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Audio Description: Giving Voice to the Visual
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Joel Snyder
Educator, advocate and pioneer in audio description, Dr. Joel Snyder talks about putting the visual into words for blind people.

Bought by WDCB, RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 5
Actor Joy Jones talks about acting and August Wilson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: 1. Joy Jones and Roderick Lawrence in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars at Arena Stage. , Credit: Ryan Maxwell Photography
Actor Joy Jones talks about returning to the stage after the shut-down in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars.

Bought by WMPG and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 2
The Tailored Brain
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Emily Willingham
It’s a conundrum. A puzzle. A very strange thing if you think about it. But, there in itself lies the problem. We’re thinking about and studying th...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Let's revisit National Book Award winner Charles Yu
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Charles Yu, Credit: Tina Chiou
In this rebroadcast, Charles Yu talks about his award-winning novel Interior Chinatown and the implications of Asian-American representation in pop...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, Harford Community Radio, WMPG, and KZUM


  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
The Privatization of Everything
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Donald Cohen
Democracy is more efficient, and equally distributed when public goods are created. Things like free education, public health, open parks, clean wa...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Re-visit filmmaker CJ Hunt talking about his documentary The Neutral Ground
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: CJ Hunt, Credit: Paavo Hanninen
We're re-posting an interview with comedy writer and filmmaker CJ Hunt discusses his documentary The Neutral Ground which explores the struggle to ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 27:56
  • Purchases: 3
004 David Plaut - NFL Films Music (1976-2018)
From: Tim Ayres
Series: Off The Beaten Soundtrack
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A conversation with former NFL Films producer David Plaut about his history there from 1976 to 2018.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:30
Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrea Press
The #MeToo movement burst into the headlines in the fall of 2017. What kept people gravitating to the stories was the list of celebrity sexual pred...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Meet Novelist Andrew Krivak
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Andrew Krivak, Credit: Sharona Jacobs
Andrew Krivak Andrew Krivak talks about The Bear a meditative novel about the last of humanity which is a surprisingly uplifting book and also a re...

Bought by WMPG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 5
Quick Study from the National Endowment for the Arts--Music and the pandemic
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Quick Study
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A look at stats and stories to help us better understand the value of art in everyday life--from the National Endowment for the Arts

  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 05:44
An Illustrated Business History of the United States
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Richard Vague
The story of American business is the story of real estate. More than two hundred years of seizing, claiming, settling and developing. And, the col...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter Norton
Several automotive companies are currently working to perfect autonomous vehicles. Their promises for high-tech driving includes crash free mobilit...

Bought by KCBX and WHFR


  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Thicker Than Water
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Erica Cirino
We are surrounded by plastics. Literally enveloped. It has become so ubiquitous to our lives, frequently, we don’t even think about it. It surround...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Gender(s)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kathryn Bond Stockton
It’s a girl or a boy. That’s identifiable at birth. Binary. A biological inheritance. Today, however, when it comes to gender, we’re living in a fl...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Meet multi-media artist Arlo Iron Cloud
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Arlo Iron CLoud, Credit: Greg Latza
Through multi-media, Arlo Iron Cloud seeks an accurate representation of Lakota people, culture, and traditions.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KZUM, WMPG, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 4
The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption – Endangering Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frank Vogl
The average American knows corruption exists in every corner, but most of us are not aware of just how rampant it is. We know the tip of the iceber...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
"I’m Taking the Stage!”
From: Jed Alexander
Caption: Comedian Erin Mohr, Credit: Photo provided by Erin Mohr
With the recent controversy surrounding Dave Chapelle’s Netflix special, The Closer, and his jokes about trans women and their genitalia, freelance...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 02:59
The Public Insult Playbook
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Ruth Colker
The rules of public discourse are not what they used to be. In fact, you can say, they are quite similar to what they used to be. Nevertheless, we ...

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Niyati Dhokai--creating community art with veterans
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ukulele workshop for veterans and military families at Veterans and the Arts Initiative at George Mason University. , Credit: Dr. Niyati Dhokai
Program Director of the Veterans and the Arts Initiative at George Mason University Niyati Dhokai talks about creating an intergenerational communi...

Bought by WMPG, Spokane Public Radio, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 05, 2021
  • Length: 28:46
  • Purchases: 3
Carnism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Melanie Joy
The average American consumes more than 234-pounds of meat every year. That’s chicken, beef, pork, turkey, veal, lamb, and fish. That may not even ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Meet Louie Pérez from Los Lobos
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Louie Pérez, Credit: Hypothetical
Louie Pérez the co-founder, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter for 2021 National Heritage Fellow Award-winning band Los Lobos talks about keepin...

Bought by WMPG and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Measure What Matters
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: J.M. Beach
Measuring what and how much students learn is a daunting task. That’s the basic problem for education in America. But when you investigate the educ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
A conversation about Disability Design
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Open Style Lab's Grace Jun works on garment design concepts at NYU Langone Health’s Initiative for Women with Disabilities, Credit: Open Style Lab
A conversation about disability design from an overview to disability design in practice

Bought by WMPG, KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Tax the Rich
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Morris Pearl
It’s in the tax code. And it’s the rich who manipulate that tax code. Over 70 percent of Americans believe that the economy is rigged to favor the ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Meet Snehal Desai-- the artistic director of East West Players
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Snehal Desai, Credit: Courtesy of East West Players
Snehal Desai talks about producing new Asian-American, socially-conscious theater at East West Players

Bought by KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3

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