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Sarah Jones, Tony Award-winning performer and comedian, is making a different kind of documentary. She calls it an ‘unorthodoc’ about sex, power, r...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Julia Sullivan started working on Bone Necklace more than twenty years ago, after visiting the Big Hole Battlefield in Wisdom, Montana. Julia first...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2022
  • Length: 16:43
Caption: unhappy masked man, Credit: https://snappygoat.com/free-public-domain-images-man_depressed_hoodie_unhappy/rbaXF2P4I275TeGAlqcCb1xcuuBZmgLxsv7PXwyGPcX1.html#,0,0.73b9015dfe5a5122dd72979ddbb7ad50a2964544
The COVID 19 pandemic has transformed all of our lives in some way. But some are feeling the impacts more than others. Take healthcare workers, for...

Bought by Radio Catskill, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Trans liberation is the latest frontline in the struggle for civil rights. In their new documentary, Disclosure, director Sam Feder and producer Am...

Bought by WORT, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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A San Francisco Man uses social media to connect the homeless with their families.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Mahliya Sophia Balkowitsch- Coronavirus Tea Time, Credit: WET PLATE COLLODION PHOTOGRAPHS BY SHANE BALKOWITSCH OF NOSTALGIC GLASS WET PLATE STUDIO, BISMARCK, ND (Used by permission)
We're all survivors of COVID. Here are a few select stories.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 21, 2020
  • Length: 16:38
  • Purchases: 1
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"All this how’s-he-doing coverage is par for the course as we transition to the next administration, but someone’s missing from this picture of our...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:30

  • Added: Sep 05, 2020
  • Length: 20:37
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How Many Tomorrows - Introduction No Profanity in this segment.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 07:22
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HMT was written in two parts, but are intertwined. This brief audio clip will help the listener understand why there is a light rain sound during ...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:23
Caption: Dr. Hassan Tetteh, Credit: Shefik
Change - Dr. Hassan Tetteh is a board-certified surgeon specializing in thoracic surgery, critical care, heart and lung transplantation, research a...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 01:27
Caption: From WKSU, Wick Poetry Center and Kent State University
The 67 shots that rang out at Kent State amid a May 4,1970 Vietnam War protest, killing four students and wounding nine, reverberate nearly 50 year...

Bought by KUT, KWGS, WVTF, KTEP, KQED and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 29
Caption: Daniel J. Jones and Scott Z. Burns, San Francisco, CA 10/10/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Scott Z. Burns and Daniel J. Jones talk blueprints, editing, and the crisis of accountability.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2019
  • Length: 18:19
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As a young priest, he sexually abused boys in his parish. In high school, she was sexually abused by her Catholic teacher, a former nun. Today, the...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:02:43
  • Purchases: 1
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If the Pope had a reckoning with the sex abuse crisis, what would it sound like?

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 06:44
Caption: Erma protesting, Credit: Blair Gauntt
In the 1970s a group of working women sued a major corporation for equal pay and equal opportunity. For ten years they fought high priced company ...

Bought by KALW and WVPE


  • Added: Jan 03, 2019
  • Length: 51:54
  • Purchases: 2
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What does it sound like for a perpetrator to take responsibility for sexual abuse? What does it sound like for a survivor to get her needs met? Hea...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2018
  • Length: 56:15
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Snap Special Presentation "Ear Hustle: Thick Glass" -- A lot of things can make it difficult to raise a child, but what if you have to do it from t...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
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Frank was a white supremacist. Jesse was a jihadi extremist. What do we see when we look beyond ideology?

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Frank was a white supremacist. Jesse was a jihadi extremist. What do we see when we look beyond ideology?

  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 59:45
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Joe Lindsley was the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. What moved the ambitious twenty-something to abandon the conservative media titan?

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 40:13
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19 million Americans are affected by hoarding. Cape Cod resident Maryanne found help through Clutterer's Anonymous. She is dedicated to improving h...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Snap Judgment
On the next all-NEW Snap..."By The Book." What if you do everything just right to the letter but you discover the exact way they asked you to do it...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
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Uncovering hidden diversities in a small community. This episode of 12 Knots explores three stories that look at hidden diversities in our small i...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2017
  • Length: 42:04
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This is a special 90-minute Interchange focusing on Orson Welles in his less-appreciated role as an innovator in the WWII-era radio feature, a genr...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2017
  • Length: 01:28:26