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The Big Ponder #42: Beer
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Long ago, German immigrants brought their brewing traditions to the United States. More recently, brewers from the U.S. have begun bringing America...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #37: Street Names
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Why is a Nazi resistance fighter famous in Brazil yet unheard of in Germany? How did an African American musician become a hero in East Germany? Di...

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  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #34: Sounds of Nature
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Tosca Terán creates soundscapes using fungi. In this immersive piece, Tosca takes listeners on a soundwalk, pausing periodically to interview other...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 25:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #30: The Zoo
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Growing up, Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller traveled the world with his family. On their trips, they always made time for a visit to the local zoo: in Ber...

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #29: Humor
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Despite the cliché of the unfunny German, there is a rich tradition of comedy in German culture. Soraya Nelson visits comedy clubs in Berlin and in...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 27:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #21: Community
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Community is the story of our lives. It is who we are, who we have been, and who we hope to become. Melissa Gerr visits Jewish congregations in Bal...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:19
  • Purchases: 1
625: What Afghan Women Want You To Know / 626: More Than Just A Game, 10/2/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'What Afghan Women Want You to Know' - Teachers. Actors. Ancient rug weavers. Whisperers of forbidden poetry. The women of Afghanistan wa...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
The Big Ponder #19: Encounters
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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How many people will you meet in your lifetime? How many will you remember? Fascinated by the countless chance encounters in their own lives, Susan...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #11: Home
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Is ‘home’ a place or more of a feeling? Jocelyn Robinson speaks with three American expats who unpack the relationship between self and place, draw...

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  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #9: In Friendship
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Inspired by a year of forced isolation, essayist Bilal Qureshi explores the history, landscape, and meaning of friendship across cultures. At the h...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:47
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #7: How Buildings Mean
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
Producer Alex van Oss ponders the external, internal, and eternal meanings of buildings in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. The result is a perso...

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life In The Sahara
From: Jason Kladiva
Series: World Pieces
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World Pieces host Jason Kladiva learns about nomads in the Sahara from Ali Fakiri in M'hamid el Ghizlane, Morocco.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:10
Under Three Flags
From: Jason Kladiva
Series: World Pieces
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Isabel Goddard shares her upbringing in England, Spain and Colombia to host Jason Kladiva.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2019
  • Length: 06:29
The Big Pond #11: Germans on Harleys
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Every year, tourists from around the world flock to Southern Utah to take in the scenic landscape. Most travel by car, but some opt for a less trad...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 14:54
  • Purchases: 1
Flights of Fancy
From: Tom Wright
Caption: Airports, aeroplanes and airscapes, Credit: PowderPhotography
Come with Tom Wright from Australia to Great Britain over 11,000 miles and nine time zones & hear tales of flying from the Outback, Indonesia, Indi...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 42:53
80: It's A Family Affair
From: The Mortified Podcast
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In honor of the discord that shows up around the Thanksgiving table, we present tales of kids who don't quite the concept of family togetherness.

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2016
  • Length: 21:51
  • Purchases: 1
I Should've Been Swedish
From: Rose Zilka
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A closer look at cultural identity.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2016
  • Length: 15:45
Allusionist 18: Fix part II
From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist
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The messiness of English is the price of its success. It is the most widely spoken language in the world, geographically, being an official languag...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
Behind The Thread 18
From: Russell Jowell
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In Episode 18 of Behind The Thread, we look at wages around the world. Sokny Say of the Free Trade Union of the Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia ...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 40:07
The Rise of Les Sapeurs - Renata Sago
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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When one thinks of fashion forward countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo usually doesn't come to mind. But Les Sapeurs might make us feel dif...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:44
Cissy Houston: A Sweet Inspiration
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: A. Curtis Farrow In Conversation With Another Great Performer
Caption: Ms. Cissy Houston
Emmy Award Winning Producer & Director, A. Curtis Farrow In Conversation With Another Great Performer, Ms. Cissy Houston.

  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 20:00
Chinese Memoirist and Novelist Anchee Min
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, we revisit best-selling memoirist and fiction writer, Anchee Min. 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the...

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  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
button and other accordeons from the Liverpool Irish Festival and the Manresa Mediterrania festival
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
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something special about the folks who squeeze squeezeboxes: examples and interviews with some kind accordeon players who love their music and play ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 01:05:52
Distant Learning as a tool for development [ Part Two ]
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro
Prof.Stavros Xanthopoylos is the Executive Director of the on line and distant learning project at the Getulio Vargas institute in Rio de Janeiro, ...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2011
  • Length: 15:53
Peculiar Privilege and the Elegy
From: Littleglobe
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Ece Ergadöz, a Turkish student at the United World College, explores her relationship with her mixed ethnic roots.

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 07:44
  • Purchases: 2