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News. Where do you get your news? More importantly, who do you trust to deliver that news? Commentator Mark Blackmon says he's given up newspapers ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2010
- Length: 05:12
With help from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund, KVSC has sent Wayne Bergerson, host of Frets on Saturday mornings, and long-time KVSC d...
- Added: Jul 10, 2010
- Length: 01:18:15
John Latimer shares his observations of the change of nature in our lives.
- Added: Jun 30, 2010
- Length: 15:25
If you're a MN tax payer, I hope you're proud...
- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 06:18
Reporter Laura Spero lives in New York City, but she travels to Nepal every year. There, a single winding road connects Nepal’s capital, Katmandu,...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
There’s a new form of traveling inexpensively that’s emerged in recent years. Any adventurous tourist can “couch-surf.” It gives travelers the ch...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 1
Food shipments may end soon to Haiti where hundreds of thousands of people still live in tents after January’s earthquake. What happens next depen...
- Added: Apr 09, 2010
- Length: 03:37
Afghanistan in winter can be brutal. If you really want to get warm, the place to go is the local hamam or bath house. In a country where most ho...
- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 03:04
In India recently, a large gathering of women welcomed reporter Will Everett to a special celebration. But Will wasn’t happy about it. In fact, h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 03:19
- Purchases: 1
Author William Powers lived in Liberia for two years. He was an aid worker directing relief programs during the civil war there. When Powers retu...
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 03:00
Reporter Amelia de Sousa sends another letter from earthquake ravaged Haiti before leaving for the U.S.
- Added: Feb 05, 2010
- Length: 04:44
Reporters in the field rely to a great extent on self-reliance. But when the chips are down, sometimes you just need a helping hand, as Will Evere...
- Added: Feb 05, 2010
- Length: 03:24
Amelia de Sousa was working in the UN building in Haiti when it collapsed. She managed to crawl out alive. But she lost many colleagues and frien...
- Added: Jan 29, 2010
- Length: 04:19
Five suicide bombers and a protracted gun battle between police and Taliban insurgents rocked Kabul, Afghanistan this past week. Reporter Will Eve...
- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 02:20
Author William Powers spent two years in Liberia during that country’s civil war. He directed relief programs for an aid group operating there. P...
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 03:03
Interviews from an indigenous climate change conference during the summer of 2009 in Alaska.
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Dec 14, 2009
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 14, 2009
- Length: 55:00
- Purchases: 1
Thousands of children in Haiti’s capitol city, Port au Prince, beg on the streets to survive. Most street kids are invisible to those passing by. ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
Conservationist Bill Powers worked for five years protecting the rain forest in the Amazon.
He saw first hand how global economic conditions affec...
- Added: Dec 04, 2009
- Length: 03:37
One cub reporter. One murderous, pet-store owning couple. A bunch of angry mobsters. One big, creepy mess.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Nov 29, 2009
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 1
There’s a neighborhood in Cairo simply called “the City of the Dead.” It’s really a vast cemetery made up of rows of mausoleums—some modest, some ...
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:08
In Kenya, lines of tents dot the landscape. They house people displaced by post election violence in 2008. There are many such camps in Kenya. M...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 1
Azerbaijan is a country that sits at the crossroads of East and West. And it’s reflected in the culture. Most of the people there are Muslim, but...
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 02:38
In the Cambodian capitol of Phnom Penh, a small Buddhist shrine sits on the banks of the Ton le Sap River. The area is filled with worshippers, to...
- Added: Oct 09, 2009
- Length: 05:48
Parents in some countries have to leave their children with relatives in rural areas and go to cities to find work. Sometimes they’re the people w...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 03:19
- Purchases: 2
