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Computer Talk Radio (54 minutes) for December 1st-7th, 2012
From: Benjamin Rockwell
Series: Computer Talk Radio (54 Minute)
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Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting December 1st, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, the computer nerd and host, starts off by no...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2012
  • Length: 53:57
Full-Time Blues Radio 1235 - Vintage R&B
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
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This week's episode of FTB Radio features Vintage Soul and R&B - New, original music recorded with a classic sound!

Bought by Radio New Zealand and KPVL


  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Jingle Them
From: Wind & Rhythm
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Emmy Award winner Julie Giroux worked in Hollywood for years and her credits are formidable. When she thought of giving Christmas gifts to the high...

Bought by WILL, KUCO, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WVRU and more


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 8
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2012) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Inspiring and engaging highlights from episodes of Peace Talks Radio, the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution. Young women fro...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
OUT Loud: Bullying Prevention
From: KUNM
Caption: OUT Loud Panel , Credit: Generation Justice, Kamaria Umi
Did you know that 77% of students in the United States have reported being bullied in some way? Generation Justice is a multimedia project that tr...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 39:32
The Christmas Story through Carols Old and New
From: Kimberlea Daggy
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An hour long choral music show telling the Christmas story through familiar and lesser known carols.

Bought by KUAT, KTSW 89.9, WHRV, KSLU, KUCO and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 33
1908 Lewis Hine Documents Child Labor
From: Action Speaks Radio
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The camera, exposing social problems or becoming one?

Bought by WRIR, WRPI, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 4
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2012) [59:00 / 54:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Inspiring and engaging highlights from episodes of Peace Talks Radio, the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution. Young women fr...

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, KUNM, KWMR, KUOW and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 6
A Word of Mouth Thanksgiving...
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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Tips on pimpin' your Thanksgiving fare. A book blogger and literary tweeter on the best reads to pack when planning a long weekend with family. And...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Wyoming Public Radio, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 46:00
  • Purchases: 3
1992 Invasion of the Body Scanner
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Surveillance in America—needed or nightmare?

Bought by KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
Bluegrass Review #1248 "Bluegrass to be Thankful for." program for Nov 24-30, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass to Be Thankful For. It is a show of listener requests of especially meaningful bluegrass, and listeners tell us why the songs are meaning...

Bought by KSJD, WRGY, WOUB, KUCB, KRZA and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
Keyboard College: How Technology is Revolutionizing Higher Education
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Gary Hotsfall, a student at Western Governor’s University Washington. WGU is a network of nonprofit online universities., Credit: Stephen Smith
Digital technologies are changing how many Americans go to college - from online courses to robo-tutors. Can these innovations make college cheaper...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WUFT, KZYX, KMXT, and KOSU


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
Colin Fischer
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Colin Fischer, Credit: Jacket cover design by Emily Osborne
This is the story of an exceptional 14-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome. He hates the color blue, keeps a very detailed notebook, needs flash...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 14:42
The Art Forger
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: B.A. Shapiro
The New York Times estimates that nearly forty percent of museum and gallery art is forged. Keep that in mind as you read the new book by B.A. Sha...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2012
  • Length: 20:24
1965 Griswold v. Connecticut
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!

Bought by KZYX, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
A Rolling Stones Special: Got Blues If You Want It! (1 or 2 hours) [59:00 or 54:00 lengths]
From: Paul Ingles
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As the Rolling Stones keep touring, and, in 2016, released a new blues cover album, we join the celebration with a public radio special from award-...

Bought by Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KVMR, KRCB 104.9, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:57:56
  • Purchases: 21
The Great Grizzly Bear
From: Roy Trumbull
Series: True Bear Stories by Joaquin Miller
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The Indians pay the grizzly great respect. He is part of the master story of the Modoc and Shasta Indians. He is considered a paternal kin

  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 09:34
First World War poetry with Dr Kate Macdonald
From: Alison Turner
Series: Armistice Day for Expats in Belgium
Caption: Dr Kate Macdonald, Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Gent, Belgium
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, talked to Dr Kate Macdonald ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
Searching Space
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Listen to peoples' first reaction to Saturn alongside astrophysicists who gaze up at the universe for a living. Learn the new techniques scientists...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 17:47
  • Purchases: 2
1936 Chaplin's 'Modern Times' Debuts
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Factories closed; unions ignored; the Tramp asks, ‘What’s Next’? Chaplin previews a world beyond the factory and unionism where one’s identity is ...

Bought by WRIR, WRPI, KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, WRIR and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 53:30
  • Purchases: 6
A Fat Little Editor
From: Roy Trumbull
Series: True Bear Stories by Joaquin Miller
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Joaquin Miller and other writers have a camp on the slopes of Mt. Shasta. To that camp comes a tenderfoot newspaper editor. He catches some trout f...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2012
  • Length: 08:08
In Swimming With A Bear
From: Roy Trumbull
Series: True Bear Stories by Joaquin Miller
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A youth left to his own devices goes out on a log over the Sacramento River. Then he senses he's not alone. A bear has gotten on the same log and i...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2012
  • Length: 12:15
My First Grizzly by Joaquin Miller
From: Roy Trumbull
Series: True Bear Stories by Joaquin Miller
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A youth waits as fires are set to drive game out of a canyon. He wants a Grizzly. He gets his wish but after he fires his muzzle loaded rifle the b...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2012
  • Length: 08:03
1992 First Critical Mass Ride
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Bicyclists take to the streets en mass in a fight over the ‘right to the city’.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KTSW 89.9, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WXDU and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 13

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