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Manufacturing Terror: The Media's Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Problem
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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After the Boston Marathon bombing, journalists scrambled to identify those responsible for the attack, and their motive. Rolling news and online m...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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
I Am Not The Only One
From: Arndt Peltner
Caption: Genozid Mermorial, Credit: A. Peltner
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 still haunts an entire country

  • Added: Jan 27, 2013
  • Length: 20:15
Ulysses Syndrome: Recordings from the Mediterranean Sea
From: Soundwalk Collective
Series: Soundwalk Collective 10 Year Anniversary
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Following the ancient path of Ulysses, Soundwalk Collective continuously scanned and recorded all possible radio interceptions over a range of 40 m...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 58:00
The Decline in Violence & The Pursuit of Dignity (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio - Series of Half-Hours
Caption: Steven Pinker
Two Harvard scholars with recent books are featured on this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO. First Steven Pinker, talks about his 2011 book "The Bett...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
Slavic Wonders: Christmas with The Rose Ensemble
From: Thomas Crann
Caption: The Rose Ensemble, Credit: Michael Haug Photography
The Rose Ensemble is back with a free one-hour holiday special. Slavic Wonders is a stunning celebration of the season featuring some truly brillia...

Bought by Vermont Public Radio, WUAL, WGBH Radio Boston, KUHF, WFIU and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2012
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 10
Mediterrania - taste of the music of people of Catalunya and the mediterranian shores
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: Canzioniere
A musician and a restauranteur from Liverpool visit a festival of performances with traditional roots in Catalonia in North East Spain. They meet m...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 33:33
Peace Corps Voices (Peace Talks Radio) [54:00/59:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Hour Long Specials
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This time on Peace Talks Radio, we present producer Amy Mayer’s 2011 program that then marked the 50th anniversary of The Peace Corps.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. Shigeko Sasamori, An Account of Survival and Hope
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we have the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Shigeko Sasamori. Dr. Sasamori visited Winona State University this fal...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 55:07
  • Purchases: 1
Immaculée Ilibagiza: One of 16 Women Who Survived The Rwanda Genocide
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Immaculée Ilibagiza was one of sixteen women that survived the Rwanda Genocide in 1994. Listen to her story of survival and how it's changed her li...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 30:34
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE: Pakistan Aslant (1) - "The country that could kill the world"
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Series: Pakistan Aslant
Caption: “MOHAMED ALI JINNAH: His Moslem tiger wants to eat the Hindu cow” [April 1946]
Christopher Lydon on the road in South Asia, in a compilation of conversations and reflections on Pakistan's past and dynamic present. Featuring no...

Bought by KUOW and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Squeezebox Stories
From: Julie Caine
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Squeezebox Stories, a sound-rich, narrative-driven public radio documentary hosted by Marco Werman of PRI's The World, explores the rich musical wo...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio, KALW, KRCB-FM, Public Radio Remix and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Peace Corps Voices
From: Amy Mayer
Caption: A multimedia documentary project--www.peacecorpsvoices.org
A one-hour documentary special in honor of the Peace Corps' 50th anniversary, Peace Corps Voices uses historic recordings and contemporary intervie...

Bought by KALW, Wisconsin Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WRPI, KUNM and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 12
Amnesty At 50
From: Neil Gardner
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Amnesty has recently attracted criticism, sometimes from those who have been its most committed activists.  John Tusa asks if it has lost its way a...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 36:34
Beyond the Islamic Golden Age
From: With Good Reason
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Scholars from around the world gathered recently for George Mason University’s forum Beyond Golden Age and Decline: Muslim Societies and Global Mod...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
The Irish Nightingale: John McCormack
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Iveagh Gardens - Dublin City, Credit: William Murphy
The life, times, and music of Irish tenor, John McCormack.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2011
  • Length: 50:54
Erin go Bragh (1 hr.)
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
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Celebrating St. Patrick's Day with this edition of Kaleidoscope. From Mose the Firefighter to terminology and Irish practices, here is a look at th...

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Feb 14, 2011
  • Length: 47:56
  • Purchases: 1
Erin go Bragh: St. Patrick's Day
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
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Dedicated to the late broadcaster, J.P. McCarthy—Detroit's #1 Irishman—here is a two-hour celebration for St. Patrick's Day. In song, poetry, and p...

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Feb 11, 2011
  • Length: 01:33:41
  • Purchases: 1
The U.S. Institute of Peace: A Profile (Peace Talks Radio) [54:00/59:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Hour Long Specials
Caption: United States Institute of Peace New World Headquarters, Credit: USIP
The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established in 1984 and funded by Congress to increase th...

Bought by KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUOW, WFIU, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Best of the Best: The 2010 Third Coast Festival Broadcast and promo
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
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The Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour pr...

Bought by KMXT, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, KBIA, WVPE, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 64
Ernest Hemingway: The Cuban Writer
From: Yellowstone Public Radio
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Hemingway spent a great deal of time in Havana, writing some of his most famous works there. When he won the Nobel Prize, he presented it to a Cuba...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 28:20
Smithsonian Folkways
From: Arndt Peltner
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An amazing treasure chest of music, sounds and spoken word of the 20th century from around the world

  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:53
Seattle's Ellis Island
From: Jessica Partnow
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: Many Uch at the Airport Way Detention Facility., Credit: Eroyn Franklin
An imposing brick building on Airport Way at the edge of the International District housed detained immigrants from 1931 to 2004. It was once known...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE: Listening in on Ghana
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Christopher Lydon is in Ghana this hour, starting out at Cape Coast Castle -- the holding pen for millions of slaves on the way to the New World an...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Apr 26, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE: Havana - Music Capital of the New World
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Christopher Lydon in two conversations on Cuban music: first with Ned Sublette, author of "Cuba and its Music", and second with Roberto Zurbano, D...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, WEOS, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3