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Starter Kit: Checks and Balances
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The glue that slows us down and holds us together.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 15:34
  • Purchases: 3
Flipping Economics on Its Head: Kate Raworth #219 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
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No civilization should head out into the world without “Doughnut Economics” in its survival kit. With her modernized thinking, economist Kate Rawor...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
A health insurance executive has a crisis of conscience
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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What happens when the executive spin doctor for one of the biggest health insurance companies in the country confronts the consequences of his spin...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 32:37
  • Purchases: 1
A fundamentalist Christian transforms his views on abortion
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Chris Ladd was raised as a fundamentalist Christian in East Texas, believing he possessed the secret to how everything in the universe worked. A br...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2016
  • Length: 34:45
Anarchism and Dissent in Medieval Islam
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
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Professor Hayrettin Yucesoy explores the turbulent political and religious climate of the medieval Islamic world.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
Butchering Your Own Meat
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Butchering your own meat has become, for lack of a better word, kinda trendy. But it's also a basic survival skill that dates back to the stone age.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 26:07
  • Purchases: 1
Politics of Disgust
From: Susanne Bard
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Brain scans reveal our political leanings.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
PROMO - On The Money: A History of American Currency
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: Promos for Upcoming Shows
Caption: “The Almightier,” illustration from Puck, May 15th, 1907 , Credit: Library of Congress
30-second promo for BackStory episode, "On the Money: A History of American Currency," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/dat...

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio Claire Hope Cummings Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Should we be engineering seeds and patenting genes? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview wit...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
PROMO - Cheers & Jeers: Alcohol in America [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: Promos for Upcoming Shows
Caption: New York City policemen pour liquor into a sewer following a raid during Prohibition, c1921, Credit: Library of Congress
30-second promo for BackStory episode, "Cheers and Jeers: Alcohol in America [rebroadcast]," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific ti...

Bought by WHYY and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 24, 2013
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Shocked and Appalled: A History of Scandal
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: “Testimony in the great Beecher-Tilton scandal case illustrated,” 1875 lithograph. , Credit: Library of Congress
15 years ago this month, then-President Bill Clinton was impeached by the US House of Representatives for perjury and obstruction of justice. The c...

Bought by WUFT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRPI, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
PROMO - Shocked and Appalled: A History of Scandal
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: Promos for Upcoming Shows
Caption: “Testimony in the great Beecher-Tilton scandal case illustrated,” 1875 lithograph. , Credit: Library of Congress
30-second promo for BackStory episode, "Shocked and Appalled: A History of Scandal," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/date ...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: :30
Food Sleuth Radio Arthur Sherwood Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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What is a cooperative business model and how can it support both economic viability and social responsibility? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Regi...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
The Laundry: Episode 1--Gay Vet Denny Meyer
From: Kelly Cogswell
Series: The Laundry Podcast
Caption: Denny Meyer, Credit: Kelly Cogswell
An in-depth interview with Vietnam vet and gay activist, Danny Meyer, who talks about LGBT people in the military, and how his experience as the ch...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 27:30
The Dixiecrats Depart
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh sits down with historian Joseph Crespino, who explains the Democratic conflict that led to the Dixiecrat Bolt of 1948.

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 09:27
  • Purchases: 1
Splintered Parties: A History of Political Factions
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Rival factions of the Democratic Party tussle over President Martin Van Buren. Lithograph, 1837. , Credit: Library of Congress
The recent government shutdown highlighted the intense conflict between political parties today, but it also showed how critical conflict within th...

Bought by XRAY.fm, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KBRP Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WRPI


  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Maryland Town Celebrates Its 15 Hours Of Fame
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: After fleeing Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812, President James Madison spent the night in this Brookeville home, supposedly making Brookeville “U.S. Capital for a Day.” , Credit: Washington Post
Andy Warhol once said: "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." But in this town, you'll meet people who claim that in the pa...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:26
The Worst Steamboat Money Can Buy…
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Ed Ayers talks with historian Walter Johnson about the rise of steamboats in the 19th Century, and how the cotton economy fueled an ever more ...

Bought by Radio Newark, KHNS, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2013
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 3
Food Sleuth Radio, Bill Marler Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Deadly foodborne illness outbreaks seem to be on the rise, and one attorney has taken the lead in the fight to defend the ill, and support legislat...

  • Added: May 31, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
A BATHROOM STORY
From: Cassie Wagler
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A look inside the issue of gender neutral bathrooms -- through online maps, art museums, and one person's struggle to find a decent place to pee.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2012
  • Length: 05:09
Episode # 8 - Castaway: Michele Arcand
From: Jeff Wax
Series: Desert Island Discs
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Our castaway is Michele Arcand. A poet, activist and one of the driving forces in the Portland independent music scene. Michele is sui generis. ...

  • Added: May 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:22:59
Writers on a New England Stage: Chris Matthews
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
Caption: Virginia Prescott and Chris Matthews, Credit: David Murray
The TV personality and former journalist talks about his new book, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero."

  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 49:30
How war kept California united
From: KALW
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Libya, London, Egypt – the map of unrest and revolution around the world right now is vast. In Sudan, it led to the country separating in two. Now ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 07, 2011
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 2
Giving the House of Representatives a Human Face
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Nicholas Longworth's gavel is among the treasures curated and conserved by the House of Representatives' very first curator., Credit: Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
Meet the very first curator of the U.S. House of Representatives collection... 4,000 artifacts strong.

Bought by Louisville Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 25, 2011
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 3
In The Prime: Washington's Meridian
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: D.C.'s Meridian Hill Park got its name from the Prime Meridian Thomas Jefferson proposed along 16th Street NW., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
What if Washington, D.C., really were the middle of the world?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1