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From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Why is a Nazi resistance fighter famous in Brazil yet unheard of in Germany? How did an African American musician become a hero in East Germany? Di...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

The Big Ponder #15: Record Booth

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...

Bought by HowSound and KICI Iowa City

Best of the Best 2020: Letters to a Young Poet

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast

In this episode, two young Black artists revisit memories to grapple with how they are seen by others, and how they see themselves.

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WBEZ, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media and more

Baptism of Solitude: Paul Bowles's Morocco Tapes

From: The Organist

Driving around Morocco in the late 1950s with counterculture icon Paul Bowles at the wheel, with a case of hot Pepsi, a brick of hash, and a massiv...

Bought by KMUN and XRAY.fm

Blue Water Cowboys

From: Outer Voices

Caption: Pulling up the Dinghy, Credit: Stephanie Guyer-Stevens

“Blue Water” sailing is the kind where there’s no land to be seen, hopefully for days or weeks on end, and there’s a rare group of people who contr...

Bought by PRX Remix

Friends and Freedom Fighters

From: Philip Armand

Philip Armand grapples with commitment, then spends an afternoon watching the TV show Friends with a group of Kurdish Freedom Fighters.

Rabin Is....

From: Israel Story
Series: Israel Story Podcast

Rabin is a symbol. An icon. But in Israel of 2015, twenty years after the Prime Minister's murder, it isn't so simple to understand what the reall...

Allusionist 18: Fix part II

From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist

The messiness of English is the price of its success. It is the most widely spoken language in the world, geographically, being an official languag...

Bought by PRX Remix

How to be a Plastivist

From: Ali Lightfoot

Caption: Sampled water from the north pacific garbage patch, Credit: Dale Selvam

Billions of pounds of plastic can now be found on about 40 percent of the world’s ocean surfaces. In this radio documentary, KVNF's Ali Lightfoot...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio

Arctic Sound, Lost and Found

From: Jennifer Kingsley

Caption: Arctic sunset, Credit: Ralph Lee Hopkins

Jennifer Kingsley returns to the Arctic almost every year. She has taken some long journeys across the north by canoe, but these days she travels a...

Bought by KALW

God Had Been There Forever

From: Cathy Corman

Retired American Presbyterian missionary Barry Alter explains, in India, how the Easter story convinced her that Christianity wasn't about converti...

Bought by KZYX, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, and WEZU

How to Give

From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human

This week we're asking what it takes to get us to give, and how we know if we're doing it right.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WKCC, and Spokane Public Radio

The Imaginary Albino

From: Garth Mullins

Caption: Garth Mullins & Lisa Hale, Credit: Don Sawatzky

From the 19th century freak show to the East African black market in body parts to the modern cinema, the image of the albino has seized the popula...

Ghana From The Tree Tops

From: Podcast Kelly

Caption: Africa's first canopy ropewalk at Kakum National Park, Credit: Kelly Ramundo

Ghana has long been a special place for the African American diaspora. For many, "roots tourism" is a rite of passage. But in the early 90s, the We...

Bought by XRAY.fm

Olympics Medals for Music, Literature, and Art?

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

A lot has changed for the Olympics over the last century, including the focus on an entire discipline.

Bought by KISU

The Remotest Inhabited Island in the World

From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It

A speck of land in the South Atlantic, Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world.

Bought by WXDU and PRX Remix

Mediterrania - taste of the music of people of Catalunya and the mediterranian shores

From: PhilipDavid Ellwand

A musician and a restauranteur from Liverpool visit a festival of performances with traditional roots in Catalonia in North East Spain. They meet m...

Capoeira Connection

From: Jenna Weiss-Berman

Martha’s Vineyard is home to three thousand immigrants from Brazil. Some of them have found community in the centuries-old Afro-Brazilian martial a...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.