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Audio documentaries from the front lines
Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 15, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
In this episode, we feature an audio diary from an English teacher living in Les Cayes, Haiti. Then we speak with former US Ambassador to Haiti, Pa...
Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RADIOLEX
- Added: Sep 15, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
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
Sandip Roy sends us an audio postcard from the 2014 Indian election season.
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 04:30
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
For the first time in KVSC's 43-year history, a live international broadcast is coming to you from the Winnipeg Folk Festival. With help from the M...
- Added: Jul 09, 2010
- Length: 59:55
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
How do you explain the tragedy in Haiti to your 5-year-old?
- Added: Jan 28, 2010
- Length: 03:26
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
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
From: UNICEF
Filipino 6th grader Louie Mangali shares his experience of the recent flooding and its aftermath
- Added: Nov 30, 2009
- Length: 03:14
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
