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Only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated: Smallpox. Rahima Banu, a woman from rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: May 19, 2023
- Length: 09:37
- Purchases: 1
When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900, the public health department singled out Chinatown—as if Chinatown were the problem.
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 51:34
Ira Karp lives on a farm in northern Vermont, surrounded by music, puppets, and a family of incredible storytellers. Over his brief lifetime, he ha...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 06, 2022
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 1
During World War II, over 400,000 German POWs came to the U.S., where they worked on local farms alongside civilians. Cariad Harmon tells the story...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 27, 2022
- Length: 30:35
- Purchases: 1
Tinsley Ellis 20th album "Devil May Care"
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Feb 09, 2022
- Length: 59:09
- Purchases: 1
In the middle of a warzone, in a battle for holy ground, some soldiers heard a pregnant woman in distress and ran to help their enemy. More than ha...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 41:32
- Purchases: 1
30 years ago, 1989 was a historic year, that changed Europe. The highlight was the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989 This three part se...
- Added: Oct 21, 2019
- Length: 21:05
When Benjamin Ferencz was 27 years old, he prosecuted his very first trial. There were 22 defendants, each of them high-ranking members of Nazi Ger...
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 25:23
In the immediate aftermath of the Six-Day war, a Palestinian lawyer and two Israeli army reservists nearly brokered a peace agreement that could ha...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 05, 2018
- Length: 13:27
- Purchases: 1
Driving around Morocco in the late 1950s with counterculture icon Paul Bowles at the wheel, with a case of hot Pepsi, a brick of hash, and a massiv...
- Added: Jun 14, 2017
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 2
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
In "The White Elephant,” Yochai Maital walks us through the history of Tel Aviv’s ‘New’ Central Bus Station — a derelict eight-story behemoth and m...
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 32:00
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 31, 2015
- Length: 04:38
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 31, 2015
- Length: 04:11
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 28, 2015
- Length: 06:52
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 28, 2015
- Length: 05:18
The Navigators were ancient Polynesians who sailed the vast Pacific in search of new islands.
- Added: Dec 27, 2015
- Length: 04:26
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
The term ‘ethnomusicology’ was coined in 1959 by Dutch academic, Jaap Kunst. Put simply, it is the social and cultural study of music. Jo Barratt ...
- Added: Jul 28, 2014
- Length: 21:33
During World War II, some 400,000 captured German soldiers were shipped across the Atlantic to prison camps dotted across the U.S. Suddenly the ene...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBBI Alaska, WVTF, RadioStPete Florida, Angelica Community Radio and more
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 87
Before the Internet, before television, there was the radio. That's how people heard the news and enjoyed their favorite shows. This story is part ...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 1
In a Japanese P.O.W. camp during World War II, a group of Australian prisoners created performances that sustained them and their “captive” audienc...
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 58:03
In this special program, you'll hear Nelson Mandela as you've never heard him before. This program draws on 50 hours of recorded conversations with...
Bought by Iowa Public Radio, KUHF, 90.5 WSNC, WRPI, WCBE and more
- Added: Jun 28, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 36
They and their husbands helped to form the 14th of June Movement, named for the 1959 organized uprising against the Trujillo regime.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:55
After re-establishing her power, whenever the armies of other Indian lords attacked Jhansi, Lakshmibai was reportedly seen riding horseback into ba...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 03:11
