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April Fools Day -- Who Takes the Grand Prize?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Okaay, April Fools Day is upon us, so let's have a little fun and nominate some of your national leaders for the biggest fool prize, and of course...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 02:59
Capitol Fools 2024 New Year Special
From: Capitol Fools
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Featuring former cast members of the legendary Capitol Steps and a show written by the former co-writer of the Steps, the Capitol Fools hold up a m...

Bought by KANW and KGOU


  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:33
  • Purchases: 2
Is Wokeness Killing Comedy?
From: Open to Debate
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What jokes would George Carlin have deemed offensive today? What makes us laugh has come under scrutiny. Old jokes or skits are deemed offensive in...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUNM, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Student Contest: Stump Speech
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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What’s wrong in America today? What would you do to fix it? These are the winners of our third annual Student Contest.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 12:57
  • Purchases: 1
What is moving day like at the White House?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Staff have six hours to move one first family out and a new First Family in, and it has to be seamless.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 07:55
Paul Goldstein – "The Artist’s Right of Ownership"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Originally Broadcast: August 9, 2006 Errors and Omissions Who owns the rights to a play, a song, or a work of art? How important and fragile is t...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Big Ag, Hungry People, Meanies in Congress and $6.41
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Congress is wrangling over the Farm Bill, which includes over $3 billion for giant agriculture corporations and multimillionaire "farmers" who don'...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:57
Conspiracy Bites: Who Is Behind What We Eat?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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From the dinner table to the dark web.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Politcal Satire and Presidential Politics
From: KRCL
Caption: Book Cover
This is a 2-way interview with Sophia A. McClennen, a scholar of satire and politics and author of Trump Was a Joke, How Satire Made Sense of a Pr...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 20:53
A Modest Proposal: How to End the Abortion Wars
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Let’s stop the abortion debate right now. We already know how. Eliminate the need for abortion. If all babies were planned and could be cared for, ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:53
Stop Saving the Planet - An Environmentalist Manifesto
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Jenny Price is an ardent advocate for increasing public environmental access, activism, and effectiveness in solving the myriad of challenges we fa...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
State of the Union -- Will the President Address the Majority?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Last year's State of the Union Speech was pretty short on details for the majority of Americans -- women. Will he pass them by again this year?

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:37
Civics 101: Is Santa A Criminal?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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In an uncharacteristic wash of holiday cheer, today we investigate how the actions of Santa could be interpreted in a court of law.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 23:35
  • Purchases: 1
Major Barbara
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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George Bernard Shaw's sparkling comedy about family, religion, ethics, and politics.

Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, WPCA-LP, KMUN, KALW and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 27
Bill Browder on Exposing Russia’s Web of Corruption, and Surviving Putin’s Wrath
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In a gripping interview with Ray Suarez, Browder recounts a hunt for missing money that led him to discover a corruption and conspiracy plot involv...

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


  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Living Planet 06/10/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Living Planet brings you another podcast we think you'll enjoy: the Africa Climate Podcast. As the climate — and the weath...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jun 10, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Josh Weiss discusses "Beat the Devils"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Josh Weiss is a novelist who lives in Philadelphia.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 26:48
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Living Planet 12/24/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: A year of environment stories (holiday special) - In this special episode, we reflect on a year of environmental reportin...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 25, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 12/17/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Building anew – from our houses to our cities How should we construct our houses and cities to better withstand a changin...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Celebration & Polarization, Holiday Survival Kit (Part 3): Identity with all the Trimmings
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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We discuss important questions around social identity with Dr. Dominic Packer.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:45
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 11/16/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: There really are two different pills you'll be able to take soon if you catch the coronavirus. Also, why don't people trust...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation (Part Three): Hail the Flip-Flopping Egomania of Veep
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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In this episode we talk to David Mandel head writer and showrunner of the iconic HBO satire, Veep.

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 39:26
Lerner, Gerda Ph.D. — "The Foremother of Women’s History"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The history of women has existed as long as humans have, but it was not until the last half of the 20th Century that women’s history received recog...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Watch the Skies
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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There's lots of chatter in the media about some Navy encounters with some sort of mystery drones, but meanwhile in the Western United States we've ...

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:00

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