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Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard learns the value of a liberal education at the College of Wooster, where the study of science and religion are complementary. During Easter...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 25:00
Caption: Genozid Mermorial, Credit: A. Peltner
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 still haunts an entire country

  • Added: Jan 27, 2013
  • Length: 20:15
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features a discussion with The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert about the impact of climate change on enviromental health, human health, and human ri...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 20:35
Caption: Ku Klux Klan 1920s
This is the fifth and concluding episode of The Writ Writer by Michael Murphy based on the true story of black attorney Scipio Africanus Jones. Onc...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
Caption: "The Gazette" October 3, 1919
At the end of episode three, attorney Col. Murphy collapsed during the trial for the Elaine defendants, and died a few days later. Scipio Jones is...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:54
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At the end of episode two, attorney’s Jones and Murphy meet with the Elaine Defendants, and begin working on appealing the murder convictions.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2013
  • Length: 28:50
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Michele Iversen photographs people through the windows of their homes at night without their knowledge.

Bought by KFAI, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, HowSound, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: The only known image of Mad Genius
Mad Genius proudly presents the latest song in our "2012: A Year In Your Ear" series: "How To Build A Zombie Apocalypse." The zombie scourge goes ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 03:23
Caption: Ugandan activists holds placards and chant slogans during an anti-homosexuality protest rally in the industrial city of Jinja, Uganda, February 15, 2010., Credit: (REUTERS/James Akena)
Meet the American pastor being sued for persecuting gay Ugandans.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 16:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Questions surface about brain harvesting in Maine.

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, interviews Megan Westgate, Executive Director of the Non-GMO Project. Do you agree that consumers have...

Bought by KFAI


  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Willard Alternative High School student, Keifer Clark, interviews 93-year-old Bataan Death March survivor,  Ben Steele. , Credit: Julie Jorgenson
"Students and Soldiers" weaves together wartime stories from twelve Montana veterans of various branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. Interviewed by t...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, and South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Jay Ipson in front of the Virginia Holocaust Museum., Credit: John MacLellan
Jay Ipson, the youngest Holocaust survivor living in Virginia today, lived in an underground lair for six months during the Nazi occupation of his ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 59:14
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A veteran of 25 years witnesses a fellow soldier kill an eight year-old girl. Upon returning home, he develops Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and f...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2011
  • Length: 05:31
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Ernest J. Gaines poses one of the most universal questions a novel can ask: Knowing we're going to die, how should we live? This program features G...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:55
Caption: natural gas well, Credit: long haul productions
Producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister traveled to Arkansas to talk to people about what's going on under their feet ... both the extraction ...

Bought by HowSound, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 10:55
  • Purchases: 3
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Is Maine immune to a deadly bat disease?

Bought by WMPG and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 2
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The Ten Boom family hides Jews and members of Dutch resistance from the Nazis in a secret room. Raided by the Gestapo, Corrie, her sister and their...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
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We’ll hear excerpts from the Oscar-nominated movie Gasland, including stories from residents who say their drinking water catches on fire—one of th...

Bought by Moab Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: White students protest integration at the University of Mississippi in 1962. No state in the South was more resistant to the struggle for black equality. , Credit: Photograph by Flip Schulke/CORBIS
Mississippi occupies a distinct and dramatic place in the history of America’s civil rights movement. No state in the South was more resistant to t...

Bought by KOSU, Interlochen Public Radio, WJSU, WESM 91.3 FM, and WRPI


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: An infected little brown bat., Credit: Ryan von Linden/New York Department of Environmental Conservation
A fungal disease has been destroying bat colonies in the northeastern United States and is now spreading south and west across the country. What is...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Patient Transfer Vehicles. They look like ambulances but they're not. Riding in one can land you in the wild wild west of unregulated care. 'Risky ...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: 30:50
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Primary education is compulsory in Pakistan, and the country has a large public school system. But many of these schools are just marginally functi...

Bought by WAMC and WBEZ


  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 2
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When there aren’t enough hours of work to go around, why not share them? That’s the premise of “shared-work” programs in seventeen states around th...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 07:10
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Despite Obama’s words of support of small business, experts say some aren’t relying on government, but more and more on community groups and micro-...

Bought by Moab Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 2