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Looking for Inspiration? Listen to composer Ted Nash's Presidential Suite.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ted Nash
With Presidential Suite,Ted Nash transforms iconic political speeches into an inventive jazz composition.

Bought by KMUW and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 08, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
EP 4 Trump or Clinton, who will handle US-China better
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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America's East Asian allies are scampering to dance with China, wrecking US strategy towards china in the process. Will Mr. Trump or Mrs. Clinton b...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2016
  • Length: 04:20
Pulitzer100: Embers of War (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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- Pulitzer Award-winning historian Fred Logevall on the Vietnam War - Interviewing WWII veterans before it's too late - The lesser-known history of...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer100: Embers of War (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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- Pulitzer Award-winning historian Fred Logevall on the Vietnam War - Interviewing WWII veterans before it's too late - The lesser-known history of...

Bought by WCNY, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, KWMR, KWSO, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 9
Pulitzer100: Embers of War (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Reading about the past sometimes gives us the impression that the Vietnam War was inevitable. But Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall...

Bought by WJCT, WLPR , WUGA (part of GPB), WFHB, KRDP and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Mr. Duterte talks to God, and God said...
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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President Duterte of the Philippines traveled to Japan last week, he talked to God on the way back and the U.S. is as confused as ever about where ...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2016
  • Length: 04:50
The “F” Words: Talking Fossil Fuel with Daniel Dicker
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Dan Dicker
Fossil fuel is sort of a dirty word in environmental circles, but it still comprises over 80% of the world’s energy consumption. This week on Sea C...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Selling Ignorance: Part Two of the Way of Neoliberalism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Tonight we’re speaking with Philip Mirowski, historian and philosopher of economic thought at the University of Notre Dame, and author of Never Let...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 57:40
  • Purchases: 1
Carolyn Lochhead on the Politics of Water
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Carolyn Lochhead
An issue that didn’t come up in Monday’s presidential debate, and unfortunately may not show up in subsequent debates either, is, “What are the can...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Sep 28, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Jesse Jenkins: Decarbonization Deep Dive
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jesse Jenkins
What does decarbonization mean? Well, it’s not just what happens when your soda goes flat. Today on Sea Change Radio we talk with Jesse Jenkins, re...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 1
John Fleck: Colorado River Riddles
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Fleck
As the temperature and population continue to rise in the southwestern United States, water becomes scarcer than ever. How did we get here? Will th...

Bought by KVNF, KFCF FM, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 3
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
Curator Leslie Umberger on artist Ralph Fasanella: An artist of, by, and for the people
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Ralph Fasanella
Blue-collar worker and union organizer Ralph Fasanella would have been 100 this week. His paintings of urban working class people struggling and t...

Bought by KZUM, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 26, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Kate Zerrenner on the Rio Olympics
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Kate Zerrenner
If you’ve been tuning into the Olympics in Rio this week, you’ve probably watched your fair share of inspirational profiles of athletes. You may al...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interchange – Unfounded America: Taking Out the Myth with the Trash
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Family at table eating," Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia., Credit: Margaret Bourke-White, You Have Seen Their Faces
For “Unfounded America” we’re joined by Nancy Isenberg of the popular and provocative new book, White Trash: The 400-year Untold Story of Class in ...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Andrew Winston on the North American Clean Economy Agreement
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Andrew Winston
What would it take for North America to really reduce pollution? At a minimum, Canada, the U.S., and Mexico would have to jointly commit to increas...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Lynchings on Loop: How Terror Goes Viral
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Anti-lynching banner flew outside NAACP headquarters in midtown Manhattan from the early 1900s until 1938. , Credit: (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/COURTESY OF THE NAACP)
For “Lynchings on Loop” Courtney Baker, author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death joins us to talk about ...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
Focus on Apartheid: The Photojournalism of Margaret Bourke-White
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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 26, 2016
  • Length: 56:31
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
Ghosts, Dogs, and the Law: On Constructing Criminality and Negating Persons
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our program is a conversation with Colin Dayan, author most recently of two lauded books, With Dogs at the Edge of Life and The Law Is a White Dog....

  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 58:05
Nation of Nations (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly 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 WCNY, KQED, WMUU-LP, KRDP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 9
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
The Graphically Radical Paul Buhle
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Cartoon Paul Buhle, Credit: Steve Chappell
Our guest is Paul Buhle, one of the foremost historians of American Radicalism and the American Left having authored or edited over 30 books, inclu...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 59:36
For Want of a Better Choice: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton
From: WFHB
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A new book, False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton, offers a detailed look at Hillary Clinton’s track record on welfare, Wall S...

Bought by WRGY


  • Added: May 31, 2016
  • Length: 59:37
  • Purchases: 1
If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time: Wendell Potter on Big Money
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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 31, 2016
  • Length: 59:00