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More than 250-thousand Americans lost their jobs last month, but unemployment for ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel is a way of life. They spend their...

Bought by WXDU and KTNA


  • Added: Oct 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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More than 250-thousand Americans lost their jobs last month, but unemployment for ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel is a way of life. They spend their...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:50:25
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Leaders from the world’s 20 largest economies met last week in Pittsburgh and said from now on the developing world -- through the so-called G-20 -...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2009
  • Length: 01:50:25
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Using music to make a statement is nothing new. Protest songs have long been part of popular culture and today those songs often take the form of ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Sep 25, 2009
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 2
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In Ghana, some women go to great lengths to change their dark skin to a lighter shade. But bleaching and the use of strong chemicals can be very d...

Bought by WXDU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KTNA


  • Added: Sep 16, 2009
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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In Ghana, some women go to great lengths to change their dark skin to a lighter shade. But bleaching and the use of strong chemicals can be very d...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 16, 2009
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Kenya is a country in crisis. There’s been no consistent rainfall there in a year. Crops are shriveling. Rivers are down to a trickle. This w...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Hip-Hop music has hopped all the way to Myanmar, or Burma. Musicians there use hip-hop as a means of protest against one of the most repressive go...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Sep 04, 2009
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The military junta in Burma is one of the most repressive governments in the world. The government controls most of the media and tolerates no dis...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 04, 2009
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
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As President Obama visits Ghana, the World Vision Report this week focuses on the age-old question of whether foreign aid really helps the poor in ...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 10, 2009
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
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As President Obama pushes for health care reform in this country, it’s an even stiffer challenge in South Africa. Private health care is too expen...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Jun 12, 2009
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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As President Obama pushes for health care reform in this country, it’s an even stiffer challenge in South Africa. Private health care is too expen...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2009
  • Length: 01:50:25
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Millions of people have left Burma to escape the harsh conditions imposed by a very repressive regime. Most end up in Thailand. This week the Wo...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: May 29, 2009
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Ten thousand refugees a day stream out of Pakistan’s Swat Valley to escape the fighting between government troops and the Taliban. This week, the...

  • Added: May 15, 2009
  • Length: 01:50:25
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Ten thousand refugees a day stream out of Pakistan’s Swat Valley to escape the fighting between government troops and the Taliban. This week, the ...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: May 15, 2009
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A half-million people are expected to flee the Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan as a peace agreement between the government and the Taliban contin...

  • Added: May 08, 2009
  • Length: 01:50:25
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Modern day piracy is costing companies millions of dollars while thousands of people on shore face starvation because their food shipments are bei...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Apr 24, 2009
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Modern day piracy is costing companies millions of dollars while thousands of people on shore face starvation because their food shipments are bein...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 24, 2009
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Drugs, bed nets, spraying -- they’re all critical parts of the campaign to end malaria. But none of these tools are of any use if people don’t kno...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2009
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 2
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It’s usually bad or sad stuff we hear about when it comes to the developing world. But reporter Conrad Fox discovered bad and sad may all be in th...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 05:29
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Pretend for a moment you’re five years old and your pastor has just accused you of being a witch. That leads to torture. Then you’re thrown out o...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Mar 20, 2009
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In the poorest slums of Nairobi, Kenya, thousands of children are homeless and live in abject poverty. Society has generally regarded them as a fi...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2009
  • Length: 03:14
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Dr. Beat Richner vividly remembers when chaos overtook Cambodia. In 1975 he was a young pediatrician working with the Red Cross at a hospital in P...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WBEZ, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 06, 2009
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
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David Brown explains Brazilian music's love/hate relationship with the global stage.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 05:06