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Baseball Radio
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from the other end of a radio. Baseball season is here.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
An Indian Train Story
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Approaching train at sunset in India. , Credit: Sandip Roy
In the wake of the terrible train accident in eastern India Sandip remembers a gentler kind of train travel in India.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
#1075 Bullet train boondoggle
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Boon or boondoggle update on California bullet trains news cast

  • Added: May 20, 2023
  • Length: 05:23
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 13
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two conversations of sorts about Ghost Town(ing).

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


  • Added: Sep 09, 2022
  • Length: 50:52
  • Purchases: 2
565: Jazz Migrations / 566: Finding Your Voice, 3/6/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Jazz Migrations' - Jazz wasn't just born in America. There's an alternative history — a story of colonial empires, grassroots revolution...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:58
My Big Fat Corona Wedding
From: Israel Story
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Long before Anthony Fauci became a household name, and we began peppering our speech with terms like “herd immunity” and “flattening the curve,” Mi...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 30:53
MS-13 and El Salvador's World of Violence
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we revisit and update a program we recorded in January about the origins of El Salvador’s bloody gang war with journalist William ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Travel's New Normal
From: World Footprints LLC
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When travel writing is your profession, adjusting to a new normal of not traveling can be tough and even downright weird. Hear what this new norma...

  • Added: May 22, 2020
  • Length: 26:10
Battlefield Earth
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Well you'll never guess who joined us all the way from Whitesburg, Kentucky, to talk about the particular desert landscape of SE New Mexico and Eas...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Invisible Friend
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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When times are strange, shall we gather in the desert? Well that depends. It depends if you're bringing the Invisible Friend.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
"Walking These (Impeachment) Articles Back Home.." For The Great American Wrongbook
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Taking my time..., Credit: Susan Cook"
As Nancy Pelosi gets ready to hand-deliver the Articles of Impeachment to Mitch McConnell in Kentucky at his home when she gets there from her home...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:51
My Grandmother's Legacy
From: Saadia Khan
Series: Immigrantly
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Saadia Khan talks to Lisa Genn. Lisa was born in Russia, she and her parents left Moscow in December 1989 on the verge of the collapse of the Sovie...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2019
  • Length: 41:05
An Estimate of the Situation
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Bloodshed on the desert highway.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 16, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interstellar Visitations
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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If Oumuamua is a "scout," then for what cosmic army? And other dealings with strange things in the skies.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
486-Martian Storms
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In a few weeks ,as Earth and Mars moved closer together, a dust storm engulfed most of the red planet making it impossible to see its surface featu...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, and WLPR


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
Hot lava salt
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip Roy in Hawai'i
Hot lava™. This is a smoky, spicy, garlic salt. But now when I look at my Hot Lava garlic salt I feel a pang.

  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Justin Bachman Chooses to 'Live Loud' and Teach Others About Tolerance
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: Justin poses with the tattoo that you got for his twentieth birthday, representing the cross country bib that was taken away from him in 2010., Credit: (c) Janel Semonasky, 2017
Justin Bachman has spent his whole life being different. After being diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome, Bachman chose to teach others about tolera...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAER Syracuse, NY, and WNYO


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 3
Minnesota Native News: Native American Church's TSA Lawsuit
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News Featured Stories
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This week on Minnesota Native News, we hear about Native American Church’s lawsuit against the TSA and how it resulted in better training for scree...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 1
Great Lakes islands aim to help each other
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Downtown Put-In-Bay, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
Representatives from 12 Great Lakes islands attended a first-of-its-kind summit this week. They talked about building a coalition to address the u...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WOSU, WKSU, WXXI Rochester, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: :57
  • Purchases: 8
Toronto Islands reopen after Lake Ontario flooding
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Sandbags line the shore of Ward's Island, on of the Toronto Islands overlooking the city., Credit: Veronica Volk
For a lot of people and business around Lake Ontario, flooding put summer on hold. Now that the water is going down, businesses are coming back, in...

Bought by WCPN, WRVO Public Media, and WBFO


  • Added: Jul 31, 2017
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 3
What's it like to live in a Lake Erie lighthouse? Bring water.
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Lighthouse, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
Sheila Consaul purchased the Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light in 2011 – and since then, she’s renovated and refurbished her unique summer home.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WLPR , WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WKSU and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 7
Michigan town raises money online to clear harbor
From: Great Lakes Today
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With its harbor closed because of silt and other sediment -- and no help in sight from the federal government -- the town of Leland found an unusua...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, and WBFO


  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 4
Air India to the rescue?
From: KALW
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Air India’s reputation is of a sort of futzy dowager, very uncool. Even its mascot a Maharajah in a red coat and turban with a pointy mustache see...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
USA: The Beacon of Immigration
From: Brooklyn College Radio
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Producer Claudio Martino explores migration and the American dream.

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 08:34
  • Purchases: 1
343-Mars Window
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The path to Mars will be very busy in 2020.

Bought by KENW, KKRN, WLPR , WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5