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World in Progress 04/08/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The Mekong River flows 5,000 kilometers from China to Vietnam. China's construction of a number of large hydropower dams al...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
World in Progress 08/27/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Mekong dams turn off the tap for farmers and fish - The Mekong River flows 5,000 kilometers from China to Vietnam. China'...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
Sing the Old Songs: Part 2 (episode 4)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
Caption: Growing Old, Credit: Growing Old Project
Picture what it would look like for Seattle's housing and hospital infrastructure to reflect Coast Salish culture. Consider the role that forced st...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 26:51
  • Purchases: 2
Sing the Old Songs: Part 1 (episode 4)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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Explore the systems of assimilation that aimed to eliminate Native culture in the United States, systems that began in Washington State. Travel to ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: May 06, 2020
  • Length: 34:44
  • Purchases: 3
Be the Hummingbird (episode 2)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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Go to the heart of Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood, where an immigrant family and thousands of volunteers turned 20 acres into a Japanese gard...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KVSC


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:47
  • Purchases: 3
Oh, Give Me a Home | Episode 3 | Born Free
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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Many cattle ranchers view wild bison as a threat to their livelihoods. But some think cattle and bison can coexist. On episode three of Threshold, ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, Prairie Public, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Oh, Give Me a Home | Episode 2 | The Red Man Was Pressed
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: The Apache Reaper, Credit: Edward Curtis
How did we go from more than 50 million wild bison to just 23 free-roaming animals? And how does the decimation of the herds relate to the oppressi...

Bought by KPIP-LP, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, Prairie Public, Wyoming Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Episode 15: Acre for Acre - The Fight For Strawberry Field
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we take a close look at all sides of a controversial land deal and that bitterly divided the Colorado Springs...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2016
  • Length: 58:58
Crazy About Mushrooms: Conversations with Fungus Fanatics
From: Anna McHugh
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What do the poisoned Emperor Claudius, the Aztec storm deity Quetzacotl and a 5,500 year old Ice Man have in common? They were all crazy about mush...

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, and KHSU


  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 01:02:07
  • Purchases: 3
Humankind: Passengers (Hour Two)
From: Humankind
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With federal support for public transit hanging in the balance, this sound-rich series (two one-hour documentaries) examines how our personal trans...

Bought by WCPN, WBEZ, Iowa Public Radio, KUT, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Humankind: Passengers (Hour One)
From: Humankind
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With transportation jobs on the line, this sound-rich series (two one-hour documentaries) examines how our personal transportation choices - privat...

Bought by KVSC, WCPN, WBEZ, Iowa Public Radio, KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9
The Planning Problem
From: Nathanael Johnson
Caption: Artist rendering of the California High Speed Rail, Credit: CAHSRA
The Big Dig, the Bay Bridge, the Chunnel... Why do transportation projects go so spectacularly over budget? There's a simple explanation - this doc...

Bought by The Neighborhood and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 26:38
  • Purchases: 2
Antarctica: Life On The Ice 30 Second Promo
From: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
30 Second Promo for Antarctica: Life On The Ice Special

Bought by WFIU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WCPN, 90.5 WSNC, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 29, 2010
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Antarctica: Life On The Ice 15 Second Promo
From: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
:15 Second Promo for Antarctica: Life On The Ice Special

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Jun 29, 2010
  • Length: :15
  • Purchases: 1
Documentary - Coal: Dirty Past, Hazy Future
From: The Environment Report
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Brew the coffee, turn on the radio, and check your electronic mail – you’re on your way to burning 20 pounds of coal for the day. That’s how much ...

Bought by KUER, WYSO, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, KSFR and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 16
Peace Efforts at the Rainbow Gatherings (29:00) [Peace Talks Radio]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Mike Niman's Book: "People of the Rainbow"
Are the annual Rainbow Gatherings, on National Forest Land each Fourth of July, just free-wheeling havens for hippies or are they serious experimen...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KUAC, KSFR, and KUNM


  • Added: Aug 26, 2009
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
The Price of Rice
From: Outer Voices
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The price of rice is the price of life in Vietnam: the country is now the second largest exporter of rice in the world. But one out of every seven ...

Bought by KUER, KFOK-LPFM, KZYX, WRPI, KQED and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2009
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 14
Dutch Dykes in Louisiana
From: Anton Foek
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10 centuries of battling the sea gave the Dutch an added value inhelping to build levees

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: Aug 06, 2008
  • Length: 54:35
  • Purchases: 1
Saving The Sierra
From: Catherine Stifter
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3 stories of rural America where unlikely allies have found common ground in dealing with urban development pressures

Bought by KUT-HD, KXOT Public Radio, WCBU, WVIK, KUER and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Part 1 of 7 - The Global Triple Crisis
From: Bing Gong
Series: Confronting the Global Triple Crisis & Local Responses
Caption: PRX default Piece image
3-Day Teach-in in Washington DC on Global Crisis in September 2007

  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 54:09
Haunting the Quabbin: Inside Out
From: Inside Out Documentaries
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How four towns in an idyllic valley were levelled and burned in the late '30s to build the biggest drinking water reservoir of the era, as experien...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, WNIJ, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Mar 08, 2007
  • Length: 01:02:02
  • Purchases: 3
RN Documentary: Releasing the River - Restoring the Rhythms of the Zambian wetlands
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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ABG visits a Worldwide Fund for Nature project to restore the Zambian wetlands which - since the construction of two huge hydroelectric dams on the...

Bought by CKMO and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 09, 2004
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 2