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Season 1, Episode 12 - 'Partnerism' feat Dr Riane Eisler
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Partnership vs Domination society.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:08
  • Purchases: 2
Illuminating Invisible Women with Historian Carolyn Zola
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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Historian Carolyn Zola's research illuminates the lives of women hucksters of nineteenth century America.

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 26, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 2
Labor Day Special - "Workin’: The Work Song in Jazz and Popular Music"
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Jazz for the Labor Day holiday, with special guest jazz historian Ted Gioia (author of the book WORK SONGS). Featured artists include Duke Ellingt...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WRGY, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 2
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two pieces about booms and busts.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 52:01
  • Purchases: 2
643: If Your Clothes Could Talk / 644: Why The Classics Matter, 12/4/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'If Your Clothes Could Talk' - Whether you know it or not, your closets are filled with personal information. Do you think about what are...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
Finntown
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn
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In the early 1900s, if you walked around Sunset Park, you might have heard Finnish being spoken on the streets. That's because the neighborhood was...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 18:31
StoryCorps Historias: Casimiro "Cas" Torres
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Casimiro “Cas” Torres reflects on how his childhood led him to incarceration at New York City’s Hart Island, where he buried the poor and unclaimed...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1
Protecting Human Rights (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Kirsten Gelsdorf has spent over 20 years working for the United Nations and other organizations in the humanitarian sector.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, WCNY, Ohm Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 10
Protecting Human Rights (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Kirsten Gelsdorf has spent over 20 years working for the United Nations and other organizations in the humanitarian sector.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, WJCT, WFHB, KRDP and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Protecting Human Rights (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Kirsten Gelsdorf has spent over 20 years working for the United Nations and other organizations in the humanitarian sector.

Bought by WCPN, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
Protecting Human Rights (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Kirsten Gelsdorf has spent over 20 years working for the United Nations and other organizations in the humanitarian sector.

Bought by WCPN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Labor Day
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Labor Day is a great opportunity for all of us to reflect on some of the memories we have from working hard, being with family, or learning somethi...

Bought by WHFR, WYPL, KTXK, WVPE, KSJE and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:52
  • Purchases: 7
New Virginians (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A traveling exhibit called New Virginians: 1619-2019 & Beyond from The Library of Virginia in Richmond features oral histories and photographs reco...

Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WMUU-LP, KXCV, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
New Virginians (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A traveling exhibit called New Virginians: 1619-2019 & Beyond from The Library of Virginia in Richmond features oral histories and photographs reco...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCT, KRDP, WYAP, WFHB and more


  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Strike Through the Mask: Labor Strikes Are Essential History
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A strikers' orchestra in the occupied Flint GM plant.
Loomis focuses on the necessity of government supporting workers’ rights for there to be any Union movement. The state has to protect the worker an...

Bought by KZYX and KMUN


  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:15
  • Purchases: 2
Bootstraps & Silver Spoons
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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New economic research reveals how difficult it is for some people to gain wealth in America, even when they do everything right.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 03:08
Karl Marx
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Why read Marx today?

Bought by KMUN, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSKQ, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 11, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Neoma Farr and Greg Yance
From: StoryCorps
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Greg Yance and Neoma Farr worked alongside each other during the Great Flood of 1993, to gird the town of Niota, Illinois from the rising waters of...

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Jul 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Edward Alden, author of "Failure to Adjust"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Alden about his book about how America got left behind in the global economy.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
The Working Tapes: Advertising Executive
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel interviews a female advertising executive in the 1970's for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and KZYX


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 3
Michael McCarthy, author of "Ashes Under Water"
From: Janelle Brown
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Michael McCarthy, author of "Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck that Shook America."

  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 30:05
Cedar Grove
From: Catherine Moore
Caption: Ye Must Be Born Again, Credit: Roger May
Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2: Ludlow and its Legacy
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events in the history of the American labor movement s...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 58:45
A Progressive Environmentalist
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cecelia Tichi
Jack London is known for his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North. But, that’s overlooking the real story. London was a reporter who made n...

Bought by KVSC, KPVL, and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Kremlin to Kremlin
From: With Good Reason
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In the 1930’s, many African-American artists and intellectuals traveled to the Soviet Union, seeking a society free of class and racism. Joseph Roa...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 03:24