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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
Faith Leaders Organizing for Racial Justice and Peaceful Communities
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Three people who are engaged in one part of the community organizing efforts going on around the country to secure racial equity. All three share i...

Bought by KUHF, WUFT, KUOW, and WXDU


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Black History Matters: Stereotype Threat
From: c j armentano
Series: Black History Matters
Caption: Emmett Till and mother Mamie
Professors Marva Lewis and Marvin Dunn discuss "stereotype threat" and its effect on African Americans sense of safety when interacting with police...

Bought by WBST, RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 4
Women's Voices From Dayton Correctional Institution
From: WYSO
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In 2011 the Dayton Correctional Institution became the third women’s prison in Ohio, when it was changed from a 500-bed male facility to a women’s ...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:04
GE and the Art of Brand Reinvention
From: PJA Advertising + Marketing
Series: The Unconventionals Season 5
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In this episode, host Mike O’Toole sits down with Linda Boff, GE’s Chief Marketing Officer, about the recent changes GE has undergone. They discuss...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 35:52
Muhammad Ali As Conscientious Objector
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
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In this excerpt from the Peace Talks Radio series, learn about the history of Conscientious Objectors in the U.S. and the high profile role that th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRGY


  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Bow To Prince: An Appreciation of The Artist (Hour 2)
From: Paul Ingles
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Music host Paul Ingles continues his appreciation of Prince, the legendary musician who died April 21, 2016 at the age of 57. NPR Music's Ann Powe...

Bought by WUTC, Spokane Public Radio, WJAB, KZYX, WMNF and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2016
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 7
Episode 37: Hastings
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 2010, an eighth-grader brought a loaded gun to a middle school in Hastings, Minnesota. We speak with two students and the principal about the mi...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 19:06
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 36: Perfect Specimen
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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The 500-year-old Treaty Oak in Austin, Texas was once called “the most perfect specimen of a North American tree.” But in 1989, Austin’s city fores...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 22:17
  • 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
Life of the Law Episode #68: Thorpe's Body
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The body of legendary Native American athlete Jim Thorpe rests in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania...but some members of his family say he should be dug up...

Bought by KPIK-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 20, 2015
  • Length: 24:46
  • Purchases: 2
Infectious Diseases: What factors are at play during disease outbreaks?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this pilot episode of the World Affairs podcast we are looking at diseases: how they are spread, how they are contained, how they are cured. We ...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 12:42
Life of the Law Episode #59: The Trauma Room
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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When prisoners act out, they get put in solitary confinement-- the penal version of 'go to your room and think about what you've done.' But for the...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 28, 2015
  • Length: 24:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Man who Named 'Earth Day'
From: Reid Frazier
Caption: Julian Koenig, who coined 'Earth Day'., Credit: Photo Courtesy of Sarah Koenig
Who came up with the name 'Earth Day'? It turns out, a legendary Madison Avenue ad man named Julian Koenig. He was responsible for some of the most...

Bought by KMXT, WSLR, KUOW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 7
Prison fellowship aids in recovery
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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We all have people in our lives who exist on the periphery of our everyday routines--people like the bus driver who takes us to work, or the cashie...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 1
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
Small Town Police
From: KDNK
Series: Andy Zanca Youth Empowerment Program
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Get to know what it's like being a police officer in the small town of Aspen, Colorado.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 16:13
The State of Faith
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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What is in the future for the Catholic Church and the shrinking parish of Jackman, Maine? Adapting to reality.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 3
The Python Challenge
From: casey schelhorn
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Two first time radio producers travel to the Everglades intending to tell the story of a state-sanctioned Python hunt, but end up telling an altoge...

Bought by KGOU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 09, 2013
  • Length: 15:34
  • Purchases: 2
The Farewell Season of Rollerdome
From: Radio K
Caption: Lisa Smith and Tad Wagner skate at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, MN., Credit: Noel Clark
Built in 1982, the Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome has seen it’s share of sporting events. Baseball, football, soccer. But off the field, a community o...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
Grit, Luck and Money: Preparing Kids for College and Getting Them Through
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: YES Prep students at an informational session at the University of Oklahoma. YES Prep is a charter school network that serves a low-income population in Houston, Tex. and focuses on getting all of its students accepted into 4-year colleges. , Credit: YES Prep Public Schools
Why are so many low-income students quitting college, and what leads a few to beat the odds and make it through? (8/30/2012)

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KERA, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Internet in Sepia
From: Helena de Groot
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The internet through the eyes of an inhabitant of the past... Music by my friend pq (You'll never Find us Here) and Sol Rezza on freemusicarchive.org

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  • Added: May 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 1
Ban the Box! The Campaign for Post-Prison Employment
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Chec...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Gang Injunctions Arrive in London
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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It’s called a gang injunction. A controversial crime tool strategy that some people say should be illegal, and others say is a necessary last reso...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 13:36
Wade: Blow from bale of hay
From: Helen Murphy-Robinson
Series: Agriculture Safety StoryCorps
Caption: Wade Wipperling
Wade Wipperling tells how a stack of unstable bales of hay fell on his head, breaking his neck.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Sep 28, 2011
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1