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Highly regarded as the “King of the Delta Blues” and a “Father of the Blues”, Son House was a force of nature who’s emotive guitar playing and prea...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
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North Carolina’s most celebrated guitarists, songwriters, storytellers and preservationists, Doc Watson has influenced over five generations of gui...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
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North Carolina’s most celebrated guitarists, songwriters, storytellers and preservationists, Doc Watson has influenced over five generations of gui...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
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North Carolina’s most celebrated guitarists, songwriters, storytellers and preservationists, Doc Watson has influenced over five generations of gui...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jordan Hensley
Jordan Hensley embraced life, roaming across the globe to experience its myriad cultures. Witty, bright, silly, engaging, a stickler for detail, an...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2024
  • Length: 28:07
  • Purchases: 1
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An excerpt from The Secrets We Keep podcast - about women who kept their abortion secret for years - and why, in light of the current political cli...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2024
  • Length: 07:02
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An intimate look at the secrets many in the LGBTQ community feel they have to keep - and the emotional consequences. This is an EXCERPT from the po...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 08:33
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The changing political winds around abortion have led so many women to keep their abortions secret - and now, with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 20:28
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It's been two years since Debt Heads co-host Jamie Feldman told the world (or at least the world of TikTok) that she was in $18,000 of credit card ...

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2024
  • Length: 11:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Episode 4 of The Secrets We Keep, in which host Karen Brown interviews people who discovered the secrets of their genetic origins.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:36
  • Purchases: 2
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Episode 1 of The Secrets We Keep podcast, in which host Karen Brown delves into a family secret from her own childhood.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 03, 2024
  • Length: 22:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Black Indianapolis Series, Credit: Urbanist Media
This two-part series on African American history in Indianapolis, IN, takes you to Indiana Avenue—a once vibrant Black corridor with homes, restaur...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2024
  • Length: 52:54
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For the past three and a half decades, zebra and quagga mussels have fundamentally altered the ecology and hijacked the food web of the Great Lakes...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 15:15
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The U.S. Constitution refers to treaties with other sovereign nations as “the supreme law of the land.” But what happens when promises have been ma...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 14:01
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In 2013, a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. The dangers of oil trains are part of the controversy around Enb...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 18:56
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There’s no safe way to move crude oil across an entire continent. So what risks are we willing to take? And who bears the brunt of that risk? Over ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 19:13
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A deadly fungal infection is pushing some bat species to the brink of extinction. As scientists scramble to track the spread of white nose syndrome...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 14:35
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Rails are secretive marsh birds, and they’re on the decline. But a researcher playing their recorded calls over a loudspeaker could help bring them...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 09:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Lake Superior’s northern shore has been home to woodland caribou for thousands of years. But now, the species is facing local extinction. Some blam...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 16:27
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Kurt Steiner holds the world record for stone skipping. He throws rocks because it makes him happy. And because he says it’s key to escaping digita...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 12:49
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According to an Anishinaabe prophecy, manoomin – wild rice – is what brought the Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi peoples to the Great Lakes.But starti...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 11:40
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Lake Superior can change in a heartbeat; one minute it’s calm ― the next it's raging into a wild storm. When people in the water get caught off-gua...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 17:46
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Because of its abundant open space, Detroit, Michigan has a thriving ring-necked pheasant population. The birds have endeared themselves to many by...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 10:54
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America’s bird, the bald eagle, is facing a tremendous challenge. As scavengers, they feed on what we and other animals leave behind. But lead cont...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 13:03
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Kenny Pheasant first became a teacher of Anishinaabemowin at 14 – from behind the meat counter at a grocery store. Now, it's his life mission to ge...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 13:03