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Dr. David Ray Griffin– "Was this a Cause of the 9/11 Attacks?"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 The forces behind the disasters of September 11, 2001 are said to...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
StoryCorps: Natalie Young and David Young
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Natalie and David Young at their StoryCorps interview in May of 2019. , Credit: Kevin Oliver for StoryCorps
Natalie and David Young remember abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, who was killed three years after they sought his help in Wichita, Kansas.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Prize Winning Fiction Writer George Saunders
From: New Letters on the Air
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George Saunders, the renowned short story writer, talks about his debut novel, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, winner of Britain's 2017 Man Booker Prize for ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Kingsley Tufts Award-winning Poet Patricia Smith: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Patricia Smith, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts fellow and the 2018 winner of the coveted Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, is now the 2021 Ruth...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Historias: Casimiro "Cas" Torres
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Casimiro “Cas” Torres reflects on how his childhood led him to incarceration at New York City’s Hart Island, where he buried the poor and unclaimed...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1
Nevada resolution to protect swamp cedars reverberates across Indian Country
From: Brian Bahouth
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To learn more about the importance of Nevada's AJR4 for the preservation of Native American cultural sites not only in Spring Valley but across the...

  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 17:34
StoryCorps American Pathways: Najat Hamza
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Najat Hamza reflects on her experience resettling in the US and her longing for the home she left behind.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with Max Wilbert and Paul Feather
From: Brian Bahouth
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During the final hours of the Trump presidency, on January 15 of this year, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved the Final Environmental Imp...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 13:14
Tell Saki - Part II
From: Israel Story
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In Part II of this tale, Yochai Maital brings the kind of war story we rarely hear – that which begins once the fighting ends. On October 8, 1973, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 47:57
Engulfed in Flames (Radio Race 2020)
From: Alex Lewis
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Rodney Ford was 9 years old when he was forced to evacuate his home. What happened next was broadcast live on television. This piece was produced ...

Bought by WFHB and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later (Updated)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
In Memoriam 2019
From: WBJB
Series: In Memoriam
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A look at the musicians we lost in 2019.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 57:44
Novelist and Non-Fiction Author Stewart O'Nan: Part One
From: New Letters on the Air
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Stewart O'Nan has written over 20 books as varied as the best-selling novel, SNOW ANGELS (now a film) to the non-fiction book co-written with Steph...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
StoryCorps Griot: Miriam Pratt and Jean Soliz
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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In 1969, Civil Rights leader Edwin Pratt was assassinated in his own home with his wife and daughter, Miriam, present. Miriam Pratt and her godmoth...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:37
The Alabama 35
From: Robin Washington
Caption: The Duluth, Minn. delegation to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. gathers in front of the Clayton, Jackson, McGhie Memorial to that city's 1920 lynching before boarding a bus for a 1,223-mile journey to Alabama in April., Credit: Julia Cheng
The fascinating journey of delegates from Duluth, Minn. - the scene of a horrific triple lynching in 1920 and the first city to erect a prominent m...

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 47:57
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 101: The Fox
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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This episode picks up where Episode 100 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order. When Martin McNally met another plane hijacker in prison...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 22:48
  • Purchases: 1
Former Mississippi Poet Laureate & Two Term US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...

Bought by WNJR and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The 2017 Musician Memorial Hour
From: Paul Ingles
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Some of the prominent popular musicians who passed away in 2017 are celebrated in a one-hour special hosted by public radio music historian Paul In...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WVAS, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KDUR and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
Connecting With a Once Shunned Finnish Past Through Song
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Diane Jarvi, Credit: Courtesy of Diane Jarvi
Finnish immigrants to Minnesota often faced discrimination. Many were radicals. To avoid the "Dirty Finn" label, some Finns shunned their heritage....

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 1
LGBTQ youth remember the late Gilbert Baker, creator of the rainbow flag
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Caption: Gilbert Baker in our studio, 3/1/17. He died unexpectedly just a month later.
OutCasting youth participant Alex remembers Gilbert Baker, longtime LGBTQ activist and creator of the rainbow flag

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 03:42
170429 The South - New Orleans Removes It's Confederacy Statues
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Chess Records' first release was a disastrous Tibbs Brother song expressing displeasure with the then recently deceased racist Mississippi Governor...

  • Added: May 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:08:20
StoryCorps OutLoud: Reverend Troy Perry
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Phillip “Buddy” De Blieck (left) and Rev. Troy Perry (right) , Credit: Rev. Troy Perry
On June 24, 1973, an intentionally set fire tore through a New Orleans gay bar killing 32. Rev. Troy Perry came to StoryCorps to recall the aftermath.

Bought by Radio Catskill, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 3
Kidnapped in Guatemala
From: Sarah Bromer
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When Richard Newman accepted at job at the World Health Organization in Guatemala in the late 70s, he never expected to get mixed up in the country...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2016
  • Length: 17:13
Novelist Jayne Anne Phillips
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Women's History Month, we revisit a novel that's built around real life West Virginia murders of a widow and her three children during the Grea...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Heart and Soul Of Community
From: Steven Scher
Series: On The Bus
Caption: On The Bus
For all the ways we devise to pull communities apart, people find ways to rebuild.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1