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Paul Robeson: An Essential American
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is about the great Paul Robeson. Our guests are Sharon Rudahl about her new graphic biography Ballad of an America published by (Rutgers U...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
How to Be Anti-Fascist: Muriel Rukeyser and The Life of Poetry
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A BAGGAGE TICKET FROM RUKEYSER’S TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGE FROM NEW YORK TO LONDON (1936)
Our show centers on the book The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser which can be seen as an anti-fascist manifesto pitting poetry - the poetic as a ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Art Against War & Capital: On the Cartoons of Art Young
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Looking for Peace, Credit: Art Young
Art Young, like many others, was “converted” or radicalized by the injustice of the arrest, trial, and executions of the so-called Haymarket Anarch...

Bought by RADIOLEX and WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago


  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Against Moral Saints: Kristian Williams on George Orwell and Oscar Wilde
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The show is Against Moral Saints: on the politics and philosophy of two writers who, by reputation at least, must stand as almost antithetical figu...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
Prospero’s Roaring War: The Rough Magic of Shakespeare’s Tempest
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Helen Scott’s book tracks the way productions of the play reveal the politics of each successive age – how to some Prospero is the benevolent mage ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Standing Up to the Sacklers
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Art organizations and sponsorship dollars have gone hand in hand for decades. But with backlash and protests over donors ethics, should cultural in...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interchange – Shooting the Gulf: Allan Sekula In the American Grain
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Photographer and essayist Allan Sekula was a critic of capitalism and an influential theorist of documentary photography and photojournalism. In "S...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:19
2017-12-31 Ai Weiwei: Human Flow
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Ai Weiwei, artist, filmmaker
Ai Weiwei is an artist who uses many canvases to express himself. From art installations to architecture, social media to the big screen, Ai is one...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KCRW, KWIT, WUTC, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 6
The Poetic Address to the Nation
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Poetic Address to the Nation, brought together poets to speak powerfully against the current administration. Featuring Cam Awkward, Guillermo G...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Focus on Apartheid: The Photojournalism of Margaret Bourke-White
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechosl...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 56:31
The Graphically Radical Paul Buhle
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Cartoon Paul Buhle, Credit: Steve Chappell
Our guest is Paul Buhle, one of the foremost historians of American Radicalism and the American Left having authored or edited over 30 books, inclu...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 59:36
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending May 13, 2016
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: New Voter Suppression Laws in 17 States Will Have Major Impact on 2016 Ele...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 04, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Allan Wolper talk to Ed Kashi
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Ed Kashi is a photo journalist whose sensitive lens has captured the racial profiling in Europe, the turmoil in Syria and Iraq, the West Bank, the ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Speed of Sound: Speedy Ortiz
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Sadie Dupuis talks with Kyle Meredith about writing about feminism and politics on the latest Speedy Ortiz album, Foil Deer.

Bought by KUCB, KHNS, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4
Sounds of Silents
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Credit: Russian Public Library via Wikipedia Commons
Silent film may be a thing of the past, but scoring music to flickering screen classics isn't. This documentary focuses on three Minneapolis bands ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 26:46
  • Purchases: 2
Fresh Talk: Pussy Riot
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Pussy Riot member, Credit: courtesy Roast Beef Productions
The 2013 South By South West Film Festival, in Austin, Texas, is the setting for this Fresh Talk feature. Cathy Byrd meets filmmakers Mike Lerner a...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 12:24
A Conversation with John Hickenlooper, Mayor of Denver
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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John Hickenlooper discusses his efforts to use the arts to revitalize Denver and promote economic development and increased livability.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 23:37
The Artist Speaks
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: A Broad at Home, Credit: Walter Murch
The Conceptual artist Mr. Ai Wei Wei, was detained by the Chinese authorities on Sunday April 3. Where has he been taken and why?

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 09:25