Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 450 stations in North America. The programs are uploaded to the Archive daily and are available in English or Spanish. The program is hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez and produced out of the Downtown Community Television Center, a community media center in New York City's Chinatown. Click for more information about Democracy Now!
A daily, in-depth radio interview program hosted by Capital Public Radio's Beth Ruyak, providing context and background to the issues that face the Sacramento region of California. Click for more information on KXJZ's Insight .
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Presidential Recordings
The Presidential Recordings Collection is made up of two distinct types of presidential speech: public speeches made by U.S. Presidents and secret recordings made in the White House between 1940 and 1973. Many of the recordings originate from the National Archives and the individual presidential libraries that fall under the National Archives. Digital copies of the recordings have been provided by the Scripps Library at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. The Miller Center is a nonpartisan...
Pacifica Radio Archives is considered by historians and scholars to be one of the oldest and most important audio collections in the world. Chronicling the political, cultural and artistic movements of the second half of the 20th century, Pacifica radio programs include documentaries, performances, discussions, debates, drama, poetry readings, commentaries and radio arts. The Pacifica Radio Archives appraise, collect, organize, describe, preserve the creative work generated by, or produced in...
Broadcasts from the World War II years.
Topics: wwII, world war two
Incisive news and analysis in the service of peace and social justice Free Speech Radio News (FSRN) is the only daily half-hour progressive radio newscast in the United States. It is owned and managed by news reporters. FSRN is an independent broadcast news organization born in January 2000 as the result of a strike by 43 reporters who formerly worked for the now defunct Pacifica Network News (PNN). Since that time, FSRN has expanded to hundreds of reporters in the U.S. and around the world....
Mirrored radio shows from PAS-FM radio in Indonesia, including "Topic of the Day" and "Kafi Break".
Recordings of public scanners, including police and fire scanners from a number of US locations are available here for download or streaming.
A fun, fast, and substantive show of reporting and commentary inspired by stories from Mother Jones magazine. Award-winning host Angie Coiro brings together reporters and experts, creating a potent mix of news, razor-sharp commentary, and political humor from some of the best in the business. Mother Jones Radio picks up where corporate news leaves off. Its reporters ask what others don't, say what others won't, and bring you important stories you just won't hear anywhere else. At Mother Jones...
Pioneering a new type of independent media based on exchange and participation, Open Democracy spans the globe and covers the key questions of our times with interviews and contributions from renowned authors and marginalized voices alike. Some topics covered in this collection include life inside Guantanamo, climate change, human rights, and freedom of expression. Interviews with Sister Helen Prejean, Salman Rushdie, Carlos Fuentes, and Daniel Ellsberg are featured. Click for more information...
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For Your Ears Only/On Air is a unique, fair and far-ranging weekend news program that veteran journalist/broadcaster David Alpern has produced and hosted since 1982. In addition to guests from across the right-left spectrum on critical policy and political issues, For Your Ears Only presents news and views on a broad range of other important and engaging topics: health, science, technology, the economy, food, arts and entertainment. Launched as Newsweek On Air, reflecting content from that...
Topics: For Your Ears Only, radio, news
"Lena: a sound portrait of a multifaceted lady." Lena Horne (b. June 30, 1917; d. May 9, 2010) is interviewed at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel by KPFA's Gene De Alessi in conjunction with the release of her autobiography. She was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio, and went on to achieve international fame as a singer. In this recording she discusses her life and career, civil rights, Billie Holiday, Joe Lewis, Humphrey Bogart,...
Topics: Horne, Lena, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, African American Women, Women...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Public Scanner Recordings
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Nearly-continuous recordings of radio scanner traffic in Hamtramck, Michigan (42.404631, -83.057438) for June of 2006.
Topic: scanner audio
Discussions about breaking news as it happens, interviews with journalists, scholars, human rights workers, officials, and other news makers. Politics, human rights, and the environment. Contact Dori Smith, talknationradio@gmail.com.
Topic: Talk Nation Radio
The University of California, San Francisco Tobacco Industry Documents Multimedia Collection contains audiotapes and videotapes related to the advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco products as well as materials gathered and produced by tobacco control advocates. The UCSF Tobacco Industry Audio Recordings Collection includes some of the audiotapes from the larger Multimedia Collection. As a result of the Minnesota lawsuit, the major tobacco companies...
This Collection includes more than 33,600 hourly radio newscasts which aired on more than 1,450 dates by the Voice of America (VOA), the flagship U.S. international broadcaster. Since August 2014, these five-minute English-language newscasts have been downloaded from the VOA website . A small number of older newscasts come from other sources. (VOA also produces content in more than 40 other languages.) Much of VOA's radio and television material is archived online, but content management...
