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240905: THINK: Can Cheapskates and Big Spenders Coexist?, 9/5/2024
From: KERA
Series: Think
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THURSDAY, 9/5 Can big spenders and cheapskates peacefully coexist? Krys Boyd talks with the author of “Tightwads and Spendthrifts: Navigating the M...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:53
How to Spot Misinformation
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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The ability to spot misinformation is a key skill to have in today's world. How can we tell if something is real or fake? In this episode, Brian Du...

Bought by WVTF


  • Added: Aug 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 61 - 'Quest of a Question' feat Noor Tagouri
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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World renowned journalist talks about the future of…journalism!

Bought by KZUM and WOJB


  • Added: Jul 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Youth Development Center
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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New Hampshire has sent its most troubled kids to the same juvenile detention center for more than a century. It's a place that was supposed to nurt...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2024
  • Length: 49:29
Civics 101: The Second Amendment
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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In the wake of two recent Supreme Court decisions about gun regulations, Civics 101, NHPR's show about the basics of how our democracy works, exami...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 27, 2024
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 1
Doe, A Deer, A (Sterilized) Female Deer
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: Points North
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Deer culling is common across the Midwest. Cities often hire sharpshooters or allow hunters to kill a certain number of deer. But one community in ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 18:30
They Fired on us Like Rain
From: Ife Fatunase
Series: Rights & Wrongs
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In 2023, Human Rights Watch researcher Nadia Hardman came across a letter the United Nations had sent to the government of Saudi Arabia expressi...

  • Added: May 31, 2024
  • Length: 31:13
Season 1, Episode 40 - 'Conservation Conversation' feat Joe Wilkins
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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The future of our planet is in the hands of the youth.

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 58:06
  • Purchases: 1
Is San Francisco a Sanctuary When You Don’t Have Housing?
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Increases in the number of migrants arriving in San Francisco have stress-tested the city’s shelter system, revealing the dire need for more housin...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
Unheard: The Plight of Mayans Struggling with Addiction in SF
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic led to a rise in fatal overdoses among the tens of thousands of Indigenous Mayans living in the Bay area. That...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
Forgetting the Lessons and Losses of Covid
From: KSFP
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The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 21:30
Season 1, Episode 25 - 'Try Local' feat Michael Shuman
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Why shopping local REALLY matters.

Bought by WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB


  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 3
War Diaries: From Kyiv to Tripoli
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Audio documentaries from the front lines

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Catch: Of Cod and Country
From: Rob Sachs
Caption: The Catch Logo, Credit: Foreign Policy
On this episode of The Catch hear how one of the Arctic’s most valuable fisheries—cod—is being impacted by the politics of Russia’s war in Ukraine ...

Bought by WLPR , RadioFreePalmer, KBBI Alaska, WMUU-LP, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
In a Game of Chicken with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, GOP Legislators Pass Somewhat Competitive Redistricting Maps in Effort to Avoid Truly Fair Maps
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
In a Game of Chicken with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, GOP Legislators Pass Somewhat Competitive Redistricting Maps in Effort to Avoid Truly Fair M...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Neil Harris Jr.
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 20:54
Nowhere to go: How the system failed a trafficking survivor
From: WMUK
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A look at one woman's experience with human trafficking and the systemic failures she endured while trying to get help.

Bought by WVPE and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 52:28
  • Purchases: 2
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 62
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes that include uncomfortable but necessary conversations.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 23:09
  • Purchases: 1
EP 98: Crazy-On-You Activism for Peace & Planet
From: Earth Riot Radio
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Feeling good about the activism we tried, but enough of the “rally & march & rally & march,” — WE FACE THE UNKNOWN. Gotta return to honest shock -...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
99. Neil Young: Love as the Apocalypse Rocks Us
From: Earth Riot Radio
Series: Earth Riot Radio
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The songs of the new release, Before and After, give us Love that we can use. The wars and mass extinction seem to mock the tenderness of Love, but...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
100. The Post-Religious Chxrch of the Fabulous Unknown
From: Earth Riot Radio
Series: Earth Riot Radio
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American religions like sports, the arts, corporate life and house-hold pets - leave us with a goopy kind of gradualism. Since the Earth's crisis ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Are We A Democracy Or A Republic?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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Is the US a democracy or a republic? And why do we only have two dominant political parties?

Bought by KERA, Connecticut Public (WNPR), MPR News Stations, KSKA, and Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:32
  • Purchases: 5
Gerrymandering
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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The line between fairly splitting a state into voting districts, and purposely grouping voters to give one party an advantage.

Bought by KERA, MPR News Stations, KSKA, WKSU, and Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 5
How Secure Are Our Elections?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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A wave of recent legislation across the country promised to make our elections "more secure." Where did this suspicion of our voting process come f...

Bought by KERA, WYSO, MPR News Stations, KSKA, and Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 5
Disinformation, Misinformation, and Propaganda
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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In preparation for the upcoming election, we’re going to talk about lies, manipulation, and confusion.

Bought by KERA, MPR News Stations, KSKA, WHFR, and Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 5

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