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It takes surprisingly little for the human psyche to come undone. We know that the virus can’t survive when we isolate ourselves, the question is, ...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 30:47
Over the past few weeks, there have been so many news articles about healthcare workers as heroes, or soldiers fighting the battle of coronavirus. ...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 31:40
This week tackles what it means to be sick. You’ll hear from diarists from Michigan, Maryland, Ontario/Canada, Massachusetts, and California. You w...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 29:39
What is it like to be a healthcare worker forced to stand on the sidelines during a global pandemic? This week, you’ll hear from diarists from Cali...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 26:29
This week, we continue with audio diaries from healthcare workers around the country who speak about ventilator hacks, breathing tubes, search and ...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 30:55
In this episode of The Nocturnists: Stories from a Pandemic, you will hear diary entries from healthcare workers from New York, California, Massach...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 31:10
Jehan Bseiso is the Head of Communications for Doctors Without Borders in the Middle East Region by day (and some long evenings) and a poet by nigh...
- Added: Jul 24, 2017
- Length: 30:37
A radio nerd chases her dream job. Also a love story.
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Jan 09, 2015
- Length: 14:13
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy sends us an audio postcard from the 2014 Indian election season.
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 04:30
A true story told live in London. Radcliffe lost his home, his job and his wife in 24 hours. An uplifting tale on drug addiction and redemption, fr...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 09, 2012
- Length: 13:42
- Purchases: 1
There are many aid workers on the ground in Haiti. Some were there before the earthquake last January. Many others have flown in over the last te...
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:37
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
Just call it snowboarding for Haiti. That’s one of the offshoots of this year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The games provide an international ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 03:41
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
From: UNICEF
UNICEF emergency communications specialist Jennifer Bakody recently visited Haitian earthquake survivors in the Dario Contreras Hospital in Santo D...
- Added: Feb 12, 2010
- Length: 04:35
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
Reporter Amelia de Sousa lost friends and co-workers in Haiti’s earthquake. Now she works in the UN compound near the airport cranking out stories...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 06:58
- Purchases: 1
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