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Italian Artisans: Shuttered Workshops in the Renaissance’s Birthplace

From: Nancy Greenleese
Series: Made In Italy...For Now

Caption: Italian Negar Azhar Azari makes a ring by hand in the centuries-old Florentine tradition. , Credit: Maurizio Rufino

Italian artisans craft exquisite objects with their hands, particularly in Florence. Yet aging artisans crippled by Italy’s bureaucracy aren’t abl...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Feb 25, 2013
Length: 07:37
Purchases: 1

Moving Up, Moving Out

From: War News Radio

This month on War News Radio, “Moving Up, Moving Out”, we discuss what stories in the news this week angered us the most. Then, we learn about Fran...

Added: Feb 08, 2013
Length: 30:01

International Testing in Science and Math

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

In response to international tests that show American students lagging, a number of programs supporting the study of science, technology, engineeri...

Bought by KENW, KFAI Minneapolis, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Jan 29, 2013
Length: 02:31
Purchases: 3

United Germany

From: With Good Reason

When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 a country that had been divided was reunited. But after the physical wall was torn down, Germany was still l...

Added: Dec 06, 2012
Length: 02:27

Combatting Moroccan Youth Unemployment

From: War News Radio

The majority of the Middle East currently faces a youth bulge, which many policy analysts have deemed as the single most important development prob...

Added: Nov 01, 2012
Length: 07:18

Growing Pains at The World's Largest Co-op?

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

The Mondragón Corporation includes everything from banking to bike factories, nano-technology to rabbit farming. Its a corporate dream—but this cor...

Added: Sep 05, 2012
Length: 09:43

Making it Our Business: Co-ops on the Rise

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Ariizmendi Fourth Street, Credit: Andrew Stelzer

The global economic situation is causing more people to consider worker owned businesses. We go from Chicago, where workers are trying to take over...

Bought by KALW

Added: Sep 05, 2012
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 1

Podcast #60: Day of the African Child draws attention to children living with disabilities

From: UNICEF
Series: Beyond School Books

Caption: Denis Komakech, 17, a blind student, uses his laptop at Gulu High School, northern Uganda, an inclusive school with a special needs annex for children who are blind., Credit: © UNICEF/UGDA2012-00127/Sibiloni

UNICEF podcast moderator Femi Oke discusses the rights of children with disabilities with Shuaib Chalklen, UN Special Rapporteur on Disability of t...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge

Added: Jun 14, 2012
Length: 10:55
Purchases: 1

Saint Death

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

For the past ten years, drug cartels in Mexico have been worshiping a sort of grim repress, a robed skeleton lady known as Santa Muerte, or Saint D...

Bought by KENW, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: May 15, 2012
Length: 02:28
Purchases: 3

An Extra-Chilly Successor To Hubble

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: Scientists working on the Webb Telescope say it's so revolutionary, it’s like “our generation’s Apollo.”

Come winter, your neck of the woods may be cold. But guess how frigid the James Webb Space Telescope will be when it launches in 2018? 400 degrees ...

Bought by PRX Remix, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Jan 20, 2012
Length: 06:22
Purchases: 4

The Meskhetians

From: Julia Barton

Caption: Faramus Ibrahimov., Credit: Joshua Sarantitis

Many refugees in the United States have complicated stories to tell. The plight of the Meskhetian Turks spans six decades and four countries. Now s...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jul 15, 2011
Length: 04:43
Purchases: 1

Nepal: Front Line of Exile

From: The Tibet Connection

Caption: About 20.000 Tibetans live in Nepal, but without citizenship or refugee status., Credit: Mikel Dunham

Tibetan exiles in Nepal are stuck in a no-man's land, residing there legally yet unable to get driver's licenses or open bank accounts, lacking man...

Bought by WABE

Added: Jul 01, 2011
Length: 06:00
Purchases: 1

GNP Show 8 (Half Hour) World Vacation

From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour

Summer tourism with a twist is the theme this week on the World Vision Report. In Nepal, we follow a street vendor who sells an exotic musical ins...

Bought by KKRN

Added: Jun 30, 2011
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 1

GNP Show 8 (One Hour) World Vacation

From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly One Hour

Summer tourism with a twist is the theme this week on the World Vision Report. In Nepal, we follow a street vendor who sells an exotic musical ins...

Bought by KMUD, Prairie Public, WBEZ, WDSE, and WRST-FM Oshkosh

Added: Jun 30, 2011
Length: 01:50:25
Purchases: 5

"Please Call Stella": Capturing English, from Afrikaans to Zulu

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: The Speech Accent Archive is the brainchild of GMU's Steven Weinberger, Credit: Rebecca Sheir

A look -- and listen -- inside the world's largest online database of English accents.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Jun 24, 2011
Length: 05:19
Purchases: 5

GNP 007 (Half Hour) Emmanuel Jal and Spleen Sandwiches

From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour

Violence against women is commonplace in Afghanistan. It takes all forms: domestic abuse, forced marriage, rape, even honor killings. This week, w...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KKRN

Added: Jun 23, 2011
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 2

GNP 007 (Full Hour) Emmanuel Jal and Spleen Sandwiches

From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly One Hour

Violence against women is commonplace in Afghanistan. It takes all forms: domestic abuse, forced marriage, rape, even honor killings. This week, ...

Bought by WDSE

Added: Jun 23, 2011
Length: 01:50:25
Purchases: 1

GNP Show 06 (Half Hour)-World Hunger and Popcorn

From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour

(To air the week of June 18,2011) According the U.N. World Food Program there are now more than a billion people in the world who are in urgent n...

Bought by WEZU

Added: Jun 14, 2011
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 1

GNP Show 06 (One Hour) World Hunger

From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly One Hour

(for air the week of June 18, 2011) According the U.N. World Food Program there are now more than a billion people in the world who are in urgent n...

Bought by WBEZ and WDSE

Added: Jun 09, 2011
Length: 01:50:25
Purchases: 2

GNP Show 05 (Half Hour) Afghan Orphans

From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour

(To air the week of June 11, 2011). An orphanage in Afghanistan for descendants of Genghis Khan… …teenage refugees sing peace but get death threats...

Bought by 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station

Added: Jun 09, 2011
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 1

GNP Show 05 (One Hour) Afghan Orphans

From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly One Hour

(For air the week of June 11, 2011) Stop at a red light in Mexico and chances are young children will approach your car selling food, trinkets, or ...

Bought by WDSE and WRST-FM Oshkosh