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Frederick Kaufman: Voices Inside Our Heads
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Frederick Kaufman
When faced with something overwhelming, terrifying, or incomprehensible, the human mind can get pretty creative. This week on Sea Change Radio, we ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Doris Kearns Goodwin: Leadership In Turbulent Times
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Doris Kearns Goodwin
What makes a great leader? This week on Sea Change Radio, we are honored to have Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Musician's Spotlight -Rahim AlHaj Part Two- 707
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Iraqi-American musician and composer Rahim AlHaj has traveled a musical and life journey that few could imagine. A virtuoso of the Oud (the grandfa...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMXT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
For Love of Money: Libertarian Opportunists
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Using their own words to condemn them, Rob Larson exposes these intellectual opportunists for what they are: defenders of cruel power systems. Men ...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Undermining Zinctown: The Feminist Socialism of Salt of the Earth
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The 1954 movie Salt of the Earth is based on an actual strike in 1951 against the Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico. The film deals with the prejudice...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
The Terror and The Revolution
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: The execution of Robespierre and his supporters on 28 July 1794.
What comes to the fore in this conversation with Rebecca Spang is that the French Revolution is likely best thought of as a civil war and in that ...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 58:37
Anarchy Is Intersectional: Learning from Emma Goldman
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Mug shot taken in 1901 when Goldman was implicated in the assassination of President McKinley.
Our show today is Anarchy is Intersectional: Learning from Emma Goldman. Goldman, a feminist anarchist, was disdainful of what is now called “Lean ...

Bought by KBBI Alaska and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 2
The Whole World Is Watching: The Legacy of 1968
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Across the globe it was a year of countless uprisings. In the US it was the year of police violence against protesters at the Chicago Democratic Co...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
The New Minority (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A look at what's motivating Trump's most loyal base - The invention of immigration - Why getting facts on immigration is so tough - Inside one of V...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
The New Minority (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A look at what's motivating Trump's most loyal base - The invention of immigration - Why getting facts on immigration is so tough - Inside one of V...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
The New Minority (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A look at what's motivating Trump's most loyal base - The invention of immigration - Why getting facts on immigration is so tough

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Political Prisoner in the Modern World
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "The Magnicent Five": (from left) Henryk Wujec, Lech Dymarski, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Jacek Kuro?, Jan Rulewski. , Credit: Photo by Jan Krzysztof Kelus.
Dance in Chains, traces the history of modern political imprisonment from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century and draws on examples from regi...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:28
People Count (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The origin of the census - Queen Elizabeth I's carefully managed image - the Royal Progress and small-town English identity - Recovering working cl...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 12, 2018
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
People Count (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The origin of the census - Queen Elizabeth I's carefully managed image - the Royal Progress and small-town English identity - Recovering working cl...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, WCWP and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 13
People Count (Half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The origin of the census - Queen Elizabeth I's carefully managed image - the Royal Progress and small-town English identity

Bought by WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS, KRZA, KRDP and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Getting to Know the Presidents (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Assessing President Trump's first year - Reading and reflecting on the lives of the presidents - Why did the first presidents live so long? - The N...

Bought by Capital Public Radio, WVPE, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 4
Getting to Know the Presidents (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Assessing President Trump's first year - Reading and reflecting on the lives of the presidents - Why did the first presidents live so long? - The N...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WCNY, KTSW 89.9, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 27
Getting to Know the Presidents (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Assessing President Trump's first year - Reading and reflecting on the lives of the presidents - Why did the first presidents live so long?

Bought by WJCT, KMUD, KMUN, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Leon Trotsky, or The Revolution Betrayed: The Russian Revolution (Part Three)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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From within this crucible the revolutionary theorist, ruthless Red Army commander and plausible dictator in waiting, leader of the left opposition ...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:02
Understanding Stalin: The Russian Revolution (Part Two)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Hitler called him “half beast, half giant” and clearly saw a kind of reflection there. Kuromiya asserts that Stalin was a deeply singular personali...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:34
The Past Is Uncertain: The Russian Revolution (Part One)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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If nothing else, the Russian Revolution reveals the uses of history for ideological purposes. For Russia’s Communism is the counterclaim to Capital...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 55:51
  • Purchases: 1
Walking the Talk: The Revolutionary Abolitionist Benjamin Lay
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Benjamin Lay painted by William Williams in 1790
Today, the curious case of Benjamin Lay: Englishman, Quaker, cobbler, sailor, cultural shock firebrand, cave dweller, autodidact, animal liberation...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 58:10
The Bluff of the Century: Nixon, Alger Hiss, and the Cold War
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Congressman Nixon & Robert Stripling examine Pumpkin Papers microfilm
The conviction of Alger Hiss for perjury in 1950, continues to define the terms of what it means to American. But the definition seems always profe...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WRGY


  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
We, the Shackled: Nancy MacLean on Democracy in Chains
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Statue of John C. Calhoun in Marion Square Park along Calhoun Street in Charleston
For this 90-minute special, our guest is Nancy MacLean, Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University and author of Democracy in Chains...

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:28:04
  • Purchases: 1
A Curse Upon the Nation (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1