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Playwright Lynn Nottage unmasks the cost of industrial decline in Sweat

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Scene from Sweat, Credit: C. Stanley Photography

In her new play, Sweat, Lynn Nottage gives voice to the human cost of workers without work.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR

Added: Feb 05, 2016
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 3

Tom Breiding on acousticSongs LIVE! from WNJR

From: WNJR
Series: acousticSongs LIVE! from WNJR studios

Tom Breiding on acousticSongs LIVE! from WNJR

Added: Jan 15, 2016
Length: 59:13

Uptalk on Jeopardy (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Uptalk is that rising, questioning tone some people use when ending a statement. And women aren't the only ones who do it—so finds a study of conte...

Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WKCC, KRDP and more

Added: Sep 04, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 9

Labor, Climate & The Music Behind Movements

From: Context Partners
Series: Movement Making

Caption: Pete Seeger entertaining Eleanor Roosevelt, honored guest at a racially integrated Valentine's Day party marking the opening of a new chapter of United Federal Labor in then-segregated Washington, D.C., Credit: Joseph A. Horne via Library of Congress, 1944

A conversation with Andrew Revkin, who's best known as a longtime New York Times environmental journalist but is also a songwriter and was for 20 y...

Bought by KRZA

Added: Sep 04, 2015
Length: 15:58
Purchases: 1

Under Magnolia

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

When Frances Mayes moved to Tuscany, Italy she left behind her family and roots in Fitzgerald, Georgia. In her new memoir Under Magnolia, the renow...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, WABE, KVSC, KENW and more

Added: May 29, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 6

Yours, mines and ours

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

Mining in Minnesota has been going on for decades, but today, economic and environmental issues are raising important questions about the industry....

Bought by KSRQ

Added: Mar 26, 2015
Length: 06:16
Purchases: 1

Ilan Stavans, The United States of Mestizo

From: Joseph Sr Dobzynski
Series: We All Live Here For What It's Worth

Ilan Stavans is a Mexican-American essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short-story author, TV personality, and teacher known...

Added: Mar 03, 2015
Length: 23:33

Author Redmond O’Hanlon travels a mile deep in “Trawler"

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

British naturalist and jungle survivor of Borneo, Amazonia and the Congo, O’Hanlon sets off this time on a commercial fishing ship in the harsh wat...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Added: Dec 02, 2014
Length: 09:56
Purchases: 2

#1311- The Vulnerable Edge of Caring, Part 2

From: Sandburg Media

Lia Claire Scholl on I Heart Sex Workers; Alexander Badenoch on writer's block and radio.

Added: Oct 07, 2014
Length: 36:44

#1310- The Vulnerable Edge of Caring, Part 1

From: Sandburg Media

Lia Claire Scholl on harm reduction activism; Katy Scrogin on The Experience of God.

Added: Oct 07, 2014
Length: 39:08

Uptalk on Jeopardy (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

If you pay close attention to the contestants on the gameshow Jeopardy, you might notice a rising, questioning tone in their voices. Especially whe...

Bought by WJCT, WMNF, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KVSC, WLIW and more

Added: Jul 25, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 6

Uptalk on Jeopardy (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

If you pay close attention to the contestants on the gameshow Jeopardy, you might notice a rising, questioning tone in their voices. Especially whe...

Bought by WCNY, Accessible Media Inc. Station Account, WXDU, WTJU, and KKRN

Added: Jul 25, 2014
Length: 53:55
Purchases: 5

Good to Great for Nonprofits (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Bestselling business writer Jim Collins on what makes a successful nonprofit.

Bought by WJCT

Added: Dec 02, 2013
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 1

130310 Runner's Marathon or Fun Drive?

From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song

Twice a year, WWOZ does a gut check with you. We ask you to judge us on whether we are doing good, non-commercial radio. It's your call. Your st...

Added: Mar 10, 2013
Length: 01:51:56

The Importance of Work

From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial

Caption: Author Richard Ford, Credit: Sahlan Hayes

Host Phalana Tiller interviews Geoffrey Brewer of the Gallup Press and novelist Richard Ford. And Bloomberg Businessweek online columnist Rick Wart...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM

Added: Jun 10, 2011
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 1

54 Years

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

The nation's last sardine cannery in Gouldsboro, Maine closed its doors in April 2010. Lela Anderson worked at the cannery for fifty-four years.

Added: Jun 03, 2010
Length: 07:46

Junk Drawers

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me

It’s that time of year again! Time to clean out your JUNK DRAWERS! Tune in this Saturday to Between You and Me with Heidi Holtan from 10-noon J...

Added: Apr 26, 2010
Length: 02:00:28

Springboard Forward and B-Cycle

From: Smart City Radio

Alex Bogusky tells us how European style bike-sharing can drastically reduce the traffic in American cities. And we'll find out about an innovativ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WFSU, WBEZ, WLRN, and Spokane Public Radio

Added: Jun 17, 2009
Length: 58:52
Purchases: 5

Truckers & PubRadio

From: Public Radio WorldWide - PRWW.org
Series: Guess Who's Listening?

Caption: Champion Truck Association Drivers Listen to Lots of Public Radio - Do You Know Why?, Credit: SLG

Truckers Are Tuning In to PubRadio Big Time!

Added: May 17, 2009
Length: 17:28

Successful City Secrets and The Truth About Green Jobs

From: Smart City Radio

This week on Smart City: we're getting a global perspective on the secrets of successful cities. We'll talk to designer Christopher Choa about su...

Bought by WFSU, WLRN, Spokane Public Radio, and WBEZ

Added: May 13, 2009
Length: 58:52
Purchases: 4

Building Green

From: Bill Baue

BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio

Added: Mar 11, 2009
Length: 29:30
Purchases: 1

Darwin of the Mind

From: With Good Reason

Two interviews for the curious among us: Why we can thank the anarchist movement for an 8 hour work week , then a discussion of new insights into t...

Added: Jul 16, 2008
Length: 29:36

Slow is Beautiful - New Visions of Community, Leisure and Joie de vivre with Cecile Andrews

From: Deb Krumholz