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You Will Hear Me
From: Dominique Johnson
Series: Come As You Are
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Black opera singers have always contributed to the art form. In this Come As You Are we highlight their performances, featuring famous opera star L...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Jan 04, 2019
  • Length: 01:51:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #05: Thomas Buergenthal – A Lucky Child
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Thomas Buergenthal saw the Nazi concentration camps through a child’s eyes. Luckily, he survived and later became a lawyer and eventually a judge o...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and KRZA


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 22:54
  • Purchases: 3
National Writers Series: Doug Stanton
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
Caption: Doug Stanton with Colin Harrison
A conversation with author and National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
The EXTENDED Untold Story of Iron and Water, a New book by Minnesota Environmental Icon Grant Merritt
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s extended installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with pioneering en...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 41:49
#18-28 Brittfest 2017 Opening Night: West Coast Composer Celebration
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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From last year's Brittfest, the world premiere of a piece by Kenji Bunch and more.

Bought by WCNY, KWAX, Rhythm & News Service, and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 4
#18-27 PIO The Last Jew in Hamadan
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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From CMNW Summerfest, a new piece by Richard Danielpour and works by Mozart, and more.

Bought by WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
Delta Epiphany
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ellen Meacham
In the spring of 1967, Senator Robert F. Kennedy had an experience that changed his thinking about America, and his own responsibilities. His awake...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Old Buildings Have Explosive History
From: renee wilde
Series: WYSO CURIOUS
Caption: Miami Powder Company Buildings 2017, Credit: Renee Wilde
Tucked behind a fence row of tall weeds along the Little Miami Scenic Bike Trail, halfway between Xenia and Yellow Springs, sits a group of abandon...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 05:26
337-Lucy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Lucy Spacecraft, named after the human fossil Lucy, will revolutionize our knowledge of the origins of our solar system.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KKRN, KENW, Radio Newark, and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
Interviewing Veterans (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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This Veterans Day, Americans will be marking one hundred years since the end of World War One, but there will be no veterans of that war present to...

Bought by Prairie Public, KENW, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 5
The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kathryn Smith
The Glass Ceiling: That’s a term that’s been bandied about for some time. Those women who reach the top of their field whether it’s in business or ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Rashad Shabazz
Imagine a large population of Americans living in prison-like-conditions. That’s what it’s like in the so-called Black Belt of South Side Chicago.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
United Arts of Central Minnesota's Cindy Hawker Takes Us on the Sculpture Walk Through St. Cloud
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Have you noticed all those strange shapes popping up all around Lake George and downtown St. Cloud? Well, these aren’t new Pokemon exploding int...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
The Mosquito Crusader
From: Jake Smith
Caption: Fred L. Soper crossing a bridge to investigate an area where yellow fever occurred, Credit: Photo by Wilbur A. Sawyer courtesy National Library of Medicine
Eighty years ago, one man set out to eradicate the mosquito that now causes Zika virus—and it sullied his reputation forever.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 12:08
  • Purchases: 2
Weddings. Then, Now, and Beyond
From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself
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Weddings today do not mean what they used to, and for this very reason, people do their best to resurrect that lost meaning. In this episode, we tr...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2015
  • Length: 17:27
There Are Hundreds of Ghost Towns in Minnesota and Author Rhonda Fochs Discusses Them and How She Found Them
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Did you know that there are around 1,000 ghost towns in Minnesota? Well, in this Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Produ...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 27:09
A Progressive Environmentalist
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cecelia Tichi
Jack London is known for his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North. But, that’s overlooking the real story. London was a reporter who made n...

Bought by KVSC, KPVL, and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Around The Bend E39
From: Maximilian Eyle
Series: Around The Bend
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We sit down with Devin Morrison of The Expanders to discuss rebel reggae and the legacy of the music. Also featuring tracks from Third World, Matis...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 59:29
Sex Machines in Our History
From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself
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Steam-powered vibrators the size of kitchen tables, the importance of dildos in Ancient Greece, and the future of sex machines in the second instal...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2015
  • Length: 24:25
The SCSU Archives Sets Out to Record KVSC Trivia History . . . And More!
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In another installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits once again with SCSU Arc...

Bought by Morton College Radio


  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Our Worst War
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Seymour Hersh, Noam Chomsky, and Christian Appy on the legacy of Vietnam.

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: May 10, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Learning from the Uncivilized
From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself
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We tend to view our hunter-gatherer ancestors with pity for their primitive ways. But what if they employ strategies for leading a depression-free ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2015
  • Length: 13:13
Evangelical vs. Ecumenical: The Protestant Two-Party System
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
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Historian David Hollinger discusses the split between the Evangelical and Ecumenical branches of the Protestant church.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 12:13
Control: The Stanford Prison Experiment
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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In this special episode, Drs. Philip Zimbardo and Christina Maslach tell the story of what ended up being one of the most infamous psychology studi...

Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, Radio Catskill, WRPI, and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 56:03
  • Purchases: 5