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Roger Waters - Amused to Death
From: Joyride Media
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Pink Floyd founder and 2015 Newport Folk Festival headliner, Roger Waters, looks back on his solo recordings, reflects on the continued relevance t...

Bought by KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Violent Extremism, East and West
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Next Wednesday the White House is convening a summit on ‘countering violent extremism.’ The details are sketchy — a press release announces that th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1
Krip Hop
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Leroy Moore
You’ve heard of Hip-Hop, but what about Krip-Hop? That’s the name for the international movement of disabled artists, poets, musicians, and MCs. On...

Bought by WRIR and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 25, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
ZERO MOTIVATION -- Nelly Tagar Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Nelly Tagar, San Francisco, CA 12/15/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Nelly Tagar talks sacrifice, stapleguns, and why she’s like a cactus.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2015
  • Length: 22:04
Alt.Latino's Favorite Latin Music Of 2014
From: NPR Music
Series: Alt.Latino
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As 2014 begins to wind to a close, Alt.Latino is spending this week looking back at our favorite artists of the year. It's an unusually varied list...

Bought by KMXT, WART FM, and WKAR


  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Beat: Alyssa Joy - "He Said"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Alyssa Joy is a student at Bemidji State University who is from North Minneapolis. Her poetry is an exploration of the painful struggle of human ex...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:02
Liliana & Jacob's "Why Hunt?"
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: 2011 Travis High Edition
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Cousins Juliana & Jacob explore hunting in this piece. Hunting seems to be a family tradition-stemming from their granddad who killed goats on his ...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 07:52
Hacking Democracy
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Is American democracy broken — are we being well-represented, or not? If not, why not? And what’s to do about it?

Bought by WUFT, WMMT, and KZYX


  • Added: Sep 06, 2014
  • Length: 52:05
  • Purchases: 3
Moyers & Company Show 334: Stiglitz on Tax Reform to Save the Middle Class
From: Moyers & Company
Series: Moyers & Company
Caption: Bill Moyers, Credit: Dale Robbins
In Part 2 of Bill Moyers’ conversation with Joseph E. Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist says the corporate gaming of our tax system is he...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, KUNV, WCWP, KUOW, KVMR and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2014
  • Length: 24:00
  • Purchases: 31
Dollar Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter Matthews
Big corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many American politicians through campaign contributions and lobbying, according to pol...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lines in the Sand
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The borders that divide up our modern world hinge, sometimes, on decisions that have stopped making sense. The Middle East is still suffering from ...

Bought by KZYX, WRPI, KUOW, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 4
Peniel Joseph on Stokely Carmichael (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act. At the end of June, 1964, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 2
Derek Bok: The View from the Top (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
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Derek Bok is the only two-time president of Harvard University, which is to say he has twice reinvented the management of the oldest, richest, mayb...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Liz McMillen on "Who Needs College Anyway?" (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
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Liz McMillen is the editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 08:17
  • Purchases: 1
Grouch Time
From: Jeff Karr
Series: The Jeff Karr Show
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A grouchy look at life.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2014
  • Length: 02:01
Sam Seder, Tracy Morgan, Birdy
From: Dan McPeake
Series: Endeavours
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radio host Sam Seder, actor/comedian Tracy Morgan. Music: Birdy

  • Added: Jun 01, 2014
  • Length: 54:51
Sebastian Thrun: MOOCs, Angry Birds, and Lifelong Learning
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re speaking with a hot name in disruptive innovation, Sebastian Thrun. He’s part of our conversation on hacking higher education. He’s the foun...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:54
  • Purchases: 1
Hacking Higher Ed
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Continuing our series on higher ed, we're hacking our way to a better model; call it New U. There won't be a football team or a building and ground...

  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
Thomas Frank on What's the Matter With College (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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How did higher education, in general, turn from the days of the GI Bill — and the land grant colleges long before that — to being a trap for sevent...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
What's the Matter With College?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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How did higher education, in general, turn from the days of the GI Bill — and the land grant colleges long before that — to being a trap for sevent...

  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 18:23
A Flailing State: Daron Acemoglu and Matt Taibbi on Economic Inequality
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re somewhere between the legend and the facts of the U.S. economy. The legend, still in our heads, is it’s a rough-and-tumble democracy and a c...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
  • Purchases: 1
Blowing the Whistle
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Impact: Where Business and Ethics Meet
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Has the perception of whistleblowers changed? With high-profile cases like Edward Snowden and increased protections for those who accuse their empl...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2014
  • Length: 21:21
Episode 3 ~ Sound Design
From: Matthew Mustovich
Series: The Art of Video Game Design
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With the help of Don Maue, a sound designer and Duquesne University professor, we examine the role of sound in video games.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2014
  • Length: 09:19
Review: HER
From: Daniel Persons
Series: Hour of the Wolf Movie Reviews
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Review of Spike Jonze's HER.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:23
Pam McKissick Without Reserve - Powerful Control - Government, Big Business & You
From: Auction Network Productions
Series: Pam McKissick Without Reserve
Caption: Pam McKissick Without Reserve, Credit: Auction Network Productions
A great deal of the control American citizens relinquish is ostensibly to allow government to keep us safe. But has it gone too far? In this epis...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 1

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