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Have you ever wished there was a different way to read – or hear - the news? For generations, through wars and political upheaval, poets have been ...

Bought by WRKF, Boise State Public Radio, KUOW, WKSU, and KECG


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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HOUR ONE: "Docupoetry" - Have you ever wished there was a different way to read – or hear - the news? For generations, through wars and political u...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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On this week’s episode we tackle these questions with a war-crimes prosecutor, a former student organizer who played a critical role in the downfal...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Apr 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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What's the calculation for an Olympic athlete determined to make a protest statement at the games? And how has China's treatment of Uyghurs in Xinj...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Sandip Roy and Bishop Tutu in 2008 in San Francisco
If there ever was a life to celebrate rather than a death to mourn it was Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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This week on the show: Daring to speak up - We look at tough topics and what happens when people are brave enough to talk about them. We meet on...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Ethiopia's Tigray conflict - We hear the backstory to the conflict that erupted in Ethiopia’s Tigray region in November ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
Caption: Hank Willis Thomas (American, born 1976), The Cotton Bowl, from the series Strange Fruit, 2011. Chromogenic print. , Credit: . Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Copyright Hank Willis Thomas
Artist Hank Willis Thomas’ first major retrospective, “All Things Being Equal” is open at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Thomas’s work addresses the on...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 05:29
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Protesters are back in the streets in Hong Kong to fight against a new security law that tightens the Chinese government’s grip over the city. On ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, WMUU-LP, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on the show: Global human rights under threat - Human Rights Watch says decades of progress on human rights are at stake because of Ch...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Cities vs. climate change - As the UN's climate change conference COP 25 wraps up in Madrid, we take a look at how ci...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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Five years ago, Bob McCormick couldn’t walk a short city block without having to sit down, the pain was so bad. But remarkably, after two hip repla...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2018
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 1
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France has been under a “state of emergency” since November, raising questions about the appropriate balance between security and civil liberties.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 25:50
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Yasuni National Park in Ecuador - the most biodiverse place on earth - is at risk from oil development. Can the country take the long view - and th...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 13:31
Caption: Adejoke Tugbiyele, Credit: Harriet Hirshorn
In a Global Day of Action, LGBT Nigerians and their allies fight back against new anti-gay laws.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:14
Caption: Adeeb Yousif
While most of the international community has forgotten about the crisis in Sudan’s Western Darfur region – human rights’ activist Adeeb Yousif con...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2013
  • Length: 51:59
Caption: Amarildo de Souza, Credit: Facebook
Missing laborer in Brazil highlights disappearances amid police crackdown in favelas

  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 04:58
Caption: Favela mural saying: "The destruction of my community for the cup", Credit: Gianluca Tramontana
Gianluca Tramontana takes us to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and shows us around a favela ghost town in the shadow of the Maracana soccer stadium.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:05
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A surprise ruling from the European Court of Human Rights could send five terror suspects to a super-maximum security prison in the United States. ...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:06
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Tibet Connection executive pro­ducer Rebecca Novick reports on the Tibetans who have self-??immolated in Tibet since February 2009.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:27
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Colette Lespinasse discusses pre-existing governance and human rights issues in disaster-stricken Haiti. She addresses the recent earthquake and ch...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2011
  • Length: 27:57
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In a special collaboration between “Feet in Two Worlds,” we hear the story of an immigrant family torn apart after an immigration raid in Phoenix, ...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Oct 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Robert King Wilkerson spent 29 years in solitary confinement., Credit: Terry Foss
In this half-hour radio documentary, "survivors" of solitary confinement paint a picture of what it looks, sounds and feels like to live for years ...

Bought by KMUZ, KOSU, KGNU Community Radio, KUT, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8