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Caption: Bill Shanabruch, Credit: Charles McGuigan
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 24:26
Caption: Paula Apsell, 4/10/24
Paula Apsell talks uncovering history, creating unity, and depicting Jews saving Jews.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2024
  • Length: 25:10
Caption: Nico Cathcart working on a mural on Lakeside Avenue, Credit: Charles McGuigan
It’s interesting how every great work of music, literature, visual art is immune to the predilections of time and space. Whether they were crafted ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 27:38
Caption: Nico at the unveiling of her three-story mural, A New Dawn in Hopewell, Virginia., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a fla...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 25:47
Caption: John LaFratta, Credit: Charles McGuigan
John LaFratta didn’t start practicing law until he was in his thirties. He had studied business and English literature as an undergraduate, and wor...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 26:38
Caption: Cosmograf Heroic Materials, Credit: Cosmograf Facebook
Robin Armstrong's music project, Cosmograf, has released a new album entitled 'Heroic Materials'. It's a song cycle based on the life of a World Wa...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 57:02
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A deep look into the late Bill Withers early life in music that set up the making of his debut album, "Just As I Am." Please consider this free on...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, WOMR, WKMS, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
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How researchers are using Google Earth to find the undocumented slums of India.

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 03:29
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Host Elysabeth Alfano talks with Ethan Brown, CEO of Beyond Meat, about the meat market he intends to capture before getting a tour of the factory ...

  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 06:57
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Mexico protects it's most valuable waters.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Familes of Fair Oaks Community School in Redwood City protest their school closure , Credit: Gloria Rangel
The growth of charter schools has led to declining enrollment at traditional public schools across California -- and in some cases to school closur...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 09, 2018
  • Length: 09:36
  • Purchases: 1
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The rise of synthetic fibers and the war on cotton

Bought by WSGE


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Robin Lung, San Francisco, CA 3/7/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Robin Lung talks wake-up calls, color-blind casting, and the power of film.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 21:09
Caption: Paul McGuigan, San Francisco, CA 12/8/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Paul McGuigan talks synchronicity, the proper lens, and the best Christmas present ever.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2018
  • Length: 22:48
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Some surprisingly controversial theories of human longevity. 

  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 18:06
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Cacao Hunters was founded in 2013 by Carlos Ignacio Velasco and Mayumi Ogata and is based in Popayán, Colombia. The company is dedicated to finding...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 39:06
Caption: The Beatles - Abbey Road, Credit: Robert Landau
The very first rock billboard arrived on the strip fifty years ago, just in time for the Summer of Love. It was the brainchild of Elektra Records...

Bought by KALW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WOUB


  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 4
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MIT-graduate Tish Scolnik is using the power of business to give people with disabilities a new sense of freedom.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 14:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Episode 5 — Sensory overload! We explore how taste, touch, sight, smell and sound influence how we experience chocolate. With a soundtrack designed...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Mar 22, 2017
  • Length: 24:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Moana and Maui sail toward land in this concept drawing for the movie, Credit: Walt Disney Studios
Disney’s latest animated movie, “Moana,” is riding a wave of popularity around the globe. Nominated for two Academy Awards this year, Native Hawaii...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Elisheva and Amaris, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Elisheva and Amaris, mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way ...

  • Added: May 07, 2016
  • Length: 27:49
Caption: Lorene Scafaria & Susan Sarandon, San Francisco, CA  4/11/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Susan Sarandon and Lorene Scafaria talk giving, taking, and scoring good eggs.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2016
  • Length: 16:25
Caption: Elliot Lavine, San Francisco, CA 2/17/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Elliot Lavine talks the pleasures and perils of 35mm, seismic overhauls, and blows to the solar plexus.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 33:16
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Orchestras around the country are struggling to keep their doors open, but new mobile phone apps may help save orchestras. Apps like periscope all...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 03:52
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In the heart of the Tenderloin, amid the crowded corners and occupied stoops, there’s an anomaly that’ll catch your eye. It’s a man in a suit and a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1