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Whatchutalkin'bout?!
From: NBPC
Series: Rip And Rebind
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This episode looks at music as communication. In Africa drums were always used to send messages across the jungle. These same drums are now used to...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 18:08
  • Purchases: 1
Living in Limbo
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: Gabriela Cubillos prepares tamales in her home. , Credit: Eroyn Franklin
In our final segment, producer Jessica Partnow follows the story of one family living in immigration limbo in Auburn, Washington.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, XRAY.fm, KISU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 6
Hamburg Meets Chicago
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Caption: Motte Kinder radio
Children's Rights are sometimes completely overlooked in our society. But things are changing Children are slowly getting the respect they deserve ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 30:00
See Jane Do: Mother's Day for Peace and Social Justice
From: Elisa Parker
Caption: CODEPINK Mother's Day for Peace Vigil, Credit: Jesse Locks, See Jane Do
The stories of everyday women doing extraordinary things for peace at the largest Mother's Day peace vigil in Washington D.C. Special guests includ...

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: 56:10
  • Purchases: 1
Iggy & The Stooges: Raw Power
From: Joyride Media
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Tracing the creation and influence of The Stooges 1973 album.

Bought by KPSQ-LP, WOMR, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WFAE and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 19
The Chieftains: San Patricio
From: Joyride Media
Caption: The Chieftains and Ry Cooder, Credit: Judith Burrows
The Chieftains and Ry Cooder present the history behind their collaboration inspired by The St Patrick's Battalion of Irish-born soldiers in the Me...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 50
Tesla vs. the United States
From: Deus Ex Machina
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Who invented radio? Marconi or Tesla? 90% of people get this wrong. Find out by attending the Supreme Court trial in 1943. The answer will surp...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2010
  • Length: 49:13
  • Purchases: 1
Goodbye Oral Roberts
From: Michael Paul Mason
Caption: Praying Hands at Oral Roberts University
In this controversial piece, attorney Gary Richardson recounts a run-in with the famous televangelist that has left him questioning ever since.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2010
  • Length: 06:58
Divorced Kid
From: American Public Media
Caption: "Divorced Kid" producer Sasha Aslanian at her own wedding in September 1999., Credit: Liz Banfield Photography
America's divorce rate soared in the 1970s. Thirty years later, kids who grew up in the divorce revolution look back at that experience, and descri...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WGDR and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 31
SURVIVORS: Solitary Confinement in America's Prisons
From: Claire Schoen
Caption: Robert King Wilkerson spent 29 years in solitary confinement., Credit: Terry Foss
In this half-hour radio documentary, "survivors" of solitary confinement paint a picture of what it looks, sounds and feels like to live for years ...

Bought by KMUZ, KOSU, KGNU Community Radio, KUT, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
VOICES4theSoul Show 723
From: Lori Holladay
Caption: Xavier Rudd
AAA Music show featuring songs that express a more meaningful side of life. This hour features songs by various artists, including a personal conve...

Bought by WVRU


  • Added: Aug 04, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: An American Terrorist
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 3
Between Civil War and Civil Rights - 5: White Protestant Nation (1915-25)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
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An exploration of American racism as cultural and commercial mass-phenomenon, covering the "reincarnation" of the Klan as a fraternal movement whic...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 1
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -6: Rosewood Reborn (1923 --
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: Rosewood survivor Minnie Lee Langley
It began on New Years Day 1923, when a white woman in a small Florida (saw-)milltown claimed that a black man had attacked her. By the week's end, ...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 59:31
  • Purchases: 1
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -8: American As Apple Pie--How Terrorism Lost (1940-55)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: Paul Robeson testifies
Equality under the law became viable for African Americans only after hard, dangerous work turned public opinion and federal policy against the whi...

Bought by WCPN and KSJD


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 2
“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
"WITHOUT COMMENT: THE FIRST 100 DAYS-Week Four"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "Without Comment:The First 100 Days"
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The series takesa a look at the first 100 days of the Obama administration.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2009
  • Length: 06:27
"WITHOUT COMMENT: THE FIRST 100 DAYS"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "Without Comment:The First 100 Days"
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The "Without Comment" series began last April with a look at the Democratic primaries using only sound bites from politicians, political pundits an...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 16:35
"Mutabaruka: Jamaica's Original Dub Poet "
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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Dred-Scott Keyes and Bernard White interview Jamaican poet Mutabaruka.

Bought by KBBI Alaska, WNCU, and WNCU


  • Added: Feb 04, 2009
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 3
Still Fighting
From: War News Radio
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Features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Nov 14, 2008
  • Length: 30:11
  • Purchases: 1
Peace Talks Radio: JFK's Turn Towards Peace (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A conversation with James Douglass, author of "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters". Douglass makes the case for his theory th...

Bought by KRWG, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KMXT and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 20
To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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American icon Nina Simone in words and music

Bought by 90.5 WESA, WFUV, WKMS, KNKX, KPSQ-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 54
Show 11: Art/Artist/Audience in Dylan' Songs
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Bill King dusting his broom
Dylan's Relationship to His Art, to himself as Artist, and to his Audience

Bought by KPIP-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Sep 27, 2008
  • Length: 59:13
  • Purchases: 4
Show 12: Dylan and the Traditions
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
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Dylan & the Traditions: Literature, Popular Song, Folk Song

Bought by KPIP-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WETS


  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:00:13
  • Purchases: 5
Interview- Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) on HR 5843, An Act To Remove Federal Penalties for the Personal Use of Marijuana
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Congressman Frank discusses a bill he is sponsoring to remove Federal Penalties for Marijuana

  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 08:51

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