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“Doubting Thomas” probes false accusations
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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What would you do if you were falsely accused of improperly touching a child? And you see your career crumble …

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
GN_3.32_San Fran Styro Ban
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.
Styrofoam has long been the bane of environmentalists. In San Francisco, this harmful material is finally getting banned.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.38_The Butterfly Whisperer
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.
An endangered California butterfly is on the rise thanks to one man's efforts to restore their environment.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Innovative programs that offer a spectrum of traditional repertory and new music.
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: San Francisco Symphony
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This week we feature the music of Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Bates.

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:58:30
"The stuff dreams are made of" - the search for the Maltese Falcon
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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The mystery over what the falcon really is, whether it even existed,and why it has any value has remained so compelling, in fact, that over the yea...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 09:15
The Ice Cream Bar: Frozen for years by SF's permitting process
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: The Ice Cream Bar, Credit: Thomas Hawk
Juliet Pries, the owner of the Ice Cream Bar in Cole Valley, talks about the massive red tape she had to deal with to open her business.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 04:06
Video game artists thrive in Bay Area
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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If Vincent Van Gogh lived in the Bay Area now rather than the Netherlands in the 19th century, maybe he would have been a popular video game design...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1
Oddball Film and Video creates an unusual night at the movies
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: In the stacks at Oddball Film and Video.
Ever wonder what happens to films too bizarre for the big, or even small screen? Many of them end up at Oddball Film and Video, a stock footage com...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
The San Francisco Bookstore Survival Guide
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Green Apple Books before the opening of their second store, Credit: Holly J. McDede
So you want to open a bookstore? Excellent news. Here's your guide to survival.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2014
  • Length: 06:07
Street poets come together at 16th and Mission
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Usually, people who emerge from the 16th Street BART Station in San Francisco are greeted by men and women slumped over shopping carts, by panhandl...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 28, 2014
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 2
Inside San Francisco’s Secret SoundLab
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Have you noticed how the way a space feels really depends on how it sounds? Take the California Academy of Sciences for example. With all the hundr...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 09:46
Multi Ethnic Theater: Finding common ground through theater
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Cast of Multi Ethnic Theater's "Jitney"
In the garage of a house in San Francisco’s Excelsior district, rehearsal is underway. In the space where a car would normally go is a stage set: a...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 07:15
In Nob Hill, a fence divides a neighborhood
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Pending approval, a reconstructed 6 foot fence could line the perimeter of Huntington Park in Nob Hill., Credit: Visualization courtesy of SF Recreation and Park Department
If you live in the neighborhood, Huntington Park in San Francisco’s Nob Hill, it's a great place to relax, read a book, or, as Haris Butt says, bri...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 1
San Francisco drug users bring harm reduction to the streets
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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There’s a plan circulating in San Francisco to make using crack cocaine safer: give away free crack pipes. It might sound farfetched, but it’s supp...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1
Meanwhile with Wendy MacNaughton
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Wendy MacNaughton in her San Francisco studio
Despite the media headlines, San Francisco isn’t just the backdrop for some tech zombie apocalypse. Beneath the Google Bus frenzy, San Francisco ha...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 09:21
Life of the Law #29 - Best of LIVE LAW 3 "Love and the Law"
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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What’s love got to do with the law? Then again, what’s the law got to do with falling in love? From coast to coast, Life of the Law occasionally ta...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 17:26
  • Purchases: 1
Author Isabel Allende's first crime novel: Ripper
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A Chilean-born author, Isabel is best known for her novels and memoirs. But now, after deciding not to retire from writing books after all, she's ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Mt. Sutro's eucalyptus trees raise question of how to manage urban forests
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Just under 22 years ago, a fire caught in the Oakland hills. That fire killed 25 people and destroyed more than 3,000 homes, and it was so destruct...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 08:37
Room To Breathe: From Chaos to Peace in the Classroom
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Promotional picture from the Video Project, Credit: http://www.videoproject.com/roomtobreathe.html
At overcrowded and underfunded public schools across the country high suspension rates are exacerbating existing achievement gaps. Often, chaos in ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
1992 First Critical Mass Ride
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Bicyclists take to the streets en mass in a fight over the ‘right to the city’.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KTSW 89.9, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WXDU and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 13
Farming Underwater: Steve Mello’s Story
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Farmer Steve Mello has put down roots in “The Delta” in central California. But climate change is threatening the levees which protect Delta farms....

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
What is Hip?: Emilio Castillo & the Tower of Power Vol. II
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: Tower of Power , Credit: Amazon.com
The story of the great horn band THE TOWER OF POWER. A special interview with founder Emilio Castillo about the history of this legendary band

Bought by Raven Radio, WUFT, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 30, 2012
  • Length: 57:49
  • Purchases: 3
Producer Profile: Adrian Baker
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Adrian Baker
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Adrian Baker.

  • Added: Sep 22, 2011
  • Length: 15:50
The East-West fusion of Urban Nature
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Urban Nature is the duo of guitarist Todd Boston and Indian percussionist Ramesh Kannan. They’re updating the East-West fusion of John McLaughlin'...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1