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EE 23-12: If you care about food, pay attention to The Farm Bill, 3/17/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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The farm bill isn’t just about farming. It’s about food security for households across the nation.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
Top of Mind - Incarceration, FBI and MLK, America’s Poverty Food Crisis
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: A new book details the financial, emotional, and social strain of incarceration on prisoners and the family members trying to care for the...

Bought by KSTK, KSTK, KOWS, RADIOLEX, KTNA and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 51:45
  • Purchases: 6
Aw Shucks...Oysters! (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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When Captain John Smith sailed into the Chesapeake Bay, he said oysters were as big as dinner plates. This show is our ode to oysters.

Bought by WCNY, Accessible Media Inc., Accessible Media Inc. Station Account, WTJU, and KKRN


  • Added: Aug 15, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 5
Meatless Moralism
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Ed sits down with historian Adam Shprintzen to discuss the 19th-century Americans who saw a vegetarian diet as a powerful tool of moral reform, one...

Bought by WOUB and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 2
A Political Diet Plan
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh talks with food journalist Marian Burros about the US Senate’s attempt to encourage healthy eating in the 1970s, and the pushback...

Bought by WOUB and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 2
Sugar in your Tea Party?
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Political scientist Peter Andreas tells host Peter Onuf about the ways sugar – and smuggling – shaped early America, and helped fuel the Revolution.

Bought by XRAY.fm, Radio Newark, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 08:41
  • Purchases: 3
Sickly Sweet?
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh talks with historian Carolyn de la Peña about the rise of artificial sweeteners in the 20th Century, as they went from unhealthy ...

Bought by Radio Newark, KFAI Minneapolis, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:08
  • Purchases: 4
Tainted with Blood
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Ed Ayers sits down with historian Alan Taylor to discuss the 18th Century search for a sweetener untainted by slavery.

Bought by Radio Newark, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 07:39
  • Purchases: 3
Sweet Talk: A History of Sugar
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: "Sugar - save it!" Detail from U.S. Food Administration poster, c1917 , Credit: U.S. National Archives
Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and that means candy, chocolate, cakes – all the sweet stuff for your sweetheart! It’s just one of the ways s...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WUFT, WMUU-LP, WRPI, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Not California, it's the State of Jefferson
From: Lisa Morehouse
Series: After the Gold Rush: The Future of Small Town California
Caption: Rick Jones, owner of the Seiad Valley store, Credit: Lisa Morehouse
In Northern California and Southern Oregon, many residents identify less with those official states than with the State of Jefferson. The piece ex...

Bought by KWMR, Rhythm & News Service, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 4

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