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Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Does the radiation emitted by our cell phones harm us? A study that found cell phone radiation can cause changes to our cells. -Expanding the don...

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, KVSC, KISU, KRZA and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 15
International Tiger Day
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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This week marks International Tiger Day. And they certainly need one.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Indian summer
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy compares our current heat wave to a typical “Indian Summer.”

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Greatest Experiment
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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India has a new government. But when all the sound and fury end, the real work of democracy begins in this, the greatest democratic experiment in t...

  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Minnesota Native News: We Are Still Here
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
Caption: The crowd listens as the American Indian Month kick off event begins., Credit: Melissa Townsend
It’s American Indian Month in Minnesota! This week on Minnesota Native News we take you to the kick off event in Minneapolis and we hear about the...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KVSC, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KMSU and more


  • Added: May 08, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 11
Our Walmart (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Walmart claims to provide employment and low prices, but does it do so at the social cost of low wages, anti-union activity and squeezing supplier...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WRGY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
The Ghosts of Satire
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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When people get spooked, even ghosts can disappear.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
The Human Ecosystem (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Sudden meat allergy is real and it’s caused by tick bites. The latest research shows a link between the allergy and heart disease. -CRISPR gene-...

Bought by WCNY, 'The Sea', KKRN, KMUN, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
Immigration Stories (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Immigrants to the United States share their personal stories of how they journeyed from Central and South America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, a...

Bought by WCPN, KXCV, WGZS, WNMU-FM, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2019
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Immigration Stories (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Immigrants to the United States share their personal stories of how they journeyed from Central and South America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, ...

Bought by WYAP, RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, WCNY, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2019
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 17
Immigration Stories (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Immigrants to the United States share their personal stories of how they journeyed from Central and South America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, a...

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


  • Added: Jan 24, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Ep. 1 Brother, Can You Spare Some Peace of Mind?
From: Katie Ross
Series: Peace of Mind w/ Bhi Bhiman
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In the first episode of Peace of Mind, we’re talking about fear and its power to shape our view of the world. Our guests are author Dave Eggers, Sn...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:11
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
The 2018 Musician Memorial Special
From: Paul Ingles
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The 2018 MUSICIAN MEMORIAL SPECIAL honoring Aretha Franklin, Tony Joe White, Dolores O'Riordan, Roy Hargrove, Mac Miller, Roy Clark, Marty Balin an...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRGY, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 30
Spirituality in Millennials (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-"Spiritual but not religious" is an increasingly popular tagline for the millennial generation. The millennial approach to spirituality is more ab...

Bought by WCNY, KUHF, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 10
Brand Survival in the Trump Era (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-With the country deeply divided, brands whose livelihoods depend on appealing to the entire population companies can't afford to take sides and mo...

Bought by WJCT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WFHB, KRDP and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Resistance: The Ballot and The Bullhorn
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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From no, I won't to yes, we will. It’s official, over a hundred women, more women than ever, were voted into Congress including New Mexico’s Deb Ha...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Nov 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2: How Puerto Ricans are restoring power to the people through Mutual Aid
From: Tom Llewellyn
Series: The Response
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After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, a group of activists formed a community kitchen to help feed those in need. That community ki...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Ganesh doesn't care
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The God Ganesh at a temple in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
The Fort Bend county Republican party in Texas tried to appropriate Ganesh and discovered that you can’t lasso an elephant so easily.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Minnesota Native News: Decisions Pending on Minneapolis Homeless Encampment
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
Caption: Joy Friedman with MIWRC hands out snacks to those gathered in the tent camp., Credit: Melissa Townsend
This week reporter Melissa Townsend has the latest on a homeless tent camp in Minneapolis. There are roughly 300 people - mostly Native - in the ca...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KMSU, KSRQ, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Right to Dissent (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-What happens when we push back against injustice? When we stand up for what we think is right? Does the Constitution protect us? All of us? From t...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 12
Love Canal, 40 years later
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Children protest at Love Canal, Credit: Center for Health, Environment & Justice
This week marked the 40th anniversary of the federal emergency declaration at Love Canal, the New York neighborhood endanger by industrial pollutio...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 3
Music That Mends (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Former jail inmates find redemption in writing about the traps and turning points on their paths to imprisonment. David Coogan, editor of the coll...

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, WSGE, WVAS, KRDP and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 10
Honor Flight: Recognizing our War Heroes
From: Stephen Grant
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Most World War II veterans didn’t receive accolades or experience the infamous New York City ticker-tape parade most Americans are familiar with in...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 23, 2018
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 1
Blending Families (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-More than a hundred years ago, a small group of Russian Mennonites went looking for Christ in Central Asia. They didn’t find him, but they did fin...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WLPR , WTJU and more


  • Added: Jun 21, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11

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