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An entire generation of Americans grew up knowing no other president than Franklin D. Roosevelt, who served four terms and led them through the Dep...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 1
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In a little known chapter of American history, hundreds of thousands of Irish Catholic children were taken from their families in New York City and...

Bought by KFOK-LP and WRPI


  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
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More than 85 years after the Scopes “Monkey Trial,” debates over the proper place of Darwin in American schools are alive and well. In this episod...

Bought by KREV-LP, KUOW, WSHU, WCAI / WNAN, WRPI and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
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The famous court battle over the right to teach evolution in public school comes to life.

Bought by WRVO, WCPN, Nevada Public Radio, KRCB-FM, KUOW and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 6
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History is happening all the time... listen to it.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2008
  • Length: 02:49
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The science of the soul.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
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The Tibet Connection producer Julie Adler interview journalist Thomas Laird on his book, The Story of Tibet, based on conversations he had with the...

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 18:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Susannah Heschel is inspired by the lasting friendship between her father, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Martin Luther King. Heschel's own scho...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 07:29
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Best-selling author Karen Armstrong is convinced that people of different religious traditions must realize that they share the same questions and ...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2007
  • Length: 08:16
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Eboo Patel, Executive Director of Interfaith Youth Core, insists that it is not enough for young people to unlearn the hatreds of previous generati...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2007
  • Length: 07:12
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One-hour radio documentary explores Johnny Cash's love for Gospel music, his roots in the church, and the stories behind his greatest Gospel record...

Bought by KFOK-LP, WAMC, KFOK-LP, WNIN, WCAI / WNAN and more


  • Added: May 07, 2007
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 12
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One hour radio documentary highlights the gospel music Elvis recorded throughout his career.

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM/FM-WLHV FM, Prairie Public, Radio New Zealand, WNMU-FM, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2007
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 13
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Rabbi David Gordis looks at Judaism in America and interfaith relaions today.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2007
  • Length: 58:46
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Christopher Caldwell explains that the recent wave of Muslim immigration has brought a new strain of antisemitism to Europe.

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Feb 06, 2007
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 1
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For more than forty years, Father John Pawlikowski has urged Catholics and others to confront the long history of Christian antisemitism.

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jan 23, 2007
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 1
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J. Peter Pham, a former Vatican insider, chronicles the history of the modern papacy and reveals what goes on behind closed doors when the College ...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:33
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The legacy of anti-Semitism in choral music

Bought by PRX to iTunes, WCPN, Audible, Morehead State Public Radio, KUNR and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2005
  • Length: 54:12
  • Purchases: 6