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On the centennial of the first US commercial broadcast, this is a rebroadcast of an interview with its announcer, recorded 65 years later, in 1985,...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 07:44
Caption: Gian & Barry during Zoom Interview, Credit: Gina Baleria
In this episode. We explore America’s ongoing and persistent issues when it comes to race and social justice... in particular how race can be weapo...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
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On the season two finale of Meat + Three, we bring you the story of a major national food tech company that turned the lives of over five hundred p...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 32:06
Caption: Dr. Ulrike Al-Khamis is Director of Collections & Public Programs at the Aga Khan Museum in Toront, Credit: Aly Manjy
What is Islamic art? In this fascinating conversation with Dr. Ulrike Al-Khamis, Director of Collections & Public Programs at the Aga Khan Musuem i...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 59:04
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Interview with Rosy Greenlees, President of World Craft Council, which promotes the value of craft and making to society and supports thousands of ...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 59:06
Caption: Michael Atwood Mason, Credit: Michael Atwood Mason
American culture is undergoing a huge transformation. In this interview, meet Michael Mason, Director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cu...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 59:12
Caption: Peter Robinson of the Bradshaw Foundation, Credit: Peter Robinson
Interview with Peter Lyell Robinson, editor of the Bradshaw Foundation, which focuses on discovering, documenting and preserving ancient rock art a...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 59:03
Caption: Georgia Nicolau, Co-founder, Procomum Institute, Credit: Georgia Nicolau
Q & A with Georgia Nicolau, co-founder and co-director at the Procomum Institute, and Brazilian activist and researcher in the fields of culture, ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 59:06
Caption: Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas at thier wedding
Once outrage in distant India would barely ruffle feathers in New York. But no more. As the newsletter Broadsheet pointed out today if media is glo...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Downtown amherst farmer's market
Vox Pop on the appropriateness of musical appropriation. Interviews taken in Spring 2017 in downtown Amherst, MA.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
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Google isn’t a healthcare company—they don’t treat patients, fund care, or make drugs or devices. But If you want to understand where healthcare ad...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 10:43
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In this episode, host Mike O’Toole chats with Rod Rakic, Co-founder of OpenAirplane – a company getting more planes in the air by raising standards...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2015
  • Length: 30:15
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In the heart of the Tenderloin, amid the crowded corners and occupied stoops, there’s an anomaly that’ll catch your eye. It’s a man in a suit and a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, host Mike O’Toole is joined by Kimberly Jung, Co-founder of Rumi Spice. They chat about the many hurdles the company has to get ov...

  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 25:45
Caption: James Reiss
James Reiss has written six books of poetry. His critically acclaimed work has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, The New Yorker, Th...

  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 30:01
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Online crafty marketplace Etsy went public in April 2015. What does that mean for the makers who sell their goods on the site?

  • Added: Apr 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
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Kim Ann Curtin, known as The Wall Street Coach, has written a book, Transforming WALL Street, a Conscious Path for a New Future, that she hopes wil...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 30:43
Caption: Sam Schwartz - world traffic expert
Sam Schwartz is known worldwide as Gridlock Sam, a nickname the media gave him for coining the term, Gridlock. As New York City's traffic commissio...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 30:05
Caption: Seth Redniss, Reporters without Borders
Seth Redniss is the lawyer for Reporters Without Borders, the French based organization dedicated to defending the world's most important freedom, ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:58
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"The Great Invisible" is a new documentary about the 2010 BP Oil Spill. The movie's director Margaret Brown grew up on the Alabama coast, and saw t...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 15:38
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In this episode presented by our friends at Craft Beer Cellar, host Mike O’Toole visits Tony Magee, founder and CEO of Lagunitas. They discuss how ...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 39:03
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Stepping inside the Taurus Bookbindery is kind of like stepping back in time.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 11:20
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Projectionist Nikki Weispfenning at Trylon Microcinema , Credit: Todd Melby
Fewer Americans are watching movies in theaters—ticket sales fell by 11 percent between 2004 and 2013. For those attending the cinema, just about e...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 03:46
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It seems odd that a large corporation would launch a campaign that’s neither proprietary nor tightly controlled. So when American Express — a not-s...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 31:16
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Having a sense of naïveté is never a bad thing. Because there are no risks, when there are no rules. In the Beginner’s Mind, the most outlandish a...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2014
  • Length: 11:51