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Caption: Wedding ceremony, 1908., Credit: LOC
Later this month, the Supreme Court will hear challenges to two major laws on marriage -- California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Ma...

Bought by WFPL News, WOUB, WMMT, and WTJU


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Today's most popular dog names are Max and Bella. In the Middle Ages, though, dogs would answer to names like Amiable. Or Nosewise. Or even . . . ...

Bought by WUIS, WOUB, WCNP-FM, KUOW, and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
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COINTELPRO stands for the Counter Intelligence program, a secret FBI operation that ran from 1956 until 1971. Their job: disrupt change, oppress di...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 27:41
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Released in 1988,"The Power of Myth" was one of the most popular TV series in the history of public television, and continues to inspire new audien...

Bought by KUT and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 2
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WTIP's Ann Possis spoke with Prof. Elaine Tyler May of the U of Minn. on International Women's Day, in honor of Women's History Month. Prof. May is...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 15:42
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First appearances, second chances and a whole lot of vinyl.

Bought by KKRN, KPVL, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WOUB, KEOS and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
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The story of a unique landmark off the eastern coast of England - a packing shed built in the 1890s for the cleaning, sorting, and packing of oysters.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Vital Voices: The Power of Women Leading Change
Many extraordinary women around the world are using their diverse talents to improve human rights. Alyse Nelson is the CEO of Vital Voices, an orga...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:54
Caption: King of the Timbales, Tito Puente
Tito Puente is the undisputed king of Latin music in the hearts of most Americans. But beyond that public persona, he was also a prolific composer,...

Bought by WRGY, KCSM, 90.5 WSNC, KDRP Community Radio, WVAS and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
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This is a commercial for a fake product I created to air in the middle of a Sherlock Holmes radio play. It's for a product that acts as an umbrella...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2013
  • Length: :30
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Winner of the Booker Prize, former teacher and one of Ireland’s most famous authors, Roddy talks about his last book in a trilogy, "The Last Republ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
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In her first critically-acclaimed book, “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” British-born Alexandra introduced us to her fam...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
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Join us for a special program featuring two legendary albums. The first, a "Conversation With The Blues," was recorded by Paul Oliver during the su...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:59
Caption: John Beargrease, circa 1890, Credit: courtesy Ron Boshey
Ron Boshey offers the prayers and performs the pipe ceremony to start the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon every year ... and he's also honoring h...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kevin Plank
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Kevin Plank of Under Armour and we hear archival footage of the late Peter Drucker about what marketing means in the...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: Lithograph, 1918. , Credit: Library of Congress
In this episode, we’ll look at the changing ways Americans have experienced the 24-hour day — from pre-industrial times right on up through today’s...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, WEZU, WRPI, WTJU, and WOUB


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Gioia Timpanelli
"The Regular Life of Wild Things" , prose/ poem story by G.T. on Wild Turkeys in North East of Turtle Island and commentary on extinction of wild t...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
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Paul J. Hintersteiner, of Washington Heights, Manhattan, describes food shopping and home cooking during his childhood in Yorkville's large German ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:14
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It's the Up Goer Five Challenge! Try to describe something complex using only the thousand most common words in English. It's a useful mental exerc...

Bought by WCNP-FM, WOUB, WNJR, WUIS, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Peace Pilgrim & Peggy O'Neill
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Peace Pilgrim / Peggy O'Neill
Two women, two elders, who deep into the later years of life, made peace their goal – one, Catholic Sister Peggy O’Neill landed in war-ravaged El S...

Bought by KUOW and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Linda’s debut novel, "The Sixth Station," is an irreverent religious thriller with lots of controversy that touches on the Vatican, history books ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
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Mitch Skinner looks at a new food-art exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and finds out about banqueting in Shakespeare's day.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Professor Robin Bernstein
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 19:59
  • Purchases: 1