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Capitol Fools 2024 New Year Special
From: Capitol Fools
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Featuring former cast members of the legendary Capitol Steps and a show written by the former co-writer of the Steps, the Capitol Fools hold up a m...

Bought by KANW and KGOU


  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:33
  • Purchases: 2
Student Contest: Stump Speech
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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What’s wrong in America today? What would you do to fix it? These are the winners of our third annual Student Contest.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 12:57
  • Purchases: 1
What is moving day like at the White House?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Staff have six hours to move one first family out and a new First Family in, and it has to be seamless.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 07:55
Civics 101: Is Santa A Criminal?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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In an uncharacteristic wash of holiday cheer, today we investigate how the actions of Santa could be interpreted in a court of law.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 23:35
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 12/24/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: A year of environment stories (holiday special) - In this special episode, we reflect on a year of environmental reportin...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 25, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Life Stages: Birth
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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What does it mean to be born a U.S. citizen?

Bought by PRX Remix, KVSC, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 02, 2019
  • Length: 29:54
  • Purchases: 3
Hillary Clinton
From: Sally Tucker
Series: Thinking CAP
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Former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, joins following the release of her new book, "What Happened," to discuss the tragic mass shooting ...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2018
  • Length: 40:12
KICK OUT THE JAMS episode two with Tiffany WD
From: Bridget Hodder
Series: KOTJ podcast
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In this episode I talk to Tiff who started Fanny Adams Vintage as well as Project Awesome, a project bent on advertising local artists & creating a...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 35:59
Byzantines, Saracens and Saladin
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Muslim pirates and encroaching immigrants inspire Greeks to wreak some havoc of their own... and then there was Saladin...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:26:40
Queen for a Day
From: Jane Hirsh
Series: American Dream Players' History Bits
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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
Hannibal
From: Jane Hirsh
Series: American Dream Players' History Bits
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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
RDD: The Episode about Politics
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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With the voting booths opening in just about one month, The Rough Draft Diaries is taking a look into politics... kind of. We're actually taking a ...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2016
  • Length: 06:11
Is Time Travel Possible?
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Well is it? This is the very subject Rob MacClanahan explores on his pilot broadcast of THE TIME TRAVELER on 95.1FM KFOK Georgetown...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:18
Political Junkie Super Tuesday 2016 Special
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin as he previews the Super Tuesday contests with journalists and analysts from across the country, and evaluates the ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, KSUT, WCQS, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 7
Capitol Steps: Politics Takes a Holiday New Years Edition 2015
From: Capitol Steps
Caption: Capitol Steps, Credit: Capitol Steps
Tune in this New Year’s and laugh, because making fun of fourteen candidates is way more fun than simply making fun of two.

Bought by WEKU, KWGS, KSFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and Wisconsin Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Capitol Steps: Politics Takes a Holiday July 4 Edition 2015
From: Capitol Steps
Caption: Capitol Steps, Credit: Mike Reyna
This Independence Day, enjoy the Capitol Steps one-hour long special, “Politics Takes a Holiday!”

Bought by KUER, KMUN, KUT, WEKU, KSFR and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Rob Schneider, Comedian
From: Jesse Regis
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From Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld, Home Alone, and what seems like every comedy ever - Rob Schneider has been playing the game for half his life. ...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2014
  • Length: 12:21
Capitol Steps: Politics Takes a Holiday New Year's Edition 2013
From: Capitol Steps
Caption: Capitol Steps, Credit: Capitol Steps
Help roast 2013 to a crisp with the Capitol Steps and their annual year-in-review awards ceremony!

Bought by KUOW, WHRV, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 24, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 3
The Poison Squad: A Chemist’s Quest for Pure Food
From: Sruthi Pinnamaneni
Caption: The Poison Squad dining room in the basement of the Bureau of Chemistry, Credit: FDA
Meet Harvey Washington Wiley, the mastermind behind this experiment where young government employees were fed poison-laced foods months on end. He...

Bought by WHYY, New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Hark!, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 8
Capitol Steps: Politics Takes a Holiday 4th of July edition 2013
From: Capitol Steps
Caption: The Capitol Steps, Credit: Capitol Steps
This just in: The Gang of 8 has announced that in order to be a citizen of the United States, you have to listen to The Capitol Steps 4th of July ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and WUNC


  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Capitol Steps: Politics Takes a Holiday New Year's Edition
From: Capitol Steps
Caption: The Capitol Steps, Credit: Capitol Steps
Help us roast 2012 to a crisp with The Capitol Steps and their annual year-in-review awards ceremony called “Politics Takes a Holiday!”

Bought by KVLU, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KUOW, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 27, 2012
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Make 'Em Laugh
From: Sharif Youssef
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A profile on Ryan Bowers, a winner of Yale University's Last Comic Standing, and an opener for John Mulaney at the Yale Fall Show.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2012
  • Length: 04:20
Politics 101 BC: Voter fraud in the ancient world
From: Oregon Public Broadcasting
Caption: Ellen Millender, Professor of Classics and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Credit: Michael Clapp, OPB
How do we know that there was voter fraud in ancient Athens? Pottery shards tell the tale.

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 1
VoiceBox: Singing All The Way To The Polls
From: VoiceBox
Caption: singing canditates
VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman and composer & arts blogger Brian Rosen explore election season songs and the history of presidential candidates’ singi...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 58:00
God and Nature Disavow Paul Ryan
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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Mother Nature and God respond to Paul Ryan's comment that "our rights come from nature and God, not government."

  • Added: Sep 02, 2012
  • Length: 02:11