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Sonnet for the Dead Protester: In Memoriam Rachel Corrie
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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Remembering another Non-violent Protester who died.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:05
  • Purchases: 1
240906: THINK: Cynicism Won't Protect You from Getting Hurt, 9/6/2024
From: KERA
Series: Think
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FRIDAY, 9/6 Cynicism may be useful as a defense mechanism, but it rarely accomplishes anything. Krys Boyd talks with a psychologist about why a lit...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2024
  • Length: 58:53
Ecuador’s Expensive War Against the Narcos
From: Mateo Schimpf
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The intimate profile of a President struggling to keep his grip on power.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
IE: Inside Europe, 8/9/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Riots, race, and a reckoning…days of violence rock the UK Ukraine’s Will to Win at the Olympics And the dangers posed by Russia’s ghost fleet.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
The USS Eisenhower's recent mission in the Red Sea previewed the future of naval warfare
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: USS Eisenhower Captain Chis Hill said the Red Sea deployment was a learning experience, as the carrier battled drones, unmanned underwater vehicles, and other threats., Credit: Steve Walsh / American Homefront
The aircraft carrier's deployment demonstrated the growing threat of enemy drones, and it spotlighted the role of social media propaganda in warfare.

Bought by KRPS, KUT, WRFA-LP, KPBS, Texas Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2024
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 6
IE: Inside Europe, 8/2/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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France steps up Olympics' security after the sabotage attacks on the high-speed rail network. Paris basks in Olympic glory - our correspondent at t...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
A Changed America
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A viral meme by Dr. Abhay Dandekar, a South American doctor and podcaster.
The US presidential election is playing out in India as a big fight between the two southern states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
801-Jacqui’s PHA
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Astronaut on an Asteroid , Credit: NASA (Advanced Concepts Program)
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when sh...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
IE: Inside Europe, 5/31/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Elections 101: with just one week to go before EU Parliament elections, DW’s Jack Parrock tells you all you need to know Breaking the news: the in...

  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
IE: Inside Europe, 5/10/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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It’s Eurovision Finals week so we’ve gone all out on a Euro-Culture special! Alongside the hottest-takes from Malmo 2024, we’ll be bringing you th...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
Vets who were exposed to chemicals in the Panama Canal Zone want to be included in the PACT Act
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Steven Price served in the Army in the Panama Canal Zone. He says he was exposed to Agent Orange, DDT, and other toxins. He later developed chronic B-cell leukemia., Credit: Courtesy Steven Price
People who served in the Canal Zone were left out of a law that made it easier to get care and benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Bought by WRFA-LP, KTEP, and WHRV


  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 3
Which Came First?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: An example of the classic 'butter chicken', Credit: Photo by Joe mon bkk, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
A new food fight has erupted in India. And it’s about one of the most famous dishes to come out of India, one that every other Indian restaurant in...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Sonnet for What Will Be Well
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: 'shipwrecked, lost everything, all's well...", Credit: Edgar Cook
Poems are solace in times of not knowing. Today, a Sonnet for What Will Be Well. "There are events that narrowly avoid crossing our paths, eve...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 1
IE: Inside Europe, 3/29/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Will Putin use the Moscow theatre attack to further tighten his grip? What if a pro-Western candidate wins Slovakia's presidential election... And ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
The U.S. military is going to Gaza, hoping to deliver food from a football-field-sized floating dock
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Soldiers and family members await the departure of the James A. Loux, an Army watercraft, from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, March 12. It's among several Army and Navy vessels headed to the Mediterranean Sea for a Gaza relief effort., Credit: Steve Walsh / American Homefront
The mobile dock can deliver up to two million meals a day, but key questions about the mission remain unanswered.

Bought by WRFA-LP, KUT, KRPS, and WHRV


  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 4
War Diaries: From Kyiv to Tripoli
From: Mateo Schimpf
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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
Self Help Me!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Self-help books promise a secret formula to individual success and Jay Shetty is just the latest Dale Carnegie to do so. But, even after the Guardi...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
787-Far Out
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg
In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

Bought by KCHW, KRWG, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
786-Comet 31
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Enke, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Looking for the Wounded Deer: Doing Good in the Face of Culturally Sanctioned Aggression
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A Registered Maine Guide I know searched for a wounded deer - wounded but not felled- he still seeking to do good for evil - as it is perceived by ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 04:50
When the Press Becomes A Casualty of War
From: Mateo Schimpf
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The dangers of conflict reporting past and present

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Maldives in Hot Water
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a beach in Lakshadweep, Credit: Twitter account of Narendra Modi @NarendraModi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's images of the Indian islands of Lakshadweep triggered a social media spat with the Maldives.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
From Bethlehem to Kyiv: A Prayer for Peace at Christmas
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How do celebrations change during war?

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
A World in Turmoil: 2023's Defining Moments
From: Mateo Schimpf
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That's a wrap.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, KICI Iowa City, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
777-Psyche Bound
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Psyche Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
The NASA Psyche Spacecraft will use a multispectral imager, gamma and neutron spectrometers, and other instruments to map, measure, and characteriz...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9

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