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Where Does Foreign Aid Go?
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The U.S. gives more money in foreign aid than any other country in the world. Researchers have just launched a web database that allows people to ...

Bought by KENW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 19, 2011
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 3
Bonjour Chanson Series 8, Episode 40
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 8
Caption: Avignon, France
In this Episode 6 Francophone Artists are introduced in English with one of their songs. No need to understand French to enjoy their offering becau...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 25:34
  • Purchases: 1
The Magic Tent. A Celebration of French Language Popular Music
From: Charles Spira
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Prepare to be dazzled by the Music, Voices and Artists in this Whirlwind Tour of French Language Popular Music. This program was specially created ...

Bought by WABE, WSLR, KVMR, KUT, and KSJD


  • Added: Jun 09, 2010
  • Length: 50:59
  • Purchases: 5
International Guitar Night: Four virtuosos from Germany, Israel and America talk about a convergence of finger-style guitar
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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There are some guitarists for whom one insturment isan't enough. Brian Gore is one of them. For the past decade, he’s been realizing his ambition...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Bonjour Chanson Series 7, Episode 34
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 7
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Bonjour Chanson invites English speakers into the world of French Language Popular Music by introducing Artists in English and paraphrasing portion...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 27, 2010
  • Length: 28:39
  • Purchases: 1
Stylish fingerstyle guitarist from Sweden
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Jimmy Wahlsteen turns a pop melody sensibility into fingerstyle instrumentals

  • Added: Jan 14, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
Karda Estra: Gothic images in chamber rock music
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Karda Estra is the recording persona of English composer Richard Wileman. He started out as a rocker but veered into composing classical works for ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 28, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Inbar Bakal's Hebrew hymns on electronic wings
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
Caption: Israeli singer Inbar Bakal
Inbar Bakal is an Israeli singer born of Yemeni and Iraqi parents. Her music, composed with producer Carmen Rizzo (Seal, Alanis Morrisette), is a ...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2009
  • Length: 03:30
ROBERT THURMAN ON WHY THE DALAI LAMA MATTERS
From: The Tibet Connection
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An interview with leading Tibet Scholar Robert Thurman on why the Dalai Lama matters

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 11:13
Leaplings and Lunar-cy: The Science of Leap Year
From: Rebecca Sheir
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Every four years, February packs a whole extra day... but why?

Bought by KHNS, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, KISU, KZYX and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2008
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 6
Saving Australian Savanna
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Welcome to the world's largest tropical grasslands. Covering more territory than all of Western Europe, they stretch for over twelve hundred miles ...

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 1
Cuban Organ
From: Gianluca Tramontana
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A musical travelogue into rural Cuba

Bought by PRX Remix, WBEZ, PRX to iTunes, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 31, 2007
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 5
How About Some Whale Watching?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Whales are probably worth more alive than dead, so why is the worldwide moratorium on commerical whaling under siege?

Bought by KMXT and KUAC


  • Added: Sep 25, 2007
  • Length: 01:19
  • Purchases: 2
Guatemala's Bilingual-intercultural education aims to keep indigenous girls and boys in school
From: UNICEF
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This Story is Free! English and Spanish versions available. Guatemalan indigenous children in the forefront with Bilingual-Intercultural Education

  • Added: Sep 04, 2007
  • Length: 08:42
We Put Our Lives Into This Place
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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After 60 years in business, Moosehead Manufacturing Company is closing up shop because of overseas competition.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2007
  • Length: 08:19
  • Purchases: 1
A Darfur village turns its back on conflict, opting instead for development
From: UNICEF
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This Story is Free! This piece outlines to listeners how in Darfur, not everything is black and white - its gives an alternate perspective on the d...

  • Added: May 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:56
Author of UN violence study advocates child rights at criminal justice conference
From: UNICEF
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This Story is free! Broadcasters can use this content as is or edited down to show how the intellectual and international NGo communities are conc...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2007
  • Length: 03:50
Children in Madagascar suffer in yet another flood caused by latest cyclone
From: UNICEF
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This Story is Free! Children in Madagascar continue to suffer as another flood covers the north and northwest of the country after Cyclone Indlala ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2007
  • Length: 04:34
UNICEF Representative in Somalia assesses impact of conflict on children and families
From: UNICEF
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This Story is free! It puts an international children's NGO's perspective on what is going on in Somalia with all the conflict and how its impactin...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2007
  • Length: 04:47
SOWETO Today
From: Mikko Kapanen
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The largest township of South Africa 12 years after the fall of apartheid

  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 10:30
Indigenous People's Music
From: KSUT
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Interview with Michael Kickingbear Johnson, creator of Indigenous People's Music.

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: Aug 10, 2006
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Dutch Cossack
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Dutch choir director Marcel Verhoeff is at the forefront of the Cossack choral music revival in and outside Russia.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 29, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 1
A telephone hotline starts up in Bam, Iran
From: UNICEF
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This Story is Free! Correspondent Miranda Eeles reports on a new telephone hotline in Bam , Iran

  • Added: Nov 10, 2005
  • Length: 03:58
Banda Aceh Indonesia Long After Tsunami
From: UNICEF
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This story is Free! Correspondent Dan Thomas visits Banda Aceh to see the rebuilding effort

  • Added: Nov 10, 2005
  • Length: 08:39
Active Voices: Neville Williams- Chasing the Sun
From: Chris Goldstein
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Active Voices: Neville Willams - Chasing the Sun: Solar Adventures Around the World, we discuss bringing rural households in India a Solar Electrif...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2005
  • Length: 05:33