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Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Revived
From: KRCL
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With Oppenheimer winning 7 Oscar awards, nuclear testing and its side effects remain in conversation. Recently the U.S Senate passed a bill to prot...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 11:49
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 55
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes about managing death.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
2023-10-13 Ken Burns, Rosalyn LaPier and The American Buffalo
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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For thousands of years, the American buffalo evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for kill...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP, KALW, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
231013: Ken Burns, Rosalyn LaPier and The American Buffalo, 10/13/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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For thousands of years, the American buffalo evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for kill...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
StoryCorps: Gwen Timbimboo Davis
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Gwen Timbimboo Davis at her StoryCorps interview in Brigham City, Utah on August 9, 2007., Credit: By Rachel Falcone for StoryCorps.
Gwen Timbimboo Davis tells her daughter, Heather Timbimboo Jorgensen, about visiting the Shoshone Reservation as a kid, and remembers her grandmoth...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps MVI: Larry Candelaria and Connie Candelaria
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Larry Candelaria and Connie Candelaria
Army Lieutenant Colonel Larry Candelaria was deployed to Vietnam in 1970. He came to StoryCorps to reflect on his service in the Casualty Branch o...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:17
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 23
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Prioritizing stories that don’t get a lot of attention.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 03, 2023
  • Length: 50:01
  • Purchases: 1
22-45 500 Years of Popular Music, Interviews: Manuel Barrueco, Kaare Norge, Andrew Zohn, Mark Cruz
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Manuel Barrueco Plays Lennon/McCartney, Credit: EMI Records
This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features 500 years of popular music from Renaissance to present day, and interviews with Manuel Barr...

Bought by Ohm Radio , KXIQ , WUAL, WMRA, WHRV and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 56
StoryCorps: Tom Sullivan and Terry Sullivan
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Tom and Terry Sullivan at their StoryCorps interview in Centennial, CO on July 9, 2022., Credit: Annie Russell for StoryCorp
Tom and Terry Sullivan share how they honor their son Alex, one of twelve people a mass shooter killed in a packed movie theater in Aurora, Colorad...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 02:05
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #36: The Street
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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As a lifelong photographer and filmmaker, Harald Rumpf has spent decades exploring the cities that his subjects call home. In this retrospective of...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 1
Summer Road Construction Plans with Mike Doherty from MN DOT
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Summer Road Construction Plans with Mike Doherty from MN DOT

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 24:48
StoryCorps Griot: Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Latasha Harlins as an early teen., Credit: Christina Rogers.
Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff sat down to remember the death of their sister, Latasha Harlins, whose killing over 30 years ago was one of the c...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
Poet Valzhyna Mort Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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In part one of this interview, Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort reads from her early books, including FACTORY OF TEARS, in both English and Belarusian...

Bought by WNJR and WJCU


  • Added: Mar 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Renee Branum
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer Renee Branum discusses her brand new novel, "Defenestrate."

Bought by WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Suzanne and Jesus Valle
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Jesus and Suzanne Valle reflect on their decision to take in children from families struggling with opioid addiction.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:52
New Rocket Union
From: KQAL
Series: The Sound
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Tonight on The Sound we check out some new tunes from Minneapolis punk duo New Rocket Union. NRU has a stripped down no frills in your face sound w...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 38:01
Reynold Philipsek’s New Jazz Guitar-Based EP Reflects the Tumultuous Times
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Reynold Philipsek, Credit: Tom Tremel
Reynold Philipsek’s new EP was created in the midst of social unrest and a pandemic. When Reynold talked with Phil Nusbaum, Reynold filled us in on...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
The Write Question - Annie Connole
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Montana author Annie Connole discusses her new book, "The Spring: A Mythic Memoir," and reads from the book.

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Big Ponder #14: Sacred Self
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In her early 20s, Sibylle Baier recorded 14 folk songs that she says saved her life. Then, she packed the tape away and forgot about it. Decades la...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Jamie Harrison
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author Jamie Harrison discusses her new book, "The Center of Everything."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps Historias: Jessica Valdivia and Jorge Valdivia
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Jorge and Jessica Valdivia remember their brother, Mauricio, who passed away from COVID-19.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:40
Nicky Nieling: Somehow Now
From: KQAL
Series: The Sound
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Tonight on The Sound we sit down with folk artist Nicky Nieling from Rochester, MN. We check out Nicky’s latest EP, Somehow Now along with a couple...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 44:28
Chekhov Inspired Fiction Writer Catherine Browder
From: New Letters on the Air
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Describing herself as a latecomer to writing, author Catherine Browder discusses her book, NOW WE CAN ALL GO HOME, which pays tribute to Anton Chek...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 27: He Left in a Storm, He'll Return in a Storm
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she be...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 27:04
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part I): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Paul Muldoon (Princeton University)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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How does a century-old poem written in Ireland as European civil wars erupted in the aftermath of World War I still resonate in our own partisan er...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2020
  • Length: 22:36