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This week, we’re taking a look at what economists and demographers are calling “the Silver Wave” — how the rapid aging of the world’s population wi...
Bought by Classic107.3, GCR (Global Community Radio), WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Aug 03, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Senate Nearing Critical Stage of Negotiating Historic Medicare Expansion; ...
- Added: Jul 21, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Fragile Coalition Forms to Oust Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu; Case Now...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
A London based brother and sister decided to start putting on parties for seniors. What started out as a tea party for their eighty-year-old mother...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:18
An Israeli writer was invited by text message to the funeral of a woman she never knew. She attends out of curiosity and finds over seventy people ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 10, 2018
- Length: 06:15
- Purchases: 1
When older adults learn another language, they don’t have the advantages of toddlers, whose minds are wired to learn two or three languages simulta...
- Added: Oct 30, 2017
- Length: 28:54
In the United States, the obituary article is reserved for the famous, to remember their greatest achievements and notable struggles.
- Added: Feb 01, 2017
- Length: 30:47
Radio Curious honors Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day, in an archived conversation with Bernard Offen, a survivor of five concentration c...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 29:01
Blue zones are areas of the world where people live longest. Architects studying these “Landscapes of Longevity” say that our surroundings have mor...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 03:28
- Purchases: 2
Blue zones are areas of the world that have been identified as having the longest expected lifespans. What about these places make for long, health...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 7
Blue zones are areas of the world that have been identified as having the longest expected lifespans. What about these places make for long, health...
Bought by WCNY, WEZU, KKRN, KUNV, KCMJ Community Radio and more
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 7
Some 60 widows in white saris from the town of Vrindavan made thier way to Kolkata for the festival of the Goddess Durga.
Something many of them ha...
- Added: Oct 07, 2014
- Length: 04:30
In this short documentary, longtime New Yorkers recall family cooking traditions and foods from home lost to immigration.
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:52
Members of the group called 'The BRATS' (Brussels Retired Expats) joined Alison Turner to discuss their book, "Retiring in Belgium: A Guide for Ex...
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 27:01
Inez Mosture creates whimsical characters from Norwegian folklore.
- Added: Jan 12, 2013
- Length: 23:09
Norwegian born Borgie Bolstad describes his creative chip carving.
- Added: Sep 09, 2012
- Length: 15:00
This piece is called Grey Areas and it's about how close I am to my dad, in a literal sense, it's also a tribute to the the neighbour we buried in ...
- Added: May 22, 2012
- Length: 03:00
- Added: Mar 20, 2012
- Length: 08:49
- Added: Sep 20, 2011
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 1
There is always looking when returning to a place that is loved for memories sake as well as what it means to us today
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Jan 13, 2011
- Length: 09:14
- Purchases: 1
Fred Flaxman's tongue-in-cheek memoir, "Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry," concludes when the author discovers he's an old man on a subway in Paris.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jul 03, 2010
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 1
A conversation with 1985 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Bernard Lown about his book "Prescription For Survival: A Doctor’s Journey to End Nuclear Mad...
- Added: Feb 08, 2009
- Length: 28:59
- Added: Aug 02, 2008
- Length: 10:37
- Purchases: 1
Environmental experts claim the Delta Works have exorbitant maintenance costs, damage the environment, and promote a false sense of security. Liesb...
- Added: Sep 22, 2005
- Length: 04:16
Retired Petty Officer Robert Howard Recalls being torpedoed by a German U Boat over a month before Pearl Harbor
Bought by WHRV
- Added: Jun 19, 2004
- Length: 06:24
- Purchases: 1
