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How We Hurt Learning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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A short episode about the things that hurt the learning process: why distractions are distracting and the conflict your brain encounters when given...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 2
Direct Action with Mauro Oliviera at the Creech AFB Drone Protest
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Doug Bennett - Host of Unspun
Unspun features Direct Action activists protesting Drone Warfare and "extra-judicial" murder by the Obama administration, at Creech Air Force Base ...

  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:57
Piano as Percussion
From: WDCB
Series: MusicHeads with Patricia Barber
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Patricia Barber is joined by world renowned pianists Amy Briggs and Lisa Kaplan to explore the changes Modernism within the 20th Century brought to...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 1
Spin Central - Two Short Plays by David Auburn
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: David Auburn
Two short plays about political operatives by Pulitzer Prize Winner David Auburn. In the comic DAMAGE CONTROL, a political aide has a public relati...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KZYX, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUNM and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
"The Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue" Live From The Schomburg Center
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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More than 50 years ago, America’s most prolific composer, Duke Ellington, collaborated with bassist Charlie Mingus and drummer Max Roach to produce...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:59:01
Unspun Discusses Guantanamo Diary with Ms. Nancy Hollander, Mohamedou Slahi's Lawyer
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Nancy Hollande
This Saturday on Unspun we are talking with Ms. Nancy Hollander. Ms. Hollander is an internationally recognized criminal defense lawyer and past pr...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
Trail by Mob - The Duluth Lynchings by Michael Fedo Part 1
From: KVSC
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KVSC Radio at St. Cloud State University presents Trial by Mob: The Duluth Lynchings. On the evening of June 15, 1920, a crowd of thousands attack...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Reveal for March 2015
From: Reveal
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Reveal for March is here Air window is March 14 to April 10. We look at the power of a photo, what happens when a VA doctor hands out opiates to v...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WVTF, Interlochen Public Radio, KISU, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 96
The Personal Side of the DREAM Act
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Carlos Padilla Speaking at a DREAM Project Rally
An interview with Carlos Padilla, an undocumented student, and his mentor Roberta Lindeman.

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1
Unspun Shares Chris Hedges' Speech in Santa Cruz
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Chris Hedges
Unspun features Chris Hedges. We present excerpts from his recent speech given in Santa Cruz on November 23rd, 2014. I call the speech "Fighting F...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2015
  • Length: 57:22
Radio Réussite 1: Il Faut Travailler (You've Got to Work)
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Radio Réussite (Radio Success)
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
This episode (in French) focuses on the importance of work and perseverance. It features an interview with a seamstress apprentice named Honorine A...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 15:05
Simmer 2: The Rainbow or the Stick?
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Simmer
Caption: Yams simmering for fufu in Togo, West Africa, Credit: Carla Seidl
"The Rainbow or the Stick?: Teaching and Discipline Across Cultures" features interviews with Renee Owen, director of the Rainbow Mountain Childre...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
Pygmalion Festival Lit Crawl: Live from The Esquire Lounge
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Featuring writers from the 2014 Pygmalion Literary Fest LitCrawl, recorded live at The Esquire Lounge in Chapaign, IL. Readers in this episode incl...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 20:07
The Witches' Hammer
From: Hold That Thought
Caption: Agnes Sampson and witches with devi, Credit: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
How magic and law shaped the witch trials of early modern Europe

  • Added: Oct 28, 2014
  • Length: 29:33
Unspun Interviews Judyth Vary-Baker, Lee Harvey Oswalds Lover and Confidant
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Judyth Vary-Baker
Unspun talks with Lee Harvey Oswald's lover and confidant, Judyth Vary-Baker. Judyth is an author, artist, poet, teacher and social scientist. 35...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 59:58
The Amazing Story of "Strange Fruit"
From: Stephen Provizer
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A Radio Theatre piece about the creation and performance of one of America's most controversial songs.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 13:22
War and Musical Dada
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Gil Rose, conductor of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, tells the history of George Antheil's wild musical experiment from 1924, the Ballet Méc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 7
Part 5: The Activists
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The Road to Unist'ot'en
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Three activists explain their involvement at the annual Action Camp at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2014
  • Length: 24:43
The Underwater Museum
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Jason deCaires Taylor
A one-of-a-kind blend of art, nature, and conservaton, Jason deCaires Taylor provides a dazzling photographic tour through his under ocean sculptur...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 12:07
Left Forum Friday, May 30, 2014 Plenary
From: Scott Harris
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Left Forum Friday, May 30, 2014 Plenary with Cornel West, Immortal Technique, Marina Sitrin, and Stanley Aronowitz;

  • Added: Jun 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:39:12
The Humanist Hour #102: Live at the 73rd Annual Conference in Philadelphia!
From: Bo Bennett
Series: The Humanist Hour
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In this episode, Bo, Kim, and Todd host this episode in front of a live audience at the AHA Conference in Philadelphia. Our guest is Lifetime Achie...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
¡Gaytino!
From: Camino Real Productions, LLC
Caption: Dan Guerrero
¡Gaytino! - written and performed by Dan Guerrero - is a remarkable life journey from 1950s East LA to New York’s Great White Way in the 60s and 70...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KWMR, Radio Catskill, KTSW 89.9, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: May 27, 2014
  • Length: 56:24
  • Purchases: 9
Nothing Personal: A Novel of Wall Street
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Mike Offit
Set in the luxurious homes and clubs of New York, Hobe Sound, Dark Harbor, the Hamptons and Europe, Mike Offit’s debut novel is a story about comin...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 22:34
Afrika Bambaataa: Renegade of Funk
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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Musician and legendary innovator, Afrika Bambaataa, discusses the origin and legacy of hip-hop. [13:35]

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
Two Guys on Your Head: Learning Styles
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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Are you an auditory learner or a visual learner? If you answered "yes" you would be right. We use all our senses to learn and process information....

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1

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