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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
Essay – The Roots of Antisemitism
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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In the early 20th century, a potent wave of anti-Semitism began to sweep across Europe. Fuelled by deep-rooted prejudices and exacerbated by econom...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2023
  • Length: 03:14
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
Considering the context of statistics about LGBTQ youth
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcaster Isha
Statistics show that LGBTQ youth are at greatly increased risk of self-harm. But statistics are just numbers; what’s the real-world human cost?

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 1
Surviving Mom and Pop Art by Adam Scull
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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Nearing 70, I’ve kept a large amount unsaid about my family. I felt it was time to let this out once and for all. There is much more to my story, b...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2022
  • Length: 23:11
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
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 - 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
Imagining the Atomic City
From: Lillian Clark
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People tell stories about a place they've hardly been. Some of them get it wrong.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 08:01
Poet Valzhyna Mort Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Today's classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features poet Valzhyna Mort, whose work gives insight into her native country, Belarus. She shares poetry fr...

Bought by WRKF, WNJR, and WJCU


  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Folktale of Doom & Gloom
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Doom & Gloom, Credit: Julia Meek
Woe is me! And that's what this week's Folktale is all about.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), and KLCC


  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 3
National Book Award-Winning Poet Mark Doty
From: New Letters on the Air
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We celebrate National Poetry Month with Mark Doty as he discusses his work, including FIRE TO FIRE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, winner of the 2008 Nati...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Beautifully Furious
From: Vanessa Erazo
Caption: The Pablo Ziegler Trio at the 2018 Grammy Awards
Claudio Ragazzi is a guitarist, songwriter, and film composer. In 2018, he won a Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album. But if it wasn't for a run in wi...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 07:13
We Remember
From: Wind & Rhythm
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We remember. This week on Wind & Rhythm, host David Lawrence commemorates the US Memorial Day and pays tribute to those who paid the ultimate sacri...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMSU, and KMFA


  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 3
One Way Ticket
From: Elliott Rose
Series: Works of Love
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On this week's episode Julian reads an essay he reads an essay about a relationship coming to an end and the feeling that sometimes you're in a com...

  • Added: May 17, 2019
  • Length: 15:27
In Memoriam 2018
From: WBJB
Series: In Memoriam
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A look back at some of the people the rock world lost in 2018

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 57:09
Full Moon Hacksaw #1659 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11/15/2018
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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OJT, Organ Jazz Trio from KC, opens the a gateway for mucho B3 organ. From Concord Records release # 6, we have a seat on the lawn of the 1975 Conc...

Bought by WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, WVBI-LP, WOUB, WKAR and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 6
Harmony in Autumn
From: Wind & Rhythm
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What reminds you of an Autumn day? The crispness in the air? The color changes in the leaves? Here are expressive songs of the season which explore...

Bought by KCCU Radio, KECG, WSKG, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 7
StoryCorps: Monique Walker and Cody Walker
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Monique and Cody Walker remember what it was like to lose their home in a California wildfire.

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, WEZU, and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Sep 27, 2018
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 3
The Story of 'Abdi American'
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Growing up in Mogadishu, Abdi Nor Iftin's friends called him "Abdi American." After all, he loved U.S. movies. He spoke English. And now, he's a ne...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
The Solitary One
From: Israel Story
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An Israeli writer was invited by text message to the funeral of a woman she never knew. She attends out of curiosity and finds over seventy people ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2018
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Jay Hollingsworth and Rick Williams
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Jay Hollingsworth (left) and Rick Williams (right)
John T. Williams, an accomplished Native American carver wrongly killed by a Seattle police officer in August 2010, is remembered by his brother.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1