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This week on the show: We're plunging into the oceans with stories of algae, bivalves and dugongs! Seaweed farmers in Zanzibar are adapting to...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Jul 22, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Word has spread of a therapy — only found in Germany — that can help with long COVID. What is it? And does it really work?

  • Added: Jun 04, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
An extraordinary restaurant is dedicated to showcasing a grandmothers love through food from cultures all over the world.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
The word "Tree Hugger" can often be used in a derogatory manner. Although many people don't know its historical significance is much more than long...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Pangolins are the most trafficked mammal in the world with seemingly the least amount of protection. That is until a group of young men in Zimbabwe...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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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
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A famed orchestra conductor plays the war-torn streets of Baghdad to soothe the savage scars of violence.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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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
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Stories matter. They have the power of connecting us over time and space. In this piece we see how a podcast episode turned two strangers - a man f...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 18:35
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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the ways in which we say goodbye to loved ones. Yochai Maital has been collecting sound from recorded online fune...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 07:49
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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
Caption: Kathleen Drier Photography
Episode 50: Action is the Antidote to Despair

  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:16
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At a young age, Nadav Schwartz realized that he was attracted to men, but growing up in an Orthodox community he also realized that was not good ne...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 21:36
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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 ...

Bought by ABC and KSFR


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 26:41
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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A story about finding your way home.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 24:33
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
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
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Episode 9: Houda introduces you to another resident of Tucson’s Small Syria: her neighbor and classmate, Mohammad.

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 04:35
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
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
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Paris is in flux. How are Parisians-native and immigrant, still dealing with terrorist attacks? If mixite, or social mixing, provides an answer, wh...

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


  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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The international arrivals area of San Francisco International Airport filled with chanting, singing protesters and lawyers volunteering their serv...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2017
  • Length: 02:02
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An Argentinean Orthodox Jew, going under the pseudonym Gustavo Friedman, tells his story and the aftermath of the deadliest terrorist attack in all...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 05:10
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Segment 1: Lynn Martin/unconventional retirement Segment 2: Kartcher Pauley/Maddy Gamble/Semester at Sea Segment 3: Annette Rapoport/Cyber-Senior...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2015
  • Length: 54:00