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EP 8 When Vermont's "Precision Valley" Changed The World
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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The tools, techniques, and the methods which make mass production possible were pioneered at the Robbins & Lawrence Armory in Windsor, Vermont. But...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
Sickle Cell Disease
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational discussion concerning the knowledge and changes in medical understanding of Sickle Cell disease.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2016
  • Length: 51:28
Lies
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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We are discussing Lies today. Not just lies related to the current political scene but to the very nature of who we are, and how important lying is...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2016
  • Length: 51:26
Selling Censorship: Part Four of The Way of Neoliberalism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Free speech is not the norm, and even in a country that explicitly protects speech in its foundational documents, censorship can still creep into o...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:45
Selling Me, Inc.: Part Three of The Way of Neoliberalism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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First corporations became people. Now people are becoming businesses. That’s the logic of the marketplace applied to employment. Tonight, the third...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 57:51
Mr. Duterte takes the Philippines to China: Goodbye America?
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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The Philippines is America's oldest treaty ally in Asia. Its bases and ports are key building blocks in the United States attempt to encircle China...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
Staging the Nation: Douglas Harvey on Performing Empire
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Just a moment of watching the daily activities of our national public life reveals that ‘performance’ is consequential — far beyond the confines of...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 57:27
50: Starting A Fashion Company in Liberia; Investing With Impact
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Archel Bernard, The Bombchel Factory, Credit: James K Holder
In the midst of the Ebola crisis in 2015, Archel Bernard moved from Atlanta, Georgia to Monrovia, Liberia and started a fashion company--that emplo...

Bought by KSJD, WRIR, KWMR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
47: Nancy Duarte & Patti Sanchez on Transformational Leadership; Maria Molland Selby on Sharing Spaces
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Patti Sanchez and Nancy Duarte
Leaders are leaders right? How much should they care what other people think? It turns out it's not enough to just have a great idea and people wil...

Bought by KSJD, KWMR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
How We Talk About Our Dying: Susan Gubar On Living with Cancer
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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On page 148 of Gubar’s latest book, Reading & Writing Cancer: How Words Heal, published this May by W. W. Norton, she writes: “It seems unlikely th...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 58:47
  • Purchases: 1
Focus on Apartheid: The Photojournalism of Margaret Bourke-White
From: WFHB
Caption: Men at "antipass" protest, near Johannesburg, 1950, Credit: Margaret Bourke-White/Time-Life/Getty Images
As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechosl...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 56:31
Nation of Nations (Half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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With immigration rising, the United States will soon no longer have a white, Anglo ethnic profile. Plus: A Cuban's love for Mayberry. (And more...)

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WABE, KFAI Minneapolis, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 10
If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time: Wendell Potter on Big Money
From: WFHB
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How can you, the citizen, with your “one vote,” compete against a system where all the pulleys and levers are greased by graft? Wendell Potter ackn...

  • Added: May 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
Led Zeppelin Lawsuit
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Did you know that Led Zeppelin is going to court May 10th? Apparently the estate of Randy California, the lead guitarist of Spirit, wrote a song ca...

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, WOUB, KSKQ, KSRQ, and WYAP


  • Added: May 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Jackson/McCartney and the ATV Catalog
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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You may have heard the story that Michael Jackson messed over Paul McCartney by buying all of the Beatles songs right from under him. That may not ...

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, WOUB, KSKQ, KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Pathways for Peace (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Many displaced Iraqis returning to their homes are finding landmines and booby-traps left for them by ISIS fighters. One woman opened her refrigera...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KKRN, and WLIW


  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 4
Pathways for Peace (Hour Long)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Many displaced Iraqis returning to their homes are finding landmines and booby-traps left for them by ISIS fighters. One woman opened her refrigera...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 6
The Life of Arthur Ashe (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Though he first emerged in the public consciousness as a world-class athlete, Arthur Ashe’s subsequent contributions as an author, activist, humani...

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, KKRN, and WLIW


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
The Life of Arthur Ashe (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Bogaerts, Rob / Anefo – Nationaal Archief Fotocollectie Anefo Item number 927-7839
Though he first emerged in the public consciousness as a world-class athlete, Arthur Ashe’s subsequent contributions as an author, activist, humani...

Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 7
30: Nicky Jackson Colaco of Instagram & Parisa Rouhani of The Center for Individual Opportunity
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Nicky Jackson Colaco
There's an old saying, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. But if your company is also in Paris, Shanghai and Peoria, you need someone to balance th...

Bought by KSJD, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
29: The "Hidden Worlds" of The Kitchen Sisters; Farmgirl Flowers Founder Christina Stembel Upends Some Flower Carts
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, The Kitchen Sisters
Pioneers in radio storytelling, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva discuss the birth of women's radio, what it takes to work together for over 30 years, ...

Bought by KSJD, WMUU-LP, WRIR, KHNS, and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
Car Talk (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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An author says NASCAR reflects our culture, society, and values. Plus: Self driving cars are becoming a reality. And the molecular "fingerprints" o...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 4
26: Can Women Have It All? Are Black Virgins Not For Hipsters?
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Echo Brown
Take the Lead Women founder (and former Planned Parenthood President), Gloria Feldt says she hates the question "can women have it all?" We'll hear...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUT, WRIR, WMUU-LP, and KSJD


  • Added: Jan 08, 2016
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 5
Norfolk Botanical Garden, TSA Precheck, Riviera Nayarit, Iron Chef Cat Cora
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Thomas Crawford statue, Credit: Norfolk Botanical Garden
We will go gardening, talk culture, smart travel, conservation and philanthropy.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:55
Travel Photography, Patricia Cornwell, Children's Museum, David Rockefeller, Jr.
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Courtesy of The Photographing Tourist, Credit: David Noyes
Explore social responsibility through travel photography, crime writing, science and water conservation.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2015
  • Length: 59:55