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The Haunted Highway
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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There are no visitor facilities. Roads are mostly washed-out jeep tracks. There is no water. And there's no way out, unless you come back the way y...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Burn Wild Episode 1
From: Dylan Haskins
Series: Burn Wild
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Episode 1 of 2 of Burn Wild. Journalist and writer Leah Sottile presents the story of two of America’s most wanted fugitive environmentalists. F...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WKSU, and Oregon Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 52:31
  • Purchases: 3
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 2
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Three years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. We bring you a Haymarket Books talk by Ma...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Edge of Democracy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
California Innocence Project: Evidence - episode 6
From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project
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The associate director for the California Innocence Project talks about the importance of working to address issues of evidence retention and prese...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
Julia Keller discusses "Fast Falls the Night"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Julia Keller is a novelist and a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 12:53
Art, Anguish & Real Estate - Short Version
From: Stephen Dale
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Ruminations from the rustbelt revival in Canada's steeltown--Hamilton, Ontario--on whether artists are "the footsoldiers of gentrification."

  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 25:01
Live from the USS Bataan - at Sea
From: WCWP
Series: Taking Care of Business with Richard Solomon
Caption: Helicopter Landing, Credit: Richard A. Solomon
Arriving on a Super Stallion Helicopter in the Atlantic Ocean, Richard Solomon meets the crew of the USS Bataan (LHD-5) and is granted behind the s...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
Life of the Law Episode #67: The Stop
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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We all know this feeling. You're driving. Maybe you're speeding. Maybe you don't think you're doing anything wrong. All of a sudden blue lights fla...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 15:48
  • Purchases: 1
"Fresh Dressed" 2015 Sundance Documentary Submission
From: Sara Wagner
Series: Sundance Wrap
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Commentary by Director Sasha Jenkins of "Fresh Dressed"

  • Added: Jan 23, 2015
  • Length: 03:56
MIW #2 Elisabeth Bolaza - Sex Educator and Activist
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Elisabeth Bolaza on MIW, Credit: Allegra Bandy
Making It Work Radio Season 1-Episode 2 with Elisabeth Bolaza, Sex Educator and Activist

  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 22:46
What the Truth Costs: A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The truth can be our moral antidote, our moral medicine, the vitamin that- yes, if someone is trying to tell us that nine dollars and something is ...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:23
Robin Steinberg on Conversations with Allan Wolper
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Robin Steinberg is founder and executive director of The Bronx Defenders, which represents people in the criminal and civil courts who can't afford...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 29:47
Hunger in America
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Hunger in America - Ross Fraser – Director of Media Relations for Feeding America tells us about the startling truth of Hunger in America. In the m...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
In the Shadow of the Wall: From Gaza to Arizona
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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From Palestinian farmers to shootings at the US and Mexico border; living in the shadow of the wall.

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
OFF THE GRID: FROM PERSONAL GRIEF TO PUBLIC PURPOSE
From: Voices of Our World
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On this edition we take a look at the Zack Chambers Emergency Services Foundation, whose aim is to develop first-response emergency services in two...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A war at home: a soldier’s mission against PTSD
From: KALW
Caption: Jeremy Profitt
For some soldiers, post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, really is a four-letter word. A PTSD diagnosis means you may need treatment for the res...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KHNS


  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 08:54
  • Purchases: 5
Housejacked: A homeowner held hostage
From: KALW
Caption: Opal Palmer Adisa is an Oakland homeowner whose tenants refuse to pay their rent or leave
As Californians struggle with foreclosure, those who still own their homes might be facing other struggles. Take Oakland resident Opal Palmer Adisa...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 04:22
In Desperation, Seafood Workers Sign Away Their Rights
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Caption: Unemployed oyster shucker Tam Nguyen , Credit: Barry Yeoman
For many of Louisiana's oyster shuckers, shrimp peelers, and deckhands, survival after the BP oil spill meant accepting one-time payments of $5,000...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 17, 2011
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
Pointe-au-Chien Indians, Reeling from the Oil Spill, Watch as Their Land Washes Away
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Caption: Theresa Dardar says crabbers have replaces the forest in her back yard., Credit: Barry Yeoman
The 700-member Pointe-au-Chien indian tribe south of Houma, Louisiana was one of the first communities to take a direct hit from the BP oil spill. ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1
Stephanie Guerra - transgender woman
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: Stephanie Guerra with host Abigail Mahnke, Credit: Lisa Scheps
I interviewed Stephanie in May 2011 about her 30 year addiction to heroin, her life as a prostitute to support her habit, committing burglaries and...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2011
  • Length: 26:34
The Unreal World of Narcissists and Sociopaths
From: Jari Chevalier
Caption: The Brain of a Sociopath
Narcissists and Sociopaths have always been among us and yet recent research brings us new understanding of just what these serious emotional disab...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 47:10
Germany After World War II
From: With Good Reason
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New research examines how postwar German history textbooks addressed the traumatic events of the Second World War.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXDU, and WRPI


  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Homelessness Marathon Hour Four - What should Kansas City Do?
From: jessica lockhart
Series: The Homelessness Marathon
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The police chief answers questions about why he demolished a tent city.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2011
  • Length: 59:33