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Episode 4: Eight Thousand Miles
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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A story about finding your way home.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 24:33
Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Protest against President Trump and THAAD in Soseongri, Korea, Credit: Stop THAAD Alliance
We head to Soseongri, a small village nestled in the mountains of Seongju County. There, grandmas and grandpas in the 70s, 80s, and 90s are organi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
They Are Going to Kill Us
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: Houda and Farrah showing off their University of Arizona gear outside the KXCI studios. They coincidentally both came to the recording all decked out in UA colors! Like many Syrian girls, Farrah doesn’t show her face on social media.
In episode 14 Farrah returns with Houda to talk about her family’s harrowing experience in their home in Homs, Syria early in the war. After the ev...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 05:20
Finding New Family
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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In episode 13 of Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship, it’s Melanie’s turn to take you to Small Syria. To sit by the pool with a group of Syrian w...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 05:41
Finding Home: Displacement and Homelessness from Cape Town to California
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this edition of Making Contact we go from Cape Town, South Africa to Los Angeles and Oakland, California— three cities grappling with evictions,...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Let Us Be As One Hand
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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Episode 8: Houda & Melanie refer to Houda’s apartment complex in Tucson as Small Syria—16 Syrian families live there today, but a year ago there we...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
LTR 10th Anniversary Special
From: Let's Travel! Radio
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The 10th Anniversary special edition episode is here. Hosted by LTR's own Susi, this episode covers a wide range of international & cultural topics...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 58:32
On the Other Side of Fear
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: Houda, her 14-year-old sister Sara, and a friend. A month after Houda’s family moved to Arizona, Melanie took them to visit her friend’s horses. This was the second time Melanie & Houda met, and Houda’s shirt was Melanie’s first clue about what an extraor
Episode 6: Houda brings us to her high school at the beginning of the war, when she was fourteen years old, after her father’s arrest and release.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:15
Nightmares Become Dreams, Part 2
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: Houda and her dad, Houssam, on the porch at KXCI, Credit: Kathleen Dreier Photography
Episode 5: Houda’s father is in prison after being arrested in the street outside Houda’s home while her mother and sisters watched.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2017
  • Length: 05:19
Absence Shadows Our Hearts
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: Houssam, Houda’s father, holds his newborn granddaughter Shooq in Jordan two days before the family left for America.
Episode 2: We begin to introduce you to Houda’s family.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 03:10
Finding Refuge in Friendship
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: Houda and Melanie on KXCI’s front porch. , Credit: Photo by episode 1 translator, Radwa Abdel-Barry.
Episode 1: In August of 2016, Melanie and Houda met at potluck for Arizona Welcomes Refugees. It was just a few weeks after Houda’s family arrived ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 03:58
Majd's Diary: Two Years in the Life of a Saudi Girl
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
Caption: Majd Abdulghani
Majd Abdulghani is a teenager living in Saudi Arabia, one of the most restrictive countries for women in the world. She wants to be a scientist. He...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 30:45
  • Purchases: 3
Three Letters Met on Broom Bridge
From: Samuel Hansen
Caption: Broom Bridge Plaque, Credit: Francesco Perini
Every October 16th hundreds of people gather in Dublin for a walk from Dunsink Observatory to Broom Bridge that celebrates Ireland's greatest mathe...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 1
Invisible Workers, Laboring in the Shadows
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Woman waiting to cross the border into Morocco carrying imported goods from Spain , Credit: Thalia Beaty and Maggy Donaldson
Millions of people around the world work in jobs that aren’t formally recognized or afforded legal protections typical of wage earning jobs. On thi...

Bought by KALW, WCPN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Elephant Controversy in Africa
From: LN Lurie
Series: Where in the World is LN?
Caption: Momma and baby, Credit: LN Lurie
To cull or not to cull. That's the question.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 10:18
Remembering Edith Piaf in Ménilmontant
From: Charles Spira
Caption: The Apartment at 5 rue Crespin du Gast
In this short audio document we'll visit a fascinating small museum which celebrates the legendary French singer Edith Piaf. We'll discover fascin...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 1
Truly Fake
From: Israel Story
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In nineteenth century Jerusalem, Moses Wilhelm Shapira created forgeries of ancient relics that shook the world. But even today, 130 years later, n...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 21:27
  • Purchases: 2
Hello Buffalo
From: Israel Story
Caption: Dubi tending to his water buffalo.
Dubi Ayalon, a retired IDF lieutenant-colonel, traded a life as a school principal in Israel for a life of raising and miking water buffalo in rura...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 17:03
269
From: Israel Story
Caption: 269- the mascot of the radical animal rights group of the same name., Credit: 269life on Flickr
The vegan movement is on the rise, but it's a lot more than just a few new vegan cafes in Israel. 269 is a vegan radical activist group that's gain...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 17:16
Whistle-Stop Tour
From: Israel Story
Caption: Elik Frumchenko whistles with members of a Chinese whistling festival
A young Israeli is backpacking in China when he becomes the first ever Western professional whistler to perform at a Chinese whistle convention.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 11:44
  • Purchases: 1
Discover COSTA RICA
From: Let's Travel! Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
COSTA RICA is perhaps Central America's most progressive country. It is ranked as the "greenest" country on earth. 6% of its land mass in fact is f...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:04:38
Chamizal: A Town Between Two Borders
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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For more than a century, the Rio Grande has been the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But rivers can move.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 2
FILMS AROUND THE WORLD
From: Let's Travel! Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
FILMS AROUND THE WORLD deals with film an an international commodity. In terms of commercial entertainment at home, on the big screen in theaters e...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:10
How to Give
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week we're asking what it takes to get us to give, and how we know if we're doing it right.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WKCC, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 5
Studio Rio Presents The Brazil Connection
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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What would it sound like if some of the classics of American music were recorded in Rio De Janeiro?

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, Harford Community Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21