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Caption: A Saraswati festival in Kolkata bids farewell to her human incarnation Lata Mangeshkar, Credit: Bishan Samaddar
Lata Mangeshkar was the story of independent India. Most Indians had never known an India without her.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
Caption: Music World closes, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip finds himself oddly nostalgic, for a noisy purple bag.

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Violence against women is commonplace in Afghanistan. It takes all forms: domestic abuse, forced marriage, rape, even honor killings. This week, w...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KKRN


  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Crank up your ipod. We’re going on a musical journey around the world on this week’s edition of the World Vision Report. In Iran, Isla...

Bought by WSLR, KRZA, and WPTC


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Even poor people can be rich in music. It can calm your nerves, please your passions, and spur people to action. This week the World Vision Rep...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
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The rising cost of food is the focus of this week’s World Vision Report. A sharp increase in food prices already has sparked riots in Algeria and E...

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jan 28, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Families separated by war are being reunited in southern Sudan. Brothers and sisters, children and parents, see each other for the first time in y...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 27:56
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Floods in Pakistan have destroyed more than a million homes in the country. And aid has been slow to reach the 8 million people who need it. This w...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:22
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Many illegal immigrants in the U.S. have gone back to their home countries after being thrown out of work in the U.S. But some can’t leave. They’...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The World Vision Report goes this week to Boston Harbor where every few weeks a cargo ship sails into port to be loaded with a hundred or so used c...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
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The World Vision Report goes this week to Boston Harbor where every few weeks a cargo ship sails into port to be loaded with a hundred or so used c...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
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This week we head to Louisiana where fishermen are wondering whether they’ll survive the oil spill in the Gulf. Also we go inside a classroom in Gh...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 14, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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As Arizona tightens its grip on the illegal immigration problem, four undocumented high school graduates have walked from Florida to Washington, D....

  • Added: Apr 30, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
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Voters in Sudan went to the polls this week for the first time in 24-years. But officials say there have been some “technical problems.” We’ll fi...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2010
  • Length: 51:26
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Violence against women is commonplace in Afghanistan. It takes all forms: domestic abuse, forced marriage, rape, even honor killings. This week, ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
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Expectant mothers have a one in 12 chance of dying in childbirth in Liberia. One way to improve those odds is with a midwife. But Liberia has a s...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
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The earthquake that ripped through Haiti has been a learning experience for students at the country’s only film school. Instead of shooting fictio...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
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Some analysts still estimate unemployment in the U.S. could be as high as ten-percent or more by the end of the year. But ten-percent is nothing c...

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: Mar 11, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Okay, you’re on the road in Pakistan and your car breaks down. You pull into the nearest auto garage and an eight-year old kid comes out to look u...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
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Haitians have their roots in Africa. But do they want to go back to Africa? This week the World Vision Report talks with Haitians about an offer ...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
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Haitians have their roots in Africa. But do they want to go back to Africa? This week the World Vision Report talks with Haitians about an offer ...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
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It will take a decade and three billion dollars to fix Haiti. That’s the assessment of a number of international donors as they examine the long r...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
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Recovery efforts continue in earthquake ravaged Haiti where as many as 200-thousand people are believed dead and three million people are displaced...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
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Recovery efforts continue in earthquake ravaged Haiti where as many as 200-thousand people are believed dead and three million people are displaced...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Jan 22, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 2