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Crime, Punishment, and the Search for Justice
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Word of Mouth
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Conversations about ideas and innovations in investigations and imprisonment, the search for justice, and the unexpected intersection of crime and ...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
BackStory - Paying Up: A History of Taxation
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Full Episodes
Caption: "O, the fatal Stamp Act" (one colonial newspaper's reaction to the Stamp Act of 1765.)
Just in time for Tax Day, BackStory delves into the long and turbulent history of taxation in America.

Bought by KFOK-LP, WOUB, WTJU, WCAI / WNAN, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Oil and Water
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Bill McKibben, Founder, 350.org and John Hofmeister, former President, Shell Oil, Credit: Sonya Abrams
Environmentalists and oil executives don’t often sit down to talk to each other. In this program we will have two candid conversations with promine...

Bought by KWGS and KAZU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
Program I: Route 66 Forever
From: David Dunaway
Series: Across The Tracks: A Route 66 Story
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Across the Tracks: A Route 66 Story is a three-part radio documentary about the influence of the "Mother Road" on America's literary and artistic c...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:02
Dave Barry
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
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The humorist and author talks about his novel, "Insane City," and the real-life insane city that inspired it...Miami. He then sits down with Virgin...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 56:30
John Irving
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
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John Irving reads from and talks about his novel "In One Person," and sits down with Virginia Prescott about writing, sex, and why he'd never becom...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
Edna the Engineer: Who Gets to be a Scientist?
From: With Good Reason
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You know the stereotype: white guy in a lab coat with crazy hair and an experiment gone awry. But the picture of science is changing. In this episo...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
EarthTones
From: Claire Schoen
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Sound is a vital though invisible aspect of human existence. “EarthTones” gives its audience the opportunity to experience the natural world throug...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 26:03
  • Purchases: 1
Living a Low Carbon Lifestyle
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: David Friedman Deputy director, Union of Concerned Scientists, Credit: Ed Ritger, Photographer
Today we are checking out low carbon lifestyles. In this hour we’ll tackle green myths and discuss what choices are good for your wallet and the pl...

Bought by KUOW, KWIT, 90.5 WSNC, WBEZ, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Beat : LouAnn Shepard Muhm - "Shoveling Out"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat
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LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:38
The Writ Writer episode two
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Writ Writer
Caption: Southern Cotton Picker
Based on the true story of Scipio Africanus Jones. At the end of episode one, black attorney Jones was faces with taking on a racially charged mu...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
The Writ Writer episode one
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: The Writ Writer
Caption: Arkansas News
The Writ Writer” by Michael Murphy is a five-part docudrama of the events surrounding the Elaine, Arkansas massacre in 1919.

  • Added: Jan 03, 2013
  • Length: 28:48
Sound is...
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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What is sound? We'll define it physically and through our experience. Interesting descriptions abound as we learn why a piano sound is different th...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 14:39
  • Purchases: 1
Energy and Building Innovation
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Richard Lester, Director, MIT Industrial Performance Center and audience members, Credit: Rikki Ward, Photographer
Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are working on better ways of powering the American economy. Some are developing new solar and wind t...

Bought by Nevada Public Radio and KJZZ


  • Added: Dec 26, 2012
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
1971 Powell Memo
From: Action Speaks
Series: Private Rights and Public Fights
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A call to arms to protect business from the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the 1960s.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
Volatile Climate and Economics
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Host Greg Dalton, Credit: Rikki Ward, Photographer
Today we look at the global economy and the fuels that run it. After a hundred years of growth propelled by subsidized fossil fuels and cheap credi...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 23, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
1908 Lewis Hine Documents Child Labor
From: Action Speaks
Series: Private Rights and Public Fights
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The camera, exposing social problems or becoming one?

Bought by WRPI, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
1992 Invasion of the Body Scanner
From: Action Speaks
Series: Private Rights and Public Fights
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Surveillance in America—needed or nightmare?

Bought by KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
1965 Griswold v. Connecticut
From: Action Speaks
Series: Private Rights and Public Fights
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Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 2
Searching Space
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Listen to peoples' first reaction to Saturn alongside astrophysicists who gaze up at the universe for a living. Learn the new techniques scientists...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 17:47
  • Purchases: 1
1936 Chaplin's 'Modern Times' Debuts
From: Action Speaks
Series: Private Rights and Public Fights
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Factories closed; unions ignored; the Tramp asks, ‘What’s Next’? Chaplin previews a world beyond the factory and unionism where one’s identity is ...

Bought by WRPI, KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, WRIR, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 53:30
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 5 - Climate One Radio
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One Radio
Caption: Marc Lifsher Los Angeles Times, Felicity Barringer New York Times, Greg Dalton Host, Credit: Ed Ritger, Photographer
Today we are exploring the nexus of national media, energy and our limping economy. In this hour we’ll learn about news coverage of climate change,...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
1992 First Critical Mass Ride
From: Action Speaks
Series: Private Rights and Public Fights
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Bicyclists take to the streets en mass in a fight over the ‘right to the city’.

Bought by KPVL, WBEZ, Spokane Public Radio, WRIR, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 5
Humankind: The Diet-Climate Connection (Hour 1)
From: David Freudberg
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What was the carbon footprint of your dinner last night? This special documentary project examines how the foods we eat affect the planet we inhabi...

Bought by KHEN-LP, KPVL, Iowa Public Radio, WHRV, and Vermont Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
Steve Edwards Presents Series: An Hour With Dee Dee Bridgewater Live In Studio!
From: Steve Edwards
Series: Steve Edwards Presents Series
Caption: Steve & Dee Dee!, Credit: Dee Dee Bridgewater
After months of intermittent phone calls, text messages and emails Dee Dee Bridgewater finally made her debut appearance live in studio on the Ste...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:57