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Last week Kolkata was busy celebrating a birthday with flowers, candles, cards and songs. It was Mother Teresa’s 106th birthday/ By the time the n...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Diver prepares to head into waters of Lake Huron, Credit: Ben Thorp
Scientists are trying to figure out how Earth developed an atmosphere rich in oxygen. The answer to this billion-year-old mystery may lie in an unl...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, WXXI, Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2016
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Baluji Shrivastav, Credit: Sandip Roy
In India in the 1960s there were few options for a blind child. Blind people often begged in trains and railway platforms singing hymns. But Baluji...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Miguel del Aguila, Credit: Donna Granata
Three-time Grammy nominated Uruguayan-born American composer, Miguel del Aguila, shares insight into his most recent lauded composition, Concierto ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
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Gemini GEL, Graphic Editions Limited, has been contributing to the cultural fabric of American Contemporary Art for over 50 years. As they celebrat...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2016
  • Length: 05:43
Caption: Napalm Girl, Credit: Nick Ut
Nick Ut is one of the Associated Press’ most renowned photographers. As he celebrates 50 years with AP, there is one image from his days in Vietnam...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
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This month marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s visit to Buffalo New York -- a day that helped clean up waterways across the...

Bought by WABE, WCPN, North Country Public Radio, WBFO, and WXXI


  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 5
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Something very different is going on up in Boothbay, Maine. It was an experiment which – if it works – could represent a fundamental shift in the w...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 22:15
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We trace the religious roots of the Olympic games, from Zeus to the Nazi Olympics, and on to the present day. And we profile 3 believers who find t...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Sian Heder, San Francisco, CA 7/27/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Sian Heder talks baby whispering, the guilt of a pedicure, and being in director mode in the delivery room.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 09:52
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James Solomon talks fundamental questions, personal narratives, and the importance of listening.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 19:07
Caption: Matt Ross, San Francisco, CA 7/7/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Matt Ross talks parental anxiety, speaking the truth, and being non-binary.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 18:19
Caption: Famous taxidermist Carl Akeley posing with the leopard he killed with his bare hands
Taxidermy is back. This time, with glitter.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 26:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Anna Vasquez, Deborah S. Esquenazi, Kristie Mayhugh, Cassandra Rivera, Sam Tabet, Elizabeth Ramirez, Credit: Andrea Chase
The San Antonio Four talk hope, faith, and waking up to freedom.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:57
Caption: Music Director Willie Aaron leads the Harry Nilsson Chorus, Credit: Gabriel Szoke
The late singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson is, and always was, a musician's musician. In Los Angeles, a chorus of Harry-philes hope to use the power ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Many Broadway composers loved the challenge of writing the big choral number. Some were better at it than others. Some fine examples in this progra...

Bought by WVTF and WRR


  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 2
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The enormous implications of mining the floor of the deep sea. It's starting. It's calledr "squalene" and is in lots of beauty products. It's usual...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 18:27
Caption:  Dr, Ramona Tascoe & Abby Ginzberg, San Francisco, CA 5/5/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Ramona Tascoe and Abby Ginzberg talk raised consciousness, protective armor, and being willing to die for a cause.

  • Added: May 15, 2016
  • Length: 31:09
Caption: Daxing Zhang & Jonathan Lim, San Francisco, CA 3/14/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jonathan Lim and Daxing Zhang talk subtlety, spirituality, and a red balloon.

  • Added: May 04, 2016
  • Length: 18:23
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Jazz musician Esperanza Spalding took up the violin at age five, was a concertmaster at fifteen and graduated from the Berklee School of Music at a...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:51
Caption: Genya Ravan (left) and director Chris Henry on the set of Rock and Roll Refugee, a new off-Broadway play about Ravan's early life in music. , Credit: Shannon Rednour/Courtesy of the artist
She came to this country as a refugee from post-war Europe; learned English listening to the radio; and before long, heard herself on it. She star...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 06:27
Caption: Dawn Porter, San Francisco, CA, 3/9/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Dawn Porter talks checking her bias, the separation of church and state, and the gods of documentary filmmaking.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 21:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Gavin Hood, San Francisco, CA 3/2/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Gavin Hood talks ethics, kill chains, and being uncomfortable.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 15:16
Caption: Elliot Lavine, San Francisco, CA 2/17/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Elliot Lavine talks the pleasures and perils of 35mm, seismic overhauls, and blows to the solar plexus.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 33:16
Caption: Dee Hibbert-Jones & Nomi Talisman, San Francisco, CA 12/28/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman talk distance, authenticity, and having a free hand.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:56
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