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Jenny Odell and Discovering Life Beyond the Clock (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Excerpt from the book cover, reading "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" superimposed on top of orange and pink geological features, Credit: Penguin Random House
This week, we talk to Jenny Odell, about the ideas behind her book Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock and How to Do Nothing: Resistin...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
The Story: Veterans Day Special (narrated by Alec Baldwin)
From: Stephanie Postles
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This immersive Veterans Day one hour special is narrated by Alec Baldwin and uncovers the backstories of six veterans who have built companies, pro...

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU, KTOO, KCPW Salt Lake City, Raven Radio, KUNM and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 38
The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit: Peep Game Comix
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit, we're checking in with Imani Lateef of Peep Game Comix, a digital comics platform dedicated to the wo...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:02
The Rough Draft Diaries Revisit: Midstory
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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We're continuing to catch up with previous guests of The Rough Draft Diaries to see how their doing. This week we check in with Midstory, a nonprof...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 06:12
The Race To Kill Corona
From: The Steve Pomeranz Show
Series: The Steve Pomeranz Hour
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Plus: Kirk Douglas: Financial Rock Star, Seeing Ourselves Through The Eyes Of Master Historians, Real Estate Is Undergoing Important Changes in 202...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), GCR (Global Community Radio), WLRN, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 20, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
RDD: The Future of the Lake
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Eric Kraus is the project founder/coordinator and President of Standing Rush, but he's also an adviser to Toledo Public School's Aerospace and Natu...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2019
  • Length: 06:12
Women Creating History; Stand Up
From: Angel Livas
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This week on the WBB talk show, we are celebrating and recognizing women who are making strides not only to be impactful but those who desire to cr...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 59:59
RDD: The Ohio Theatre
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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We're taking a tour of The Ohio Theatre on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. Built in 1921, it is Toledo’s last operating neighborhood theat...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 06:19
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 Headlines | Marijuana Today Daily News
From: Shea Gunther
Series: Marijuana Today Daily
Caption: A white-haired marijuana flower is seen close up against a blurred-out green background., Credit: Don Goofy/Flickr
All the legal marijuana news and headlines for Wednesday, April 18, 2018.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2018
  • Length: 11:37
170914 The New Orleans to Los Angeles Music Connections of 1950s and 60s
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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After Fats Domino and Little Richard records completely changed the recording industry. New Orleans music was "gold" and the equivalent of the Cal...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 04:36:13
  • Purchases: 1
The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result...

Bought by KCUR, WWNO, Michigan Radio, WWNO, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 68
RDD: Back to the Roots
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet Megan Yasu Davis. Megan is the founder of The Kitchen Salon, a natural and locked hair resource f...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 1
Historian Discusses Democratization of Wealth
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Political economist Gar Alperovitz discusses anchor institutions.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 08:52
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Clique Presents "Latsch and Sons"
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we will learn about the life of both John Latsch Sr and John Latsch Jr who together ran Latsch and Sons in Winon...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 20:54
Il Barbiere di Madison
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Freeman “Buzzy” Buzzell has been a barber in Madison, Maine for the past fifty-five years, and he keeps at it because he loves his customers.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 2
Magnus Walker and his Porsches (5:46)
From: Open Orchard Productions
Caption: Magnus Walker's Porsche Garage, Credit: Karl Biggs
Being passionate about all things Porsche, Magnus Walker is giving a new interpretation to the classic Porsche 911’s of the 60’s and 70’s. Magnus’s...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 05:46
The Roots of DIY
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Destination DIY producer Jaymee Cuti traces the roots of the phrase "do it yourself" through its evolution in both corporate advertising and subcul...

Bought by WDBM and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 2
Magic Bullets: Big Ideas and Big Projects (4 Part Series)
From: Changing Gears
Series: Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt
Caption: Memorabilia from the now defunct AutoWorld in Flint
Changing Gears reporters will tackle a subject that’s long been a part of the Midwest mind frame: magic bullets. By magic bullets, we mean the big...

Bought by Louisville Public Media


  • Added: Dec 14, 2011
  • Length: 15:59
  • Purchases: 1
144: Maritime Museums and the Future
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: This traveling exhibition of photographs of children working in the textile and canning industries of the early 1900's is at the Creative Photographic Arts Center in Lewiston through mid-March, 782-1369. The Center and the Quoddy Maritime Museum in Eastpo, Credit: Lewis Hine: The Maine Child Labor Photographs
In this episode we'll outline a number of ideas for discovering new ways for maritime museums to connect with visitors beyond the boats and technol...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 05:47
The Forensic Architect
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: Chris Carley, Forensic Architect
That's a real job? Yup. A forensic architect finds out what's wrong with old buildings by understanding their history...and using a garden hose.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2011
  • Length: 05:00