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Tabled Fables 7 Jack and the Beanstalk
From: Amy Kraft
Series: Tabled Fables
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In this episode we discuss how Jack's conquest of the giant relates to 19th century English colonialism with the help of scholar Brian Szumsky. We ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 22:35
2013 San Francisco Silent Film Festival Winter Event -- Anita Monga Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Anita Monga, San Francisco, CA 2/1/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Artistic Director Anita Monga talks the context of German Expressionism, the birth of celebrity culture, and why Buster Keaton will always be cont...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 18:40
March 30: Georgiana Molloy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Uppity Women in History
Caption: Georgiana Molloy
Georgiana Molloy (March 30, 1830): An early settler in Western Australia, who is remembered as one of the first botanical collectors in the colony...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, KMXT, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 4
Culturology: Minnesota Crossroads series - Ely, Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Susan Shurke, Credit: Britt Aamodt
Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 1
1965 Griswold v. Connecticut
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!

Bought by KZYX, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
1992 First Critical Mass Ride
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Bicyclists take to the streets en mass in a fight over the ‘right to the city’.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KTSW 89.9, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WXDU and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 13
Adlai Stevenson: A Candidate in the Age of Television
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 6
Mountain gorillas save researchers from militia gunfire
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Silverback Kabirizi, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Fewer than 800 Mountain Gorillas remain making them one the world's most endangered species. For more than 20 years people around the world have be...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 11:06
Hog Island part 1
From: WHRV
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Ever wonder how Hog Island got its name?…

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
Episode Five: Rebooting the Public Square
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: ReCivilization
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In the finale of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott takes us into the public square, to look at how governments must re-engage with citizens.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 53:02
Episode Four: Re-Industrializing the planet
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: ReCivilization
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In Episode four of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott looks as how the digital revolution has changed how business are run.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 53:02
Episode Three: Collaborative Health Care
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: ReCivilization
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In part three of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott looks at the future of heath care and medicine.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 53:02
Episode Two: Open-Source Knowledge
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: ReCivilization
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In episode two of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott looks at the transformation of education and science, and the emergence of knowledge-sharing an...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 53:02
Episode One: Turning the media inside out
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: ReCivilization
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In the first installment of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott looks at the media and how the industrial-age model of mass production is giving way ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 53:02
Kearny's Entrance to New Mexico
From: New Mexico Centennial
Series: Centennial Journeys
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General Kearny leads the Army of the West to Santa Fe and claims New Mexico for the United States of America.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 1
Dream Jobs 2011 Promos
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
15 and 30 second promos for "Dream Jobs 2011: Outside the Cubicle"

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, KMXT, WEKU, WNIN, WCPN and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2011
  • Length: :45
  • Purchases: 9
Wrinkles Episode Five "Your Money, My Money, Our Money" and "Locked Away"
From: Joan Chandler
Series: Mishoo miinwaa Noki ~ You, Me and Wrinkles
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A man steals his elderly alcoholic father's money and bank cards. Another man neglects his mother's spiritual well-being, forcing confinement and ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 08:16
"Wrinkles" Episode Two "The Golden Roof"
From: Joan Chandler
Series: Mishoo miinwaa Noki ~ You, Me and Wrinkles
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Scams: A widow is cheated through a scam and no one can give her recompense or guidance.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 11:42
Dream Jobs 2011: Outside The Cubicle
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
In Dream Jobs: Outside the Cubicle listeners will hear the stories of three very determined people who struggled to find the career path outside co...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, WESM 91.3 FM, KMXT, RadioFreePalmer, WEKU and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 28
The Messiah Phenomenon
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Series: Hallelujah Handel
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The Messiah phenomenon and the reasons it has become Handel's most celebrated work and an iconic piece of classical music.

Bought by WVTF, 'The Sea', Radio Catskill, Delmarva Public Media, WMNR and more


  • Added: Jun 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Handel and Royalty
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Series: Hallelujah Handel
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During his time in London, Handel served two successive English monarchs, George I and George II. His operas and oratorios also caught the ear of o...

Bought by 'The Sea', Delmarva Public Media, WMNR, WNMU-FM, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jun 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:00:02
  • Purchases: 6
Handel's Singers
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Series: Hallelujah Handel
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Starting with Rinaldo in 1711, Handel would write operas for three decades. Revel in the astonishing variety of Handel's arias and duets with perfo...

Bought by WNMU-FM, 'The Sea', Delmarva Public Media, WMNR, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jun 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Handel in Italy
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Series: Hallelujah Handel
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Handel's most productive apprentice years were in Rome.

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, 'The Sea', Delmarva Public Media, WMNR, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jun 24, 2011
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 6
Extra Innings#3 - The Shot Heard 'Round The World
From: Thom Butler
Series: Extra Innings
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It was an unexpected moment in an unanticipated game. Now it’s known as The Shot Heard Round The World...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1
New Sounds of China Episode 3: The Beijing Scene (Beyond Maybe Mars)
From: Peter Vautier
Series: New Sounds of China
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Episode three explores the diversity of Beijing's underground music scene.

Bought by WLRH, WNJR, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 3