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Living Planet 08/17/2018

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW

Living Planet: Apes - Apes are humans' closest relatives, but these creatures are increasingly endangered. From Asia to Africa, human activi...

Bought by KRZA, KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU

Added: Aug 17, 2018
Length: 29:59
Purchases: 5

World in Progress 07/19/2018

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

On this week's show: Disability and Disaster - making emergency plans inclusive. When disasters strike, people with disabilities are even more ...

Added: Jul 18, 2018
Length: 30:00

World in Progress 05/24/2018

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

This week on the show: China's claim to global power - China's president Xi Jinping dreams of a strong China elevated to a world power. The gi...

Added: May 23, 2018
Length: 30:00

The Ghosts of the Gwangju Uprising

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: May 18 Memorial in Gwangju, Korea, Credit: May 18 Memorial Foundation

On May 18, 1980, the people of Gwangju, South Korea rose up for reunification and an end to U.S.-backed military dictatorships. Their actions chan...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

Added: Sep 10, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

Curiously, Millennials Demand Inventive Names for their Wine

From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: The Wine Fellers Radio Program

We discuss why Millennials demand Inventive Names for their Wine, Beer & Marijuana. We also discuss Cuban Wine (i.e., Rum) and Impulse Buy Fried C...

Added: Feb 12, 2017
Length: 01:00:00

Sharing Patchwork: The Quilts of Southwest China

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Caption: A bedcover made by sisters Wei Guoer and Wei Guofeng of Guangxi Province. (Courtesy of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures)

The exhibition, The Quilts of Southwest China, was organized by a bi-national consortium of Chinese and American museums, including the Mathers Mus...

Added: Jan 24, 2017
Length: 58:05

300-Biggest Ear

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

China has built and is operating the world's largest Radio telescope.

Bought by Radio Newark, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KGUA, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more

Added: Oct 27, 2016
Length: 02:00
Purchases: 9

How I left Saigon

From: Valerie Hamilton

Caption: Lawyer and newspaper publisher Dat Huy Phan at his desk at California's Nguoi Viet Daily News, Credit: Marcus Teply

California lawyer and newspaper publisher Dat Huy Phan was a 27-year-old high school teacher in Saigon when the city fell to North Vietnam in April...

Added: Apr 24, 2015
Length: 03:47

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

Bay Area Beats: Growing up with Thao and the Get Down Stay Down

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Thao Nguyen grew up in Northern Virginia, and started playing music at age 12. Since then she has released three critically acclaimed albums, and s...

Added: Mar 12, 2014
Length: 08:13

JazzStories: Electric Kulintang - Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez

From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories

“I understand Filipino Kulintang, it's melodic phrasing, how it moves linearly, very similar to how perhaps bebop moves in jazz…there’s a lot of si...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, 90.5 WSNC, and KFOK-LPFM

Added: May 31, 2011
Length: 10:53
Purchases: 4

Tenzing Norgay (First on Everest), May 9, 1986

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

Self-described as a simple mountain coolie, he became one of the world's foremost mountaineers and, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, the first ... ev...

Added: May 04, 2011
Length: 03:00

Day in the Life

From: Stace Carter

Interesting angles on the seemingly average.

Added: Mar 18, 2011
Length: 01:42

Abigail's Art (Pt.2)

From: Kristen Balagtas

Caption: Freedom from the Cage, Credit: Abigail Bradley: BradleyStudios123

Fine artist Abigail Bradley describes the “conception” of her assemblage piece, donated to Goodwill Industries.

Added: Dec 10, 2008
Length: 04:00

Sakhi Speaks Out Against Domestic Violence

From: Mahi Palanisami

Features the work of a South Asian Women domestic violence shelter in New York

Added: Mar 27, 2008
Length: 05:03

A Day of Enlightenment

From: Voices of Our World

We visited the Wat Mai Monestary for Burmese Buddhist monks in Bangkok, Thailand. During our stay we were able to talk directly to the monks about...

Added: Oct 19, 2007
Length: 28:02

The Chinese Exclusion Act: A Postcard

From: Michelle Chang

One-hundred thousand Chinese immigrated to America during the second half of the nineteenth century. They first came as miners during the Californi...

Added: Aug 06, 2007
Length: 03:12

Race and Heritage in America

From: KBOO Youth Collective

KBOO Youth Collective's Annie speaks up about her struggle with her heritage

Bought by Vocalo.org and WXLV-FM