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Have you ever thought about dropping everything to pursue your passion? Susanne Papawassiliu profiles Mike Powers who left his life in Florida behi...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 28:48
- Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Emily Green tells us the story of Edgar Lopez, a grandfather of four who was killed trying to make his way back hom...
Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Sep 22, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Guatemalan Connections Part Three: Molly McKenzie was adopted from Guatemala in 1992 by her two moms, now retired navy captains who provided her wi...
- Added: Sep 16, 2021
- Length: 19:47
Today’s episode begins with rock & roll and ends with royalty. When bands like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles were becoming popular, they weren...
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 49:00
Jacob Wheeler talks about his book Between Light and Shadow and some of the nuances of Guatemalan adoptions. (English, 14 min.)
- Added: Sep 03, 2021
- Length: 14:20
Iryiel Cochran shares her story about growing up as a Guatemalan adoptee in northern Colorado and searching for biological family in Quetzaltenango...
- Added: Sep 03, 2021
- Length: 18:21
After 32 years in the United States, José Chicas was told he had to leave. He bought a plane ticket to El Salvador, but then a local church offered...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 36:54
Degan Ali, a Somali-American who heads the Nairobi based NGO ADESO, talks about the future of aid with Eileen O'Connor, Senior Vice President of th...
Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Aug 05, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Americans on the East Coast were in awe when Brood X, an enormous group of 17-year cicadas, suddenly emerged from underground to mate. Melissa Gerr...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 29, 2021
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...
Bought by HowSound and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 15, 2021
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 2
In her early 20s, Sibylle Baier recorded 14 folk songs that she says saved her life. Then, she packed the tape away and forgot about it. Decades la...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KMXT
- Added: Jul 01, 2021
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 2
On this week’s episode, we hear from two experts with competing visions of how we can sustainably feed a growing planet. Please join Ray Suarez, Ra...
Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 17, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
In this piece six women talk about their mothers, and who they are because of their mothers. From the the secrets they never told their mothers, an...
Bought by WORT, Prairie Public, RadioStPete Florida, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WMPG
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 5
When Joan Borsten married actor Oleg Vidov, also known as “the Soviet Robert Redford,” he introduced her to beautiful Soviet animations created in ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 34:29
Qandeel Baloch grew up in a conservative village in Pakistan, a place where it was shocking to see a woman swimming outdoors. She ran away from hom...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 34:33
In both Germany and the U.S., the flag can be divisive, eliciting pride in some and unease in others. From patriotism to protest, Jocelyn Robinson ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 28:10
- Purchases: 1
Since World War II, there have been countless American GIs stationed at military bases all over Germany. Sylvia Cunningham and Monika Müller-Kroll ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 28:52
- Purchases: 1
When people know you’re in the storytelling business, everyone has a story for you. Our producers get countless pitches — from their friends, from ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 18:44
In Part II of this tale, Yochai Maital brings the kind of war story we rarely hear – that which begins once the fighting ends. On October 8, 1973, ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 47:57
In the first chapter of this two-part story, we embark on a journey back to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and specifically, to one battle that unfolded ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 52:51
The Old Trapper is a true story about frontier living, isolation, and benevolence. It is a poetic audio documentary and its style is fragmentary, i...
- Added: Feb 27, 2021
- Length: 27:14
In an ambitious “extra-planetary” project, six Israelis entered a small container in the middle of the Negev Desert, and pretended they were on Mar...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 21:07
Mishy Harman and Marie Röder visit an empty arrivals hall at Ben Gurion Airport, where they shadow the duo behind one of Israel’s most popular news...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 17:56
In August 2005, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon implemented his highly contentious plan to unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip and four i...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 52:34
When Carlos Acosta was a kid, he wanted to be the next Michael Jackson. He spent all his time break-dancing in the streets of Havana. Until one day...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 23:02
