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Underground Trade Part 5: Taken into China
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
Caption: Two girls rescued from sex traffickers, Credit: Phillip Martin
Vietnam is losing its children. For years, girls and young women have been taken — kidnapped and trafficked across the border into Cambodia and so...

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 1
Vintage Tomorrow's
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Vintage Tomorrow's jacket cover, Credit: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
The late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change. It’s happening again today. Through interviews with experts such as Willaim Gibson,...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Wizard of Us
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Jean Houston
Author and philosopher Jean Houston offers a guidepost into the world of Dorothy and L Frank Baum in which she delves into the deeper messages held...

  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 27:55
The Food Shed
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eric Toensmeier
This first part of this half-hour is spent with author and professor Philip Ackerman-Leist. In his new book, he shows that people are turning to lo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Rebuilding Beauty -- The work of Taj Vaccarella
From: Mike Benjamin
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Taj Vaccarella discusses the exciting potential of a new time in art history. Taj prescribes, and fights for, a necessary rebuilding of beauty in c...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2013
  • Length: 08:53
The Needle Drop: 03-20-13
From: WNPR
Series: The Needle Drop
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New music from Autechre, Shlohmo, Kylesa, and more.

Bought by KSJD, KSRQ, WNJR, KRCB-FM, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 57:02
  • Purchases: 7
Hidden Messages (Pledge Drive Special)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Louis Armstrong
As far back as the 1920s, jazz bands were performing music that had hidden messages inside their songs. Messages that asked their audience to pled...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 49:30
  • Purchases: 1
Sustaining Activism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Emma Sokoloff-Rubin & friends
This is the story of a father-daughter research team who spent 10-years studying the Brazilian Women’s Movement of the 1980s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Psychology of Jazz
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Jazz pianist Kenny Werner: the accidental guru of the musical self-help movement
Are jazz musicians more prone to mental illness? Can jazz be therapeutic? And why do musicians get performance anxiety? We'll answer those question...

Bought by WRGY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WNCU, 90.5 WSNC, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
KUT's Views and Brews: Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn and The Art of Invisibility
From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix
Caption: Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
Rabbi Neil Blumofe joins KUT host Rebecca McInroy along with a live jazz sextet for an evening of discussion and live music to explore the unique r...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Michelle Alexander, Associate Law Professor at Moritz School of Law and Author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness." , Credit: http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
WINGS #32-12 Remembrance and Action
From: Frieda Werden
Series: WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service
Caption: Poster for the National Day of Remembrance and Action December 1, 2012 event, in Vancouver BC Canada, Credit: Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter
23 years after the Montreal Massacre, feminists are still working like hell for accountability around violence against women.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 28:49
The Catch
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
Caption: Doc Stull, Credit: Danielle DeMartini
"The Catch" in San Francisco in 1982 becomes one of the great plays in football history.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
Designing a Creative Life: An Introduction
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Designing a Creative Life
Caption: Spiral Block, Credit: Michael Reddell
This program is the result of an email journal about pioneering your own creative life. Creators Michael Reddell and Peggy Sonoda send subscribers ...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2012
  • Length: 27:10
Miracle in Gray and White
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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Neighbors investigate an apparition.

Bought by The Story and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Filmmaker, Na'alehu Anthony
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
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Na'alehu Anthony discusses his documentary about traditional Polynesian open sea canoeing and its significance to the revitalization of Hawaiian cu...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:48
A Wedding in Haiti
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Julia Alvarez
In A WEDDING IN HAITI we follow author Julia Alvarez on a personal journey where her eyes, and ours, are opened to a new country and culture. As Ju...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 17:35
SITPE # 1218
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Getting to the core of the matter.

Bought by KWMR-FM, KAWC, KKRN, KEOS, KPVL and more


  • Added: May 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Psychology of Jazz
From: Jeff Haas
Series: The New Jazz Archive
Caption: Jazz pianist Kenny Werner: the accidental guru of the musical self-help movement
Are jazz musicians more prone to mental illness? Can jazz be therapeutic? And why do musicians get performance anxiety? We'll answer those question...

Bought by WNCU, Radio New Zealand, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KPVL and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Einstein's Dreams
From: SQRadio
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The music of Alan Lightman's "Einstein's Dreams," performed and written by Randall Williams.

  • Added: Feb 29, 2012
  • Length: 49:13
Lynne Cox - Open Water Swimmer: The Greatest Athlete You've Never Heard Of
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Lynne Cox - Open Water Swimmer: The Greatest Athlete You've Never Heard Of

  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:39
Women Warriors
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
Caption: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
Women Warriors in antiquity set the bar high for future female role models.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:47
The Seeker, the Search, the Sacred: Journey to the Greatness Within
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Weiser Books
Founder and director of the nonprofit Life of Learning Foundation, Guy Finley presents passages from all the major religious traditions and philoso...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 14:17
The Needle Drop: 12-03-11
From: WNPR
Series: The Needle Drop
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Music from Oneohtrix Point Never, the Spits, and Comet Gain.

Bought by KEOS, WSLR, WTIP, Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 57:09
  • Purchases: 6
Galisteo Station Balloon
From: New Mexico Centennial
Series: Centennial Journeys
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An 1880 close encounter with a mysterious balloon over Lamy.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 01:59