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North Carolina's LGBTQ Community Stands Against Domestic Terrorism
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Join Laura Flanders as she speaks with residents of Moore County affected by a targeted power outage during a drag show, uncovering potential motiv...

Bought by WORT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Post-Roe America: 3. Trust Women
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America
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After the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, many states in the middle of the country severely restricted abortion – but Kansas stood out as an except...

Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 36:11
  • Purchases: 3
Post-Roe America: 2. The Canary
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America
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When SB 8 passed in September 2021, Texas clinicians experienced a “Dobbs before Dobbs” effect, almost nine months before the rest of the nation. W...

Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 27:32
  • Purchases: 4
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
Reforming Prosecutor Power - Especially After Roe
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Prosecutors are immensely powerful, especially now, after the overthrow of Roe. They decide which cases to bring, what charges to make and what sen...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Inside Big Health Insurers' Side Hustle
From: Tradeoffs
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America’s largest health insurance companies moonlight as obscure middlemen, managing billions in health care spending for many of the country’s bi...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 26:58
WAMU Presents: Through The Cracks
From: WAMU
Series: WAMU Presents
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An hour-long radio special available to all public radio stations. This special program features selected portions of the Through The Cracks podcas...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, WITF, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 51:26
  • Purchases: 21
Special: Housing is A Human Right
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Before 2020, America was already in a housing crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic, high unemployment, and a recession have only made things worse. A reco...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Best of the Best 2020: Towards a Better World
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
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In this episode, we meet extraordinary people who are fighting the system, working to make transformative change and seeking a better world, for th...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
How We Got Here, Part 3: The Fight For Meaningful Work
From: Sam Harnett
Series: How We Got Here
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The final section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and acceptable to crisis like the current pandemic. Part 3 lo...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Farm Worker to Farm Owner
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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There’s a shift happening in American agriculture that has been hard to spot. Farm workers have entered mainstream consciousness through coverage o...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Women of Color Lead the Way
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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At the 2019 Progressive Strategy Summit members of Congress and progressive change makers came together to build a movement that won’t only win bac...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Making Sense: Deaf Children and the Choices Their Parents Face
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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Nine out of ten deaf babies are born to hearing parents, who know almost nothing about deafness or the science of language. But they have to learn ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 25, 2019
  • Length: 49:59
  • Purchases: 1
"I Didn't Forget It": LGBT Aging and Medical Care
From: Camille Petersen
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Many LGBT seniors grew up facing stigma and discrimination, including from doctors. As they get older they have more health problems. And they end ...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA


  • Added: May 07, 2019
  • Length: 21:37
  • Purchases: 1
Special Report: Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party's Radical Rise
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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​What difference does a Party make? This week on the Laura Flanders Show, we talk about what's happening in the UK where one of the two main partie...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Democratizing Wealth, Expanding Power - The Preston Model
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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On this week's program, coproduced with the Democracy Collaborative, Laura reports on a transatlantic experiment in cooperative community wealth bu...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The List of Trumps New Appointees
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Caption: Top of the List is This Famous Face
This confidentially-sourced list, is made radio friendly because of the announcer's delivery.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: :53
World in Progress 03/15/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Myth and Challenges of the Nile river - The Nile River has been the life line for East Africa for thousands of years. A...

Bought by KRJF-lp, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
New EdTech and More at SXSW 2017
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Robots, role models, rap, and more all stood out at the 2017 South by Southwest (SXSW) conference and festival. Pius highlights products, programs,...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:05
The Meth Effect
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: The Meth Effect
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A deeply reported one-hour special that explores the ways a resurgence of meth use in Montana has affected families, cops, courts, lawmakers and ad...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 58:47
Clinical Trials and Tribulations: Steve Hauser's quest to cure MS
From: Carry the One Radio
Caption: A B Cell, Credit: NIAID
In this episode, a team of researchers disprove a decades-old dogma. The result? The first ever FDA-approved drug for primary-progressive multiple ...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 38:45
The View from Room 205
From: WBEZ
Caption: The View from Room 205
"The View from Room 205" is a one-hour documentary that takes an unflinching look at the intersection of poverty and education in this country. It ...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, KICI Iowa City, WRIR, KUAF Public Radio, KISU and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 67
TEASER: The View from Room 205
From: WBEZ
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PREVIEW THE HOUR NOW! http://www.prx.org/pieces/194893-the-view-from-room-205 "The View from Room 205" is a one-hour documentary that takes an unf...

Bought by KUHF


  • Added: Dec 14, 2016
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 1
Loki_Sacred Ground
From: Kimberley Little White Owl Lambert
Series: The Water Protectors: Killing the Black Snake #noDAPL
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Standing Rock Water Protector Loki explains the Sacred Ground at the Front called Turtle Island

  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 01:10
Life of the Law #97: A Fair Fight for a Fair Court: Election Year Special - Part 1
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The 2016 elections are over but what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and schol...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 55:48

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