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Cook County's Bill Hansen shares tales from Kenya trip
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Caption: Kenya road, Credit: courtesy Bill Hansen
Bill Hansen, active community leader and former longtime owner of Sawbill Canoe Outfitters, spent two weeks in Kenya recently with his son, Adam. H...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: 31:39
Episode 16: Bless the Late-Blooming Bilinguals
From: Steve Leveen
Series: America the Bilingual
Caption: Episode 16
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
Haiti & New Orleans: Is The Feeling Mutual?
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: A street scene in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti., Credit: Wynne Muscatine Graham
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with an hour-long special that explores two places linked in history. called “Haiti and New Orleans: Is the Feel...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KISA Digital Studios, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
TriPod Goes To Haiti
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Laine Kaplan-Levenson in Jacmel, Haiti. , Credit: Andre Paultre
In this edition of TriPod Xtras, host Laine Kaplan-Levenson sits down with WWNO’s Janae Pierre to talk about a recent trip to Haiti, the end of Tri...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 10:56
Eleanor Brown’s “A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Eleanor Brown is the editor of this collection of all-new essays. It features the work of 18 popular women fiction writers who present their own p...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 09:53
Episode 15: Sealed con un Beso
From: Steve Leveen
Series: America the Bilingual
Caption: Seal Awardees
He was rich, persuasive — and wrong. But Ron Unz succeeded in leading our most populous state down a dark path in the history of language education...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2017
  • Length: 30:16
394-Tiny Beasts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A partnership with yeast and algae will enable spacefaring humans to use their waste products to produce food and plastics during long duration spa...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KSFR and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
393-Newest Moon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The moon cycle from new moon through full moon and back to new moon again was used by many nations to regulate their activities and forms the basis...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
392-Dragon Delivers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The SpaceX 11 Dragon mission is the first time an American spacecraft has visited the space station since the NASA Space Shuttle Program ended in A...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KSFR, KRWG and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Interview w/ Journalist Bill Carlsen author of "Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey & The Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya"
From: Out of Bounds
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Journalist (LAT) and author BILL CARLSEN discusses his compelling book "Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey & T...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
389-Tiny Spacecraft
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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About the size of a saltine cracker and having a mass of less than 2 dimes, the single-board Sprite spacecraft has all the essentials; solar panels...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Episode 8: American Outliers
From: Steve Leveen
Series: America the Bilingual
Caption: Roepers
America has been called the place where languages go to die. But not always. In episode 8 of America the Bilingual we hear the story of two America...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 20:02
Episode 7: The Bella and the Bold
From: Steve Leveen
Series: America the Bilingual
Caption: The Young Family
Bettina Young had a remarkable young life — a fairy tale life by the standard of so many American girls who dream of becoming ballet dancers and mo...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 21:19
Episode 6: Little Ketchup Girl
From: Steve Leveen
Series: America the Bilingual
Caption: Michelle
How hard can it be to go up to the counter at McDonald’s and ask for ketchup? The answer might depend on how confident you are in English. Michelle...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 14:38
Episode 5: The CEO and the Polyglot
From: Steve Leveen
Series: America the Bilingual
Caption: Lois
Does the whole world speak English? It seems so when you travel to big cities and stay in major hotels. It seems so when you visit popular tourist ...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 13:27
Episode 4: Mother Tongue
From: Steve Leveen
Series: America the Bilingual
Caption: Mother Tongue
We hear it before we are born. Before the first air rushes into our tiny lungs, before the first light refracts into our blinking, baby eyes, our m...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 15:21
Episode 3: Just call me Anna
From: Steve Leveen
Series: America the Bilingual
Caption: Anna
Linguists call it “shift.” The rest of us would call it “loss.” It’s what happens to the languages spoken by immigrants, and it happens fast. By th...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2017
  • Length: 19:12
Episode 2: With a little help from his friends - and a little French wine
From: Steve Leveen
Series: America the Bilingual
Caption: David Wolf
We’ll follow David Wolf’s journey, with its twists and turns through Paris and the Bordeaux region, learn of a love interest, and a friendship that...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2017
  • Length: 19:24
Episode 1: The Lamp of Empathy
From: Steve Leveen
Series: America the Bilingual
Caption: President Macklowe
Does the whole world speak English? Not quite, not even in France, if you really want to do business. Meet Ben Macklowe, a New York City kid, who g...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2017
  • Length: 14:37
385-Phoning Home
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Cell phone technology will be used to explore our Moon. Lunar tourists will be able to use their smart phones after 2018.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KKRN and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Episode 9: Ed de la Torre doesn't speak Spanish
From: Steve Leveen
Series: America the Bilingual
Caption: Ed's Family
It’s easy to see why it seems so. We see Spanish signs when we shop at Walmart and Home Depot, and on our cocktail napkins on JetBlue. When we phon...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 20, 2017
  • Length: 21:51
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 10: The joy of Spanish
From: Steve Leveen
Series: America the Bilingual
Caption: Ep 10
Twenty-five percent of American Latinos don’t speak Spanish, because they can’t. The erosion of Spanish and other heritage languages will continue ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 32:14
  • Purchases: 1
Niagara Falls up close. With a Maid of the Mist captain
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Capt. Rod MacDonald on the Maid of the Mist, Credit: Dave Rosenthal
Capt. Rod MacDonald has seen a lot in his 29 years on the Maid of the Mist. Like the man who came over Horseshoe Falls on a jet ski.

Bought by WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and WBFO


  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 5
New Zealand biker stops in Grand Marais on trip from Arctic Circle, via the Pacific, to Nova Scotia
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Caption: Lindsay Gault takes a break from his epic ride
Lindsay Gault of New Zealand is bicycling from the Arctic Circle to the Atlantic, with a stop at the Pacific, to raise money for the Cancer Society...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 17:59
Working Together
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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Water is a pretty basic resource that is essential in our lives. So when it begins to disappear or diminish in quality, our daily routine can chang...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 07:05

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