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Tracking Subversives: Alan Wald On the Development of the Literary Left
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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According to or my guest, Alan Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” We track three “subversives” in our progra...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 57:14
THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION -- Stanley Nelson Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Stanley Nelson, San Francisco, CA 10/1/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Stanley Nelson talks history, irony, and delivering the unexpected.

  • Added: Oct 03, 2015
  • Length: 15:03
Cannabis Radio News #51
From: Cannabis Radio News
Series: Cannabis Radio News - weekly show
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In this special edition of the Cannabis Radio News host Brian Bahouth visits an end of prohibition celebration on the Burnside Bridge in Portland O...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dr Robert Jensen “Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialog,”
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Dr Robert Jensen on his latest book “Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialog,”

  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:07
The Pentagon Papers
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked top-secret, military documents about the Vietnam war in 1971. ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Cannabis Radio News #40
From: Cannabis Radio News
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In this edition of the Cannabis Radio News we hear about the decision of a federal judge in California to not remove cannabis from the list of most...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Apr 17, 2015
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
After Attica
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re revisiting the Attica prison revolt in 1971. It began as a civil rights protest and ended in a massacre when Governor Nelson Rockefeller orde...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZYX


  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Selma Slights More than LBJ
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
There’s been a lot of controversy over the movie Selma and the Academy Awards. Selma is rightfully centered on Dr. King, and has been rightfully cr...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Stars & Tsars: A History of U.S.-Russia Relations [Rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin at the Yalta conference, February 1945.
In the past few years, the White House and the Kremlin have sparred over Syria, the Winter Olympics, and now, the crisis in Ukraine. It can be temp...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
Why Does Baltimore Have So Many Confederate Monuments?
From: Stefanie Mavronis
Caption: Baltimore's Lee-Jackson Monument, Credit: Stefanie Mavronis
Baltimore City is home to four Civil War monuments. Three are Confederate. We look at the history of how they got there and explore how people inte...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2015
  • Length: 11:32
Calle 24 - The official Latino Cultural District of San Francisco
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Every place has a history hidden that lives beneath what you can see on the surface. Just take the Mission District.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 08:24
Does Religion Always Cause Political Intolerance?
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
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Political scientist James Gibson investigates the connections between political intolerance and religion.

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:48
  • Purchases: 1
(Over)rulers
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Legal scholar Bruce Ackerman talks about how presidents from Lincoln to Obama have used their military powers. This segment is from the BackStory e...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 09:22
The Peacemaking Chapters of The Roosevelts
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, what you might call an independent spin-off from Ken Burns 2014 documentary on The Roosevelts. We consider Te...

Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUOW, KUOW and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:49
  • Purchases: 6
The Roosevelts Through a Peace Studies Lens
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, what you might call an independent spin-off from Ken Burns 2014 documentary on The Roosevelts. We consider Te...

Bought by KMXT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Aspen Public Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
#1221- Existentialism and Religion: An Interview with Jonathan Judaken
From: Sandburg Media
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Jonathan Judaken on existentialism and religion; Katy Scrogin on The Myth of the Muslim Tide.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 53:50
#1403- Live from Wheaton: Catherine Brekus
From: Sandburg Media
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Catherine Brekus on the Bible and democracy; Katy Scrogin on Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 35:56
#1404- The God Gap, Part 1: Amy Black
From: Sandburg Media
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Amy Black on the separation of church and state; Katy Scrogin on The Reason I Jump.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 34:11
What's Left of Liberal Zionism?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re looking at liberal Zionism, enduring a crisis after a brutal summer in Gaza. It’s prompted handwringing for American Jews and Israelis who ar...

Bought by WRPI, KZYX, and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Sep 14, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 3
Andrew Bacevich: America’s War for the Greater Middle East
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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How do you end an endless war? Thirty years ago Jimmy Carter declared the Persian Gulf a "vital" focus of American foreign policy. Since then, U.S....

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: Aug 08, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 1
Interview: Jimmy Carter's call to action
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: KALW's Hana Baba with Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States
KALW’s Hana Baba met up with the former president during his recent stop in San Francisco to talk with him about his book, and the issues facing wo...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:02
Peniel Joseph on Stokely Carmichael (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act. At the end of June, 1964, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 2
Resister
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bruce Dancis
Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took p...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
The French Sensation
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Capital is a giant, data-packed tome on income inequality covering three hundred years of history by the French economist Thomas Piketty. Is there ...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
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

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