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HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the...
- Added: Feb 03, 2023
- Length: 01:58:59
HOUR ONE: "How To Be An Ethical Traveler" - Uttakleiv, Norway, population 13, is inundated by 250,000 tourists every year. How can we travel more e...
- Added: Jan 27, 2023
- Length: 01:59:02
A family secret with its roots in the Holocaust.
Bought by KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KWMR, WPCA-LP and more
- Added: Jan 25, 2023
- Length: 01:58:02
- Purchases: 28
What can one commodity reveal about our food systems, about health, about labor and capitalism and about the environmental costs of so-called cheap...
- Added: Jan 19, 2023
- Length: 54:01
The search for the first rock and roll record never finds its "Patient Zero" because it's not an infection, it's a vast amalgamation of our musics ...
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, WQCS and more
- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 02:57:00
- Purchases: 7
HOUR ONE: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...
- Added: Jan 06, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
Cantigas de Santa Maria, an exploration of songs and poems dedicated to the Virgin Mary and musical biography of King Alfonso X of 13th century Spa...
Bought by High Plains Public Radio
- Added: Dec 12, 2022
- Length: 01:58:52
- Purchases: 1
In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut down a pla...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
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: Nov 25, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
Join World Footprints as we remember Emmett Till, recount the bravery of Mamie Till-Mobley and learn about a connection with Rosa Parks.
- Added: Nov 13, 2022
- Length: 21:04
HOUR ONE: "Generation Witch" - They’ve been hunted and silenced and burned at the stake, but witches are still practicing the craft. We take you fr...
- Added: Oct 28, 2022
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - Is there a better way to talk about death? And to grieve? The pandemic has brought us a period of global mournin...
- Added: Oct 21, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that d...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 7
HOUR ONE: "The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace" - 1936 was an ominous year. A young George Orwell was headed to battle in Spain. But first, he plant...
- Added: Oct 14, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
HOUR ONE: "Empathy For Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...
- Added: Oct 07, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
The first clause of the First Amendment forbids Congress from adopting any laws tending to the establishment religion. Even with that definitive ve...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 03, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Can a song make a person do something awful? Many believe it can. In fact, there have been multiple court cases where a song was brought into evi...
- Added: Oct 02, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
Wherever you look in history, you’ll find misogyny. It’s equally rampant in the rumors surrounding Cleopatra during her reign and Kamala Harris bef...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 12, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who participated in the 1973 Grape Strike along with the UFW until he was murdered by a Sheriff....
- Added: Sep 12, 2022
- Length: 29:00
HOUR ONE: 'The Secret Language of Trees' - Trees talk to each other, and even form alliances with other trees or other species. Some are incredibly...
- Added: Aug 26, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
Our guests Indigenous Activists SunRose IronShell and Manape LaMere speak on the history and impact of the Indian Boarding Schools, generational tr...
- Added: Aug 21, 2022
- Length: 58:00
Explore the complicated and rich history behind the compromises made in order to get the New Deal through, and what lasting consequences they have ...
Bought by KUT and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Aug 08, 2022
- Length: 58:38
- Purchases: 2
Applying a GOP history lesson to our current political moment
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 36:31
- 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: "Why Do We Have So Mu...
- Added: Jul 29, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
Anthropological bio-archeologist Keitlyn Alcantara studies pre colonial burial sites to understand indigenous foodways.
- Added: Jul 12, 2022
- Length: 54:00
