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Historic Campus Beer (news feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In 2011, archeologists discovered evidence of a brew house on the campus of the College of William and Mary. Lilia Fuquen (foo-kin) reports that b...

Bought by KENW and WABE


  • Added: Apr 01, 2016
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 2
Drink Local (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-How local breweries foster communities. -The story of an unrecognized founding father -The challenges of being a nurse in northern Alaska. And mor...

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


  • Added: Apr 01, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 7
Drink Local (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-How local breweries foster community. -The story of the unrecognized founding father Robert Morris. And more….

Bought by WJCT, KMUN, WUGA (part of GPB), WYAP, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
Rock and Roll in Black and White (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Rock and Roll started out as an interracial forum, but Slate’s pop critic Jack Hamilton says rock turned into a predominantly white music genre, a...

Bought by WCNY, WXDU, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KMUD and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 10
Rock and Roll in Black and White (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Rock and roll tarted out as an interracial forum, but Slate’s pop critic Jack Hamilton says rock turned into a predominantly white music genre. -I...

Bought by WJCT, WABE, KRZA, KVSC, WLIW and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
The Gospel Roots of Rock and Roll
From: With Good Reason
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Sister Rosetta Tharp electrified 1930s audiences with her singing and guitar playing. "The Godmother of Rock and Roll" influenced the music of Elvi...

Bought by KZUM, WMUH, KTNA, WCSU-FM, WSKG and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 20
Stars for Freedom
From: With Good Reason
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The little-known story of how black actors and entertainers in Hollywood contributed their money, connections, and fame to aid the civil rights mov...

Bought by WLPR , WNSB, Morehead State Public Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 53:34
  • Purchases: 10
Coming Home to Big Stone Gap (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Best-selling author Adriana Trigiani talks about life growing up in the small Appalachian town of Big Stone Gap. And: looking to the past by colle...

Bought by WJCT, WLIW, KKRN, and WXDU


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
How the Bard Meant It (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-How did Shakespeare's plays sound 400 years ago? Plus: A novelist mentored by John Grisham. And more….

Bought by WCNY, WFAE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 6
Evicted from the Mountains (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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When Shenandoah National Park was built, hundreds of families were forced off their land. Margaret Marangione says new information has emerged sugg...

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, WKCC, KRDP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Evicted from the Mountains (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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When Shenandoah National Park was built, hundreds of families were forced off their land. New information has emerged suggesting that some of them ...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WCNY, WTJU, and WXDU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 4
Women's History Month: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
From: Francesca Rheannon
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Katharine Weber discusses her historical novel TRIANGLE, about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 27:20
Women's History Month: Louisa May Alcott & her Marmee
From: Francesca Rheannon
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Historian and writer Eve LaPlante talks about her book, MARMEE AND LOUISA. It’s about the powerful relationship between Louisa May Alcott and her m...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:57
Stephen Holden
From: South Carolina Public Radio
Series: Song Travels with Michael Feinstein News Friendly Version
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News-Friendly Format (1:00 billboard; 5:00 news hole; 52:00 program) New York Times music and film critic Stephen Holden covered the 1970s singer/...

Bought by KISU, KFOK-LPFM, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 3
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 18
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know! Featuring Poet Ruth Nolan and Author Sergio Magana.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:01
Thriller writer Linda Stasi and "The Sixth Station"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Linda’s debut novel is an irreverent religious thriller with lots of controversy that touches on the Vatican, history books and international poli...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
Author Kathryn Stockett and "The Help"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Kathryn's debut novel, "The Help," is a black-white history lesson that's never been told quite like this before. Through the lives of several wome...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
Aaron Neville
From: South Carolina Public Radio
Series: Song Travels with Michael Feinstein News Friendly Version
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Aaron Neville News-Friendly Format (1:00 billboard; 5:00 news hole; 52:00 program) Grammy-winning R&B /soul singer Aaron Neville has been a radio ...

Bought by KUOW, KISU, KFOK-LPFM, and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Producer Profile: Sophie Rousmaniere and Jay Minton
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Sophie Rousmaniere
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmakers Sophie Rousmaniere and Jay Minton about their documentary, Yellow Fever.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 16:44
Producer Profile: Doug Hawes-Davis
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Producer Profile
Caption: Doug Hawes-Davis, Credit: Courtesy of Doug Hawes-Davis and ITVS
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Doug Hawes-Davis about his documentary entitled Facing the Storm: Story of the American Bison.

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Jul 20, 2012
  • Length: 19:30
  • Purchases: 1
Mysteries & Oddities in the Mutter Museum
From: Radio Rounds
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The Radio Rounds crew takes a trip to the famed Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia — a museum that welcomes tens of thousan...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Steve Pinker’s “Better Angels”: Dodging Our Own Bullet?
From: Open Source
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My guest this hour is Steven Pinker, who has written a game-changer on the little matter of how quickly humanity is headed for hell or redemption. ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
STAIRSTEPS Stories! VOL. 2 (Dennis Burke): The Untold Story of the Five Stairsteps
From: Howard Burchette
Series: The Funk Show
Caption: (Left to right): Dennis Burke, Keni Burke, Jerome Bailey, Alohe Burke, Clarence Burke, Sr. , Clarence Burke, Jr., James Burke III , Credit: Buddah Records 1971 album "The Stairsteps"
This is the story of THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS from an original member Dennis Burke. He tells her story and discusses her life in a rare interview.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 52:41
SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN -- Wayne Wang Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Wayne Wang talks high heels, bound feet, and radical Quakers

  • Added: Jul 12, 2011
  • Length: 16:21
Civil War Reconciliation
From: With Good Reason
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For better or worse, this show is not about an end to all those re-enactments. It is a tale of post-war reconciliation between Union and Confederates.

Bought by KWIT, KRUA, and WFIU


  • Added: Jul 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3