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A 9-year-old girl is sent away from her abusive family to live with an older couple, who try to break through her fear and silence to let some love...
- Added: Apr 26, 2023
- Length: 02:47
The life story of a donkey, and his experiences under different human owners, is depicted to expand our ideas of what subjective life is to include...
- Added: Apr 26, 2023
- Length: 03:34
It was 27 years ago this month—at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe—that 62 students witnessed a miracle. Of the biblical variety. Several strange...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Sep 11, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on World Ocean Radio we have a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson written in 1883. Steven...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 24, 2019
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 1
This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill highlights the dark side of what happens at sea in the context of a forthcoming book by Pulitzer Pr...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 05:34
As humans migrate toward the coastal zone in the next 30 to 50 years, less seaside space will be available for us to enjoy, to entice our senses, a...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 05:09
- Purchases: 1
At each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite poem was chosen not o...
- Added: Dec 27, 2016
- Length: 04:51
The Je Suis slogan, once a stirring call for a moment of coming together in protest and solidarity, is well-meaning but has a long lost its meaning.
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 05:59
A heartfelt goodbye to a favorite Aunt.
- Added: Feb 16, 2016
- Length: 06:00
World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill recently witnessed a beautiful full moon rise from an island perch in Maine. The silent, stealthy way that it ro...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 05:11
After working as a songwriter, in 2001 at the age of 22, Isbell joined the rock band Drive-By Truckers while they toured in support of their album ...
Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WKMS, KSRQ, WUMB, WDSE and more
- Added: Feb 13, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 8
At the close of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen not only for its ...
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 05:11
Toxic chemicals released into watersheds and waterways remain a persistent problem despite the sounding of alarms, which for decades have railed ag...
- Added: Dec 15, 2014
- Length: 05:27
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will have us look at what might lie beyond hope, how we might apply our optimism to meet and...
- Added: Apr 14, 2014
- Length: 05:28
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
The 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry, Alice Friman's other honors include the Ezra Pound Poetry Award for her third book, ZOO. In t...
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Can trauma be healed with architecture and design? Eric Molinsky looks how Columbine, Aurora and Virginia Tech have changed.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 09:42
- Purchases: 1
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
What makes you feel safe? A person, a place, a sound? The Children's Radio Foundation spoke to a pupil, a parent and a life-guard about what makes ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2011
- Length: 15:00
There's a world of difference between just driving somewhere and heading off on a road trip in that direction.
- Added: Aug 16, 2010
- Length: 03:36
Peter Boyer's "Ellis Island: The Dream of America" is featured, performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by the composer.
- Added: Jun 08, 2006
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 30
How a professional organizer cured my spring cleaning fever.
- Added: Apr 16, 2004
- Length: 02:34
Former HS geeks -- Muslim, ex-Jehovah, gay/straight and fabulous attend an "adult prom" for an NYC friend who's moving on...,
- Added: Apr 15, 2004
- Length: 02:49