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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
Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people?
- Added: May 17, 2022
- Length: 18:14
In early January, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2022
- Length: 22:47
Co-host Ray Suarez explores one of the underlying tensions that fuels the Israeli-Palestinian crisis by focusing on a single house in East Jerusale...
Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Season 1, Episode 14
Here’s what it’s like when you’re released from prison. You’re given a $20 debit card and a bus ride home. You need housing, ...
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 09:21
Season 1, Episode 11
The legal system operates very differently for juveniles and for adults. Yet the age at which a person is considered an adult...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 09:20
- Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 7
Congregants at a New Orleans synagogue study and educate themselves about mass incarceration and form bonds with formerly inca...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 08:16
- Purchases: 1
What’s changed because of the pandemic? And how is it different for different people? In this first episode of the Felixity podcast, I talk to a fe...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 21, 2020
- Length: 18:01
- Purchases: 1
Generation Z has been called a lot of things: The internet generation. The Instagram generation. And as some say: the activist generation. Claire H...
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 08:29
Texans across the state and across the political divide agree: public school funding needs fixing. What that means exactly, however, is tricky. In ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 41:58
David Hecht reports on the condition of Sierra Leone's diamond trade
- Added: May 08, 2018
- Length: 05:07
There is no chocolate industry without Africa. African cocoa is bountiful and painful, cyclical and dynamic. In this episode, we get two snapshots ...
- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: 42:08
Scientists at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, are leading a new experiment that will help uncover the effects of oil spills on fis...
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 08:20
The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 09:50
Area Voices producer Katie Carter rode along on a bus from Bemidji full of women and girls headed to the Women's March in St. Paul. This segment o...
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 18:11
Building a wall between the United States and Mexico was a signature plank of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. His win in November is bringing...
- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 01:01:42
Wise County was once one of the largest apple growing areas in Virginia, but that industry declined as many orchard lands were mined. The Lawson f...
- Added: Aug 05, 2016
- Length: 10:58
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
The war in Syria, now in its fifth year, has created a refugee crisis. Almost 4 million Syrians have fled the country, and another 7.6 million have...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 23:44
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
Our Desired Future is a 30 minute radio documentary designed for public radio to educate Texans on the interdependence of our groundwater, springs ...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio and KWBU
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 54:57
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
Sam Schwartz is known worldwide as Gridlock Sam, a nickname the media gave him for coining the term, Gridlock. As New York City's traffic commissio...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 30:05
