
Prairie Public Presents
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Latest Episodes
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Sunday at 5pm: Host Frances McDormond brings you more stories of can-do people, must-do people, get-it-done people, community activists and visionaries.
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Sunday at 5pm: Host Frances McDormond brings you stories of can-do people, must-do people, get-it-done people, community activists and visionaries.
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Sunday at 5pm: The Civic Standard chronicles the making of a unique theater production in Hardwick, Vermont.
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Patrick Mathews Halmrast is a composer and a sound artist from Moorhead, Minnesota. His father, Lynn, had been a crew member on the Hjemkomst — the modern re-creation of a Viking ship that sailed to Norway. And, as it turns out, the crew had taken along an audio recorder. Patrick used these tapes to create a documentary, audio art piece, and family memoir.
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In an encore presentation from 2018, host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Matthew Talbert and Jessica Wolfendale, co-authors of the book, "War Crimes: Causes, Excuses, and Blame."
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Two stories about food, family, and the choices our government makes in our name.
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Sunday at 5pm: Over a third of Americans lack sufficient savings to handle a $400 emergency. In this revealing documentary, we consider the plight of tens of millions living on the edge of poverty in the United States.
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Hear a GameChanger discussion with Professor & Author Donald Fixico.
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This Sunday at 5pm, the new episode of Why? explores “The Case for Nonhuman Rights" with guest Jeff Sebo.
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This Sunday at 5pm: Travel to Mexico's Gulf of California — one of the most biodiverse places on the planet — to see what a porpoise (the Vaquita), a fish (the totoaba) whose bladder fetches tens of thousands of dollars on the black market, and the highly desirable colossal shrimp tell us about the complicated world of fishing.