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Caption: Paola Gueli is one of a dwindling number of tailors in Italy, a country renowned for its tailoring tradition. , Credit: Luigi Fraboni
Skilled tailoring is a dying art. Many of the best tailors hail from Italy where the tradition is unraveling due to a lack of training opportuniti...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 2
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Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world, and it’s been wracked with political turmoil. Even the recent elections were marred by allegat...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
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A truck is a truck is a truck. Except in Pakistan. We’ll let reporter Jessica Partnow tell you about it. She sent us this story from Karachi.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 19, 2009
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Craftsmen who work with metal to make small tools and kitchenware are dying off in Hong Kong. There are only about ten of them left. Judith Ritte...

  • Added: May 01, 2009
  • Length: 02:43
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Zimbabwe’s become known for many things in recent years: spiraling poverty and hunger, questionable elections, and out of control inflation. But l...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Apr 24, 2009
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 1