Every month over 170 million Americans use public media – through 368 public television stations, 934 public radio stations, hundreds of online services, education services, and in-person events and activities.

Every month over half of all Americans use public media.

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Susan Suntree combines science and Native American mythology in her epic account of the evolution of Southern California in

Sacred Sites – The Secret History of Southern California

Featuring contemporary photographs of rarely seen landmarks along with meticulous research, Sacred Sites provides unusual insight into how natural history and mythology, and scientific and intuitive thinking combine to create an ever-deepening sense of a place and its people.

(Book web page  http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Sacred-Sites,674694.aspx)

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Still Singing the Blues – A two-part, two-hour radio documentary series featuring musicians in New Orleans and South Louisiana who continue to perform both traditional blues and more commercial rhythm-and-blues. From the producer of “Truckin’ My Blues Away”.

LENGTH: 2 Hours (Pair together or broadcast independently as one-hour specials)
COST:FREE
AVAILABLE: PRX, CD, Downloads (email for info)
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Action Speaks: Underappreciated Dates that Changed America – A series of 1 hour radio specials. Join host Marc Joel Levitt & guest panelists for some old-fashioned community exchange; Action Speaks looks at contemporary issues through the lens of history by using underappreciated dates of the twentieth-century that have changed America.

The 2010 Season  is organized around the theme ‘What’s Eating Us?’
With our country still mired in economic collapse, Action Speaks takes a look at the patterns of consumption that got us in this mess in the first place ( and that may help get us out).

Fall Season Episodes

• 1998 The Sonny Bono Act (Copyright Term Extension Act): Protecting Mickey Mouse or Helping the ‘Beat Go On’ in the Realm of Innovation?
  
• October 6: 1926 Father Coughlin ‘On the Air’ and the rise of right wing radio
• October 13: 1971 Alice Waters Opens Chez Panisse; Local Food and the Promise of Healthy School Lunches
• October 20: 1973 The First US Mobile Phone Call; Always within reach!
• October 27: 1987 The Roaming Mobro Garbage Barge; Garbage, Garbage Everywhere and no direction home!

LENGTH: 1 hour
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: PRX, Downloads

THE WATER-ENERGY CRUNCH: A Powerful Puzzle — A one-hour special report on the Water-Energy Nexus from IEEE Spectrum Magazine and the National Science Foundation looks at how engineers, communities and countries are working on innovations to balance water and energy needs.
LENGTH: 1 Hour
COST: FREE
AVAILABLE: PRX, Content Depot, CD
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