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893: Giving up / 894: Hope: How do you make it?, 4/27/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Giving up" - Our lives are full of lists and responsibilities. Things to do, things to be. Maybe it's time to let go and give something ...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: :00
Candice Millard on Good Citizen
From: Madison Brown
Series: Good Citizen with Ted Roosevelt V
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Candice Millard tells intimate stories of great leaders, digging into their most vulnerable moments to reveal their true character. She is the auth...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 30:42
  • Purchases: 1
851: How Should We Tell Our History? / 852: Searching For Order In The Universe, 12/2/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "How Should We Tell Our History?" - Debates over history are front-page news, from critical race theory to AP history classes. How should...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
Smithsonian Associates: The Culture Wars: How Can We Lower the Temperature?
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
As the US nears its 250th anniversary, cultural conflicts risk overshadowing this milestone. Smithsonian Associate Clay Jenkinson, a public humanit...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 40:40
837: The Spirit Of Jim Thorpe / 838: Walk With Me, 10/14/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Spirit Of Jim Thorpe" - Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. A Native American hero who broke recor...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
779: Out Of The Anxiety Box / 780: Against Cynicism, 3/25/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Out Of The Anxiety Box" - It's 7 a.m. You're not even out of bed and you're already worrying. So let's talk about it: How anxious we are...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
The Spirit Of Jim Thorpe
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: The Spirit Of Jim Thorpe
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Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. A Native American hero who broke records in three different sports. Today his...

Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WILL, KOSU, KAAD-LP, KUT and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
771: How Should We Tell Our History? / 772: Reading While Young, 2/25/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "How Should We Tell Our History?" - Debates over history are front-page news, from critical race theory to AP history classes. How should...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
769: Walk With Me / 770: Whose Land Is It?, 2/18/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Walk With Me" - Walking prolongs our life and makes us human. So why are we doing less and less of it? HOUR TWO: "Whose Land Is It?" -...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Warrior Women & Wounded Knee at 50: Madonna Thunder Hawk & Marcella (Women's History Month) Gilbert
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What role did Warrior Women play in the Wounded Knee Occupation, and the American Indian Movement (AIM)? This February 2023, as we mark the 50th an...

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


  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
OutCasting 0035x – LGBTQ history – Christopher Z. Hobson
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting
Caption: Christopher Z. Hobson
February 2023 — The gap that LGBTQ youth experience when their people’s history is suppressed. Originally presented in 2017.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and KECG


  • Added: Jan 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
755: Time Beyond The Clock / 756: Living With Loneliness, 12/31/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Time Beyond The Clock" - What's wrong with the way we tell time? What if we lived with no clocks at all? HOUR TWO: "Living With Loneli...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
733: The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace / 734: Guilt Tripping, 10/15/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace" - 1936 was an ominous year. A young George Orwell was headed to battle in Spain. But first, he plant...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
Danielle Dreilinger, author of The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that early home economists were advocates for justice and revolutionary scientists? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietiti...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cassini’s Dramatic End: A Planetary Radio Reprise
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft about to make one of its dives between Saturn and its innermost rings as part of the mission's grand finale., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
We were there when the spacecraft ended 13 years of exploration and revelation at Saturn.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KUT, KIYU-FM and more


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 15
Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise's NASA portrait., Credit: NASA
Fred Haise takes us on board the mission that almost didn’t make it home from the Moon.

Bought by WFHB, WJCU, KIYU-FM, RadioStPete Florida, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Legendary Space Physics Pioneer Margaret Kivelson
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Margaret Kivelson at JPL with a model of the Jupiter-orbiting Galileo spacecraft., Credit: NASA
A fascinating conversation with a space science and policy leader who is still hard at work in her 10th decade.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WYAP, WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
New Libraries, Old Buildings
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Libraries weren't always located in their own stately buildings. Many of our branches used to operate out of pharmacies, laundry rooms, storefronts...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 26:16
  • Purchases: 1
Discovering Mars with Jim Bell and William Sheehan
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: A mosaic of 102 Viking orbiter images of Mars, showing a hemisphere of the planet centered on the immense Valles Marineris canyon system. Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey., Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
“Discovering Mars” is the new chronicle of humanity’s long relationship with the Red Planet, assembled by space historian William Sheehan and Mars ...

Bought by KUT, KIYU-FM, WFHB, WMUU-LP, KWMR and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Black Women In History
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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While Black women have played a critical role in the development of the nation, their stories have been mostly overlooked. In the new book, A Black...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, KUHF, KUT, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
GN_3.34_One Simple Question
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A caring black musician is dedicated to convincing Ku Klux Klansmen to leave the organization through the power of music and conversation.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
The High Frontier: A New Documentary About Gerard K. O’Neill
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of a giant O'Neill cylinder space settlement., Credit: NASA, Art by Rick Guidice
Gerard K. O’Neill envisioned vast, magnificent human settlements in space. His followers, including Jeff Bezos, are working to turn his vision into...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KIYU-FM, WFHB, KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Military Women’s Memorial: A little known gem preserving HERstory
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Phyllis Wilson's Military headshot
Phyllis Wilson, a retired Army veteran of 37 years and President of the Military Women’s Memorial Foundation, joins us to talk about the Memorial a...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 42:48
GN_7.13_Dressed Up Education
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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Every school day in February, first grade teacher LaToya McGriff dresses up to teach Black History.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
547: Deep Tracks (Live In Studio) / 548: Time Beyond The Clock, 1/2/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Deep Tracks (Live In Studio)" - How do you harmonize during a pandemic? Operas on Zoom? DJs on Instagram? We'll share our favorite in-ho...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:58