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27 Radio Everywhere!
From: Matt Thompson
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Radio seemed like magic to begin with. Then the Nazis exploited its darker powers. Episode twenty-seven of Noise: A Human History, Radio Everywhere!'

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 1
28 Music While You Shop, Music While You Work
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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How music can make us work, rest and play - episode twenty-eight of Noise: A Human History, 'Music While You Shop, Music While You Work'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:52
  • Purchases: 2
06 Epic Tales
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
Caption: Orkney, Scotland
Epic tales could take days to perform, yet storytellers recited them from memory. David Hendy explains how ancient tales were remembered and passed...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:41
  • Purchases: 3
29 An Ever Noisier World
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy on the sounds of revolution and war in episode twenty-nine of Noise: A Human History, ‘An Ever Noisier World'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:47
  • Purchases: 2
30 The Search for Silence
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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Professor David Hendy considers the modern quest for quiet in episode thirty of Noise: A Human History, 'The Search for Silence'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:36
  • Purchases: 3
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Vacations - "This Summer's Vacation: China."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering Sushmita
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sushmita Memorial, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sushmita Banerjee pled a full life. Full of danger, trying to make a difference in this world. This week Sandip Roy remembers her legacy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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
Italian Tailors: An Age-Old Tradition Unravels
From: Nancy Greenleese
Series: Made In Italy...For Now
Caption: Paola Gueli is one of a dwindling number of tailors in Italy, a country renowned for its tailoring tradition. , Credit: Luigi Fraboni
Skilled tailoring is a dying art. Many of the best tailors hail from Italy where the tradition is unraveling due to a lack of training opportuniti...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 2
El Chavismo: Realismo Mágico de la Política Latinoamericana
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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The impact of President Chavez's absenteeism over Venezuela politics. El impacto del ausentismo del Presidente Chávez sobre la política interna ...

Bought by KDNA Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Brussels Shakespeare Society 2013 - The Merchant of Venice
From: Alison Turner
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From 5th February, the Brussels Shakespeare Society takes to the stage with The Merchant of Venice. Just two weeks before the curtain raising, Re...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 17:01
Justicia Intercultural en Bolivia
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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Analizamos como Bolivia integra aspectos etnio-culturales a su sistema judicial. We examine how Bolivia is cultural ethnic aspects to the judici...

Bought by KDNA Radio


  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Year of the Women?
From: Voices of Our World
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Today on Voices of Our World we speak with two women who may provide some insight into whether or not the effects of the so-called “year of the wom...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVSC, and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
De Fiesta con Banda Alternativa
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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Despidiendo el año con la buena música de Banda Alternativa. Closing the year with the good music of Banda Alternativa.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:05
Rote Learning Versus Critical Thinking
From: Dona Fernandes
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The Supreme Council of Education (SEC) wants to teach Qatari History as a mandatory subject in all the private schools in Qatar, starting from the ...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2012
  • Length: 08:33
Postcards from Vienna
From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial
Caption: Belvedere Palace in Vienna, Austria
Host Phalana Tiller talks about the future of Capitalism with participants at the 2012 Global Peter Drucker Forum in Vienna, Austria.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
"A Delicate Balance" in Rehearsal
From: Alison Turner
Caption: The Warehouse Theatre in Brussels, Belgium
The American Theater Company in Brussels, Belgium, will perform Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning play, "A Delicate Balance" in January 2013. ...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 06:40
Meeting George Adamsons Lions
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Soila Sayialel saves elephants , Credit: Soila Sayialel
George Adamson could think like a lion and be like a lion. David Coulson describes a terrifying experience with George and Maggie and Dennis? Maggi...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2012
  • Length: 05:19
Escape from hippo attack in the Okovango Delta
From: Paula Kahumbu
Caption: David Coulson at a rock art site in Nairobi Park (sitting), Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Have you ever stared a charging hippo in the face? David Coulson did! Reputed to be Africa's most dangerous animal the hippo is known to be able to...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:26
Maasai warrior elephant hunt
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
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I'm sitting in a landrover with 46 year old Soila Sayialel - the car is surrounded by over 50 docile elephants grazing in Amboseli National Park. I...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2012
  • Length: 14:44
Yasmine's Song
From: Latitude News
Caption: Yasmine Gustafsson
Bullying isn't an American phenomenon. In Sweden, a federally-appointed bullying ombudsman will sue a school district for not sheltering students f...

Bought by Listenwise, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Feb 21, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 3
Refugees and Children in Conflict
From: S B
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Professor Michael Wessells of Columbia University takes us beyond war news. What are the true stresses faced by people in war zones and refugees? B...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 11:31
Barbès Podcast, Episode No. 2, Gaida
From: Adam Pogoff
Series: Barbès Podcast
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Syrian vocalist working at the intersection of Arab, Jazz and Improvised Music.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2009
  • Length: 17:54
Barbès Podcast, Episode No. 1, Alex Meixner (accordion)
From: Adam Pogoff
Series: Barbès Podcast
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Alex Meixner: Acclaimed accordionist playing jazz, Bulgarian dance music, Cleveland-style polkas and more.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2009
  • Length: 19:49
Visit to Afghanistan
From: Arndt Peltner
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Visiting the German troops in the north of Afghanistan

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: Mar 20, 2009
  • Length: 28:27
  • Purchases: 1