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Director/co-writer Nikolaj Arcel talks human nature, bending genders, and impressing his mother.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 16:35
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NEH Chairman Jim Leach discusses "civility in a fractured society" and the value of studying the humanities in order to understand an increasingly ...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 44:59
Caption: Mohandas Gandhi, Credit: Orbis Book cover Roberta Savage
The Father of India was dead. Killed by a man he’d known for years. The year was 1948, the dawn of India’s independence from Great Britain. In his...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 28:52
Caption: Roland Emmerich, Berkeley, CA 9/29/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Roland Emmerich talks art, politics, and why we need a new word for conspiracy.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 13:16
Caption: Famine Memorial Dublin, Ireland
The story of 4,000 orphan girls sent to Australia from Ireland after the Great Potato Famine of 1845-9, told by their descendants.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 42:26
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David Brooks excels when his vast analytic abilities are brought to his fondness for Republicans. In the New York Times, he ventured into an are...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2011
  • Length: 04:53
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Until September 11, 2001, The Triangle Shirtwaste Fire on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest workplace disaster in the history of New York City. Davi...

Bought by WFHB and KVSC


  • Added: Sep 03, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Women at the Tulle Lake War Relocation Camp, circa 1942. , Credit: Bob Bobster.
Two survivors of Japanese American internment describe how they went from being seen as model citizens to being seen as the enemy. In the story of ...

Bought by Listen Edition, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 20:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Levittown Promotional Material
Can the suburbs be fixed? What does sustainability look like in a land of three car garages, shopping malls, single use zoning and houses on steroi...

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KVLU, KWIT, WRIR, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Nov 09, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Former President Jimmy Carter with Carter Center Human Rights Director Karin Ryan, Credit: The Carter Center
A December 2008 two-day conference at The Carter Center in Atlanta, generated a list of recommendations for the Obama Administration on Human Right...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: 27:55
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A roundtable explores The Electoral College system for electing the U.S. President - its history, its pros and its cons.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KDUR, and KTNA


  • Added: Sep 18, 2008
  • Length: 28:15
  • Purchases: 3
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In the second show we explore the connection that Native Nations in the state have to the land and listen to some of the earlier agrarian techniques.

Bought by WGDR and KENW


  • Added: Nov 13, 2007
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
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A conversation with Howard Zinn about the history of the workers' movements in the U.S.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2007
  • Length: 34:46
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Comic book artist Frank Miller believes patriotism is a value that?s critical to our national security.

Bought by KJZZ


  • Added: Jan 30, 2007
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 1
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Historian Howard Zinn reflects on the conditions necessary to support democracy.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2006
  • Length: 28:55
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1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire recalls her peace work in Northern Ireland and in this 2006 interview talks with host Carol Boss ab...

Bought by KDUR


  • Added: Oct 24, 2006
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Tejidos Culturales is a cultural series looking at the San Luis Valley. This program is the 2nd part looking at the Chicano Movement.

Bought by KWCW


  • Added: Sep 25, 2006
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1