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Imagining Yoko Ono (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Yoko Ono was an accomplished and innovative artist long before she met John Lennon. - A novel by Fred D’Aguiar tells the story of a mother and dau...

Bought by WJCT, WJCU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WUGA (part of GPB), WLIW and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Gemini GEL: 50 Years and Counting
From: Donna Granata
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Gemini GEL, Graphic Editions Limited, has been contributing to the cultural fabric of American Contemporary Art for over 50 years. As they celebrat...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2016
  • Length: 05:43
NEXT Episode 3: On Foot
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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A new, regional news program from The New England News Collaborative, hosted by John Dankosky. Stories about the dangers of being a pedestrian, che...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Vermont Public


  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 49:59
  • Purchases: 2
Shipwreck from 1803 found in Lake Ontario
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: The sloop Washington went down in November 1803., Credit: Jim Kennard
An eighteenth century sloop called the Washington has been discovered off the coast of Oswego, New York.

Bought by Michigan Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, WCPN, and WBFO


  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:17
  • Purchases: 5
12,000-pound lighthouse moves to new home
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Port Clinton lighthouse moves by barge, Credit: Elizabeth Miller
Hundreds gathered Tuesday to watch the Port Clinton lighthouse make a half-mile journey down the Portage River to a new home on Lake Erie. The 120-...

Bought by WXXI Rochester and WBFO


  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 2
NEXT Episode 2: A Roof Over Your Head
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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A new, regional news program from The New England News Collaborative, hosted by John Dankosky.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Vermont Public


  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 2
More marine sanctuaries coming to Great Lakes
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Boundaries for Oswego's proposed marine sanctuary
Shipwrecks are a big draw for divers and tourists in the great lakes. Now – for the first time in 20 years -- more communities are getting help in ...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WBFO, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2016
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 5
Michigan town rebrands itself as shipwreck capital of the Great Lakes
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Passengers of the Lady Michigan look down through its glass bottom in hopes of spotting one of the area’s many shipwrecks., Credit: Veronica Volk
Alpena, Michigan used to be a bustling port on Lake Huron. But since the decline of its major industry, residents of the small town have shifted th...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, WCPN, and WBFO


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 3
Out of the Blue: 50 Years After the UT Tower Shooting
From: KUT
Caption: UT Tower, Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr. /KUT News
It’s been 50 years since the University of Texas Tower shooting – long considered the first modern mass shooting of its kind. On Aug. 1, 1966, a sn...

Bought by WVTF, KUER, Prairie Public, WBEZ, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 53:49
  • Purchases: 13
Community Forum: Confederate Flag Part One
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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The Winona Human Rights Commission and Winona State University sponsored a community forum in response to the recent displays of the Confederate Fl...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 34:07
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
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
2016 IU Summer Theater Season Preview
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Doug Storm sits down with four actors from the Actor's Equity Association for a preview of the 2016 Summer Theater Season.

  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 09:00
Tall Ships Sail on Great Lakes
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Pride of Baltimore II , Credit: Elizabeth Miller
As part of the Tall Ships Great Lakes Challenge, 9 historic vessels sailed into Fairport Harbor, Ohio on Thursday.

Bought by WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, and WBFO


  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 01:04
  • Purchases: 4
Shipwreck discovered off the coast of Lake Ontario
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A photo of the recently-discovered Royal Albert., Credit: Jim Kennard
On Wednesday, a group of New York-based underwater explorers announced they discovered a mid-nineteenth-century shipwreck that's been hiding in the...

Bought by WSKG, WCMU Michigan, WBFO, and WCPN


  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 4
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
Trump and the Politics of Paranoia
From: MIchael Goldfarb
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Donald Trump and the tradition of using fear to win elections in America

Bought by KUER and KFCF FM


  • Added: May 29, 2016
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 2
Big Fish, Small Pond; Small Fish, Big Pond: An American Conscience and a Vietnam Remembrance
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: The Moving Wall came to Maine not long ago before Memorial Day..., Credit: Susan Cook
History is written by the Big and the Small. "The Vietnam War" documentary has reminded us that. The Moving Wall, a half scale version of the smoot...

  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 07:06
RDD: Happy Birthday FM91!
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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It's FM91's 40th birthday! WGTE FM in Toledo began broadcasting May 2, 1976 and for four decades has continued to deliver the highest quality arts,...

  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 06:20
Eliza Jane Nicholson, The Small-Town Poet Who Became The First Woman Publisher Of The Picayune
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: A Tobacco Card from 1887, Credit: JOSEPH MAKKOS / NOLA DNA
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a profile of Eliza Jane Nicholson, a small town poet who became the first woman publisher of a major metrop...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 10:24
Episode 41: Open Case
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Since 1965, there’s been an unsolved murder in Houston, Texas. The main suspect managed to disappear and police were never able to find him. The ca...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2016
  • Length: 23:29
The Education of an American Journalist
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Gerald Moore
When Gerald Moore decided to try his had at journalism, his reasoning was very good. He needed a job. But what began, as a way to pay the rent beca...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 30, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Becoming Jeffersons People Part Two
From: The Thomas Jefferson Hour with Clay Jenkinson
Series: The Thomas Jefferson Hour
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Clay S. Jenkinson discusses his book: "Becoming Jefferson's People: Re-Inventing the American Republic in the Twenty-First Century" in the second o...

Bought by KPIP-LP, RadioFreePalmer, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 22:17
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Clique Presents: " Winona Disasters "
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, Winona County Historical Society Assistant Director, Jenifer Weaver will tells us about some of Winona's Disaste...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 38:28

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