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The Big Ponder #23: Airlines
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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A lot has changed since the first days of aviation, from beverage service to affordable plane tickets. Florenz Gilly and Leon Ginzel recap the hist...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:42
  • Purchases: 1
From France To Tenerife, Spain
From: Katz Laszlo
Series: The Chain - Love Letters From One European To Another
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sedera feels light for the first time after her father's death.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 05:47
From Italy to Bosnia Herzegovina
From: Katz Laszlo
Caption: The Sutjeska memorial in Tjentište, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Credit: Veronica Tosetti
Veronica Tosetti takes us on a journey around the Spomeniks - a trail of statues commemorating former Yugoslavia, and the people who died in conflict.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 06:13
Svalbard: No Visa Required and Traveling Unplugged
From: World Footprints LLC
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World Footprints explores the Norwegian archipelago island of Svalbard and we hear from someone who disconnected in order to reconnect with others ...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:55
The Big Pond #30: Milwaukee’s German Heritage
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Milwaukee has been called the most German city in America – already in the 1840s, large numbers of Germans who were fleeing wars in Europe began se...

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  • Added: May 29, 2019
  • Length: 17:28
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #11: Germans on Harleys
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Every year, tourists from around the world flock to Southern Utah to take in the scenic landscape. Most travel by car, but some opt for a less trad...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 14:54
  • Purchases: 1
Buzludzha Is Deteriorating. Dora Ivanova Wants To Turn It Into A Museum.
From: Ian Elsner
Caption: Buzludzha as it appears today.
High in the Balkan mountains, a crazy, saucer-shaped Soviet-era communist monument is deteriorating.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2018
  • Length: 09:59
St. Croix Radio Callaloo
From: Jason Klarl
Series: Travelogue Media Podcasts
Caption: St. Kitts Masqueraders at Agrifest 2017, St. Croix, Credit: J. Klarl
An audio mash-up from Agrifest 2017 featuring Kamani Tait (KT the Arch Degree), Duane Howell, St. Kitts Masqueraders, “Auntie Janice” Tutein, Carl ...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 13:31
  • Purchases: 1
Letters to The Dead
From: Terence Mickey
Series: Memory Motel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
Mumbai Cow Sanctuary Balances Business and Barnyard
From: Katherine Davis-Young
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There are challenges to running a little cow sanctuary in the center of one of the biggest cities in the world.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Aug 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
Pura Vida: Costa Rica's Culture of Conservation
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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Part documentary, part sound-collage, this special explores Costa Rica, considered one of the "greenest" countries in the world, and its national e...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2013
  • Length: 21:19
Close Encounter on a 747 Or How not to Join the Mile-High Club
From: Randy Ross
Series: Humorous Travel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The narrator finds himself next to an attractive woman for a ten-hour flight to South Africa.

  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:52
Inflation in the spirit world
From: Will Dewees
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The piece investigates the influence of inflation on spirit money in a Chinese temple.

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:31
Kazakhstan -- With this horse, I thee wed...
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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A girl. A boy. A horse. A chase. Listen as this week's Global Guru takes you inside the world of courtship in Kazakhstan...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, PRX Remix, KZYX, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 7
Malian Griot
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Papa Susso
This week the Global Guru goes to Mali to learn the art of a griot, where storyteller, historian, political advisor, detective and genealogist are ...

Bought by WABE, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Global Guru - Holland's Peculiar Curses
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru travels to Holland to learn how to insult someone... in Dutch. A surprising look at a secular society.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 2
Global Guru-Tasmanian Devils
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru risks life and limb to learn how to track Tasmanian devils in the wild.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 3
Miriam hitchhiking through Norway
From: Zachary Kent
Series: Dial A Stranger
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Miriam is asked to tell the most amazing thing she has ever seen and she describes hitchhiking through Norway.

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2009
  • Length: 05:21
  • Purchases: 1
The Swedes Have It All
From: Richard Rene
Series: Here's Looking at You/USA From London
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The Hassle of changing currencies/exhange rates around the world

  • Added: Jul 07, 2004
  • Length: 02:00
Dangling Woman
From: Susan Barrett Price
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A social reformer runs away from work, only to get stuck in the jungle treetops of Costa Rica.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KUHB, WYSO, and KZYX


  • Added: Feb 04, 2004
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 5