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Poisonous Legacies
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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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
Putin’s Folly: Russia, One Year After the Invasion of Ukraine
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Unpacking the psychology of Putin's war games and how it affects Russians fleeing conscription.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Cryptomania: How Cryptocurrency Can Save—or Destabilize—a Country
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we take a deep dive into the global world of cryptocurrency.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Boris Out, Liz In: The Global Impact of the British Election
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we break down the global implications of new British leadership and then travel to Northern Ireland, where the fate of a B...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Tracing the Peace Line in Northern Ireland
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On the centenary of Northern Ireland’s birth, we look at the lines and borders that define it.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 161: Only in Hollywood
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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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
Jana Winderen on The Art of Listening Under Water
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Norwegian artist Jana Winderen records sounds above and below the surface of our blue planet to compose site-specific sonic environments. For four ...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2019
  • Length: 23:27
Hong Kong Mixtape II
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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In Hong Kong Mixtape II, guest producer Him Cheung of Contemporary Musking Hong Kong introduces sound art projects that respond to volatile current...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 34:43
Episode 113: Hostage
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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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
Fallen Heroes of 2018
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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There were thousands of organizers, activists and local social justice leaders around the world who died in 2018. As we do every December, we brin...

Bought by KVSC and WFHB


  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Eastward Bound
From: Israel Story
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For decades, Israeli radio stations ignored Mizrahi tunes and exclusively played music rooted in Ashkenazi traditions. That began to change in the ...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 21:07
Iron and Gold
From: Israel Story
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The story of a song that began the music careers of two Israelis each representing vastly different versions of what the future of Israel may hold

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 32:43
The Big Pond #06: Suds and Stories
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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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
Staging Complex Art
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: FreshArtINTL Live Radio
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Today, we invite artists, curators, a media specialist, and an invigilator to share some of the stories behind challenging new work. They reveal ho...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:39
IE: Inside Europe, 5/11/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Exclusive interview with French President Emmanuel Macron who told DW how he had tried, but failed, to keep the US in the Iran nuclear deal. Afte...

  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
IE: Inside Europe, 1/19/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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The EU stands up to Washington over the Iran nuclear deal - Protests against the Austrian government’s anti-immigration agenda - Remote control: Co...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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
Ladino Chorus Commemorates Passover by Keeping Endangered Language Alive
From: Rhonda J. Miller
Series: Ladino: The Endangered Language of the Spanish Jews
Caption: Kantigas Muestras is a Ladino chorus based in Los Angeles., Credit: Rhonda J. Miller
As Jews around the globe celebrate Passover to commemorate the exodus from slavery in Egypt, a community chorus in Los Angeles is keeping alive the...

Bought by KZYX, KUER, Prairie Public, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 4
We Do Not See the Faces of War Anymore
From: Donna Granata
Caption: Napalm Girl, Credit: Nick Ut
Nick Ut is one of the Associated Press’ most renowned photographers. As he celebrates 50 years with AP, there is one image from his days in Vietnam...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
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
Birds in Costa Rica
From: Terrascope Radio
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Conservationists in Sarapiqui, Costa Rica describe their relationship with birds. Excerpted from "Pura Vida: Costa Rica's Culture of Conservation."

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:10
  • Purchases: 1
Nigerian Demo
From: Kelly Cogswell
Caption: Adejoke Tugbiyele, Credit: Harriet Hirshorn
In a Global Day of Action, LGBT Nigerians and their allies fight back against new anti-gay laws.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:14
24 Life in the City
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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David Hendy on the comforts and irritations of next-door's noise. Episode twenty-four of Noise: A Human History, ‘Life in the City'.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 14:45
  • Purchases: 1
25 Capturing Sound
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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How recording technology made it possible to catch the fugitive moment. Episode twenty-five of Noise: A Human History, Capturing Sound'

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 14:47
  • Purchases: 2
06 The Amplified Age (59 min version)
From: Matt Thompson
Series: Noise: A Human History
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This major series was commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio. It explores how our interactions with sound have shaped us over 100,000 years. It w...

Bought by Radio New Zealand and WRPI


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 2