Topic: voa
Rustbelt Radio is a weekly 60-minute news program from the Pittsburgh Independent Media Center and WRCT 88.3 FM Pittsburgh. Featuring news and interviews from the regional rustbelt area, as well as coverage of global issues. As part of the indymedia network, Rustbelt Radio strives to be an outlet for community based, non-corporate, participatory media. Rustbelt Radio features news from the grassroots that is commonly overlooked by the corporate media. It can be heard on radio stations in...
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University of Winnipeg Global College
From February 23 to 25, 2007, the University of Winnipeg Global College and its partnering organizations hosted a remarkable assembly of national and international academics, government representatives, NGO leaders, witnesses and advocates in the human rights arena to frame a proactive approach to education and awareness.With the active participation of an informed and engaged society, the conference set out to develop and sustain a global human rights strategy for change to encourage...
Topics: human rights, social justice, United Nations
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"The President and the Press" American Newspaper Publishers Association. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, NY.
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Topic: John F. Kennedy
Source: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Nearly-continuous recordings of radio scanner traffic in Hamtramck, Michigan (42.404631, -83.057438) for May of 2007.
Topic: scanner_audio
In 2011, Pacifica Radio Archives received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve 150 programs from our vaults, with preservation assistance from George Blood Audio and Video in Philadelphia, PA. The resulting collection encompasses an eclectic array of programs, some of which were only very recently discovered by PRA staff. Among some of the many highlights of the collection are a WBAI interview with Andy Warhol about his film Chelsea Girls shortly after the film’s...
Recording of a number of radio scanner transmissions in Ann Arbor, Michigan (from 42.25072 ,-83.59663).
Source: Ann Arbor Police
Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. “News for working people, by working people.” Our program covers issues in the labor movement locally, nationally, and internationally. The program also addresses issues of concern to working people such as housing, education, health care, immigrants rights, the environment and U.S. foreign policy, from a working class viewpoint. Labor Express Radio airs Sunday nights at 8:00 PM ...
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Nearly-continuous recordings of radio scanner traffic in Hamtramck, Michigan (42.404631, -83.057438) for March of 2007.
Topic: scanner_audio
Source: Uniden BC785D Scanner at 42.404631, -83.057438
News from 1940. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1940 news file dump. Any typo or error is mine.
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Topics: World War, 1939-1945, London (England) -- History -- Bombardment, 1940-1941, WWII, Old Time Radio,...
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and Pacifica station listeners, this one-year project brings to life fragile and deteriorating reel- to-reel tapes of national significance. Three categories of tapes were selected that highlight some of the strengths of our collection: • Pacifica and Politics : Pacifica’s extensive collection of political programs, covering a variety of topics such as Watergate, COINTELPRO, race and gender relations, featuring personalities...
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Nearly-continuous recordings of radio scanner traffic in Hamtramck, Michigan (42.404631, -83.057438) for December of 2006.
Topic: scanner_audio
Source: Uniden BC785D Scanner at 42.404631, -83.057438
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The audio from John Fitzgerald Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural Address. This is the speech with the famous quote "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."
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Topic: Speeches
Source: The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
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California's Comey Response / Mental Health Month / Sound Advice / Little Charlie Baty California's Delegation responds to Trump's firing of James Comey; Sacramento observes Mental Health Month; Classical host Kevin Doherty hosts Sound Advice and Little Charlie Baty performs on Insight.
Topics: KXJZ, Insight, Capital Public Radio, Sacramento, public, radio, California, Comey, Response,...
News from 1945. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1945 news file dump. Plus some V-Discs. Any typo or error is mine. ...if you like my uploads / Demonoid torrents please consider donating to a veteran's charity of your choice, thank you. Especially if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files. :D
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Topics: WWII, Tokyo Rose, 1916-2006, Ardennes, Battle Of The, 1944-1945, Iwo Jima, Battle Of, Japan, 1945,...
News from 1944. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1944 news file dump. Plus some V-Discs. Any typo or error is mine....if you like my uploads / Demonoid torrents please consider donating to a veteran's charity of your choice, thank you. Especially if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files. :D
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Topics: World War, 1939-1945, Old Time Radio, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy,...
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John F. Kennedy Dictabelt Recording. Please refer to the John F. Kennedy Dictabelt finding aid for more information.
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Topic: John F. Kennedy
Source: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Digital copy from the Miller Center of Public Affairs.
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News from 1941. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1941 news file dump. Any typo or error is mine.
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Topics: World War II: Homefront, Tobruk, Battles of, Tobruk, Libya, 1941-1942, World War, 1939-1945 --...
