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Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost talk political dialectics, the definition of improvement, and alcohol as a magic time machine.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 11:58
Caption: Ziad Doueiri, San Francisco, CA 7/31/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Ziad Doueiri talks facing monsters, freedom of speech, and refusing to play politics.

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 24:48
Caption: Jim Sturgess, San Francisco, CA 3/6/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jim Sturgess talks music, metaphor, and suffering for his art.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 10:49
Caption: Mira Nair, Mill Valley, CA 11/11/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Mira Nair talks multiple identities, defining fundamentalism, and creating dialogue.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 13:14
Caption: Pablo Larrain, San Francisco, CA 1/22/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Pablo Larrain talks the perspective of time, the metaphor of equality, and why politics are always personal.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 17:28
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Since the 1970s, Republicans have controlled Southern politics, but according to one researcher, the Republican Party has reached its peak in the S...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
Caption: Margaret and Mohammed discuss how Americans marginalize their religions. , Credit: Jesse Ellis
Islam and Mormonism — not exactly a perfect pair? Actually, these two religions have a striking similarity: both are marginalized in American socie...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 13:10
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There are many ways to support your candidates- or propositions-of-choice before voting on November 6. You can obviously give your time, by volunte...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:59
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Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 55:38
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Al Perry, Tucson country singer, is running for president. His middle name is Richard, so he registered himself as Al "Dick" Perry on the Arizona R...

Bought by WSLR


  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Director Phyllida Lloyd talks gender, politics, and being an outsider.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2012
  • Length: 14:57
Caption: Jay Ipson in front of the Virginia Holocaust Museum., Credit: John MacLellan
Jay Ipson, the youngest Holocaust survivor living in Virginia today, lived in an underground lair for six months during the Nazi occupation of his ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 59:14

  • Added: Oct 07, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
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FARMAGEDDON -- Filmmaker Kristin Canty on raw milk, excessive force, and getting to know your local farmer.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 02, 2011
  • Length: 20:59
  • Purchases: 1
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The U.S. gives more money in foreign aid than any other country in the world. Researchers have just launched a web database that allows people to ...

Bought by KENW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 19, 2011
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 3
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Libya, London, Egypt – the map of unrest and revolution around the world right now is vast. In Sudan, it led to the country separating in two. Now ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 07, 2011
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: One of several vampire safe-houses in New Haven.
Real vampires are nothing like the ones we see depicted in Twilight or True Blood. Most of them are just trying to get by. (NOTE: This is a radio d...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 10, 2011
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Nicholas Longworth's gavel is among the treasures curated and conserved by the House of Representatives' very first curator., Credit: Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
Meet the very first curator of the U.S. House of Representatives collection... 4,000 artifacts strong.

Bought by Louisville Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 25, 2011
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Air Force veteran Eddie Falcon is president of the Bay Area Chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War
In the ‘60s and ‘70s, the Bay Area was a center for activism against the war in Vietnam. Some of those protestors happened to be returning veterans...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 06:39
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When Jean Quan began campaigning to be the mayor of Oakland, she promised to clean up Oakland’s neighborhoods and improve the city’s schools. Quan’...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2011
  • Length: 05:41
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Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges came to Washington to take part in a campaign to end hunger. He visited a school in Washington, and met w...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 01:48:00
Caption: D.C.'s Meridian Hill Park got its name from the Prime Meridian Thomas Jefferson proposed along 16th Street NW., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
What if Washington, D.C., really were the middle of the world?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ben Steinbauer and Jack Rebney, San Francisco, July 30, 2010, Credit: Andrea Chase
WINNEBAGO MAN subject Jack Rebney and its director Ben Steinbauer talk logic, politics, and the pleasures and perils of making a film about a cultu...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2010
  • Length: 22:43
Caption: GEO Guard at the Northwest Detention Center, Tacoma., Credit: Alex Stonehill
In 2004 a new detention center opened on the tideflats below downtown Tacoma. Owned and operated by a private corporation, it houses up to a thousa...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:19
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Slugging at the Pentagon is just one of the ways people in the Washington region develop their own methods of avoiding traffic-clogged highways., Credit: David Schultz/WAMU
Traffic congestion in the D.C. region is at an all-time high. That's forced many to get creative with their commutes.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2010
  • Length: 06:03