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This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. “Where do we go from he...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
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This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. “The Neuroscience of Ps...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
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This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. “Mental Health Breakthr...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
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This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. “What is Healing, What ...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
Caption: Borrowed and Banned logo, Credit: John Snowden
When a high school teacher in Norman, Oklahoma shared a QR code with her students that would grant them access to BPL’s digital collection, she too...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 25:47
  • Purchases: 1
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The first special to come from StoryCorps' mobile tour visit to Missoula in 2022. First aired on Montana Public Radio on January 22nd, 2023, this f...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Chief Standing Bear
As the United States spread west, indigenous people were displaced without being given the most basic recognition under law: being "people." When t...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 46:34
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The theme of this episode is, "Marijuana".

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 52:00
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Sociologist Ariela Schachter investigates how Americans think about race, immigration, assimilation, and what it means to be ‘similar.’

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 12:15
  • Purchases: 1
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In an indigenous Mayan community in highland Guatemala, sociocultural anthropologist Kedron Thomas noticed a trend that led her to investigate inte...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 18:47
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A sociologist of education breaks down some common myths about charter schools and offers her advice for newly appointed education secretary Betsy ...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 15:08
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Sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfeld documents the pervasive and often subtle ways that successful black men – people like doctors, lawyers, and engine...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 12:48
  • Purchases: 1
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When conducting research for his acclaimed book "Klansville, USA," sociologist David Cunningham encountered the work of a journalist who, in the 19...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 16:45
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Sociologist Jake Rosenfeld discusses the growing wealth gap between rich and poor Americans, decreasing labor union membership, and considers what ...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 13:42
Caption: Rolling Stone book publisher Alan Rinzler at home in Berkeley., Credit: Marcos Nájera
The men in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers? You never know—some say Zeta was a constant chameleon in life, love, and the law. ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 16:59
Caption: Betty Dowd, Marco Acosta & Anita Acosta at the SF Latino Film Festival , Credit: Marcos Nájera
The women in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers. The ladies speak up and out about Oscar Zeta Acosta. From his spark-light sister...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 31:40
Caption: ASU Professor Luis Mendoza holds up an original copy of Acosta's book., Credit: Marcos Nájera
Nájera travels home to the Southwest to visit Latino scholars from ASU’s Transborder Studies department. The first of its kind in the nation. Chica...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 22:40
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 33
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Vivacious, young,staunchly Catholic Mary of Scotland - traits bound to arouse the jealous enmity of her cousin, Elizabeth the First of England - an...

  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 16:30
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Why (and how and when) did Hannibal cross The Alps? Find out again with the American Dream Players short, funny (historically accurate) version.

  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 13:39
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"Criminal Justice System.” Those three words intimidate a lot of us. Megan Treuer is Associate Judge at Leech Lake. She voluntarily heads the Crim...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 08:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Anthropologist John Bowen shares a brief history of Islam in France and offers commentary on the ongoing European migrant crisis.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Teachers give academic and (most importantly) life advice to students. This is the story of a teacher, Melanie Mac, who is way out of her depth in ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:48
  • Purchases: 2
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Political scientist Matt Gabel on how international courts work - and why countries should sometimes be allowed to bend the rules.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 11:24