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2024-03-29 Rising Temperatures, Rising Prices: How Climate Drives Inflation
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Climate change means extreme weather, shifting landscapes, and generally more instability. More and more, you can feel the impacts of climate disru...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, WGCU, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 9
240329: Rising Temperatures, Rising Prices: How Climate Drives Inflation, 3/29/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Climate change means extreme weather, shifting landscapes, and generally more instability. More and more, you can feel the impacts of climate disru...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:57
What You Might Find on Your San Francisco Ballot: Party County Central Committees
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Election Special: Voters in San Francisco registered with the Peace & Freedom, Green, Republican or Democratic parties have extra choices in the Ma...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
Making Sense of Voting on Judges in San Francisco
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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March 2024 Election Special: Why are San Francisco residents being asked to vote on County Superior Court Judges? We talk to University of San Fran...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 22:13
  • Purchases: 1
Brazen Presents: The Closer
From: PRX
Series: Brazen Presents
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This is a special edition of The Closer, a series from Project Brazen and PRX that shares the inside story of the deals that changed the world. In ...

Bought by WILL, WRKF, WLPR , RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 52:29
  • Purchases: 19
Of Course, Fortification
From: Jonathan Nellermoe
Caption: WHA75 "Walk the Talk", Field Recording, Credit: Kate, Partners in Health
An audio producer falls into step with a global advocacy campaign at the very moment it rises to call for mandatory action to fortify staple foods ...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Is The Democratic Party Too Far Left?
From: Open to Debate
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Defund the police. Abolish ICE. Redistribute the wealth. These are a few of the one-liners from the liberal wing of the Democratic party, but there...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
221223: This Year in Climate, 12/23/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves through global energy markets, destabilized international food security, and continues to kee...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
2022-12-23 This Year in Climate
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves through global energy markets, destabilized international food security, and continues to kee...

Bought by KUOW, KUAR, 90.5 WESA, WSHU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 19
The Lisa Show New Year's Special - Service, 2021 Almanac, Building Relationships, Keeping Goals
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Lisa Show
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Topic 1 - Serving in 2021 and National Geographic’s 2021 Almanac; Topic 2 - Morning Buzz - New Year Relationships; Topic 3 - Sticking to New Year’s...

Bought by KTXK and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 54:51
  • Purchases: 2
A SUDDEN LOSS - A Memorial To Lives Lost To COVID-19 (59:00 / 54:00 / 29:00/ plus optional 2nd hour)
From: Paul Ingles
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Popular public radio hosts, past and present, read short eulogies to just some of the tens of thousands lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the las...

Bought by Hawaii Public Radio, MPR News Stations, KAAD-LP, Boise State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 42
Sampler for A SUDDEN LOSS - Memorial Day Tribute to Those Lost to COVID-19
From: Paul Ingles
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NOT FOR BROADCAST: On this page is a programmers' audition sample of the program A SUDDEN LOSS which will be released for download on Wednesday, M...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KSJE, 90.5 WESA, WHRV, KWGS and more


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 15:13
  • Purchases: 8
Political Junkie 2018 Midterm Election Special (PROMO)
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin and an all-star lineup of political reporters, commentators and special guests for a full hour of analysis of the 2...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 03, 2018
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie 2016 Presidential Election Special
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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After a year-and-a-half of heated primary battles, fierce debates and explosive rhetoric, the historic presidential election of 2016 is finally com...

Bought by KUOW, Spokane Public Radio, KSUT, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
Community Forum: Confederate Flag Part One
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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The Winona Human Rights Commission and Winona State University sponsored a community forum in response to the recent displays of the Confederate Fl...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 34:07
SoundsLA - Fire Engine Sirens
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Fire engines roar through the city with their sirens warning cars to move out of the way. For most of us, these sirens are nothing more than that, ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 01:01
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2015)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Compelling and timeless moments drawn from just one of the many seasons of programs in the Peace Talks Radio series on peacemaking and non-violent ...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, and Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 3
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2015)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Compelling and timeless moments drawn from just one of the many seasons of programs in the Peace Talks Radio series on peacemaking and non-violent ...

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, and KUNM


  • Added: Dec 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Study and Practice of Nonviolent Action
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How effective have nonviolent resistance movements been to effect social and political change, compared to armed violent uprisings? This time on P...

Bought by WYSO, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 29, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Getting Out
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nationally, American prisons release more than 650,000 people into society every year. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Bos...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Boston Marathon Saudi "Suspect" Speaks
From: Amina Chaudary
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Immediately after the bombings on Marathon Monday in Boston, media reported that a Saudi man was being being questioned by authorities. Some state...

  • Added: May 22, 2013
  • Length: 19:56
The Fracking Economy
From: Civic Commons
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New methods of drilling for natural gas and oil have opened up previously unreachable resources deep below the Earth’s surface in Ohio. Depending o...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 58:44
A Sense of Belonging and Health: The Limits of Logic in Creating Well-being
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
As the Supreme Court Justices listen to lawyers try to find the legal logic in requiring people to buy health insurance, let us remember that peopl...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 06:45
Some College, No Degree: Why So Many Americans Drop Out of College, and What to Do About It
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: A student picks up new job skills at the Tennessee Technology Center in Murfreesboro, a technical school where many people who have quit college go to improve their chances in an increasingly competitive economy. , Credit: Doug Strickland
37 million Americans are college dropouts. What wlll it take to get them back? (8/25/2011)

Bought by WMUU-LP, WTIP, KWIT, and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Aug 26, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Finding Our Bootstraps: Americans Deal With Recession
From: Michigan Radio Economy Special
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How people are finding the strength and situations that get them through economic hard times.

Bought by WVTF, KGNU Community Radio, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2009
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 14