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Gift Wrapped America (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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It’s all about the power of the almighty dollar. Meredith Katz says that from From the Boston Tea Party to the Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work, cons...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, WJCU, WJCT, WFHB and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Gift Wrapped America (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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It’s all about the power of the almighty dollar. Meredith Katz says that from From the Boston Tea Party to the Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work, cons...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, and KXCV


  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Novelist and Poet Gerald Vizenor
From: New Letters on the Air
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We honor Native American Heritage Month with U.S. veteran and writer, Gerald Vizenor. Raised on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, Vizenor a...

Bought by KVNF, WNMU-FM, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Meet Snehal Desai-- the artistic director of East West Players
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Snehal Desai, Credit: Courtesy of East West Players
Snehal Desai talks about producing new Asian-American, socially-conscious theater at East West Players

Bought by KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Meet Heartbeat Opera and Its Artistic Director Ethan Heard
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ethan Heard, Credit: Stanley Bohorek
Ethan Heard and Heartbeat Opera re-visions opera for the 21st Century.

Bought by KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 3
A conversation with poet Sally Wen Mao
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sally Wen Mao, Credit: Sookoon Ang
Sally Wen Mao’s poetry excavates the burden of spectacle for Asian-Americans.

Bought by KMUN, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZUM, and KMUN


  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 4
The National Endowment for the Arts presents Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Visual Artist and Disability Rights Advocate Gordon Sasaki talks about the art of visibility.

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 27:29
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WCPN, WCPN, WCNY, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 13
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. ...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, KRDP, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people...

Bought by WKSU, WCPN, WNED Buffalo, KXCV, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 6
Author R.O. Kwon's novel The Incendiaries has everyone talking and for good reason
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: R.O. Kwon, Credit: Smeeta Mahanti
Author R.O. Kwon's book The Incendiaries has been named a best book of the year by over forty publications. Not bad for a first book! But it's als...

Bought by KZUM and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 2
Tokyo, A Water City
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Meguro River, Tokyo, Japan , Credit: Photo by Zhaoli Jin
This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reflects on the magic of water and the ways it defines our urban spaces. This episode focuses on To...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Vaddey Ratner writes her story of Cambodia
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Vaddey Ratner, Credit: Christina Sherk
Vaddey Ratner's novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan honors her lost family

Bought by WNJR, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Michael Berry and the art of translation
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Yu Hua and Michael Berry Beijing August 2010 , Credit: courtesy of Michael Berry
Michael Berry reflects on the art of translating Yu Hua’s influential novel and new Big Read title To Live into English

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPIP-LP, WRIR, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Kao Kalia Yang -- What is home? A refugee's challenge.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kao Kalia Yang
Kao Kalia Yang's book, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir is a personal story that speaks to the moment.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Gao Hong's Foray into the Field of World Music Adds to Her Musical Catalog
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Gao Hong w/pipa, Credit: Photo Provided by World Music Professionals
Gao Hong came from China to America in 1994. Already established as a world-class player of the Chinese pipa, she has gotten interested in the west...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:40
9: Beverly Parenti & Hediana Utarti, Bringing Hope Within Reach for Immigrants and Inmates
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Beverly Parenti, The Last Mile
Human trafficking is estimated to be in the millions--yet only a fraction of it is reported. And taxpayers spend $60,000 per person, per year on in...

Bought by KKRN, KWMR, KSJD, and WRIR


  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
A Conversation with sound architect Bora Yoon
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Bora Yoon, Credit: Leslie Van Stelte.
Bora Yoon talks about building the sonic design of her album Sunken Cathedral.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with novelist, Julie Otsuka
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Julie Otsuka, Credit: Robert Bessoir
Julie Otsuka’s first novel When the Emperor Was Divine explores her family’s history in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Jane Chu--the new chair of the National Endowment for the Arts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jane Chu, Credit: Courtesy of the Kauffman Center for the Arts
Jane Chu shares her ideas for the agency and the place of art in her own life.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
Hiroshima Survivor / Miep Gies talks of Anne Frank / Foreign Aid
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Soh Horie/Miep Gies/Jamie Drummond
A three-part Peace Talks Radio program this time features a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb; also remarks from the woman who helped hide Anne...

Bought by WXDU and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with David Mura
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: David Mura, Credit: Courtesy of American Program Bureau, Inc.
Poet, Writer and Spoken-Word Performer David Mura uses his considerable talents as a poet, novelist, memoirist and performer to explore what it me...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 27:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Ahn Trio and Balmorhea
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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A classical group from Korea called the Ahn Trio and a rock band from Texas called Balmorhea converge on a similar, ambient chamber music sound.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2008
  • Length: 03:31