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Road To The White House: Iowa Caucuses The first test in the long and hard-fought road to the White House, the Iowa Caucuses, are a mere four weeks away. Political Junkie Ken Rudin joins Insight to talk about the race. Capitol Chat: New California Laws 2016 New year, new laws. Capital Public Radio's news team has been combing through some of the policies taking effect January 1. Capitol Bureau Chief Ben Adler joins Insight with a look at what they found. Rebroadcast: Kim Stanley Robinson's...
Topics: KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento public radio, Capital Public Radio, CSU Sacramento, Ken Rudin, The...
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* Headlines for September 17, 2007 * The Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein on the Rise of Disaster Capitalism admin note -- description below are for previous dates: * The Race for 2008: A Look at the Presidential Playing Field * Immigrant Groups Launch Boycott of Western Union Over Money Transfer Fees * Thousands Turn Out For Immigrant Rights Protest Against Social Security "No Match" Letters * Headlines for September 14, 2007 * EXCLUSIVE: In One Of His Last Interviews Before His Death...
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Establishing the goal of sending a man to the moon. U.S. Capitol. Washington, DC.
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Topic: John F. Kennedy
Source: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
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* Headlines for September 28, 2007 * More Dead in Burma as Troops Fire on Defiant Anti-Government Protesters * More Health Care Professionals Involved In Design, Structuring of Torture Than in Providing Care For Survivors * Minn. Immigrant Rights Group Sues ICE Over Swift Meatpacking Raid
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Democracy Now! radio program for August 7, 2007 * Headlines for August 7, 2007 * Freedom Next Time: Filmmaker & Journalist John Pilger on Propaganda, the Press, Censorship and Resisting the American Empire
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Lyndon B. Johnson secret White House recording.
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Topic: Lyndon B. Johnson
Source: Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library. Digital copy from the Miller Center of Public Affairs.
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* A Look At How Petraeus Helped Arm Warring Sunni and Shia Militias in Iraq * Billions Over Baghdad: How Did $9B in Cash Airlifted From the Fed to Iraq Go Missing? * Alive Day Memories: New Doc Takes Inside Look at Lives of U.S. Soldiers Wounded in Iraq * Headlines for September 13, 2007 * "Democracy While Black" - Rev. Lennox Yearwood Arrested, Charged with Assault While Entering Petraeus Hearing * From Freedom Watch to Petraeus, A Look at the Bush Administration's Iraq War PR...
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* Headlines for September 14, 2007 * EXCLUSIVE: In One Of His Last Interviews Before His Death Iraqi Tribal Leader Abu Risha Details Relationship With U.S. Military * From Empire to Earth Community: Author David Korten on "The Great Turning" * Vandana Shiva Decries the "Outsourcing of Pollution to the Third World" * Michael Klare on the Internal War For Control of Iraq's Oil * "Climate Porn" - Simon Retallack on the Dangers of Using Alarmist Language to Talk About...
Source: Television broadcast
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* Pentagon Cracks Down on Anti-War Iraq War Veterans For Protesting in Uniform * Dave Zirin on "Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports" * Headlines June 13, 2007 * Vanessa Redgrave Combines Lifelong Devotion to Acting and Political Involvement in New HBO Film “The Fever” * Headlines June 14, 2007 * Oaxaca Residents Mobilize for 1-Year Mark of State Repression of Popular Uprising * Ahead of “Sicko” Release, Michael Moore Brings Health Care Campaign...
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* Vandana Shiva Decries the "Outsourcing of Pollution to the Third World" * Michael Klare on the Internal War For Control of Iraq's Oil * "Climate Porn" - Simon Retallack on the Dangers of Using Alarmist Language to Talk About Climate Change * Headlines for September 17, 2007 * The Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein on the Rise of Disaster Capitalism * Headlines for September 18, 2007 * Thousands Expected to March in Jena to Protest Pending Charges Against High School Students *...
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News from the 1970's I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1970's news file dump. Plus some talk shows and specials. Any typo or error is mine.
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Topics: 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, News, Cold War, AFVN, Energy Crisis,...
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* Displaced, Imprisoned Darfurian Refugee Daoud Ibarahaem Hari On His Return to Darfur to Help Expose the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis * Philadelphia Court Hearing Could Decide Fate of Imprisoned Journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal * Headlines for May 16, 2007 * Studs Terkel At 95: “Ordinary People Are Capable of Doing Extraordinary Things, and That’s What It’s All About. They Must Count!” * Headlines for May 17, 2007 * Gaza Is Burning: Laila El-Hadded Reports on How Recent Fighting in...
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