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This week on the show: Fukushima 10 years on -
Fukushima in Japan, March 11, 2011. An earthquake, a tsunami and three nuclear meltdowns. Much ...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Mar 12, 2021
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Coronavirus? Don't panic! -
So far, the COVID-19 virus has infected about 200,000 people worldwide. To help contain t...
- Added: Mar 20, 2020
- Length: 30:00
World in Progress: Picking up the pieces -
In this week's show: As more than one million people are leaving their homes in the US to escape Hurr...
- Added: Sep 12, 2018
- Length: 30:00
On this week's show: Disability and Disaster - making emergency plans inclusive.
When disasters strike, people with disabilities are even more ...
- Added: Jul 18, 2018
- Length: 30:00
There have been quite a few dramatic films on the theme of the death penalty, most of them making an eloquent case against it, and some of them rea...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 03:26
More than 30 snowmobilers and fishermen have died after breaking through lake ice in the northeast and Great Lakes region this winter. The toll wou...
Bought by WBFO, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Mar 10, 2017
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 6
In part two of a series on fatalities associated with thin ice this winter, we hear the story of two men who disappeared one night after taking a l...
Bought by WCPN, WRVO Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO
- Added: Mar 10, 2017
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 5
United 173 crashed six miles short of the runway at Portland, Oregon. It had run out of fuel. Ten people were killed. How could that happen?
- Added: Aug 07, 2015
- Length: 08:42
New Orleans is a weather town. As hurricane season begins, hear the most emotional federal weather bulletin ever written. Plus, more on how the Nat...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Jun 01, 2015
- Length: 17:53
- Purchases: 1
The US mainland hadn't been attacked since the War of 1812 until a summer evening during 1942. And when Battery Russell on the Oregon coast was sh...
- Added: Nov 08, 2014
- Length: 15:47
- Purchases: 2
They’re called disease detectives – the nation’s medical eyes and ears on the lookout for disease outbreaks and bioterror attacks. They’re the Epid...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Aug 25, 2014
- Length: 09:04
- Purchases: 3
When we think of the Arab Spring, the countries Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Tunisia come to mind. But what about Morocco? Elliana Bisgaard-Church ha...
- Added: Dec 11, 2012
- Length: 07:17
Mike Daisey has admitted to fabricating parts of his story on Foxconn for "This American Life." But, perhaps partly due to the attention his story ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2012
- Length: 02:02
Talking with Dan Hoyle, theatrical journalist and creator of 'Tings Dey Happen,' currently in its extended sold-out engagement in San Francisco.
- Added: Mar 23, 2007
- Length: 11:56
