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Caption:  WHA75 "Walk the Talk", Field Recording, Credit: Kate, Partners in Health
An audio producer falls into step with a global advocacy campaign at the very moment it rises to call for mandatory action to fortify staple foods ...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
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How do we govern the ocean? This week on World Ocean Radio we introduce a concept that advocates for a centralized Ministry for the Ocean, a voice ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 05:26
Caption: Scottie Fitzgerald at the National Civil Rights Museum
Though the pipeline’s construction seems inevitable, MCAP’s relentless activism has begun attracting the attention of national figures, who help en...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:47
Caption: Attorney Scott Crosby of Burch, Porter & Johnson
One landowner refuses to sell to the pipeline company, and soon receives pro bono legal help. Meanwhile, MCAP learns that allies aren't always who ...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 31:38
Caption: Producers interview Sarah Houston, Executive Director of Protect Our Aquifer (on left)
Pipeline activists dig in and discover that the Byhalia crude oil pipeline also threatens a precious 'diamond in the rough' - the Memphis Sands aq...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 30:26
Caption: White's Chapel church in Boxtown
"We took, basically, a point of least resistance." It was a throwaway line by an out-of-town pipeline representative trying to explain the company'...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 35:55
Caption: MLK50 reporter Carrington Tatum
Reporter Carrington Tatum arrives in Memphis and begins reporting on the Byhalia pipeline. Meanwhile, MCAP realizes that calling out politicians wo...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
Caption: Boxtown residents view archival photos
Residents of Boxtown in southwest Memphis are upset to learn that a high-pressure crude oil pipeline is set to plow through their community.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 34:29
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This week, part two of a two-part series laying out steps with examples that represent a coherent and provocative way forward toward a plastic-free...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 05:11
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Eyes across the nation are on the mayoral election in Buffalo, New York, where insurgent candidate India Walton could become the first Black woman—...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, KDNK, and KMUN


  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Over the past few episodes, we introduced you to the idea of what Shifting the Narrative is and what it looks like in gun sense, the war on poverty...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2021
  • Length: 15:01
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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
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What if life’s biggest tragedy could also be life’s greatest blessing? When lifelong ski patrol and EMT instructor Posie Mansfield lost her leg a...

  • Added: May 22, 2021
  • Length: 25:49
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Nature is just as alive as any human, so why doesn't it have rights? Thanks to 25 youth activists in Columbia , that's changing for part of the Ama...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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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
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part nine of the multi-part BLUEprint series. Myriad organizations, environmental groups and fervent individuals ar...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
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World events have made 2020 a more difficult year than it was already shaping up to be. Ocean systems have never been more challenged than today, a...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Black Sand Beach in Reynisfjara, Iceland, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reflects on a landscape of special importance to him on the coast of Iceland, and the ways th...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2020
  • Length: 05:52
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
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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
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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