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In this special broadcast of episodes 5 and 6 of So Far From Care, we return to Marfa for two different stories. This tiny desert town is often ro...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
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In episode 1, "Don't Cut The Cord," you’ll get the lay of the land in the Big Bend— what it feels like to live in a place where getting care has al...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 53:30
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Emergency medicine and helicopter flight physician Mike Abernethy recounts an unexpected run-in at his local Walmart that made him feel as if he’d ...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 46:55
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Farmer/researcher team finds some crops do better and use less water when grown in solar arrays.

Bought by KVNF, WFHB, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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MORE Learning Center, Supporting the WHOLE Student- Academically, Socially, and Emotionally with Founder Kate Tricarico. Kate Tricarico, a mother f...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2022
  • Length: 25:10
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A new EV charging network fills a big gap in the nation's charging map and brings electric vehicles, jobs, and healing to reservations.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WFHB


  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Sod House Theater brings Booyah to the people with their most recent show, “Arla Mae’s Booyah Wagon.” Conceived by Minnesota theater artist Sarah A...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2021
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Did you know that industrial agriculture is economically flawed, and survives by externalizing its costs to taxpayers, while spending billions of d...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, we will hear how a healthcare worker in Rural Texas is getting the word out about vaccination despite a lack of resources.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:16
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Ghost towns are an icon of the American West. But they’re not just part of a sepia-toned past; ghost towns in the making today as rural communities...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 57:41
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Equipped with a facemask and a selfie stick, Laura Flanders reports in this episode (from a responsible distance) on the impact of Covid-19 on one ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Marc Edelman argues that the ways in which rural communities have been abandoned by capital have been a cornerstone in the rise of authoritarian po...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Mount Calvary congregation standing outside the church, ca. 1950s, Credit: Ric Sheffield, Knox County Black History Archives at Kenyon College
A piece of local history audio storytelling exploring a now-defunct predominantly black church in Mount Vernon, Ohio, through the voices of its for...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 16:07
Caption: Protest sign opposing the construction of the CC Powerline across farmland.
On March 5, 1978 in subzero temperatures, about 10,000 farmers marched across Pope County, Minn. in a staged funeral procession to mourn the death ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Polka dancers: Polka dancing during Polka Days at the Gibbon Ballroom in Gibbon, Minnesota, circa 1975, Credit: Flip Schulke / U.S. National Archives
The most legendary venue in Minnesota history? It's not First Avenue, nor is it anywhere near the Twin Cities. Deep in the middle of the corn and s...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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Is being rural a pre-existing vulnerability in this crisis? Equipped with a mask and a selfie stick, Laura Flanders reports (from a responsible dis...

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


  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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The mayor of Atlantic Beach, Trace Cooper, is preparing for a summer unlike he’s ever seen before. Cooper speaks to how the pandemic could disrupt ...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:46
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Chris Lamoreaux is a grocery store clerk. Because he shares a home with his mother who has an auto-immune disease, Lamoreaux now self-quarantines i...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2020
  • Length: 01:27
Caption: Henderson, Ky., was the scene of a scavenger hunt by members of a social group geared toward adults with autism. (L to R) Jesse Hopgood, Rose Schriener and Hannah Hall pose for a selfie as part of the hunt., Credit: ISAIAH SEIBERT, SIDE EFFECTS PUBLIC MEDIA
There’s an endless stream of advice online about how to make friends as an adult. The listicles and blog posts often mention that it’s harder for t...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 03:18
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Sebastopol's free electric bus
Rural bus systems turn challenges into strengths by going fare free.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KRZA, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Michelle from Bastrop County discusses increasing political participation among rural Texans. She wants better government representatives who meet...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:07
Caption: Aaron Jordan-Peterson in Grand Rapids, Minn.
When Aaron Jordan-Peterson moved back to rural Minnesota three years ago, he decided not to try to hide his gay identity like he had earlier in lif...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 05:30
Caption: Kristin DeArruda Wharton
Cook County, Grand Portage and the North Shore are home to amazing people with amazing stories. In this episode, host Kristin DeArruda Wharton spe...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:41
Caption: Bicycles Against Poverty, Credit: Travis Sanderson
In the global north, the bicycle is often perceived as a toy; something for kids or designed for leisure. But in rural Uganda the bicycle can be a ...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 24:01
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Is There a Cure for Cancer at the Bottom of The Great Lakes? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KRZA, KSFR, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KKFI


  • Added: Feb 18, 2018
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 5