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The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women - HERO Training Africa’s New Female Leaders
From: Rob Sachs
Caption: HERO, Credit: Foreign Policy
In this episode, we learn about two efforts to increase the number of women politicians in Africa. We begin with a surprising reality TV show in Ke...

Bought by KJZZ, WABE, KUT, WHFR, WYPR and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 27
Leaveil Degree of The Whispers​: You Want That Relationship To Be Stronger in Time
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Leaveil Degree, Credit: Shefik
Time - Leaveil Degree is a member of The Whispers. The group scored 15 top-ten R&B singles, and eight top-ten R&B albums, with two of them, "The Wh...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2021
  • Length: 01:24
Abdel Nasser's Colts
From: Israel Story
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Documentary filmmaker Elise Coker and producer Joel Shupack introduce us to twenty-two-year-old Abdel Naser Musleh, from Kafr ‘Aqab, near Ramallah....

  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:07
Seabees Women's History Month
From: Levingston Lewis
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Ears Adrift celebrates the Seabee birthday month and Women's History Month. Hoorah, Seabees!

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Mar 05, 2020
  • Length: 08:07
  • Purchases: 1
Comedy and the Fairmont Hotel (comedy accommodations)
From: Jan McInnis
Series: Comedian Stories: Tales From the Road in Under 5 Minutes
Caption: Comedian Stories, Credit: Comedian Jan McInnis
Comedy club accommodations usually ain’t that great, though if you work at it long enough, comedy comes full-circle! But sometimes you have to leav...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 04:38
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
The Mandela Tapes
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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In this special program, you'll hear Nelson Mandela as you've never heard him before. This program draws on 50 hours of recorded conversations with...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, KUHF, 90.5 WSNC, WRPI, WCBE and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 36
Learning to Laughing Through The Pain
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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Since she was a little girl, Saphira's life has been structured around the limits of Cerebral Palsey. Pushing through physical and emotional pain, ...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering...The D-Day Spirit
From: Ted Magnuson
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Patriotic recollections

  • Added: Nov 22, 2007
  • Length: 08:49
Program 20: Journey's End
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Daisy Turner was proud of her heritage and understood the value of her family tradition. This is the concluding program in the series, Journey's End.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 2
Program 19: Alec Turner's Funeral
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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At the time of Alec Turner's death in 1923, Journey's End had been his home for 50 years.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
Program 18: Daisy's Near Marriage
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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At 40 Daisy became engaged to Joseph Bonet. When he later broke off the engagement, Daisy sued him--and won!

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 2
Program 17: A New Year's Recitation
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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By the turn of the century the Turner household had become a kind of community social center. This program explores the texture of these gatherings.

Bought by Radio Catskill, KGOU, PRX to iTunes, and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 4
Program 16: Daisy's Premonition
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Daisy and her father were so close that she felt they could communicate psychically. This program details such an event.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 05:16
  • Purchases: 2
Program 15: Daisy Turner Goes to Market
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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When a Boston market owner attempts to cheat her father, Daisy travels to Boston to confront him.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 2
Program 14: Daisy's Black Doll
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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As a girl, Daisy Turner faces discrimination at school and confronts it directly--with poetry.

Bought by KZYX, PRX to iTunes, and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 3
Program 13: How Daisy's Sister Shot the Bull
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Daisy suffered from rickets as a child and during her younger years was unable to walk. At a young age she heard prayers, recitations, hymns, and s...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 2
Program 12: Alec Turner, the Strong Man
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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In this episode Alec Turner accepts a challenge and performs a dramatic feat of strength.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 2
Program 11: Coming to Vermont
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Alec Turner and his wife, Sally settle in Vermont on the farm he called Journey's End.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 2
Program 10: The Slate Quarry
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Alec and Sally Turner lived for a time in Williamsburg, Maine, as members of a colony of freed slaves who worked in the Merrill slate quarry there.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 2
Program 09: Marriage and Near-Disaster at Sea
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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After the Civil War ended, Alec worked helping freed slaves find jobs off the plantations. During this time he met his future wife, Sally Early, th...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 2
Program 08: The Doctor's Letter
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Daisy recites a Civil War-era poem--a doctor's letter to the parents of a dead soldier who was his comrade in arms.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 2
Program 07: The Raid
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Alec Turner guides the First New Jersey Cavalry on a raid of the plantation that had been his home.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 2
Program 06: The Blood-Stained Primer
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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Daisy recounts the story of how her father learned to read

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 2
Program 05: A Fishing Story
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Journey's End: The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and her Family
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John Gouldin's plantation was on the Rappahannock River in Port Royal, Virginia. He owned 2,000 acres and 77 slaves. If the slaves didn't work fast...

Bought by PRX to iTunes and KZYX


  • Added: Jan 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 2