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Summer Road Construction Plans with Mike Doherty from MN DOT
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Summer Road Construction Plans with Mike Doherty from MN DOT

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 24:48
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part I): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Paul Muldoon (Princeton University)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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How does a century-old poem written in Ireland as European civil wars erupted in the aftermath of World War I still resonate in our own partisan er...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2020
  • Length: 22:36
On the Detention Centers at the Border - Vanessa in Austin
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Vanessa from Austin, Texas, talks about why she wants the detention centers at the border to be closed. She describes what she saw in the children'...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:10
Last Witness: Mission to Hiroshima
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
Caption: Second Lt. Russell Gackenbach
On August 6, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It was the first time a nuclear weapon had been used in...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
Planet P
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Sir Boss... gold rush days... Planet P and pyramids in Antarctica...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:31:50
Requiem... and time for hope
From: James Branum
Series: BSR Magazine Show
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A commentary/editorial/music mix for the US American change of Imperial Power, first aired in January 2017.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2017
  • Length: 14:59
The Working Tapes: Police Officer
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Renault Robinson was an officer in the Chicago Police Department in 1971 when he was first interviewed by radio host and oral historian Studs Terke...

Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 4
Death to Elvis
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Pledge Drive Songs, Topical Songs & Parodies
Caption: The Wine Fellers
Fitting song to play before or after basically any story that packs a good wallop.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:58
Bob Dylan, The Poet
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Bob Dylan has been singing more than 50 years. But have you ever really stopped to listen to the words?

Bought by Prairie Public, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 8
Young John Adams
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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John Adams grows up in an overseas British colony... known as Braintree, Massachusetts...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:34:05
DCI DOCUMENTARY HOUR
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
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First hand accounts from women in prison

  • Added: Sep 11, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:03
Honest Abe departs Illinois and tales of three Valentinos
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Abraham lincoln debates Stephen Douglas... and which Valentino is the real Valentine?

  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:38:59
A Student's Two Lives
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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Teachers give academic and (most importantly) life advice to students. This is the story of a teacher, Melanie Mac, who is way out of her depth in ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:48
  • Purchases: 2
What's that poking at your conscience?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Aylan and Galib Kurdi
We are inundated by a circus of gratuitous and salacious images in our media everyday, but one recent photograph has cut through the clutter.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Ghosts of Fire Island
From: Myke Dodge Weiskopf
Caption: The Invasion of the Pines on Fire Island, Credit: Mike Fisher
For most of the 20th Century, New York's Fire Island was virtually the only place on Earth where gay men and lesbians felt safe to live and to love...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and Wild Planet Radio


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 3
Anonymous and Diana
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
End of the DIal
From: Garth Mullins
Caption: Banner , Credit: Garth Mullins
Radio is dead. Or so we are told. Video was supposed to have killed the radio star. Is the internet going to finish It off? International broadcast...

Bought by KQED, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and global24radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
StoryCorps: Glenda and Larry Rike
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Glenda Rike tells her son, Larry, how his father, Aubrey Rike, came to be one of the few present when President John F. Kennedy received his last r...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, KMUD, and WTJU


  • Added: Nov 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 4
The Beat: Mike Rollin - "Summer"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mike Rollin has worked as a translator, writing instructor, and community organizer. He lives in Minneapolis. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
Sleepwalking to the Asylum
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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BackStory producer Eric Mennel and literature professor Benjamin Reiss brings us the story of Jane Rider, a sleepwalking servant girl whose case in...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 11:38
  • Purchases: 5
Acoustic Stories: Michael Goldberg - "Civility and Modern Politics"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays. In th...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:58
Kentucky Exhibits Mark Civil War Sequicentennial
From: Louisville Public Media
Caption: Monument at Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site
Two historical exhibits now open in Louisville, Kentucky explore the state's unique position as a Civil War border state.

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Dec 15, 2011
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
Crawford Texas After the Bush Years
From: KUT
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Crawford, Texas became the adopted home of George W. Bush during his presidency. But the small town west of Waco has undergone some big changes si...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 03:25
Active Voice Radio: Rick Steves PBS Travel Host speaks about Marijuana
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Rick Steves at NORML 2007, Credit: NORML Foundation
Rick Steves is a popular PBS Travel Host and has authored dozens of travel guides. Here he speaks passionately about marijuana reform at the NORML ...

Bought by KSFR and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Aug 31, 2009
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 2
Stillmore, Georgia: Almost a Ghost Town
From: Philip Graitcer
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Immigration agents swoop down on Stillmore

  • Added: Oct 16, 2006
  • Length: 05:19