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Playlist: News Station Picks for February

Compiled By: PRX Editors

Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/75429951@N00/1805164945/">Russell Davies</a>
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Hi—this isn’t curator Julianne Welby, but John Barth at PRX. I used to be a news director, so I am stepping into the curating slot this month as we and PRNDI search for a new news curator. So, for February, here are some programs that catch my editorial ear:

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Can Do: Stories of Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs

From The Kitchen Sisters | 00:53:55

This Kitchen Sisters' exclusive on PRX is really fantastic. The Sisters have mined their archives to highlight and tell some fantastic human stories in their unique style. Actress Alfre Woodward hosts the show. This is good not just for Black History Month – air this to show off some of the best of public radio!

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Annual Ho Chunk Nation Bison Round-up

From Brian Bull | 00:02:55

You don’t hear audio postcards too much, and I wish there were more. Good ones, like this, are like a powerful photograph. Who even knew bison were rounded up into herds and done so, in this case, by a tribe in Wisconsin? I love the voices, the rawness of man and animal and the frigid air. I would use this as a kicker on a talk show, a place to take listeners on a journey to a place they will likely never see or hear. A treat for the ear and the imagination.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.- A Portrait of Atlanta 1962

From Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | Part of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr- a Rewind series series | 00:54:51

This is documentary is 47 years old…but very relevant: white voices and great accents talk about racial change; the 'old' South clashing with the emerging new South of 1962. This is a cultural struggle and transition captured with sensitivity and editorial directness.

The CBC has a tradition of such nuanced work. And a real treat, too, is some of the other Black History Month submissions from the CBC including rare and powerful lectures by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Crisis in Primary Care -- the Massachusetts Health Care Experiment

From Karen Brown | 00:05:38

One of the consequences of expanding health care coverage to the under-insured and under-covered is a shortage of primary care doctors. This has reached a crisis level in states like Massachusetts. Karen’s powerful piece really gets to the complexity of the situation: best intentions with unintended results.

Want a powerful but longer documentary on this relevant topic? Try The Doctor Can’t See You Now by another excellent producer, Rachel Gotbaum.


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