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Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And...
- Added: Aug 20, 2023
- Length: 58:38
After 32 years in the United States, José Chicas was told he had to leave. He bought a plane ticket to El Salvador, but then a local church offered...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 36:54
When Joan Borsten married actor Oleg Vidov, also known as “the Soviet Robert Redford,” he introduced her to beautiful Soviet animations created in ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 34:29
Qandeel Baloch grew up in a conservative village in Pakistan, a place where it was shocking to see a woman swimming outdoors. She ran away from hom...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 34:33
In both Germany and the U.S., the flag can be divisive, eliciting pride in some and unease in others. From patriotism to protest, Jocelyn Robinson ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 28:10
- Purchases: 1
When people know you’re in the storytelling business, everyone has a story for you. Our producers get countless pitches — from their friends, from ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 18:44
In Part II of this tale, Yochai Maital brings the kind of war story we rarely hear – that which begins once the fighting ends. On October 8, 1973, ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 47:57
In the first chapter of this two-part story, we embark on a journey back to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and specifically, to one battle that unfolded ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 52:51
In an ambitious “extra-planetary” project, six Israelis entered a small container in the middle of the Negev Desert, and pretended they were on Mar...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 21:07
Mishy Harman and Marie Röder visit an empty arrivals hall at Ben Gurion Airport, where they shadow the duo behind one of Israel’s most popular news...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 17:56
In August 2005, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon implemented his highly contentious plan to unilaterally withdraw from the Gaza Strip and four i...
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 52:34
When Carlos Acosta was a kid, he wanted to be the next Michael Jackson. He spent all his time break-dancing in the streets of Havana. Until one day...
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 23:02
Documentary filmmaker Elise Coker and producer Joel Shupack introduce us to twenty-two-year-old Abdel Naser Musleh, from Kafr ‘Aqab, near Ramallah....
- Added: Nov 30, 2020
- Length: 28:07
This week on the show: Mekong dams turn off the tap for farmers and fish -
The Mekong River flows 5,000 kilometers from China to Vietnam. China'...
- Added: Aug 27, 2020
- Length: 29:59
Houda knows a thing or two about having one’s life upended. About sheltering in place. This isn’t the first time she and her family have spent mont...
- Added: May 18, 2020
- Length: 04:35
One summer in 1973, two men robbed a bank in Stockholm. They held four people hostage for six days. Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist Nils Bej...
Bought by ABC
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 26:51
- Purchases: 1
Rents in San Francisco have exploded in recent years; by now, the metropolis in Northern California has overtaken New York as the most expensive ci...
- Added: May 15, 2019
- Length: 31:54
Three women, two countries, one shared experience: Motherhood. From giving birth to receiving support – our producer Melissa Gerr looks at the role...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 09, 2019
- Length: 24:46
- Purchases: 3
Dimitri Hegemann, the mastermind behind the Berlin nightclub Tresor, has been nurturing an artistic connection between Berlin and Detroit since the...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Feb 27, 2019
- Length: 24:38
- Purchases: 1
Five generations have lived at the ‘Alexander Haus’ on Groß Glienicker See over the past century – enduring fascism, war, the division of Germany, ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and KRZA
- Added: Jan 23, 2019
- Length: 19:45
- Purchases: 3
Driven by a critical lack of skilled technicians, a group of largely German-owned manufacturers in Chicago have launched a new apprenticeship progr...
- Added: Dec 05, 2018
- Length: 35:03
Germany’s beer influence has spread around the world, and one of the epicenters of this trend is New York City. There are now more than two dozen b...
- Added: Nov 22, 2018
- Length: 18:35
When Tyler Wetherall was a kid, her mother and father packed up the family car and drove through the night. They were on the run from the FBI. And ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 26:41
- Purchases: 2
In episode 25 of Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship, Houda interviews Christina, one of the English Language Development teachers from her schoo...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:10
Daze of Justice is the story of trailblazing Cambodian-American women who break decades of silence, abandoning the security of their American homes...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KQED, WXDU, and WRIR
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
