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240119: Wardrobe Malfunction: The Climate Impact of Clothing, 1/19/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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What we wear defines us in so many ways. But in recent decades we’ve moved away from long-lasting, quality pieces in favor of disposable fast fashi...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
Birthright Citizenship: U.S. v Wong Kim Ark
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The story of the Supreme Court case that established an immigration principle that we lean on to this day.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 23:43
The Declaration Revisited: The Declaration of Sentiments
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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How the document at the heart of the women's suffrage movement turned the framer's message on its head.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 17:12
Brazen Presents: The Closer
From: PRX
Series: Brazen Presents
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This is a special edition of The Closer, a series from Project Brazen and PRX that shares the inside story of the deals that changed the world. In ...

Bought by WILL, WRKF, WLPR , RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 52:29
  • Purchases: 19
2021-09-24 Preparing for Disasters We Don’t Want to Think About
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The COVID-19 pandemic revealed structural weaknesses and inequities that existed long before 2020. Like COVID-19, climate change is another “threat...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Civil Rights: Brown v Board of Education of Topeka
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Perhaps the most landmark of them all.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 30:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Chinese Exclusion Act
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Between 1882 and 1965, the vast majority of would-be Chinese immigrants were banned from the U.S..

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 26:40
  • Purchases: 2
2021-06-18 Shepard Fairey, Mystic, and the Power of Art
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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From activism to political campaigns to corporate advertising, the power of music and images is undeniable. So how can the arts inspire and advance...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KPCC, Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
210618: Shepard Fairey, Mystic, and the Power of Art, 6/18/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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From activism to political campaigns to corporate advertising, the power of music and images is undeniable. So how can the arts inspire and advance...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Crushed
From: ROS: Crushed
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A special presentation of Crushed, a new podcast from PRX and Religion of Sports that challenges our ideas about baseball, performance-enhancing dr...

Bought by KZYX, KFCF FM, WWNO, KOSU, KUNM and more


  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 32
The Wool Cyclops
From: Kate Madara
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Blu emerges in the City a second time, met by a monolithic entity, bringing fears back to life. Mechanical birds fly through the square, beckoning...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 14:08
Kansas Poets Laureate: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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Our celebration of State Poets Laureate continues with a look back at previous holders of the title in Kansas. Part one of this public reading feat...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Husayn Means Beauty: The Attraction of the Seventh Century Martyr (2 of 2)
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
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Scholars and religious leaders explore the impact of Husayn and the devotion of the 20 million pilgrims who visit his shrine. Part 2 of 2.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 1
Art and Motorcycles
From: Rachel Ishikawa
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Fall off your bike, get a band aid. Have a headache, take an ibuprofen. Pain is often fleeting…and there’s a cure. But what happens when pain is co...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 3
Best of 2016: Insiders vs. Outsiders in Medicine
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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A look back at how outsiders have influenced medicine throughout time.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 13:51
Poetry Month Special: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets, Episode 3
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets
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Episode #3 travels into the realm of memory as Howard Nemerov and Gwendolyn Brooks read poems about childhood and the fleeting nature of time.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KUPR low power FM, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 14:20
  • Purchases: 17
Poetry Month Special: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets, Episode 2
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets
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Episode #2 takes listeners on several poetry journeys: to Africa with James Baldwin and on an interplanetary rocket-poem trip with Allen Ginsberg a...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KFCF FM, KUPR low power FM, WNMU-FM, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 21:26
  • Purchases: 17
Poetry Month Special: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets, Episode 1
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets
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Episode #1 explores how poetry enables people to channel the voices of others and features excerpts from Studs Terkel’s interviews with Elma Stucke...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Radio Catskill, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KISU, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 20
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
The Many Paths to a Creative Life
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Stanford professor talks about why procrastination isn’t necessarily a hindrance to productivity, and shares tips from a book he wrote while not ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 46:00
  • Purchases: 1
The National Riding Association
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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The real NRA fights for our right to keep recklessly driving cars.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:10
Gandhi and the Unspeakable
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mohandas Gandhi, Credit: Orbis Book cover Roberta Savage
The Father of India was dead. Killed by a man he’d known for years. The year was 1948, the dawn of India’s independence from Great Britain. In his...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 28:52
Alabama Alabama
From: Anton Foek
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One {....} of a captain. Kathy Broughton grew up in Birmingham Alabama but soon learned fishing from

Bought by WBHM


  • Added: Aug 01, 2008
  • Length: 11:10
  • Purchases: 1
'The Mad Russian': Reflections of a Cold War Wrestling Villain
From: Aaron Henkin
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Pro wrestler Nikolai Volkoff used to infuriate Cold War crowds with his singing of the Soviet National Anthem --- now he's a 55-year-old grandfathe...

Bought by WXDU and WMPG


  • Added: Mar 29, 2006
  • Length: 15:28
  • Purchases: 2