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Presidential First Years (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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It’s been one year since the remarkable inauguration of President Donald Trump, and politicians and pundits across the country are being asked to t...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KENW, and WOUB


  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 3
In the Department Of Poetic Justice: "I Want a Leak Just Like the Leak that Richard Nixon Had..."
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "I don't hate the press, none of them. As a matter of fact, I feel sorry for them.", Credit: cartoon by Paul Szep, Boston Globe, 7/18/1974
Drawing from The Great American Wrongbook, in the Department of Poetic Justice, which could be sung to "I want a Girl Just Like the Girl..."

  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:13
Population Growth and Peace
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Host Suzanne Kryder hosts a program that considers the impact of population growth on peace and rates of conflict, personally and globally. John S...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KMUN, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Dig Deep on Journalism part one: History of Journalism
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Dig Deep
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This month our Dig Deep topic is on Journalism. Minnesota Brown's Aaron Brown and Strong Town's Chuck Marohn discuss the history of journalism in ...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 20:24
Political Junkie Fall 2017 Fundraiser Show
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie Fundraising Materials
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Fundraising hour for stations carrying the Ken Rudin's Political Junkie weekly program. This show highlights the Political Junkie program's focus o...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2017
  • Length: 38:37
  • Purchases: 2
Ken Rudin General Fundraiser Spots and Handoffs
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie Fundraising Materials
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Standalone fundraiser spots and handoffs for use by stations carrying the Ken Rudin's Political Junkie weekly program, or who regularly feature Ken...

Bought by WHQR and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2017
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 2
Native Roots Radio "I'm Awake"
From: Robert Pilot
Series: Native Roots Radio I'm Awake
Caption: Host Robert Pilot, Credit: pickett
The Native show premiered on AM950 on January 7th 2017. Plays on Saturdays on AM950 at 2pm central time

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 52:30
  • Purchases: 1
Asylum seekers follow Canadian path once used by Underground Railroad
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Bridge crossing in Niagara Falls NY location where Harriet Tubman helped runaway slaves escape to Canada. , Credit: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Bridge crossing in Niagara Falls NY location where Harriet Tubman helped runaway slaves escape to Canada.
Thousands of asylum seekers in the US are heading to Canada, because of the hostile political climate here. And they're taking routes along the Gre...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCPN, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 6
102-year-old Coast Guard veteran honored
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Mabel Johnson (right) and daughter Betty, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
75 years ago, the SPARS were created to take the job of thousands of Coast Guardsmen who had to leave their posts to fight in World War II. 102-ye...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WOSU, WCPN, and WBFO


  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:11
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 90: The Past and Future of the Constitution
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Is the U.S. Constitution about to change? Professor David Marcus lays out why some states are calling for a constitutional convention to introduce ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2017
  • Length: 30:06
Recalling Past Struggles
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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his week is the first part of our interview with Mark Cook. Mark served 24 years in prison for his participation in a bank robbery and jail break a...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
Orchestra travels along Erie Canal to mark 200th anniversary
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Albany Symphony Orchestra musicians Jamecyn Morey and Mitsuko Suzuki at Lock E-2 in Waterford, N.Y. , Credit: Gary David Gold
The Albany Symphony is holding a series of concerts in towns along the Erie Canal, to mark the beginning of construction in July, 1817.

Bought by WCMU Michigan, WCPN, North Country Public Radio, and WBFO


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 4
The Death Penalty
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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The death penalty is the barest, most explicit aspect of state violence. Relatively few people are sentenced to death, and even fewer are actively,...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:58
Beer tanks float down Erie Canal
From: Great Lakes Today
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In the 200 years since ground was broken on the Erie Canal, it has evolved from means of transportation and mode of industrial shipping -- to a pla...

Bought by WCPN, WRVO Public Media, WCMU Michigan, North Country Public Radio, and WBFO


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 5
Brown County Makes Final Round in Development Initiative
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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The Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs last week named Brown County as a finalist in its Hometown Collaboration Initiative.

  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 08:20
The Fix: Chapter 1 – The History You Never Heard
From: The GroundTruth Project
Series: The Fix: Treating New York's Opioid Crisis
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The South Bronx, New York's poorest neighborhood, has been dealing with a deadly heroin epidemic for generations. We look at the origins of the epi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Radio Catskill


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 17:32
  • Purchases: 2
War, What Is It Good For? (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Bitwa pod Grunwaldem, Credit: Jan Matejko
If we can't end war, what can we learn from the fight? We look at 3 stories of conflict involving mercenaries, radicalized Union generals and the o...

Bought by WCNY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 10
Birthing the Newest Political Hypocrites- The Two 1/2 Minute Conspiracy Theory
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Non-hypocrites stay true to intentions, Credit: Susan Cook
This week the United States Senate voted to overrule the intention of the Founding Fathers and disregard the process that give minority membership ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:08
A New Era For the ERA
From: Nahanni Rous
Series: Can We Talk?
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In March 2017, Nevada became the 36th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment-- three and a half decades after the ratification deadline expired...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 22:21
RDD: The Lake and the Doctor (part 2)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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In a Rough Draft Diaries first, we're entering the world of science by learning about the past (and present) struggles of Lake Erie with the former...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 06:06
MN90: The Governor who Packed a Punch
From: Ampers
Series: MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds
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John Lind lost a hand in a boyhood farming accident. But that didn’t keep the Minnesota governor from delivering knockouts, says Britt Aamodt.

Bought by KVSC, WTIP, KSRQ, KVSC, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 20
Suckerpunch
From: Colin Wright
Series: Let's Know Things
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This week we talk about the Harlem Hammer, COINTELPRO, and punching nazis.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 42:03
Protests
From: Colin Wright
Series: Let's Know Things
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This week we discuss protests in several different contexts.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 52:53
Loot & Morality
From: Colin Wright
Series: Let's Know Things
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This week we talk about the German kunstschutz unit, the Venus de Milo, and slavery reparations.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 44:53
Political Junkie Spring 2017 Fundraiser Show
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie Fundraising Materials
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Fundraising hour for stations carrying the Ken Rudin's Political Junkie weekly program. This show highlights the breadth of political conversations...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, and WHQR


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 38:25
  • Purchases: 3

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