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World in Progress 21/09/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The troubling trend looming over Cairo's City of the Dead. Who gets to decide the best way to make space in a city? Officia...

Bought by WFHB, Troy Public Radio, and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Top of Mind - A Deeper Look at Wrongful Convictions in America
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Wrongful convictions happen all the time in America, and they could happen to anyone. How do we stop innocent people from going to prison?

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


  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
2023-03-31 White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi on Willow & Biden’s Climate Agenda
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Biden’s policy wins have secured vast amounts of funding for the energy transition, and that money is just beginning to flow, with new programs bec...

Bought by KZYX, Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
230331: White House Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi on Willow and Biden’s Climate Agenda, 3/31/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Biden’s policy wins have secured vast amounts of funding for the energy transition, and that money is just beginning to flow, with new programs bec...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
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
Upstream: Worker Cooperatives
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Artwork by Phil Wrigglesworth
On today's show we learn about worker cooperatives: what are they and can they offer an alternative to the dominant capitalist mindset? Our partner...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUT


  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Participatory Budgeting Project
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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When the news broke of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, it was chilling to many people to learn that 40 percent of that small city’s budget wa...

Bought by KWMR, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
WorldCanvass: Corruption, Populism, and the Future of Democracy (part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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What is the link between corruption, anti-corruption campaigns, and the rise of populism? What conditions create an opening for autocratic-leaning,...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 26:06
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
Democratizing Democracy: Redistricting by the People
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Redistricting has the power to shape elections, and this year, it’s more controversial than ever. After a contentious 2020 census, the development ...

Bought by KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Signs of speculation, cause San Francisco leaders to spend millions to buy apartment buildings
From: KSFP
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Worries that real estate investors are buying multi-unit housing properties in San Francisco, then evicting tenants to turn a quick buck. has promp...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • 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
A History of Traditional Root Healing
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Left is a Mullein Plant and the author Michele Elizabeth Lee , Credit: Photo by Anita Johnson
In some parts of the world, traditional herbal remedies are the norm. When we think of natural remedies we tend to think of older generations liv...

Bought by KVNF, WXDU, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Pandemic Economics: Robert Reich, Esteban Kelly, Mary Kay Henry, Stephanie Kelton
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The economic collapse unfolding before our eyes is much bigger than it appears and the solution isn’t simply to “build back better.” COVID-19 didn’...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Canada's Slavery Secret
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week we take a look at Canada and its history of Black enslavement. Canada, our northern neighbor, is rarely mentioned when we talk about the ...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
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...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: U.S. Foreign Policy, Geopolitical Realignment, and Global Stability (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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The twentieth century has been called the American Century, a time when American ingenuity, economic growth, military power, and vibrant cultural e...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2018
  • Length: 26:25
WorldCanvass: U.S. Foreign Policy, Geopolitical Realignment, and Global Stability (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
Caption: David Rogers
The twentieth century has been called the American Century, a time when American ingenuity, economic growth, military power, and vibrant cultural e...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2018
  • Length: 28:53
Food Justice in Urban Agriculture
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Food --- from where it grows, to where it goes, all of it matters to our bodies and our communities. We begin October with a conversation about how...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Targeted Divide: What Bullets Do to Bodies and Lives
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Jooyoung Lee, Credit: Evan Doheny
This is the special 90-minute finale for our series A Targeted Divide. It’s called “What Bullets do to Bodies and Lives: Structural Violence, Firea...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WLPR


  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 01:28:38
  • Purchases: 2
Split Ends
From: Nikola Marcich
Caption: Pretoria All Girls School in South Africa Protesting the Mandate to Straighten Hair, Credit: BBC News
We looks in to the roots of colonialism in South African education.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 28:58
Cathy Cresser, Write-in Candidate District 3 Talks Politics on Unspun
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Cathy Cresser
Cathy Cresser, local write-in candidate for Shasta County Supervisor District 3, Joins us in the studio to tell us more about herself and her camp...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2016
  • Length: 57:45
Arts Interchange – Jean Anouilh’s Antigone
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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This Arts Interchange is about Jean Anouilh’s 1944 Antigone, inspired by the Sophocles play of the same name, which the IU Theater Department is pe...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:09:41
2015-10-18 Competition for Power
From: Climate One
Caption: Geof Syphers, Sonoma Clean Power; Dawn Weisz, Marin Clean Energy; host Greg Dallton
A growing number of Californians are opting for clean electricity to run their TVs and toasters. But how much do we know about where our power rea...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Political Junkie Minisode 4-22-15
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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We all know that, if elected, Hillary Clinton would be the first female president, and either Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz would be the first Hispanic. ...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUER, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 5