successful – from the negotiators themselves. We begin with a peace...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KUHF, WXXI Rochester, WLPR , Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 20
World in Progress 08/02/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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“The Niles – Myths and Challenges” : The Nile River has been the life line for East Africa for thousands of years. Countless myths are connected ...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
Targeted Anticancer Agents: Changing Treatments to Benefit Patients
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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Recorded during the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), being held June 2 - 6, 2017 in Chicago, Ill, the team ...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 27:47
Bombs drop at Brookings, Oregon
From: Ron Johnson
Series: Because It Matters
Caption: Nobuo Fujita, who piloted the plane that bombed Brookings, donating his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city of Brookings
The 9-11 attacks weren’t the first time that America had been bombed. Listen to what happened at Brookings, Oregon on a Wednesday morning in Septem...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:26
Mood Indigo - Boris Vian, Surrealist
From: Pod Academy
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The new film 'Mood Indigo' is based on a novel by Boris Vian - so who was Vian? One of France's most popular authors of the 20th Century, musician,...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
Motherhood by Choice not Chance
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Before it was legal in the United States, some doctors would risk arrest to provide women with access to safe abortions. When that wasn’t possible,...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Amnesty At 50
From: Neil Gardner
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Amnesty has recently attracted criticism, sometimes from those who have been its most committed activists.  John Tusa asks if it has lost its way a...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 36:34
Coal and Climate – We Shall Remain
From: Eric Mack
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Just in time for the global climate summit in Copenhagen and the debate on a climate and energy bill in Washington, this half hour special from Hig...

Bought by WFHB, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KGNU Community Radio, KGLT and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Dutch Dykes in Louisiana
From: Anton Foek
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10 centuries of battling the sea gave the Dutch an added value inhelping to build levees

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: Aug 06, 2008
  • Length: 54:35
  • Purchases: 1
India Rising, program two: Inside India's Heart of Darkness
From: BBC
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This landmark series explores what globalisation and a decade of economic reforms have done to India and the way that it sees itself. In the seconf...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 23:38
  • Purchases: 1
India Rising, program five: Debate
From: BBC
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This landmark series explores the what globalisation and a decade of economic reforms have done to India and the way that it sees itself. The concl...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 22:02
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Cavalry, Caravans and Christians: Genghis Khan and Europe's first global age
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The lasting impact of the Mongol invasions on Europe, 800 years after Genghis Khan united the Mongols into one nation.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WRPI


  • Added: Jan 18, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: The Music of Lutes and Harps
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
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The first generation of children born under China?s one-child policy have reached adulthood and have their own, new views of family life.

Bought by WFUV


  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Compact Discoveries 31: A Gershwin Tribute
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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Features a star-studded program broadcast on the eve of the first anniversary of Gershwin's death.

Bought by WMNR, KENW, KENW, WMRT, KAMU and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2006
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 19
RN Documentary: All But Gone - Last Chance to Save the Great Apes
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Anne Blair Gould asks why Chimpanzees, Gorillas and Orang Utans are expected to be extinct within the next 30 years.

Bought by KTNA, KVNF, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 26, 2005
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 3
RN Documentary: Waiting to go home
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A portrait of a Karen Burmese refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 1
Kathleen McDonough: A Directors Take on Making An Historical Documentary
From: Talking History
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Katheleen McDonough discusses the making of historical documentaries.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2004
  • Length: 03:12