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Instructions: (1) install the latest QuickTime player from Apple; (2) click the play button once and you will hear an AMERICAN-FM tag and then your program will begin loading; (3) click play again after the episode load indicator is viewable; (4) click on the show details button on the right hand side of the player to save the episode; (5) click on the podcast feed icon to see the feed source, or right-click (Windows) or control-click (Mac) to copy the feed source location for use in your podcast application.
AMERICAN-FM Radio Diary
by Christine Bush

Exploring the medium: voice posts, Hipcasts, audioblogs, podzines, audio magazines.

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Episode Details:   (AMERICAN-FM Radio Diary 2006-09-11)    Brief History of 9/11/1906: a century of Satyagraha. AMERICAN-FM is produced by GREY CAT PRODUCTIONS on the web at http://greycat.cn/ using a video iPod with the awesome TuneTalk Stereo microphone from Belkin and edited with the fabulous open source audio editor AUDACITY available for free download at SOURCEFORGE.NET and mixed using GARAGEBAND from Apple. This episode features material from The Nonviolent Peaceforce on the web at NonviolentPeaceforce.org with podsafe music from DJ Topshelf entitled "Fallen Angel", and podsafe music from Megaphone, "Not Your Enemy", both available at podsafeaudio.com.


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Media Now

A weekly look at the world of grassroots and independent media, a critical examination of our media environment.

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Episode Details:   (mediageek 2008-05-02: Turning Up the Heat on Martin & Disappointed in NPR)    The House Commerce Committee may hold a public hearing on how Chairman Martin is running things at the FCC, while the Senate Commerce Committee unanimously votes to disapprove the Commission’s party-line vote to all but dissolve the cross-ownership ban. I also discuss NPR’s recent ludicrous comments to the FCC opposing protections for low-power FM stations. Download/Podcast: mediageek [...]


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News

(Air America Radio Network) A fun, fast, and substantive hour of reporting and commentary inspired by stories from Mother Jones magazine. Award-winning host Angie Coiro brings together reporters and experts to pick up where corporate news leaves off.

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Episode Details:   (Year-End Roundup with Robert Dreyfuss, James Ridgeway, Julia Whitty, and Others)    Year-End Roundup with Robert Dreyfuss, James Ridgeway, Julia Whitty, and Others


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Music

A weekly podcast featuring jazz from the past, present and future.

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Episode Details:   (Podcast 110: Jobim - The Man from Impanema)    Ten Days of Brazilia ends with a salute to the "Gershwin of South America", Antonio Carlos Jobim.


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Dialogue

The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress. Its goals are to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and democratic tr

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Episode Details:   (Bringing Peace to the Niger Delta )    The situation in the Niger Delta continues to be dire. Oil bunkering, rebel militias, kidnapping, inter-ethnic strife, widespread corruption, ineffective use of oil income, underdevelopment, and anger at oil companies all contribute to feelings of hopelessness on the part of the Niger Delta population. While the Nigerian Federal Government has promised to produce new proposals for a way forward, nothing of real substance has yet been developed. To generate ideas about ways forward toward greater peace and prosperity in the Delta, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars hosted this workshop on the current situation in the Niger Delta.


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Local Voices

Indiana's only independent daily radio news digest staffed by volunteers and supported solely by contributing listeners. Features local and regional headlines, feature reports, interviews and live remotes, and weekly public interest features.

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Episode Details:   (May 12, 2008)    copyright (c) 2008 Bloomington Community Radio (Running Time 30:00)


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