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A Jazz-Age Murder That Toppled Gotham’s Mayor
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with Michael Wolraich about his book, The Bishop And The Butterfly: Murder, Politics, And The End Of The Jazz Age. Then, we re-air part of ...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 01:10:45
Top Of Mind - What Does Justice in Healthcare look Like
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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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
Top of Mind - How to Talk About Abortion
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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How to talk about abortion - and why it's crucial that we do, even if there's no chance we'll change our minds

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RADIOLEX, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
The Afro-Feminine Coming Alive with Akinke Lucas
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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Katherine of The Dream Journal speaks with Akinke Lucas about dreaming ourselves whole. Ancestral dreaming involves learning how to distinguish bet...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 54:52
WoodSongs 1088: Brennen Leigh and Jill Andrews
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Brennen Leigh on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes traditional county songwriter Brennen Leigh plus acclaimed singer-songwri...

Bought by KBRW, KUCO, WEJP-LP 107.1, Radio Bristol, WVRU and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 35
National Writers Series: Ruth Ware
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Eric Hines talks with thriller writer Ruth Ware.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Aug 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
Starstruck with Sarafina El-Badry Nance
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Sarafina El-Badry Nance’s Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark debuted on June 6, 2023. Starstruck shares Sarafina’s emotional and inspiring journey to becoming an astrophysicist, and the powerful role space science can play , Credit: Penguin Random House
Sarafina El-Badry Nance joins Planetary Radio to discuss her new book, Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KVSC, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WJCU and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Top of Mind - What Are the Effects of Marijuana Criminalization
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Our nation’s laws about marijuana are remarkably inconsistent. What are the effects of marijuana criminalization?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, WYAP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 6
Top of Mind - How Can We Reduce Gun Violence in America
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Major new laws to address gun deaths seem unlikely in American politics. How can we reduce gun violence in America?

Bought by KOWS, RADIOLEX, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 7
Talk Music With Me - Bonnie Raitt: JUST LIKE THAT (2 Hour Version)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician Bonnie Raitt takes listeners on a track-by-track tour of her 2022 album release JUST LIKE THAT, offering a fasc...

Bought by WDDE, KNCT FM, WPVM 103.7, WVIA, KUHF and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 12
Portrait of a Scientist: A Conversation with Psyche mission leader Lindy Elkins-Tanton
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman is the great new memoir by Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Credit: William Morrow
Psyche asteroid mission principal investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton returns with her excellent new memoir, “A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young W...

Bought by KMUN, WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Novelist Lisa See
From: New Letters on the Air
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Lisa See discusses CHINA DOLLS, a novel that traces a decade of nightclub life for Asian Americans from 1938 to just after World War II. See reveal...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Forget Everything You Know About Texas
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Red, Republican, anti abortion, anti trans — Texas has certainly been a testing ground for backlash policies and politicians, and that could be wha...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Legendary Space Physics Pioneer Margaret Kivelson
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Margaret Kivelson at JPL with a model of the Jupiter-orbiting Galileo spacecraft., Credit: NASA
A fascinating conversation with a space science and policy leader who is still hard at work in her 10th decade.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WYAP, WFHB, KIYU-FM, WJCU and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Kristina Wong with Rebecca Solnit: The Power of Art and Aunties
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“Had the government stepped in and done its job, had they not advocated against vaccines and mask mandates, we wouldn't have been frantically gathe...

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


  • Added: Jan 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
211231: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Naomi Oreskes: The Schneider Award, 12/31/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Each year, Climate One gives an award to a natural or social scientist for excellence in science communication. This year’s recipient of the Stephe...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
Sally Ride: Our 2005 Conversation
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Sally Ride in orbit aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Credit: NASA
A first-ever encore of our wonderful conversation with the first American woman in space.

Bought by WFHB, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WJCU, KRZA and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Amazing Technology at the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Symposium
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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Here’s our sampling of the leading edge research presented by NIAC Fellows at NASA’s 2021 virtual gathering.

Bought by KIYU-FM, WFHB, WJCU, KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
International Latino Book Award-winning Poet Xánath Caraza: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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We celebrate National Hispanic Heritage month with the second part of our interview with poet Xanath (shaw-nath) Caraza, who is a finalist for the ...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
WoodSongs 951: Vanessa Collier and Tlen Huicani
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: From Mexico Tlen Huicani on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes fiery multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Vanessa Collier plus the traditi...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KEDT, WETS, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KMSU and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 35
National Writers Series: Imbolo Mbue and Alan Lightman
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Discussions with authors Imbolo Mbue and Alan Lightman.

Bought by WKAR, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
Two Leaders of the Womens Suffrage Movement
From: Francesca Rheannon
Caption: Inez Mulholland on Horse poster
In this episode, WV features two women who were important to the fight for women’s suffrage but whose names are less known than those of Elizabeth ...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 58:33
Susan Quinn on Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
From: Francesca Rheannon
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Susan Quinn talks about her acclaimed book, Eleanor and Hick. It’s about the romance between Eleanor Roosevelt and journalist Leonora Hick.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 27:53
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 140: Cowboy Bob
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In May 1991, a bank robber walked into a bank in Irving, Texas, and without speaking handed the teller a note that read, “This is a bank robbery. G...

  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 31:54
Madame Bella Cummins talks about her brothel during the COVID-19 outbreak
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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Wells Nevada is halfway between Elko and West Wendover in far northeastern Nevada. There are five churches and two brothels in town, Donna’s and Be...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 11:51