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Area Voices: Nevada Littlewolf
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Nevada Littlewolf, Credit: Bush Foundation
Nevada Littlewolf is the first Anishinaabe woman to serve on the Virginia, MN city council and a leader in in many respects. We spoke with Nevada ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 17:35
Seeking Peace on Earth: A PEACE TALKS RADIO Special (2016)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Our annual compendium of highlights from the past year's programs including reducing political polarization, the neuroscience of peacemaking, how m...

Bought by KUNM, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 14, 2016
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 3
How We Fight Back: Part I
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Zack Exley and Becky Bond
All over the world people who care about the environment are watching the US President-Elect sketch out a blueprint for disaster. To head the EPA h...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pluto and Titan and Iran, Oh My!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The liquid methane lakes of Titan, Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI
Back to the annual meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences this week, where Mat Kaplan visited with experts on worlds of ice including T...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Interviewing Veterans (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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This Veterans Day, Americans will be marking one hundred years since the end of World War One, but there will be no veterans of that war present to...

Bought by Prairie Public, KENW, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 5
Matt Taylor Rocks Rosetta
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Rosetta Mission Manager Patrick Martin and Project Scientist Matt Taylor simulate the spacecraft touchdown at Planetary Society HQ., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Last year it was New Horizons at Pluto. In 2016, the thrilling end of the Rosetta comet mission generated the greatest public interest and enthusia...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KMUD, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KRZA and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Charley Kohlhase and the Greatest Voyage
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: James Blinn (l.) and a young Charley Kohlhase (r.) working at JPL on pioneering computer animations of the Voyager flybys., Credit: Charley Kohlhase
How did the Voyager spacecraft manage to weave their magnificent way through the outer planets of our solar system? Mission Design Manager Charley...

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


  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 3
55: Tracey Taylor & Lance Knobel, Berkeleyside; Arlie Hochschild "Strangers In Their Own Land"; Review of "Certain Women"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Tracey Taylor
Tracey Taylor and Lance Knobel are the co-founders of the "hyper-local" news site Berkeleyside.com and Uncharted, The Berkeley Festival of Ideas. W...

Bought by Public Radio for All, WRIR, KWMR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Farewell Rosetta
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Comet 67P/Churyumov/Gerasimenko, Rosetta’s final resting place., Credit: ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / SSO / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA
The European Space Agency’s magnificent Rosetta mission ended last week as the spacecraft gently touched down on the comet it has revealed. You’ll ...

Bought by KMUD, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
OSIRIS REx: The Voyage to Bennu Begins, With Dante Lauretta
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: OSIRIS REx departs for asteroid Bennu atop an Atlas V, Credit: Jason Davis/The Planetary Society
In two years a Near Earth Asteroid now known as Bennu will have a visitor from Earth. OSIRIS REx Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta reports on h...

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


  • Added: Sep 12, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Interstellar Dreams Turn Real
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Breakthrough Starshot, Credit: BreakthroughInitiatives.org
Philip Lubin and his former student Travis Brashears have had quite a year. Their bold plan to send tiny probes to nearby stars is now supported b...

Bought by KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA, WMUU-LP, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Flint Water Activists Mona Hanna-Attisha and Lee-Anne Walters on the Meaning of Courage
From: PEN America
Series: The Freedom to Write
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Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha and Lee-Anne Walters, two leading voices in exposing the Flint water crisis, received the PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Free...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 06:53
OSIRIS REx: Ready for a Voyage to Bennu
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: OSIRIS REx spacecraft at Bennu in artist's conception., Credit: NASA/University of Arizona
OSIRIS-REx will launch toward Near Earth Asteroid Bennu soon. In an early celebration of Asteroid Day, mission leader Dante Lauretta tells us how l...

Bought by KRZA, KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
JunoCam, The People’s Jupiter Camera
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Jupiter's Great Red and Great White Spots, Credit: NASA
The Juno spacecraft will enter orbit at Jupiter on July 4th. It carries a camera that will send back spectacular images from just above the swirlin...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Muhammad Ali As Conscientious Objector
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
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In this excerpt from the Peace Talks Radio series, learn about the history of Conscientious Objectors in the U.S. and the high profile role that th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRGY


  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Death Valley Conversation About Life, The Universe and Everything
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Mat Kaplan, Jill Tarter and Tyler Nordgren, Credit: Mat Kaplan
Beautiful Death Valley National Park was the setting for a fascinating conversation with famed SETI researcher Jill Tarter and celebrated astronome...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Celebrate Yuri's Night With Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, Credit: Susan Karlin @SueKarlin
Happy Yuri’s Night! We’re partying under Space Shuttle Endeavour in the first of two shows featuring interviews from the worldwide celebration of s...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Hermon Mehari (Playing For Paris)
From: Matt Hodapp
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During the night of November 13th, 2015, a series of terrorist attacks claimed by ISIL killed 130 people and injured 368 in Paris, France. Kansas C...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2016
  • Length: 10:05
Ashwin Vasavada, Leader of Scientists Roving Mars
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Ashwin Vasavada of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory became the project scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory Project in January 2015., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The new Mars Science Laboratory Project Scientist is not new to the mission. Ashwin Vasavada has worked on the Curiosity rover since 2004. Emily L...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
HERA Heroine Julielynn Wong and Printing Medical Tools in Deep Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Julielynn Wong and her alter ego, Dr. “J”, Credit: Jared Chambers
Julielynn Wong came directly from her 30-day long HERA IX deep space simulation to our microphone. We talk with her about the experience, and her p...

Bought by KMUD, KFCF FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
SoundsLA - Fire Engine Sirens
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Fire engines roar through the city with their sirens warning cars to move out of the way. For most of us, these sirens are nothing more than that, ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 01:01
Dawn Flies Low Over Ceres
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Dawn had this view of Ceres at 86 degrees south latitude on Dec. 10, only three days after completing its descent to an average orbital altitude of 240 miles (385 kilometers). , Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA
The Dawn Mission Chief Engineer Marc Rayman returns for another report on the ion-engine powered mission, now orbiting 240 miles above dwarf planet...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Congressman John Culberson on a Good Day for Space
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An artist imagines viewing a Europa water geyser from the surface of Jupiter’s moon., Credit: NASA/ESA/K. Retherford/SWRI
The newly-approved federal budget includes great news for fans of space exploration and development. Texas Congressman John Culberson led the fight...

Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFCF FM, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2015)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Compelling and timeless moments drawn from just one of the many seasons of programs in the Peace Talks Radio series on peacemaking and non-violent ...

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, and KUNM


  • Added: Dec 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
College Football's Dark Knight
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism - 2
Caption: Richard Glover at Nebraska, Credit: Richard Glover
A inside look at Richard Glover, one of College Football's best, and also one of College Football's unacknowledged.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 04:04