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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
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Larry Tye
More books have been written about Bobby Kennedy than most public figures in our history. Although he’s remembered as a fiery liberal, we easily ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Cuba: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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On December 17, 2014, U.S. President Obama and Cuban President Castro announced a new era of openness and interaction between their two countries. ...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 25:49
  • Purchases: 1
Behaving Against Our Interests: Paul Ehrlich #110
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Today it could be argued that human beings daily act against our own self-interests. How? Biologist Paul Ehrlich and fellow scientists tell us we a...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KRZA, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 6
Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws and Hell's Angels
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.” - Hunter S. Thompson, as told to Studs Terkel in 1967.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 17:15
  • Purchases: 1
Let There Be Night (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Nights are getting brighter and most of us no longer experience true darkness.

Bought by WCNY, WXDU, KKRN, WTJU, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6
Tomlinson Hiil
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Chris Tomlinson
After spending eleven years in Africa as bureau chief for The Associated Press, Chris Tomlinson returned home to Texas. Seeing oppression and apart...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 31, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Debra Brenegan
From: New Letters on the Air
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For the holiday weekend, we look back in history at Sara Payson Willis, a novelist, journalist, and feminist who wrote under the pseudonym "Fanny F...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jul 09, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Roger Blobaum Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Which is the better way to “feed the world” – with organic or “conventional” agriculture? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Mel...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
The Doctors of Nazi Germany (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the late 19th century, German medical practices were considered to be the best in the world. But by the start of World War II, German physicians...

Bought by WJCT, KBYS 88.3 FM, WFHB, WTJU, WLIW and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
WorldCanvass: Cultural Memory and Commemoration (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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An exploration of what we remember and why.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 25:02
Interracial Intimacies
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses interracial relationships with Harvard professor Randall Kennedy, author of “Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identit...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 21, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Miss Anne in Harlem
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Carla Kaplan
White upper-class women seeking to become honorary blacks. Unheard of –right? That’s what began to happen during what became known as the Black Ren...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 02, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Papa and Me
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Catherine Mich
Fifty years ago, on September 29, 1963, Pope John XXIII opened the second working section of The Second Vatican Council and asserted its agenda to ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Priests of Our Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Marjorie Heins, Credit: photo by Catherine Boalch
In her new book, civil liberties lawyer Majorie Heins tells the stories of teachers and professors who resisted the communist witch hunt of the 195...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Marie Curie: The Love Life of the Mother of Modern Chemistry
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Lauren Redniss about her book, Radioactive: A Tale of Love and Fallout, which artistically chronicles t...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 27:31
Why Has America Stopped Inventing?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine
America loves innovation and the can-do spirit that made this country what it is-a world leader in self-government, industry and technology, and po...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 14:41
StoryCorps Griot: Robert Holmes
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Robert Holmes
Robert Holmes talks about his family being among the first to integrate a neighborhood in Edison, New Jersey.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 2
Author David Treuer talks to Charlie Pulkrabek about his new book "Rez Life."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: "Rez Life" by David Treuer
Leech Lake Indian writer, David Treuer, has a new book, “Rez Life”. The author of three novels and one collection of essays, “Rez Life” is his firs...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 33:40
  • Purchases: 1
Racial Innocence
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: New York University Press, Credit: Trade card for Cottolene
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 19:53
A Historian's Take on the Tea Party - Jill Lepore & V.S. Naipaul
From: Open Source
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Election day is closing in, and Jill Lepore has a hip historian's take on the question: What Would the Founding Fathers Do? Jill Lepore says there'...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
Race, Slavery, and the Civil War: The Tough Stuff
From: With Good Reason
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To mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the nation’s finest historians gathered on September 24th at Norfolk State University to discuss th...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, WUAL, and KWIT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Novelist and Book club favorite Sarah Dunant
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Historical novel writer Sarah Dunant talks about she applies her background writing thrillers to write more literary books. The author of the best...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
Independent Minds: Winston Churchill -- Into the Storm
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds
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Winston Churchill -- known for powerful prose, undaunted persistence, and uncompromising ideals -- led Britain against all odds, to overcome the Na...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNIN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WRIR, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2009
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 15