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Documenting an Invisible Island
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in la...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 17:56
How to Fortify Democracy in 2024: A Citizen’s Guide by Sam Daley-Harris
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Civic courage — what does it look like and how can more of us embody it? Our guest Sam Daley-Harris believes we need advocacy organizations to tra...

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


  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Views from the end: Lynda Bluestein, medical aid in dying, and the importance of humor every day
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, meet Lynda Shannon Bluestein who changed medical aid in dying laws, began a wind phone project, and made people laugh...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Katherine Miller, advocate and author of At The Table: The Chef’s Guide to Advocacy
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that chefs are uniquely positioned to drive food system change for good? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda...

Bought by KVNF, RadioFreePalmer, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
EE 23-46: Katherine Miller on how chefs can help shape our food system, 11/10/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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In her new book, At the Table, Katherine Miller offers guidance for chefs on effecting change in food policy.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Vod's Here
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Michelle Atkinson goes by her roller derby name, Vod. She also named her craft business after the same moniker, Vod's Here. The venture is a brand ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 1
Knock-Out Parkinson's
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Knock-Out Parkinson’s is a therapeutic boxing program for individuals of varying ages diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. We discover the origins o...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 14, 2022
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: Valerie Thompson
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Valerie Thompson is a native Toledoan and a graphic designer at ProMedica, but she's more than a graphic designer, she's the environmental designer...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
20 North
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today on The Rough Draft Diaries we're headed over to the oldest independent art gallery in the city of Toledo, 20 North Gallery.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 1
A Community of Glass
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today we're talking to one of the oldest glass artist in Ohio, Jack Schmidt. He received a B.S. degree from Bowling Green State University at a tim...

  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 06:08
RDD: Rough, Rugged, and Primitive
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today we're talking to Steven J. Athanas, a band member of the Homewreckers, an artist, and a bus driver. You'll learn about his process growing up...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 05:58
138: How Actor Amber Tamblyn Created Her Own Role: Feminist Activist
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Amber Tamblyn and Lauren Schiller
In this episode we’ll hear how Time's Up co-founder Amber Tamblyn presaged the #MeToo Movement with an OpEd about believing women; how she went fro...

Bought by WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WLPR , C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
RDD: Advocating for Space
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on the RDD, we're talking to Jonie McIntire a poet, a writer, an advocate for the arts in Toledo and one of the creators behind the webs...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 05:56
Providing Services that Make a Difference
From: Angel Livas
Series: The Woman Behind The Business
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On this week's WBB talk show, we feature two amazing women who have found solutions to some of the problems affecting the African-American community.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:10
Justin Bachman Chooses to 'Live Loud' and Teach Others About Tolerance
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: Justin poses with the tattoo that you got for his twentieth birthday, representing the cross country bib that was taken away from him in 2010., Credit: (c) Janel Semonasky, 2017
Justin Bachman has spent his whole life being different. After being diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome, Bachman chose to teach others about tolera...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAER Syracuse, NY, and WNYO


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 3
Food Sleuth Radio, Lori Byron Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that the Lancet Commission has referred to climate change as both the biggest public health crisis, and biggest public health opportun...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Julia Turshen Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that food is intimately connected with issues of justice, equity and community? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian,...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: Dignity and Respect
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're meeting with Heather Hall, the Director of Advocacy for ABLE, the Advocates for Basic Legal Equality. A...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2017
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 1
Bill Nye Saves the World…With Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Bill Nye at the March for Science in Wasington, Credit: Navid Baraty/Planetary Society
It was a big week for the Science Guy, and for science. Bill Nye served as honorary co-chair of the March for Science in Washington DC. His new ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WTJU, KWMR, KRZA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Spinoff 2013: Bringing Space Technology Home
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASASpinoff, Credit: NASA
NASA has just published "Spinoff 2013," the latest of its annual reports on innovations developed for space that are solving problems and improving...

Bought by WMNF, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVSC, and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4