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Growing Up White in Africa
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a 2003 conversation with Alexandra Fuller, author of “Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood,” a memoir ab...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Living Overseas as a Family
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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How difficult is it to pick up and move your family overseas for a year ?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 05:33
Fault Lines
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Beverly Bell
It’s referred to simply as douz. In Haitian it means twelve. January 12, 2010. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Haiti killing more the a quarter-...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
A Novel That Confronts Modern-Day Slavery (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The U.S. State Department has estimated that 1 million children each year are exploited by the global sex industry. Through a new novel, one author...

Bought by KENW and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 2
Modern-Day Slavery (Half-Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Most of us learned in history class that slavery in the U.S. ended with the Thirteenth Amendment. But the trade in human beings—for sex and labor—i...

Bought by WJCT, Troy Public Radio, WFHB, and KVLU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Modern-Day Slavery (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Most of us learned in history class that slavery in the U.S. ended with the Thirteenth Amendment. But the trade in human beings—for sex and labor—i...

Bought by WCNY, KWIT, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 53:51
  • Purchases: 3
Folktale of Loyalty
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: Folktale of Loyalty, Credit: Julia Meek
It's sincerity and single-mindedness at its musical best on this week's true blue Folktale of Loyalty!

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


  • Added: Jun 27, 2013
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 7
Starting Over: A Refugee's Journey to the US
From: Erika Lorentzsen
Series: New American Stories
Caption: Chali Khanal a refugee from Bhutan, Credit: Erika Lorentzsen
The Nepalese Bhutanese people are basically landless after having fled Bhutan. One immigrant tells the story of going from refugee to the US.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:17
Conflict
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Students from the United World College, Credit: Sue Bourque
In this episode of Audio Revolution students explore the theme of conflict. The show features stories from all over the world thanks to Youth Media...

Bought by KUNM and KRZA


  • Added: Jun 06, 2013
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 2
Development for a better life??
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Road through the rainforest, Credit: Anton Foek
Recently dr Pitou van Dijck, associate professor at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands made an overland trip through the Guianas to Man...

  • Added: May 29, 2013
  • Length: 32:10
Forgotten Foods of NYC: Appetite for Home -- Bitter-Sweet Memories of Learning to Cook & Eat in America
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Series: Forgotten Foods of NYC
Caption: Olga Colon., Credit: Photo by Emon Hassan, courtesy of Narratively.
In this short documentary, longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home lost to immigration.

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:52
From Ukraine to Michigan: The Bandura Still Sings
From: Willis Arnold
Series: Local Music Worldwide
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Julian Kytasty is a world-renowned bandurist who's family and musical history can be traced from the Ukraine, through exile from Stalinist USSR, to...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 04:59
Gaelic language with Michael McNamara, Orla Kearns, and Louise Gibbons
From: WDSE
Series: Ojibwe Stories: Gaganoonididaa
Caption: Louise Gibbons, Orla Kearns, and Michael McNamara.
Host Erik Redix, an assistant professor of American Indian Studies at UMD, talks with Michael McNamara, Orla Kearns, and Louise Gibbons about the c...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, WMUU-LP, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KSRQ, and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:24
  • Purchases: 5
“Framed, Captured and Gagged: State Repression of Black Radicals in the 1960's”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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In this first of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Performing ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
The Beat: Erin Lynn Marsh - "I Try To Imagine Eva Braun"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
Mapping the War
From: War News Radio
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The four Iraqis you’re about to hear tell a story of a remembered landscape. It’s a story about how war blackened the city of Baghdad, split its ne...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 06:47
  • Purchases: 1
Latitude News Podcast #8 — Can the U.S. keep conflict minerals from Congo out of your laptop?
From: Latitude News
Caption: Marie Jeanne, one of Congo's hundreds of thousands of women who are a victim of sexual violence.
Lawmakers in the U.S. want to leverage our consumer power to bring change to the Congo. The question is: do they stand a chance of making a differe...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 14:32
  • Purchases: 1
Planting that Seed
From: Littleglobe
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Students from United World College's Global Leadership Forum tell personal stories that address the concept of "Planting that Seed" in the form of ...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:27
Caribbean-American writer Jamaica Kincaid
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid talks about the influence of her birthplace, the Caribbean island of Antigua, on her use of language and story telling, even though...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 1
A Child Hidden in East-Flanders in 1942
From: Charles Spira
Caption: Free At Last!
When the Germans started the deportation of Jews in Antwerp, Belgium in 1942, Charles Spira was 4 years old. This is the story how Charles, his mo...

Bought by KAAD-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KUT


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 21:09
  • Purchases: 3
203: Year in Review
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will outline five of the major ocean events for the year 2012.

  • Added: Jan 03, 2013
  • Length: 06:26
The Kindness of Strangers
From: Kirsty McQuire
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One woman's philanthropic mission comes full circle.

Bought by KMXT, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, WOUB and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2012
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 24
Melanie Burnett or How to Make Changes in Life that Matter
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Melanie, Credit: MB
Melanie is a young woman of Suriname in South America who now lives in Holland and is becoming an icon and inspiration for those who want to change...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:54
The Open World and its Foundation
From: Anton Foek
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The Open World Foundation™ is about change, about you and the world. And there is a sense of urgency, an urgency for change. Almost everone on Eart...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2012
  • Length: 18:16
Bahrain: Desert Island Risks...
From: Miranda Diboll
Caption: Interviewing at Pearl Roundabout 20th February 2011
In 'Bahrain: Desert Island Risks', Former expatriate Miranda Diboll took advantage of her housewife visa status in the country and interviewed prot...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 09:59

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