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GPS
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Hugo Fruehauf, one of the co-inventors of GPS, explains the nitty-gritty of what GPS is. He also details his critical engineering work on the GPS s...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 32:27
An Hour With WWII Spymaster Fiction Master Alan Furst
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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Today, we talk with spy fiction writer Alan Furst about his latest book, Under Occupation. Then we air excerpts from interviews we did with him abo...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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
Beyond a Song: Dave Kubiak (Part 2)
From: ISOAS Media
Series: Beyond a Song
Caption: Dave Kubiak / The Bluebird Nightclub
Beyond a Song host Rich Reardin interviews the historic Bluebird Nightclub owner Dave Kubiak (part 2)

  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
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
Beyond a Song: Dave Kubiak (Part 1)
From: ISOAS Media
Series: Beyond a Song
Caption: David Kubiak
Beyond a Song host Rich Reardin interviews the historic Bluebird Nightclub owner Dave Kubiak (part 1)

  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
Living Deliberately: Laura Dassow Walls On The Whole Human Life of Thoreau
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life, Laura Walls shows us a man deeply engaged with friends, relatives and neighbors, a man thoroughly of...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:55
Booktalk: Retired Naval Aviator Dan Pedersen’s “TOPGUN. An American Story”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Dan Pedersen, author of, TOPGUN. An American Story, was the boss of the group that formed the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School. Also known as the...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2019
  • Length: 09:56
Music and Democracy (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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From Nat King Cole to Miley Cyrus: how music tells the story of American democracy.

Bought by KMUN, RadioStPete Florida, WJCT, WMUU-LP, KZUM and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 16
Music and Democracy (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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From Nat King Cole to Miley Cyrus: how music tells the story of American democracy.

Bought by WUGA (part of GPB), Georgia Public Broadcasting, WCNY, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2019
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
Watching History (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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On the eve of WWI, one man had a front seat to history. A new documentary tells his incredible story.

Bought by KXCV, Troy Public Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 13, 2019
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Watching History (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On the eve of WWI, one man had a front seat to history. A new documentary tells his incredible story.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCNY, Allegheny Mountain Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 12
Watching History (Half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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On the eve of WWI, one man had a front seat to history. Now, a new documentary tells his incredible story.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WYAP and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
The Civil War Off The Battlefield (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Little-known stories about the ships, soldiers, and animals that transformed the United States during the Civil War.

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WRGY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
The Civil War Off The Battlefield (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Little-known stories about the ships, soldiers, and animals that transformed the United States during the Civil War.

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WUGA (part of GPB), WJCU and more


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Elaine Weiss’s “The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Elaine Weiss’s "The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote" is the true story of the suffragettes. These are the female leaders who—in the f...

  • Added: May 27, 2019
  • Length: 09:55
The War At Home, Glenn Silber
From: Francesca Rheannon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Francesca talks with Glenn Silber about the acclaimed documentary he co-directed, The War At Home. It’s about the anti-war movement in Madison, Wis...

  • Added: May 07, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Musician's Spotlight - Greek Rebetiko Trio- 694
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Dimitris Mann is the main driving force behind the Greek Rebetiko Trio performing music that he describes as "Greek blues.” The music is a synthesi...

Bought by KMXT, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
Musician's Spotlight - Riyaaz Qawwali - 691
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Riyaaz Qawwali represents the diversity and plurality of South Asia. The ensemble’s musicians, who are settled in the United States, hail from Indi...

Bought by KMXT, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
Howard Mansfield, THE HABIT OF TURNING THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN & more
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We spend the hour with Howard Mansfield, first talking about his new book, THE HABIT OF TURNING THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN (Bauhan Press 2018). It’s abo...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
David Treuer, The Heartbeat Of Wounded Knee
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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Native American writer and critic David Treuer talks about his latest book, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present....

  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
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
Ariel Burger, WITNESS & Ani Tuzman, THE TREMBLE OF LOVE
From: Francesca Rheannon
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Ariel Burger talks about his book WITNESS: Lessons from Elie Wiesels Classroom. And later in the show, we re-air our 2016 interview with Ani Tuzman...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Booktalk: Historian Hampton Sides discusses his sixth book, “On Desperate Ground”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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New Mexico-based Hampton Sides’ newest book is "On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle.” Based on ne...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2018
  • Length: 09:55
Biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Leadership: In Turbulent Times”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Leadership: In Turbulent Times, is one of America’s best known and most award-winning biogra...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 09:20

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