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The Spanish Hour 2413: Falla and the Theater
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
Caption: Pablo Picasso theater curtain for The Three-Cornered Hat, 1919
In 1904, Carlos Fernandez Shaw introduced Manuel de Falla to "The Three-cornered hat," Pedro Antonio de Alarcón’s satire of village life in Andaluc...

Bought by WRTI, WCQS, WXXI Rochester, KVNO, KRZA and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 45
The Spanish Hour 2410: Paseo Latinoamericano
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
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Classical and traditional music of Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Paraguay, as well as a work by a North-American composer with Peruvian, Chinese, Lit...

Bought by WRTI, New Hampshire Public Radio, KSJE, KRZA, KVNO and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 21
The Spanish Hour 2407: Classics from Argentina, Chile, and Venezuela
From: Candice Agree
Series: The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree
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20th-century South American classcis from Argentina’s Carlos Guastavino to Chile’s Juan Antonio Sánchez to Venezuela’s Evencio Castellanos.

Bought by KSJE, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRTI, KMUN, WCQS and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 37
World in Progress 01/30/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Who decides what's healthy? Private donors impacting WHO's health policies - The current Corona virus outbreak highli...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
The Big Pond #50: Showing Our Colors
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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People of mixed heritage lead complex lives, often navigating between two racial and/or cultural identities. Producer Jocelyn Robinson, who lives t...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 27:04
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #35: The Library and the Book
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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German and American libraries have influenced each other’s development tremendously over the last few centuries. During this time, the library has ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WNYO, KICI Iowa City, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 4
The Big Pond #29: Dieter Kosslick’s Last Red Carpet Ride
From: Goethe-Institut
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Dieter Kosslick is one of the film world’s best known festival directors. He’s put his stamp on the Berlin International Film Festival for the pas...

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 27:06
Guinea Bissau Changes Currency (1996 BBC Focus on Africa)
From: Hechtech
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Sample BBC Reporting from the 1990s

  • Added: Aug 01, 2018
  • Length: 06:24
Cambodia - The Little Bank that Grew (2010 PRI/BBC The World)
From: Hechtech
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It's one of Cambodia's few success stories. ACLEDA bank began as a micro-lender. Loaning tiny sums to allow Cambodians to open small businesses.Now...

  • Added: May 08, 2018
  • Length: 05:02
World in Progress 03/15/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Myth and Challenges of the Nile river - The Nile River has been the life line for East Africa for thousands of years. A...

Bought by KRJF-lp, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 3: We Eat The Seeds
From: Slow Melt Productions
Series: The Slow Melt: A Podcast About Chocolate
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Many of us have been eating chocolate since childhood, but could you recognize it in nature? In this episode, we start at the farm with the pod-sha...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 24:00
India and Biotechnology
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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Glenn Stone explores the controversies around genetically modified crops and the effects of biotechnology on farmers in India.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 10:30
Friends and Rivals: Shakespeare and the Competition
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Joe Loewenstein describes the small and highly competitive theater scene in which Early Modern playwrights like William Shakespeare flourished.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 14:06
Commedia dell'Arte & the Tragicomedy: Shakespeare's Italian Influences
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Robert Henke tracks Shakespeare back to his Italian inspirations and uncovers sources for his early comedies.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 12:26
In a Global Economy, What Happens to Elections?
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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Two political scientists explain how globalization is changing political parties and elections in the European Union and beyond.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 1
An Adult Choice? Corporate Responsibility and the Global Face of Tobacco
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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An anthropologist examines the ethics of tobacco companies' practices around the world.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 12:00
Migration and Change in the Himalayan Highlands
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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Geoff Childs, an anthropologist, examines the consequences of rapid population decline in ethnically Tibetan communities in Nepal.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 12:40
Natural Gas in the New Bolivia
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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An anthropologist comments on the complicated relationship in Bolivia between the natural gas industry and those who want to protect the environmen...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 12:00
Berlin Journal - Richard Holbrooke's Legacy
From: The American Academy in Berlin
Series: Berlin Journal
Caption: Richard C. Holbrooke
On this first program we look at the legacy of one of the most important American diplomats in the post cold war era - Richard C. Holbrooke

  • Added: Jul 15, 2014
  • Length: 52:36
Latitude News Podcast #6 — The Shady Trade in American Horsemeat
From: Latitude News
Caption: This racehorse never should have been eaten. , Credit: Ken Terpenning
Are Europeans eating drugged-up American horses?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 14:04
  • Purchases: 2
Globalization Show Segment
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by Chamarisk, Flickr
Audio Revolution! TAKES ON, or rather, shares our opinions on and experiences with Globalization.

Bought by KUNM and KRZA


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 28:04
  • Purchases: 2
Immaculée Ilibagiza: One of 16 Women Who Survived The Rwanda Genocide
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Immaculée Ilibagiza was one of sixteen women that survived the Rwanda Genocide in 1994. Listen to her story of survival and how it's changed her li...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 30:34
  • Purchases: 1
Beyond the Islamic Golden Age
From: With Good Reason
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Scholars from around the world gathered recently for George Mason University’s forum Beyond Golden Age and Decline: Muslim Societies and Global Mod...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Profile of a musician in a refugee camp in Kenya.
From: Becky Palmstrom
Caption: Scisa Rumenge at home in Kakuma Refugee camp, Kenya., Credit: Becky Palmstrom
Scisa Rumenge is a Congolese musician living in Kakuma Refugee camp in the north of Kenya. He taught himself to play guitar in the camp and sings a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
India Rising
From: The Stanley Foundation
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A special documentary program from the Stanley Foundation, KQED Public Radio and KUT Austin.

Bought by KWIT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGBH Radio Boston, WYSO, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15