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Teodora Schipper (b.1944 in the Philippines)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Teodora Schipper (b. 1944 in the Philippines) reflects on her life based on this 2013 interview by 5th graders Addie and Scott of Winchester Thurst...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KGLP


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 2
Niama Elharrak (b. 1971 in Morocco)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Niama Elharrak (b. 1971 in Morocco) reflects on her life based on this 2014 interview by 5th graders Hannah, Carsten and Garrett of Winchester Thur...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Marlene “Miss Pumpkin” Murphy of Homestead, Pennsylvania
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Former steelworker Marlene “Miss Pumpkin” Murphy of Homestead, Pennsylvania reflects on her life based on this 2015 interview by Propel Homestead m...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
Laxmi Aryal (b. 1951 in Nepal)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Laxmi Aryal (b. 1951 in Nepal) reflects on her life based on this 2014 interview by 5th graders Mat, JP and Lily of Winchester Thurston School in P...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
Karla Stept (b.1918 in Austria)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Karla Stept (b.1918 in Austria) reflects on her life based on this 2011 interview by 5th graders Anatea, Ellis and Jackson of Winchester Thurston S...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 1
Hermila Perez, Dominican Republic native who came to the U.S. in 1951
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Hermila Perez reflects on her life before and after coming to the United States in 1951 based on interviews by Clarence and Jevon, teens participat...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 1
Buried memories of China's Cultural Revolution haunt a family
From: Bending Borders
Series: Between Homelands: Hope, Fear and Longing in America
Caption: A young Belinda Cai and her father., Credit: Belinda Cai
Belinda Cai knew only the outline of her father’s childhood in China's Cultural Revolution. Recently, when she asked her father for details, she wa...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:41
  • Purchases: 1
Dasgupta's Delhi
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy is at the Jaipur Literary festival in Kolkata, India's old capital, speaking with Rana Dasgupta about Delhi, India's new capital...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
24 Life in the City
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy on the comforts and irritations of next-door's noise. Episode twenty-four of Noise: A Human History, ‘Life in the City'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 14:45
  • Purchases: 1
25 Capturing Sound
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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How recording technology made it possible to catch the fugitive moment. Episode twenty-five of Noise: A Human History, Capturing Sound'

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 14:47
  • Purchases: 2
Remembering the Magnetic Manna Dey
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy listens back to the music of Manna Dey.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 19, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
06 The Amplified Age (59 min version)
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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This major series was commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio. It explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. It w...

Bought by Radio New Zealand and WRPI


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 2
03 Sounds of the Spirit and of Satan (59 min version)
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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This major series was commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio. It explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. It w...

Bought by WRPI, Radio New Zealand, and WRPI


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:49
  • Purchases: 3
05 The Rise of the Machines (59 min version)
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
Caption: Walden Pond
This major series was commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio. It explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. It w...

Bought by WRPI, Radio New Zealand, and WRPI


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 3
04 Power and Revolt (59 min version)
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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This major series was commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio. It explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. It w...

Bought by Radio New Zealand and WRPI


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
02 The Age of Oratory (59 min version)
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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This major series was commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio. It explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. It w...

Bought by WRPI, Radio New Zealand, and WRPI


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 3
01 Prehistoric Voiceprints (59 min version)
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
Caption: Iegor Reznikoff illuminates red oche dots made 30,000 years ago
This major series was commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio. It explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. It w...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRPI, Radio New Zealand, and WRPI


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 4
01 Echoes in the Dark
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy begins his thirty-part series in the prehistoric cave

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:38
  • Purchases: 2
02 The Beat of Drums
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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Words are only one way to communicate - humans have found many more. David Hendy goes to Ghana to hear the talking drum in the second episode of hi...

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:37
  • Purchases: 2
03 The Singing Wilderness
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy explores our relationship with noisy nature. Featuring extraordinary recordings from around the world, including the bluesy pootoo bird...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:44
  • Purchases: 3
05 The Rise of the Shamans
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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Around the world charismatic individuals claim the ability to talk to spirits, heal illness and help crops grow. David Hendy explains why sound is ...

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:38
  • Purchases: 2
11 The Bells
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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Along with episode 3 this is one of the most beautiful of the series. In it David Hendy explores how the sound of the bell carries religion out...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:42
  • Purchases: 2
07 Persuasion
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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From Cicero to Obama, over the centuries, great orators have changed our minds, given us hope, and sent us to the barricades. David Hendy reveals t...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:37
  • Purchases: 3
08 Babble: The Noisy, Everyday World of Ancient Rome
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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Rome wasn't just the largest city in the ancient world - it was also the loudest. David Hendy listens to its babble and reveals where rich Romans w...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 14:41
  • Purchases: 2
09 The Roaring Crowd
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy considers the visceral impact of a stadium full of noisy humans, from the London Olympics to the barrage of sound experienced by specta...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 13:33
  • Purchases: 2