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Caption: Rwandan genocide museum, Credit: David Kattenburg
Bacteria in your gut tweak your brain. Sometimes friendly, sometimes not. The hundred-day genocide in Rwanda -- recalling the mayhem on its 29th an...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 58:49
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“The Greatest Short Story of All Time?” Since childhood, the Ray Bradbury story, The Veldt, has fascinated me. It was one of the first stories tha...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:32
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An American expatriate and his British colleague work tirelessly to rehabilitate Cambodian children from the nightmare of prostitution.

Bought by KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 17
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What hopes do we hold for a climate changed world - and can hope be trusted to guide our way? Kyla Brettle turns on the coffee machine, opens the b...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2022
  • Length: 06:14
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Multi-award winning short story writer, Amina Gautier, shares excerpts from her 2018 PEN/Malamud Award-winning, THE LOSS OF ALL LOST THINGS, as par...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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At the beginning of the school year, the WFDD Radio 101 class at R.J. Reynolds high school was tasked to look into the issue of teen mental health....

Bought by WAMU and KOSU


  • Added: Jan 27, 2022
  • Length: 53:02
  • Purchases: 2
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This Classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features a look back at the importance of poetry after 9/11 with readings by Arab-American Naomi Shihab Nye, no...

Bought by WGCU, WDCB, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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“The phone rang and rang and a lady picked up on the other end and I still remember the operator saying, ‘You have a collect call from Ian for Debb...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 33:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Qandeel Baloch grew up in a conservative village in Pakistan, a place where it was shocking to see a woman swimming outdoors. She ran away from hom...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 34:33
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Anthony Grooms, author of the novel BOMBINGHAM, reads from his recent novel, THE VAIN CONVERSATION, based on a 1946 lynching of two black couples i...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: 1940 - McDermitt, NV, Credit: Aurthur Rothstein
The drive on US Route 95 north of Winnemucca, Nevada is visually spectacular. To the right, rugged stone peaks with seasonal tufts of green or whit...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2019
  • Length: 18:06
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues National Hispanic Heritage Month with a public poetry reading at The Writer's Place in Kansas City with poets Mia ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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The Minnesota Indian Womens’ Resource Center recently teamed up with Hennepin County Library to host an Indigenous Comic Book Workshop in Minneapol...

Bought by KSRQ, KVSC, KMSU, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KQAL and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2019
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 9
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Psychiatrist Matthew Hirschtritt turns to lessons from his Jewish upbringing when caring for a patient with severe refractory depression.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:34
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The sheriff speaks on the crisis in Colorado, Fakir Emily and the Natural Defense Engineers return, and demons break our hearts in the third instal...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 56:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Storms approach, and there's a show-down in Eastern Colorado, as the second installment explores the themes of violence and nonviolence, decency, t...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Apr 16, 2018
  • Length: 57:05
  • Purchases: 1
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The Tower Guard, a radical Satyagraha force organized on a national scale, seeks to bring about the collapse of all illusion, and reveal What Must ...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Apr 16, 2018
  • Length: 57:06
  • Purchases: 1
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David Dovala has lived in Casper, Wyoming since he was 19. He’s worked all kinds of cases, first as a detective and later as sheriff, but a 1973 mu...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 19:42
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Before he was 10 years old, Willie Bosket had skipped school, started fires, picked pockets, and stolen a car. A psychiatrist at Bellevue called hi...

Bought by ABC, KVNF, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 26:45
  • Purchases: 3
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In 1993, a family was found murdered in their home. A Maryland police spokesperson described the homicide investigation as the most “exhaustive and...

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 25:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Poet Philip Schaefer discusses his award-winning collection of poems, Bad Summon. He also reads a selection of poems.

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Ciaran Hinds
Game of Throne's Ciaran Hinds stars in TWO CROWS APART. A couple braces themselves for unwanted houseguests, political correctness, and a murder of...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 22:11
Caption: David Wynn (left) and Carolyn Lyon (right)
The scene could be a bleak one — a hospital room, a patient near death, and no family or loved ones present during their final moments. But David W...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Nov 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
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A conversation with UCLA historian Benjamin Madley about his groundbreaking and heartbreaking book, "An American Genocide: The United States and th...

Bought by KVMR and KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 2
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Poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail reads from her three books: THE WAR WORKS HARD, DIARY OF A WAVE OUTSIDE THE SEA, and THE IRAQI NIGHTS. Pushed ou...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2