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Why is it that while many of us are discouraged and some devastated by life’s losses, a rare few not only survive but thrive in their wake –transce...

Bought by WZEN.org, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WZEN.org, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2012
  • Length: 55:03
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Karaba
Thomas Burns discusses film, photography, teaching, and life in Azerbaijan and the Caucasus.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 36:01
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Parts One and Two of Amy DiPierro's series on economic development, poverty, and inequality in Iraqi Kurdistan. These previously released segments ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 22:43
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
Caption: Teddy Atim and Victor Ochen
War has shaped the lives of people in northern Uganda for the past two decades.  Impunity for widespread crimes and grave violations committed duri...

Bought by WZEN.org, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 3
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China today is the most polluted nation on earth. But it’s also on its way to becoming the most environmentally advanced. And it’s no coincidence. ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 10, 2011
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 2
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1994 NEA National Heritage Fellow, violinist and oud player Simon Shaheen discusses his merging of Arab and western musical traditions.

  • Added: Sep 22, 2011
  • Length: 27:23
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Author of two memoirs about her life in Iran, Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About, Azar Nafisi talks about her books, her li...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 25:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Basque writer Unai Elorriaga and Amaia Gabantxo, translator of Elorriaga's novel Plants Don’t Drink Coffee, discuss the book as well as the art of ...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 25:51
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To save his family and other Christian missionaries, Frans Larson led a caravan through the Gobi Desert and into Siberia. That explorer’s great-gra...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
Caption: Marsham Khan cooks a goat head, February 15, 2010., Credit: James Lee
James Lee spent three years stationed in Iraq, as a U.S. Marine. After his time there, Lee went to Afghanistan, but not in uniform. He retired to ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:42
Caption: Tradition Polish Kashubian Costume worn during the Polish Mass at St. Stanisulaus Kostka Church in Winona Minnesota, Credit: Terese Tenseth
Over the next couple of weeks, we take a look into the Polish Heritage of Winona MN. On Saturday, May 1st the Polish community celebrated Polish He...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2010
  • Length: 28:29
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We have seen a lot of pictures from Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade. Chances are that many of them were actually taken by the military. C...

Bought by KUT, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 4
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This piece is made wholly of interviews and field recordings I captured while in Peru in the summer of 2010. The recordings are blended and produc...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 10:00
Caption: An Afghan girl carrying water jugs, Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the news in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Jun 11, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Divided By Borders cover, Credit: Joanna Dreby
Author Joanna Dreby explored the impact of work migration through intimate interviews with extended Mexican families and children in New Jersey and...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joseph O'Neill
NETHERLAND, the 2009 novel by Joseph O'Neill, won the PEN/Faulkner award. He discusses the arduous process of writing the book, which is set in hi...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
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From the Sudan Radio Project: we hear from a Sudanese musician living in Dubai, whose R&B hits have attracted listeners from across the Middle Eas...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2009
  • Length: 07:41
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Julie Adler, producer for The Tibet Connection talks to Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche about the Tibetan tradition of dream yoga. What is it and why is i...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2009
  • Length: 06:16

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 54:57
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The state of Colombia's renewed Justice system.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Leaving Suriname as a young boy with dreams and hope for another life.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2008
  • Length: 19:21
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Myo Min Aye Win is an 18-yr old living in Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar

  • Added: May 23, 2008
  • Length: 03:29
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This Story is Free! Two teenage girls - one in Israel, and one in Palestine, both affected by the violence between their two communities, talk to U...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: May 25, 2007
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1