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Workshops Bring Activists from Standing Rock to Bloomington
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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During Friday’s “Inaugurate the Revolution” event in downtown Bloomington, residents packed into the Monroe County Public Library to hear from Nati...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 08:05
“Civil Streets” Project Holds Community Conversation
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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In August, Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton announced an initiative to address complaints and issues surrounding safety and civility in downtown Blo...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2016
  • Length: 07:18
Brightening the Shadows of Dementia
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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As we approach the shortest days of the year, we take a longing look at the therapeutic aspects of daylight. One researcher found that light therap...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2016
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 5: In and out of the biggest mental health facility in Los Angeles
From: KCRW's Independent Producer Project
Series: Off The Block
Caption: LePriest Valentine, Credit: George Lavender
Meet LePriest Valentine, who kept winding up in the only sanctuary he could find after getting out of jail: Skid Row.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, PRX Remix, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 4
How to Spoil a Historic Town
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors discuss whether they should approve a Dollar General box store in the heart of Georgetown's historic dist...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:44:41
The Sharing Economy? (Short)
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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In this first episode of Upstream, a radio documentary series, we look at the darker side of the "sharing economy" and explore the conditions that ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 14:59
  • Purchases: 1
EP 1 — The Sharing Economy?
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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In this first episode of Upstream, a radio documentary series, we look at the darker side of the "sharing economy" and explore the conditions that ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: Feb 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:44
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 8: Return to Ixtoc
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: PhD students Adriana Gaytán-Caballero and Travis Washburn collect tiny animals from a sediment sample taken at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
For the first time in 35 years, Mexican and American scientists are working together to study the Ixtoc 1 spill, a massive oil blowout that happene...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 09:03
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 7: The Gulf's Big Blowouts
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Through an alley in the old section of Ciudad del Carmen, dozens of ships serving the oil industry are visible just offshore.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill happened just a few years ago. But it might be possible to predict its impact on the Gulf years into the future by ...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 08:08
Sleepy City 01: Marijuana Borderlands
From: Liz McArthur
Series: Sleepy City Podcast
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Marijuana dispensaries in Victoria, BC occupy legal borderlands. Their very existence is contrary to the law of the land, but the law isn't crackin...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 27:51
Teaching Teachers
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Teachers in Chicago doing "lesson study," a teacher improvement practice borrowed from Japan., Credit: Emily Hanford
This documentary what it would take to improve American teaching on a wide scale. We meet researchers who are trying to understand what makes teach...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Prairie Public, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Wildlandfire
From: Whitney Henry-Lester
Caption: The view from Stehekin
Recorded on an iphone while on vacation 2 miles away from a wildfire. Recorded for KCRW's 24 Hour Radio Race.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
A Matter of Seconds: A Look Back At The Year Since John Crawford III Was Killed
From: WYSO
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A look at the last year in Yellow Springs, Beavercreek and Dayton, Ohio, where hundreds of people joined protests demanding justice for John Crawfo...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
The Future of Coal
From: The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment
Caption: A coal terminal in Eastern Kentucky., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier
Can the Appalachian Mountains recover from centuries of mining? What will happen to the thousands of coal miners projected to lose their jobs in th...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1
Avenues for Homeless Youth
From: KFAI Minneapolis
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On any given night in Minnesota, more than 4,000 youth and young adults are homeless and on their own. Avenues for Homeless Youth is a safe place t...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 05:29
In Kentucky, a Prairie Made by Coal
From: Reid Frazier
Caption: Up to a million acres of strip-mined land have been de-forested., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier
More than a million acres of strip-mined land—an area the size of Rhode Island—are now deforested in Appalachia.

Bought by WMMT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 18: 695BGK
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men. It ...

Bought by XRAY.fm and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2015
  • Length: 21:41
  • Purchases: 2
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
From: Anna Hamilton
Series: Watershed
Caption: Fossilized coral lies under foot in the pine rockland ecosystem., Credit: Anna Hamilton
In Florida's Miami-Dade County, tensions are mounting over a fragment of endangered pine rockland.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 13:31
Interrogators Without Pliers
From: Matt Thompson
Caption: Hanns Scharff "Master Interrogator" of the Luftwaffe, Credit: Scharff Estate
Why torture doesn't work. How to trick the enemy into revealing secrets. Lessons from the Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe. The British Poli...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 27:31
  • Purchases: 2
Life of the Law #46 – One Conjugal Visit
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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How long would your relationship last without a kiss or more than a kiss In America, only three states allow prisoners and their spouses or domesti...

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 17:48
  • Purchases: 2
At the Crossroads, Part 1: A Tale of Two Epidemics
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Caption: Rapid screening test for hepatitis C infection, Credit: Kristin Gourlay
Baby boomers make up the majority of the estimated five million people who have hepatitis C. Most caught the disease – from sharing needles, or a b...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Nov 14, 2014
  • Length: 07:55
  • Purchases: 1
When Oregon's Fort Stevens was shelled during WWII, Why didn't They Fire Back?
From: Ron Johnson
Series: Because It Matters
Caption: The 10-inch guns at Battery Russell that weren't fired.
The US mainland hadn't been attacked since the War of 1812 until a summer evening during 1942. And when Battery Russell on the Oregon coast was sh...

Bought by WSLR and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 08, 2014
  • Length: 15:47
  • Purchases: 2
NaNoWriMo
From: David Berner
Caption: Fifty-thousand words in a month. How's it going?, Credit: National Novel Writing Month Organizatoin
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 2
Blowing the Whistle on a Poisoned Marsh
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Felix Smith, Credit: Kerry Klein
Kesterson Wildlife Refuge had a little known problem back in 1982: selenium contamination was leading to birth defects and death in fish and birds....

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 16:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Making of the Disease Detectives, Or the Case of the Nutty Dish
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: Disease Detective Badge, Credit: CDC
They’re called disease detectives – the nation’s medical eyes and ears on the lookout for disease outbreaks and bioterror attacks. They’re the Epid...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 09:04
  • Purchases: 3