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StoryCorps Griot: Atiba Mbiwan, Didi Ndando, and Egbe Monjimbo
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Sisters Didi Ndando and Egbe Monjimbo talk with Atiba Mbiwan, who honored the memory of their late brother Acha by taking on the family’s last name.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:47
StoryCorps: Joe Chan and Pak Yan
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Pak Yan (left) and Joe Chan (right) at Friendship Park in Richmond, CA soon after they reunited. The text on the rock reads ‘friendship’ in Chinese
Born in Hong Kong, Pak Yan and Joe Chan were inseparable as kids. But when Joe was in the 6th grade, his family moved to the U.S. The friends were ...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 02:51
Generation Putin, Ten Years Later
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sasha Krizhanofsky reads his 1990 letter to Jessica Partnow in Korsun-Shevchenkivs'kyi, Ukraine, 2012.
This week, Making Contact’s Jessica Partnow offers a look at the state of Russian youth activism from 2012 to today. She revisits her reporting fro...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Ríos
From: New Letters on the Air
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We continue our month-long series that features current State Poets Laureate with Alberto Ríos, named Arizona's inaugural Poet Laureate in 2013. In...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Scottish Fiction Writer Margot Livesey
From: New Letters on the Air
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In this presentation at the Kansas City Public Library, Scottish-born writer Margot Livesey talks about her evolution as a reader and writer, and s...

  • Added: May 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Folktale of Secret Gardens
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Secret Gardens, Credit: Julia Meek
It's a bevy of blossoms and floral finery we're tracking on this week's edition--in especially lovely locales you won't find on the public parkway ...

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), 'The Sea', WFIU and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 59:56
  • Purchases: 9
Folktale of Sweets
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Sweets, Credit: Julia Meek
WBOI's Folktale of Sweets is one honey of a show--ready to indulge?

Bought by WFIU and WFIU


  • Added: Feb 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 2
Poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Discusses Irish Lore and Language
From: New Letters on the Air
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We continue Women's History Month with Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. Considered one of the country's leading poets writing all in Irish, she’s won numerous ...

Bought by WDCB and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Husband & Wife Writers Geoffrey Brock & Padma Viswanathan
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Padma Viswanathan
Novelist Padma Viswanathan, a 2017 recipient of the Porter Fund Literary Prize, and poet Geoffrey Brock, discuss how they balance their writing car...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Folktale of Weddings
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Weddings, Credit: Julia Meek
'Tis the season-- we have many musical knots to tie around that matrimonial hitching post on the Folktale of Weddings, and you are SO invited to at...

Bought by WFIU, WLPR , WFIU, WFIU, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
Folktale of Golden Slumbers
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI'S Folktale of Golden Slumbers, Credit: Julia Meek
According to Elizabethan poet, Thomas Dekker, "Sleep is the golden chain that ties our health and our bodies together"...we're following the sandma...

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR and more


  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 7
The Middle East in Music City (Gravy Ep. 39)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: The Azadi Market in Nashville's Little Kurdistan. , Credit: Photo by Ava Lowery.
The pride of Nashville: honky tonks and… Halal lamb? The area of the city known as Little Kurdistan contains a whole culinary universe that many pe...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 28:21
  • Purchases: 2
Folktale of Grace
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Grace, Credit: Julia Meek
Ah, grace...it's a state we'd all like to be in, and a trait we can't ever get enough of--this week on Folktales, we're translating that sentiment ...

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), KCMJ Community Radio, WLPR , WFIU and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 9
Folktale of Lullabies
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Lullabies, Credit: Julia Meek
Sweet dreams are everyone's nocturnal ambition, and on this week's Folktale, we're traveling the world of golden slumbers to get you in the mood!

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR , and WFIU


  • Added: Jul 27, 2015
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 5
Home Free Adventures / Life-long Learning / Techies! / Cyber Seniors! / There's an App for That!
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Segment 1: Lynn Martin/unconventional retirement Segment 2: Kartcher Pauley/Maddy Gamble/Semester at Sea Segment 3: Annette Rapoport/Cyber-Senior...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
THE GRAND SEDUCTION -- Don McKellar Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Don McKellar talks the filming by moonlight, never turning back, and being yelled at by David Cronenberg.

  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 11:48
Folktale of Birdsong
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Birdsong, Credit: Julia Meek
We're welcoming spring time this edition of Folktales, sharing 'tweets & twitters' of a MOST ornithological variety!

Bought by WFIU, 'The Sea', WLPR , WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 9
Adoption in America (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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With the success of TV shows like Modern Family and Parenthood, it’s clear that the way Americans think of family is starting to change. But Linda ...

Bought by WJCT and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Nov 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Adoption in America (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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With the success of TV shows like Modern Family and Parenthood, it’s clear that the way Americans think of family is starting to change. But Linda ...

Bought by WCNY and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Nov 25, 2013
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 2
Folktale of Home Sweet Home
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Home Sweet Home, Credit: Julia Meek
We all agree there's no place like it! And this week's edition of Folktales is visiting favorite homes and habitats of all ages -- around the music...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, 'The Sea', GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 9
A Basement in Queens
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Caption: Arkadiy Aronov., Credit: Photo courtesy of Spartak Sports Club, Rego Park, Queens.
Judo olympians train in humble surroundings at Spartak Sport Club in Rego Park, Queens.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
Love the French Way 7 - Happiness
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
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Do not fear happiness. It does not exist. We shall die tomorrow. Let yourself go for the duration of a kiss...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 04:34
Steve Edwards Soul Show Edition (15) Dance meets Soul. Plus Rare & Unreleased Cuts From The Vaults Of Motown Featuring Marvin Gaye And The Jackson 5 HR1
From: Steve Edwards
Series: Steve Edwards Soul Show 2012 Series
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Its Soul N-R-G all the way for edition 15! The focus is on the dance -soul combination featuring now classic 12" mixes by Intense Soul,Roy Davis Jr...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:04
Nakamura
From: Ross Chambless
Caption: Sakae Nakamura at age 75., Credit: Ross Chambless
A story of language and chance meetings.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
In Claudia Roden's Kitchen
From: Julie Subrin
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Cooking and chatting with London-based Middle Eastern and Jewish food expert and raconteur Claudia Roden.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 16:28
  • Purchases: 1