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This week on World Ocean Radio we reflect on "blue" and the profound stages of meaning beyond the color of the sea and sky to encompass depth, stab...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 04:57
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part twenty of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode we discuss natural capital and the true cost of thi...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 05:26
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This week on World Ocean Radio: part five of the multi-part BLUEprint series. In this episode–Equity Challenges–we discuss the lopsided outcomes bo...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:28
Caption: Youth Climate Strikes (aka Fridays for Future, Youth for Climate) is an international activist movement born of one teenager's staged protests each Friday outside of Sweden's parliament building in August 2018. Greta Thunberg began striking for climate an, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The climate is in crisis, and the next generation is committed to and has been successful in raising awareness, demanding political action, seeking...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2020
  • Length: 05:31
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With the Hearts in the Ice expedition set to begin one month from now, World Ocean Radio is revisiting a special episode dedicated to the upcoming ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:28
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The ocean, in its constant motion, offers solace and support for the human spirit and provides an immersion in nature for renewal and regeneration....

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Citizen Scientists Hilde Fålun Strøm and Sunniva Sorby , Credit: Hearts in the Ice
This week on World Ocean Radio we introduce listeners to two women who are planning to embark on an unsupported exploration in the Arctic: 270 days...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2018
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Barry Lopez, Arctic Nature Writer, Credit: BarryLopez.com
Fourth in a four-part series on authors who write about the ocean and the natural world.

  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 05:12
Caption: "The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot", Credit: Robert Macfarlane
In the third of a four-part series on writers who have shaped his interest in the ocean and the natural world, host Peter Neill reads from essayist...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
With the election season over, the next phase of elected politics has settled on our plates like a bowl of jello. How can you tell when the age-old...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:04
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In the 1950’s and 1960’s American citizens and the stalwart among them who were brave enough to run for political office had to learn to live with...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 06:04
Caption: Shrimp fishing from horseback in Belgium, Credit: UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has no central "ocean" theme, but many of its myriad studies, project...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 05:23
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At the close of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen above all others ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2013
  • Length: 05:09
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
After Nelson Mandela was freed from the life sentence he was serving in prison, he often spoke about refusing bitterness toward his captors. But h...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:54
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill offers an observation on the essential nature and power of light in our lives. He suggests t...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 04:40
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will share his practice of carrying blue marbles with him wherever he goes, gifting them to ...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 05:06
Caption: Man throwing cast net , Credit: Mangrove Action Project | MarinePhotobank.org
In the last edition of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill suggested reciprocity as a value on which to build our response to the environmental deg...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 05:13
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Each year during the holidays, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen above all oth...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 05:10
Caption: What happens after a fish is caught teaches that fish are not so stalwart after all., Credit: Susan Cook
When people say things like the quote published in the newspaper the other day, they don't seem to realize what's at stake. So, this Citizen's Guid...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 03:12
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How do rivers, deserts, mountains and solitary monks weather the bitter cold?

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 30, 2010
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
Trying to hang on to a physical remnant of past wilderness experiences.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Mar 27, 2009
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 1
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A study on new peacebuilding actions within the Pentagon.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2008
  • Length: 55:00
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A commentary noting that Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the staunchest and most effective supporters working Americans have ever had.

Bought by Prairie Public, WEZU, RadioFreePalmer, KBRP Community Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 7
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Your brain uses your words to build or break your day

  • Added: Nov 27, 2005
  • Length: 02:36
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The joys of bicycle commuting

  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 04:17