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Caption: Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak tours Kolkata's Durga Puja with the widows of Vrindavan. , Credit: Sandip Roy
India’s famous “toilet man,” Dr. Bindeswar Pathak, died last month at the age of 80. But he was far more than just an inventor and business man. Sa...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: A billboard in Kolkata celebrates the Oscar win for The Elephant Whisperers. , Credit: Sandip Roy
The short documentary Oscar win for The Elephant Whisperers is being widely celebrated in India because it's a first for India. But what will it me...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
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A postcard from Curitiba, Brazil.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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If you’ve ever tried to work creatively, this one is for you – in this episode of the FEHLER podcast, our producer Bilal Qureshi sits down with fou...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 25:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A dog in the movie Pariah Dog, Credit: Pariah Dog the movie
The dogs that wander the streets in Kolkata are not strays, but part of an extended family, cared for and fed by many of the cities lesser known in...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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
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


  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 22:39
  • Purchases: 1
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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


  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Ms. Cissy Houston
Emmy Award Winning Producer & Director, A. Curtis Farrow In Conversation With Another Great Performer, Ms. Cissy Houston.

  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 20:00
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Free, audio book excerpt. Once upon a time, there was a girl who imagined a bear. Actually, she imagined a lot of bears. And then she drew them—bea...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2013
  • Length: 13:16
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Carmignano is an invitation to pause and reflect on the limits of our taste, and learn to surpass them. It explores how taste is simultaneously th...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2013
  • Length: 45:00
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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something special about the folks who squeeze squeezeboxes: examples and interviews with some kind accordeon players who love their music and play ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 01:05:52
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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


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 2
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You hear about it all the time, but how many people truly know what diversity is all about? Can a traffic light teach us?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
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Maria is a woman who took to her heart some of the hundreds of thousands of orphans in Russia.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2008
  • Length: 26:03

  • Added: Apr 10, 2008
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 6