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IE: Inside Europe, 1/19/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on Inside Europe: We respond to the chilling news of a secret meeting at which politicians from Germany’s far-right AfD party discussed ...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Pandemic and Profit
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Alt text: Four homemade masks made from patterned cloth sitting on top of a fabric cutting mat, Credit: Mai-Linh Hong
To mark the three year anniversary of the official start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we'll be looking at two alternative supply chains for masks that...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Inside Europe, 9/23/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: The week the game changed: what does Russia’s military escalation mean for Ukraine and its allies? Water under the bridge: ...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
¿QPM? S7 Ep. 6 Latinos & Los Derechos and Equal Representation
From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?
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En este episodio, te contamos más acerca de tus derechos.

  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 12:05
70 Million: When a State Treats Drug Addiction Like a Health Issue, Not a Crime
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Miracles Club
A year ago, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize drug possession. The goal is to reverse some of the negative impacts of the War on Drugs...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Hundreds of units of housing for homeless people are move-in ready, but sitting empty
From: KSFP
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Hundreds of units set aside for the homeless in San Francisco sit empty. An investigation by the San Francisco Public Press and ProPublica finds ou...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Performer’s conservatorship is over, but activists say she’s not the only one
From: KSFP
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The end of Britney Spears' conservatorship raises questions about who gets "conserved" and why. "Civic" talks to mental health activists who are w...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:28
The Costly, Confusing Medicare Choices Facing 62 Million Americans
From: Tradeoffs
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It’s Medicare open enrollment — the one chance each year that all 62 million beneficiaries have to shop for better coverage. But choosing a new pla...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 22:50
Taimi an LGBTQ+ app, Maryanne Parker, Tsion Cafe, and more on relationships
From: Ray Samuels
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Taimi an LGBTQ+ app, Maryanne Parker, Tsion Cafe, and more on relationships #LGBTQ #Newyorkcity #dating #singles #etiquetteshowbuzz #etiquettesho...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
Fighting for the Ballot: Race and Voter Suppression in the 2020 Election
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Voter suppression and its target’s aren’t new phenomena. People of color and the poor have always been dissuaded from voting. We take a look at how...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Women Rising Radio: Women Challenge Capitalism
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Women Rising Radio #40 explores the global women's movement to resist the violence and greed of capitalism. A women-led village in Kurdish Syria e...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bring It On! - May 22, 2017
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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“If it affects one, it affects us all.” State Senator Eddie Melton helps us understand the recently completed Indiana Legislative Session, includin...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
Buzz Aldrin and Other Martians
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Apollo astronaut and engineer Buzz Aldrin, Credit: Gage Skidmore
He walked with Neil Armstrong on the moon, but that may not be his greatest legacy. Buzz Aldrin was joined by other space stars at the recent Human...

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  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Aerospace Corporation President and CEO Steve Isakowitz
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist’s concept of Brane Craft about to wrap itself around space debris. The paper-think spacecraft will then slow and deorbit the potentially dangerous object., Credit: The Aerospace Corporation
The Aerospace Corporation has been innovating since 1960. Now it’s headed by a former leader of “New Space” company Virgin Galactic. President and...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Education in Prison, Part Two
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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We return to the topic of education within the prison system. After some prison news, we hear a statement written by someone who taught in prisons ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:04
Earth Microbes! Welcome to Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Bacteria samples in the Pegasus Mars chamber., Credit: University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas grad student Rebecca Mickol and her team have demonstrated that some Earth bacteria can survive in the extremely thin atmosp...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Subcontractors: Making Space Happen
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Bob Hoffman and Bill Galary of Nye Lubricants, Credit: Mat Kaplan
You may never hear their names, but there are thousands of small to medium-sized companies without which space exploration and development wouldn’t...

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  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
NASA Science Leader John Grunsfeld
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA Associate Administrator John Grunsfeld and Mat Kaplan show off their space ties., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Astronaut and NASA Associate Administrator John Grunsfeld closes our coverage of the Space Foundation’s 32nd annual Space Symposium in Colorado Spr...

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  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Neil Gehrels and WFIRST—A Space Telescope for the 2020s
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), Credit: NASA/GSFC/Conceptual Image Lab
NASA has given the go-ahead for creation of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope. It might help reveal the nature of dark energy and point the ...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
ALLAN WOLPER TALKS TO DR. BRIAN FALLON
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Dr. Brian Fallon is the director of the Lyme and Tick Borne Disease Research Center at the Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Fallon says each...

  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
EP 1 — The Sharing Economy?
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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In this first episode of Upstream, a radio documentary series, we look at the darker side of the "sharing economy" and explore the conditions that ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: Feb 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:44
  • Purchases: 2
Humans Orbiting Mars!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's conception of the view above Mars, Credit: NASA
Scott Hubbard and John Logsdon led the Humans Orbiting Mars Workshop last spring. They return with Casey Dreier as the report on that workshop is ...

Bought by WRGY, KMUD, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Zibi Turtle and Exploring the Ice Giants
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Ice Giant Neptune, Credit: NASA
They are the most neglected planets in our solar system, but that status may be changing. Planetary scientist Elizabeth “Zibi” Turtle celebrates NA...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
OSIRIS-REx Readies for Asteroid Bennu
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: PI Dante Lauretta (r.) and Kevin Walsh in the Lockheed Martin clean room with OSIRIS-REx, Credit: Dante Lauretta
Dante Lauretta heads the most ambitious mission to an asteroid ever mounted. With one year left till launch, he returns to Planetary Radio with an ...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Zooming In On Mars With Mastcam-Z
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Early plan for the lenses in a Mastcam-Z camera planned for the 2020 Mars rover., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
Our reporting from the 2nd Mars 2020 Rover Landing Site Selection Workshop continues as we talk with Jim Bell and Justin Maki, leaders of the devel...

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5