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Summertime Means Opera And Books
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
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The kids take a tour of the Santa Fe Opera house, and they share their summer reading recommendations

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, WCNY, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 26, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
108: Khalida Brohi, Activist and Author of "I Should Have Honor"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Khalida Brohi
This is a special episode featuring my live conversation with activist and author, Khalida Brohi. Khalida grew up in Pakistan and became an activis...

Bought by KWIT, Louisville Public Media, KCSB-FM, WCPN, KWIT and more


  • Added: Jan 03, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Driving the Peace Train: Eric Dawson on Putting Peace First
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest today, Eric Dawson, has spent twenty-five years training others to take up the burden of peace. He’s just published a book called Putting...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
When Grit Isn't Enough
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Linda Nathan
There’s a long held assumption that college access is available to anyone and everyone. All they have to have is fortitude and a big dream. In othe...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Steering Our Youngsters Away From Sexual Misconduct
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Peace Talks Radio host Paul Ingles talks with two therapists - Kathryn Stamoulis, from Hunter College in New York City and Jennifer Weeks, director...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Common Sense for Our Common Good
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jim Baumann
What we do for our children today will have a major impact on the future of democracy.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Campus Confidential
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jacques Berlinerblau
In the 1970s, over half of America’s university professors were tenured or on the tenure track. Today that figure is around 25-percent and falling.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Language at the Speed of Sight
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mark Seidenberg
An international survey in 2011 found that students in Shanghai outperformed American students in every category. President Obama referred to the r...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in School
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Monique W. Morris
Black girls make up for more than one-third of all girls with school related arrests. Yet, they comprise just 16-percent of female students.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Peaceful Meditation For School Kids
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Some schools are trying programs that teach their students meditation techniques as a way to help them deal with stress in their lives. The results...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Peaceful Meditation For School Kids
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Some schools are trying programs that teach their students meditation techniques as a way to help them deal with stress in their lives. The result...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
30: Nicky Jackson Colaco of Instagram & Parisa Rouhani of The Center for Individual Opportunity
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Nicky Jackson Colaco
There's an old saying, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. But if your company is also in Paris, Shanghai and Peoria, you need someone to balance th...

Bought by KSJD, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
Spy Hop teaches the next generation of digital artists
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sam Highsmith and Gabby Huggins from Spy Hop, Credit: Courtesy of Spy Hop
Spy Hop's executive director Kasandra VerBrugghen shares the story of Utah's award-winning youth media arts program.

Bought by WMUU-LP and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Despite the Best Intentions
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Even in good schools racial inequality thrives. Basically, that’s the summary of an extensive study conducted by associate professors Amanda Lewis ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
What Kind of Citizen?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joel Westheimer
All schools teach citizenship. But, the question becomes, “what kind of citizens are the schools trying to shape?”

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Considering Loneliness (59:00 / 54:00 Version)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Some researchers suggest that loneliness can be lethal in that it can have significant physical and emotional effects. When is a loner personality...

Bought by KSUT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WNIJ, WEKU, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Arts in the Schools!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Multifacted, Credit: Nati Soti of Zero One Projects.
Diana Green and Cathy Gassenheimer have a mission: Arts Education for Every Alabama pre-k thru 12 Student!

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: :54
  • Purchases: 1
MIW #10 Cristy Johnston-Limon - Destiny Arts Center Executive Director
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Cristy Johnston-Limon on MIW, Credit: Allegra Bandy
Making It Work Radio Season 1-Episode 10 with Cristy Johnston-Limon, Destiney Arts Center Executive Director

  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 20:07
Stand Up ND: Rachel’s Challenge
From: Prairie Public
Series: Stand Up ND
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In 1999 Rachel Scott was the first student to be killed in the massacre at Columbine High School. Her death prompted the creation of a national sch...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
Fear & Learning in America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: John Kuhn
There is a vast divide between those in the “education reform movement” and those who recognize the very real problem of inequality. School superin...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Beyond the Books (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In this last episode of our 10-part series on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) education, we looked beyond traditional classrooms,...

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Art of Music Man and Leader of the Band, Dave Gudmastad
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Today on Art Beat we have a man who has been respected though out our community and provided years of entertainment. Dave Gudmastad, also known as...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 23:53
  • Purchases: 2
Race and America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Professor Lawrence Blum
In his new book, professor Lawrence Blum provides insight into a rigorous high school course on race and racism.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Stressed-Out Students
From: Humankind
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Ideal for broadcast late-Summer / early- Fall, this new 1-hr. documentary from Humankind examines the epidemic of high anxiety among secondary scho...

Bought by WVTF, WSKG, KRCB 104.9, KUAF Public Radio, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 24
Do the Math
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Civil rights activist Bob Moses famously helped organize a voter registration drive in Mississippi that changed the political landscape for the bla...

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, and KVLU


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3