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Caption: Film Artwork, Credit: She's Angry When Beautiful
For this edition of Making Contact, we’ll present the documentary, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” a reflection on the rise of the women’s libe...

Bought by WVAS, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Mary Tamaki Murakami talks about life in an internment camp during World War II and why she sees parallels in today’s treatment of Muslim-Americans.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 7 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 14:47
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
An eight part series, tracing the 25 year career of one of the UK's finest Jazz sax players. It covers initial promise, highs, lows and recovery, w...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:13
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 5 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 21:45
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 4 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 24:52
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
An eight part series, tracing the 25 year career of one of the UK's finest Jazz sax players. It covers initial promise, highs, lows and recovery, w...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 11:47
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 2 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, some series-excl...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2018
  • Length: 15:18
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 1 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2018
  • Length: 13:31
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Kate Magruder, who portrays Louise Smith Clapp, who, under the pen name Dame Shirley, documented Califor...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:02
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Our celebration of Women's History Month continues with Rachel Hall, whose own family’s history of strong women and wartime papers and photos insp...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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I always equated boxing with "manhood" until the boxer Emile Griffith proved that decency is the path to "manhood." Emile had a more dramatic stor...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:49:23
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HOUR ONE: "Facing Hate" - Is fascism back? Neo-fascist groups are winning hearts and votes in Europe and beyond. This hour, why we should be worrie...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:56
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In the very soil of the surrounding mountains of Tucson and within the city boundaries lays an age-old history of this local tribe and this story i...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 36:27
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Today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota honors International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday, January 27, with the first half of a two-part...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2018
  • Length: 30:12
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In 1962, two men managed to escape the one prison in America that was supposed to be inescapable. They were never found. More than 50 years later, ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 25:43
  • Purchases: 1
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HOUR ONE: "Renunciation" - January is the season of diets and cleanses. Why do we feel compelled to give up our pleasures? HOUR TWO: "Owning The ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
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HOUR ONE: More and more power is getting consolidated in the hands of a few. If capitalism is broken, what's next? HOUR TWO: Why does an empire c...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Caption: Tom Sancton
Writer and musician Tom Sancton entered his teens in the early 1960s playing clarinet on stage and on the streets with the veteran African-American...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 52:00
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Guiding thoughts to live by. All sorts of music and one spoken word (Martin Luther King Jr).

  • Added: Nov 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:58:46
Caption: Geoffrey Brock
In part two of this interview with husband and wife writers, poet Geoffrey Brock and novelist Padma Viswanathan, the couple discusses their shared ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Should we deface or remove artifacts based on political or religious beliefs of the day? Destroy statues or remnants of societies how may not belie...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2017
  • Length: 04:56
Caption: Michael Hirsh tells his story of being an Army Combat Correspondent in Vietnam.
Punta Gorda resident and WGCU reporter Michael Hirsh shares a first-hand account of his Vietnam War experiences, including audio recordings he made...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Jamie Harrison discusses her new historical novel, The Widow Nash. She also reads passages from the book.

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KSJD


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4