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Commemorating the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: a nuclear scientist remembers. A historian paints a different picture. And, the Pacific...
- Added: Aug 04, 2023
- Length: 59:23
Anne-Marie Oomen talks with writer Geraldine Brooks.
Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio
- Added: Aug 03, 2023
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: 'Taking Pop Seriously" - Korean pop music has been breaking global charts and hearts, selling millions of records every year. Is is time ...
- Added: Jul 28, 2023
- Length: 01:58:59
Disability justice activists Anita Cameron & Keith Jones join Laura Flanders to discuss The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). What are the suc...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, WNYE, RadioStPete Florida, and KWMR
- Added: Jul 25, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
Jess speaks with Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird about one of Earth's most influential humans and his scientific and political legacies.
- Added: Jul 25, 2023
- Length: 29:00
The worst U.S. mass murder of homosexuals in the 20th century was by a gruesome fire in a New Orleans French Quarter nightclub. Yet, the Upstairs L...
- Added: Jun 27, 2023
- Length: 19:45
HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time" - When you’re on the clock, the hours disappear. Time scarcity is making us and the planet sick. But the...
- Added: Jun 02, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
The plan to permanently close Rikers in New York City and replace it with four borough facilities has hit roadblocks. Why is it so hard to close a ...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE
- Added: May 24, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
HOUR ONE: "Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?" - From baby showers to estate sales, we fill our lives with material possessions. Why do we do it? HOUR...
- Added: May 19, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.
- Added: May 14, 2023
- Length: 56:58
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with members of the Civil War Roundtable group t...
- Added: May 01, 2023
- Length: 29:55
It’s a beautiful spring in the desert, which naturally makes one dream of heading off to war. Maybe a secret war, a guerrilla war, an unknown soldi...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Apr 28, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...
- Added: Apr 28, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
We feature a lecture by Mike Davis about his book Planet of Slums, which investigates the increasing inequality of the urban world. According to th...
- Added: Apr 18, 2023
- Length: 58:00
Patti McCracken is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in Smithsonian magazine, Wall Street Journal, the Guardian and many oth...
- Added: Mar 17, 2023
- Length: 24:20
We talk with Fintan O’Toole about his scathing — and tender — personal history of modern Ireland, We Don’t Know Ourselves. Then we hear Seamus Hean...
- Added: Mar 15, 2023
- Length: 59:01
HOUR ONE: 'As Read By The Author' - One of the most fun things we get to do is bring the soundscape of a novel to life — cue the monsters, the stor...
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 01:59:01
Join World Footprints as we uncover the hidden stories of this important piece of Newport's and America’s past from God's Little Acre.
- Added: Mar 01, 2023
- Length: 39:27
Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. A Native American hero who broke records in three different sports. Today his...
Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WILL, KOSU, KAAD-LP, KUT and more
- Added: Feb 27, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 17
HOUR ONE: "How Should We Tell Our History?" - Debates over history are front-page news, from critical race theory to AP history classes. How should...
- Added: Feb 24, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
The Chicago school of economics lead to the phrase, there’s magic in the market. But, that magic, for many of those who invest, means an unrestrict...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 21, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Walk With Me" - Walking prolongs our life and makes us human. So why are we doing less and less of it? HOUR TWO: "Whose Land Is It?" -...
- Added: Feb 17, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
A gripping Civil War drama with an unusual twist.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, KWMR, KMUN, KUOW and more
- Added: Feb 14, 2023
- Length: 01:58:02
- Purchases: 25
HOUR ONE: "Against Capitalism" - Congress has passed a Republican resolution "denouncing socialism." But what does that even mean? This hour, a soc...
- Added: Feb 10, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
What’s it like to be in someone else’s skin? What if the color of the skin is different – say, black and white? What might happen when the descenda...
- Added: Feb 06, 2023
- Length: 28:30
