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443: Time Beyond The Clock / 444: What Can We Learn From Teens?, 1/4/2020

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

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: "What Can We Learn ...

Added: Jan 03, 2020
Length: 01:58:58

Free Brooklyn

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman

Important stories about the struggle for freedom in Brooklyn, from a young girl “auctioned” at Plymouth Church in 1860 to the story of Crown Height...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Dec 23, 2019
Length: 27:37
Purchases: 1

415: Filtering Free Speech / 416: Is The Nation State Splintering?, 9/28/2019

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Filtering Free Speech" - Language is powerful. But what if someone tells you to stop talking? This hour, free speech and modern censorsh...

Added: Sep 27, 2019
Length: 01:58:58

Generation AIDS: Minnesota's HIV/AIDS Crisis

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth

Caption: Bruce Brockway and Rene Valdes, 1980., Credit: Alan Lessik

In July 1981, the New York Times published an article about a mysterious illness plaguing gay men in New York City. After reading the article, Bruc...

Added: Jul 09, 2019
Length: 01:31:39

391: Religion Without Doctrine / 392: Gateway Moments (Live), 7/6/2019

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Religion Without Doctrine" - Is spiritual experience, not belief, the basis of religion? This hour, a curious look at faith. HOUR TWO:...

Added: Jul 05, 2019
Length: 01:58:58

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, and Kevin Bacon lead an all-star cast in a timely portrait of an American civil-rights struggle.

Bought by KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN, KUOW and more

Added: Jun 04, 2019
Length: 01:58:00
Purchases: 7

321: Building A Better Ballot Box / 322: Is The Nation State Splintering?, 11/3/2018

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Building A Better Ballot Box" - Compulsory voting? Pay citizens? Let children vote? This hour, we'll find a better way to do elections. ...

Added: Nov 02, 2018
Length: 01:58:58

How Women in the '50s Had More Political Influence

From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"

This election cycle is being billed as another “Year of the Woman” … with a record number of female candidates running for office. Despite increasi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Oct 09, 2018
Length: 02:59
Purchases: 2

Surprise! The New Russian President Is the Same as the Old Russian President

From: Jason Fields

Mark Galeotti joins us for War College’s Russian election special. The winner, Vladimir Putin, was never in doubt, but what’s the sham election all...

Added: Mar 19, 2018
Length: 33:56

The Story of Jane

From: Radio Diaries

In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix

Added: Feb 02, 2018
Length: 11:59
Purchases: 2

Jeff Chang on Revolutions in Seeing and Being

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Jeff Chang, Credit: Jeremy Villaluz

“From almost every kind of responsibility and tie from engagement and from faith. So the artist--our task is to move ourselves and the rest of us i...

Bought by KALW, KFAI Minneapolis, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR

Added: Oct 10, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 4

Sex: The Illustrated History

From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit

Author and scholar, John Gregg, offers a tour of sex through history and culture.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS

Added: Sep 23, 2017
Length: 57:58
Purchases: 2

Reclaiming Humanity From Commodification and Bureaucratization

From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit

A historian and a journalist speak about the devaluation of human life past and present in America.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS

Added: Jul 21, 2017
Length: 58:01
Purchases: 2

Falconry: Fed Up and Looking Haggard

From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases

The practice of hunting wild birds with trained birds — for fun — is called falconry. Though it came into its own almost 1,000 years ago in England...

Bought by 'The Sea'

Added: Feb 03, 2017
Length: 31:40
Purchases: 1

GPV19 Book Review - Griftopia

From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes

Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions

Here's Gerald's audio book review of Griftopia by Matt Tiaibi

Added: Jan 25, 2017
Length: 02:18

GPV08 Book Review - The Prague Cemetery

From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes

Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco about the roots of fascism in Europe.

Added: Jan 12, 2017
Length: 03:14

Ep. 1: The Death of Kollin Elderts

From: Honolulu Civil Beat
Series: Offshore

Honolulu Civil Beat reporter Jessica Terrell introduces the deadly events of Nov. 5, 2011 when a white off-duty federal agent shot and killed a Nat...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Added: Oct 13, 2016
Length: 36:35
Purchases: 1

One Nation Under Commerce: Marketing God and Country. The Middle Edges #104

From: Teosson Wells

The U.S. chose to link God, money, business, and government. But it’s important to remember that America was originally established to keep God ind...

Added: Aug 17, 2016
Length: 24:45

Skeptic Check: After the Hereafter

From: Big Picture Science

Caption: After the Hereafter, Credit: Seth Shostak

There are few enduring truths, but one is that no one gets out of life alive. What’s less certain is what comes next. Does everything stop with d...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KREV-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, and WRGY

Added: Aug 08, 2016
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 5

Why Schools Were Never About Knowledge

From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning

Schools were not created with the intention of making geniuses and filling its pupils with knowledge. Hear three historians explain the surprising ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix

Added: Sep 27, 2015
Length: 11:41
Purchases: 2

Living Ourselves to Death

From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself

Concepts like extreme choice and mobility are some of the modern realities leading us toward depression and suicide. In this episode, we look at fo...

Added: Mar 08, 2015
Length: 12:48

Author David Treuer talks to Charlie Pulkrabek about his new book "Rez Life."

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords

Leech Lake Indian writer, David Treuer, has a new book, “Rez Life”. The author of three novels and one collection of essays, “Rez Life” is his firs...

Bought by KSRQ