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People around the world look to America as a land of opportunity and safety. Do we have an obligation to asylum seekers requesting protection?

Bought by WXDU, KOWS, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGCU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 8
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How do we determine justice in healthcare? Some people have worse health because of factors beyond their control; is that fair?

Bought by WXDU, KMXT, RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, KOWS and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Riverside Jazz Quartet, Credit: Connor Hilstrom
The Riverside Quartet features original Jazz. The drummer, Nicholas Peterson, leads the group, and composes a lot of the group’s repertoire. When h...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Riverside Jazz Quartet, Credit: Connor Hilstrom
The Riverside Quartet features original music. The drummer, Nicholas Peterson, leads the group, and composes a lot of the group’s repertoire. When ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: SWHS Jazz Band, Credit: Sara Johnson
The Southwest High School of Minneapolis showcases its Jazz Big Band and Jazz Combos, Thursday June first at the school. The show features not only...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Corpse Reviver, Credit: Pete Lee
This Sunday at 7 at the Hook and ladder in Minneapolis, Corpse Reviver plays songs from The Harry Smith Collection of American folk music. The coll...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Hoaxer, Credit: Lee Tran
The guys from Hoaxer have reconvened after another period of study in locations across the continent. They are bassist Charlie Lincoln, drummer Edm...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jack Brass Band, Credit: Jackson Tyler Eddy
The Jack Brass Band plays with the kind of interplay of instruments that has been part of New Orleans Jazz for a hundred years or more. But there’s...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Matthew Mehaffey with Phil Nusbaum, Credit: Connie Shaver
The Oratorio Society of Minnesota exists to dynamic and diverse choral music performed with skill and passion. On April 13 at St mark’s Episcopal C...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2019
  • Length: 07:58
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The unusual story of Eliyahu Rips begins in Riga, Latvia, with a radical act of political defiance. And it ends, almost half-a-century later, with ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2019
  • Length: 22:50
Caption: David Harland, Credit: Joanna Gail
David Harland performs and composes finger-style guitar music. His next show is at the Aster Café in Minneapolis, Thursday November 8 from 8 till 1...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
The 2018 Selby Avenue Jazz Fest is coming this Saturday Sept 8 from 11AM till 8PM. It’s centered at the Selby Avenue intersection with Milton St in...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Bart Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity
Bart Ehrman asks how did a religion that began with a small group of illiterate day laborers become the dominant religion of the Roman Empire in ju...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KPIP-LP, and WETS


  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Gentlemen's Anti-Temperance League, Credit: Aaron Davidson
It’s a whole new combination of styles nearly a century old with a lot of cool. The Gentlemen’s Anti-Temperance League plays this Thursday night at...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2017
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Brass Lassie, Credit: Nick Lethert
Celtic tradition goes back literally centuries, and well over 100 years in our town. But if you think there’s nothing new under the sun when it com...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2017
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Brass Lassie, Credit: Nick Lethert
Celtic tradition goes back literally centuries, and well over 100 years in our town. But if you think there’s nothing new under the sun when it com...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2017
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: KBEM logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
AJ Srubas is a young country musician from Minneapolis. But “Country” does not quite tell the story of AJ’s expertise, as different types of countr...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 07:40
Caption: The Nightingale Trio, Credit: Margie O’Loughlin
The Nightingale Trio presents Eastern European folksongs. In the process, the group gives American audiences glimpses into the ways of life in East...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2017
  • Length: 07:34
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On this episode, we spotlight two books - 1941: FIGHTING THE SHADOW WAR. by Marc Wortman that, in part, tells the story of the considerable popula...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Stephen Winter
Stephen Winter on freedom, responsibility, and art by any means necessary.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jun 22, 2015
  • Length: 18:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Victor Levin talks romance, rejection, and ruffling innocence.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2015
  • Length: 13:37
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Rita Mustaphi has lead Kathak Dance Theater for decades. Maryam Yusafzadeh has led the Persian-based musical group, Robayat for a similar duration,...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Justin Simien, San Francisco, CA 10/17/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Justin Simien talks satire, social mirrors, and the truth of life.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 11:56
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""I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman." - Bette Davis, 1963. Interview by Shirley Eder. Bette Davis w...

Bought by KZYX, WABE, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 4
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Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland talk sensitivity, existential souls, and truth being stranger than fiction.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 12:09