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North Carolina’s most celebrated guitarists, songwriters, storytellers and preservationists, Doc Watson has influenced over five generations of gui...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
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An excerpt from The Secrets We Keep podcast - about women who kept their abortion secret for years - and why, in light of the current political cli...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2024
  • Length: 07:02
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The changing political winds around abortion have led so many women to keep their abortions secret - and now, with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 20:28
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Episode 2 of The Secrets We Keep podcast, in which we explore ways that people in the LGBTQ community feel they have to keep secrets about their co...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2024
  • Length: 34:28
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Episode 4 of The Secrets We Keep, in which host Karen Brown interviews people who discovered the secrets of their genetic origins.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:36
  • Purchases: 2
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Episode 1 of The Secrets We Keep podcast, in which host Karen Brown delves into a family secret from her own childhood.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 03, 2024
  • Length: 22:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Lawn Liberators, Credit: Charles McGuigan
It is in the small engagements, the slightest of skirmishes, that the tides are sometimes turned so a war might be won. I recently had the pleasur...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2024
  • Length: 26:28
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There’s no safe way to move crude oil across an entire continent. So what risks are we willing to take? And who bears the brunt of that risk? Over ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 19:13
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Rock hunting holds a special place in Joyce Fetrow’s heart. Years ago, she battled alcoholism that drove her to some dark places. Now, Joyce dedica...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 11:56
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Freshwater jellyfish have been in inland lakes and rivers throughout the Great Lakes region since 1933. But a century after their discovery, we sti...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 09:54
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Tom Wall is a West Michigan rock star who uses plants as bandmates. He uses a device to harness the electricity in plants, which then turns those i...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 14:56
Caption: Rita Dove, Credit: Photo of Rita Dove by Fred Viebahn
Pulitzer prize-winning poet Rita Dove.

  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 24:10
Caption: Reverend Patricia Gould-, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Reverend Patricia Gould Champ, also known as the Queen Mother or simply Reverend Pat, began her career as a teacher, and later became the youngest ...

  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 27:25
Caption: Bill Shanabruch, Credit: Charles McGuigan
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 24:26
Caption: Nico Cathcart working on a mural on Lakeside Avenue, Credit: Charles McGuigan
It’s interesting how every great work of music, literature, visual art is immune to the predilections of time and space. Whether they were crafted ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 27:38
Caption: Nico at the unveiling of her three-story mural, A New Dawn in Hopewell, Virginia., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a fla...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 25:47
Caption: John LaFratta, Credit: Charles McGuigan
John LaFratta didn’t start practicing law until he was in his thirties. He had studied business and English literature as an undergraduate, and wor...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 27:06
Caption: John LaFratta, Credit: Charles McGuigan
John LaFratta is a defense attorney in both civil and criminal cases. Over the years he has represented clients charged with every conceivable crim...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 27:47
Caption: John LaFratta, Credit: Charles McGuigan
John LaFratta, a law practitioner for many years often working as a court-appointed attorney, has just told me about a singular case in a neighbori...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2024
  • Length: 27:11
Caption: John LaFratta, Credit: Charles McGuigan
John LaFratta didn’t start practicing law until he was in his thirties. He had studied business and English literature as an undergraduate, and wor...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 26:38
Caption: The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America series, Credit: Nicole Xu
After the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision in June 2022, Dr. Emily Silverman spoke with Dr. Alison Block – a family medicine physician, abor...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 48:10
Caption: The House, Credit: Catherine Rose McGuigan
Kimberly had talked about her house as if it was a person, her best friend as she put it. Stephanie saw her house as a metaphor for her life, falli...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 24:53
Caption: House, Credit: Catherine Rose McGuigan
This is part one of The House. It’s about that place where we do some of our living and all of our sleeping, Where we eat. Raise children or pets....

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 24:02
Caption: ILLUSTRATION, Credit: by Doug Dobey
More ghostly encounters of a Third Kind with a woman named Sarah who seems to have something of a shine.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 25:23
Caption: Artwork, Credit: by Doug Dobey
Just in time for Halloween. Two women share their stories of ghostly encounter. Some of them will tingle your spine.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 27:26