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Mexico '68: A Movement, A Massacre and the 40-Yr Search for the Truth
From: Radio Diaries
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In the summer of 1968, students in Mexico began to challenge the country's authoritarian government. But the movement was short-lived, lasting less...

Bought by KVSC, Marfa Public Radio, KUT, KCRW, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jul 10, 2009
  • Length: 22:25
  • Purchases: 8
Americans investing in Africa
From: National Black Programming Consortium
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Investing in Africa, tips..

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 09:22
  • Purchases: 1
India Rising, program four: Can It All Hang Together?
From: BBC
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This landmark series explores what globalisation and a decade of economic reforms have done to India and the way that it sees itself. In the fourth...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 22:49
  • Purchases: 1
India Rising, program two: Inside India's Heart of Darkness
From: BBC
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This landmark series explores what globalisation and a decade of economic reforms have done to India and the way that it sees itself. In the seconf...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 23:38
  • Purchases: 1
India Rising, program one: New Wealth
From: BBC
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This landmark series produced by the BBC World Service explores the what globalisation and a decade of economic reforms have done to India and the ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 23:49
  • Purchases: 1
India Rising, program five: Debate
From: BBC
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This landmark series explores the what globalisation and a decade of economic reforms have done to India and the way that it sees itself. The concl...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 22:02
  • Purchases: 1
Return to Sarajevo, Part Two
From: BBC
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More than a decade after a peace agreement was reached to end Bosnia's bitter war, the BBC's Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to find out what kind...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 22:39
  • Purchases: 1
Return to Sarajevo, Part One
From: BBC
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More than a decade after a peace agreement was reached to end Bosnia's bitter war, the BBC's Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to find out if its pe...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 22:31
  • Purchases: 2
Rembrandt Anniversary Special
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
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Rembrandt?s image through the ages, and interviews with a copyist, a collector, and curators of Rembrandt , marking the 400th anniversary of the p...

Bought by WFUV, KXOT Public Radio, NPR Illinois, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Jun 20, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
RN Documentary: Rembrandt: Portraits of the Artist
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Rembrandt , as he has been seen and portrayed through the ages by admirers and critics, from his contemporaries to the present-day, in various coun...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KFAI Minneapolis, KREV-LP, and WYSO


  • Added: May 31, 2006
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 4
Foreign Priests in America (59 and 54 minute versions)
From: Charles Lane
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The Problems with importing priests as a stop gap to the priest shortage (59, 54, 29 minute versions)

Bought by KUNM and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 01:02:38
  • Purchases: 2
Looking for Democracy: Uganda: No-Party-Democracy
From: BBC
Series: Looking For Democracy
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Examining democracy in Uganda.

Bought by KUHB


  • Added: Nov 22, 2005
  • Length: 22:30
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: All But Gone - Last Chance to Save the Great Apes
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Anne Blair Gould asks why Chimpanzees, Gorillas and Orang Utans are expected to be extinct within the next 30 years.

Bought by KTNA, KVNF, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 26, 2005
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 3
RN Documentary: Adams in Amsterdam Part 2 – Dearest of Friends
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Second in series of programs about John Adams’ 1780 trip to the Dutch Republic seeking support and recognition of the fledgling United States of Am...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
RN Documentary: Adams in Amsterdam Part 3 – The Two Republicks
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Third in series of programs about John Adams’ 1780 trip to the Dutch Republic seeking support and recognition of the fledgling United States of Ame...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
RN Documentary: Adams in Amsterdam Part 1 – A Poet in Your Pocket
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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First in series of three programs about John Adams’ 1780 trip to the Dutch Republic seeking support and recognition of the fledgling United States ...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
RN Documentary: Waiting to go home
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A portrait of a Karen Burmese refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Growing Old Globally
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Populations around the world are getting older and this will cause fiscal & social problems - both in developed and developing countries.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
RN Documentary: Misunderstanding Islam
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Islam and the West have been described as a Clash of Civilizations – but is it all just one big misunderstanding?

Bought by KALW, WGBH Radio Boston, and WUFT


  • Added: Dec 06, 2004
  • Length: 29:27
  • Purchases: 3
The Promise of Hydrogen - two parts
From: Cynthia Graber
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As the world grows more concerned about the cost and supply of oil and about climate change, Iceland is beginning an ambitious proejct to wean itse...

Bought by KVNF and CKMO


  • Added: Nov 22, 2004
  • Length: 30:38
  • Purchases: 2
Destino Habana
From: Amy Marsh
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Documentary featuring Afro-Cuban music and culture of Havana plus commentary on US/Cuba travel and remittance policy

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Sep 21, 2004
  • Length: 55:09
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Weapons of Mass Destruction - Russell and Einstein
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A past and present look at scientists' concerns about nuclear prolifilation.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 12, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
RN Special Broadcast on International Law
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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At the request of WBUR, Radio Netherlands has prepared a 60-minute broadcast on International Law pegged to fast moving developments this week in W...

Bought by KVNF, WUFT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WUAL


  • Added: Jun 30, 2004
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 4
Vietnamese Homecoming Part One
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place
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Fishermen and their families escape from Vietnam to a new home in Louisiana and struggle to earn a living along the Gulf Coast.

Bought by WFHB, XRAY.fm, and Audible


  • Added: May 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:07
  • Purchases: 3
RN Documentary: Iraq - A Hostage Nation
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Iraq dominates the news. But what is daily life in the country like for ordinary Iraqis? In this program, 3 Iraqis talk frankly about the trials ...

Bought by KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WZBC


  • Added: May 18, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3