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John's Corner: Homeless in Richmond, Virginia, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: John, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2015
  • Length: 27:05
Social Security Works
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eric Kingson
Americans’ pensions are gone. Housing is down and 401k are unreliable. But our Social Security system is totally funded for more than two decades.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Jerk at Work
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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If someone is known as “the jerk” at work, it’ll show up on their performance review, right? Not likely, say two management researchers. Lilia Fuq...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KPVL, and KKRN


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 4
The Madam Next Door
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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There’s a small town in Idaho where prostitution was practiced openly—in effect, decriminalized. The practice was tolerated, even embraced, until 1...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, KUNV, KKRN, and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
Scraping the Sky: Art Deco Architecture in the Twin Cities
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: The outdoor observation deck on the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis, MN., Credit: Noel Clark
The skyline of the Twin Cities in the 1920’s and 30’s was an ever-changing sight. Buildings like the Foshay Tower, the Ramsey County Courthouse and...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 2
Food Sleuth Radio, Ted Genoways Interview Part 2
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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American consumers are told that “cheap” protein is the product of an efficient, consolidated meatpacking industry. However, the environmental toll...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Ted Genoways Interview Part I
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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What is the full cost of our industrialized food system? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her intervie...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Career Cruising Down Memory Lane
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2012
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On today's show hosts Caitlin and Farhan are hitting up Seattle's current job scene as they hear advice from KUOW journalists, childhood career dre...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 11:19
Designing Above 50 Million Gallons of Water
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Sketch of the design for the park, Credit: West Seattle Blog
A tour around a newly undergrounded reservoir with Mark Brands, the landscape architect who designed the park to be built above it.

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
Bio-hackers Grow Their Own Ink
From: Britt Wray
Caption: Biohackers grow their own ink from soil-dwelling bacteria., Credit: La Paillasse
What does it mean to live in a world where biotech is done for and by the people? How long might it be until we are all growing our own ink, laund...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
Day Job 10: The Window Washer
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Mike Notter of the Seattle bands Motopony and Hannalee cleans windows for a living, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job
Mike Notter (currently with the bands Motopony and Hannalee) used to be in a band with a bunch of other window washers (Shim). Back then, cleaning ...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 16:10
  • Purchases: 1
Deception Detection
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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A single lie could cost a job – or a life – as it turned out for Eric Duncan, the Ebola “Patient Zero” in Texas. What if there was a way to accurat...

Bought by KENW and WXDU


  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 2
Women Voters: Ebola or Equal Pay?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Fourth of five broadcasts on what's at stake for women in the upcoming elections. Today's topic: equal pay as a priority.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
#1311- The Vulnerable Edge of Caring, Part 2
From: Sandburg Media
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Lia Claire Scholl on I Heart Sex Workers; Alexander Badenoch on writer's block and radio.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 36:44
#1310- The Vulnerable Edge of Caring, Part 1
From: Sandburg Media
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Lia Claire Scholl on harm reduction activism; Katy Scrogin on The Experience of God.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 39:08
Blowing the Whistle, Paying the Price
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A deformed baby duck found at Kesterson NWR, Credit: U.S. Geological Survey
The internet has put whistleblowers in the public eye, and the government’s crosshairs. The world’s biggest institutions are running scared and cra...

Bought by WNJR and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Food Sleuth Radio, Jeff Ritterman Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide has been linked to a mysterious fatal kidney disease among farmers in Central America, Sri Lanka and India. Join Food...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Must love broccoli: A community garden plays matchmaker
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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San Franciscans love to garden, but a backyard is hard to come by if you live in an apartment. And the 36 city-operated community gardens have wait...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2014
  • Length: 07:25
Food Sleuth Radio, Seth Holmes Interview - Part 2
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Doctors and dietitians recommend that we eat more fruits and vegetables for better health. But do you know who harvests our produce, and under what...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Crisis Breeds Opportunity for Worker Safety and Global Labor Rights
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Impact: Where Business and Ethics Meet
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Tragic incidents in Bangladesh brought the issue of labor rights to the global stage once again. What are some new approaches to keeping factory wo...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2014
  • Length: 21:14
Lilian Alfonso, Metal Scrapper
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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At USA Recycling in East LA, a two-story yellow crane smashes cars, refrigerators and stoves into neat piles of wreckage all day. The mistress of t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
Stan Sorscher, Labor Representative for SPEEA Local 2001, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Stan Sorscher, SPEEA Representative
Interview: Stan talks about what trade agreements are really about—the power to divide the profits—and then explains the changes in the power relat...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 27:50
Uptalk on Jeopardy (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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If you pay close attention to the contestants on the gameshow Jeopardy, you might notice a rising, questioning tone in their voices. Especially whe...

Bought by WJCT, WMNF, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KVSC, WLIW and more


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Uptalk on Jeopardy (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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If you pay close attention to the contestants on the gameshow Jeopardy, you might notice a rising, questioning tone in their voices. Especially whe...

Bought by WCNY, Accessible Media Inc. Station Account, WXDU, WTJU, and KKRN


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 5
Food Sleuth Radio, Jose Oliva Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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How much do you know about the living conditions and wages of the people who pick, process and prepare your food? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1

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