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A Nation of Immigrants, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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America has a long, long, long history of embracing immigrants one day, generally because it needed them for economic reasons, a variation of slave...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 1
First Immigrant Historic Marker in Virginia
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Virginia's first historic marker to recognize immigrants.
Just as America is a nation of immigrants, Virginia is a commonwealth of immigrants. For the first time ever the state Department of Historic Res...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 08:45
Life of the Law #104: Heroin Town
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: addiction, alexander kim, canada, cited podcast, Crosstown Clinic, Dave Murray, diacetylmorphine, Dianne Tobin, fentanyl, gordon katic, Health Canada, Helsinki declaration, heroin, heroin addiction treatment, Kevin Thompson, legal heroin, NAOMI, NPA, over, Credit: Travis Lupick
Doctors usually treat heroin addiction with methadone, but it doesn’t work for everyone. So what do you do? At a small clinic in Vancouver BC, they...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 48:30
Blue Water Cowboys
From: Outer Voices
Caption: Pulling up the Dinghy, Credit: Stephanie Guyer-Stevens
“Blue Water” sailing is the kind where there’s no land to be seen, hopefully for days or weeks on end, and there’s a rare group of people who contr...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 22:39
  • Purchases: 1
The Codex Underground
From: Israel Story
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The Aleppo Codex is a thousand year-old manuscript that medieval scholars declared an accurate biblical text. It has been worshiped, pillaged, salv...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 17:18
Yung Yiddish
From: Israel Story
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In a remote corner of Tel Aviv's grimy, labyrinthine central bus station, Mendy Cahan has built a home for Israel's rejected Yiddish books, and it'...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 16:05
Birds of a Feather
From: Israel Story
Caption: "Yoram" aiming at one of his soon-to-be crow victims.
Every summer tourists flock to the beautiful beaches of Eilat, Israel. But in the past thirty years, a new kind of tourist has made its way down so...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 12:49
  • Purchases: 2
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
A fan of the frequency
From: Veronica Simmonds
Series: Visual Arts News podcast
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An artist revives the beauty of shortwave radio

  • Added: May 03, 2014
  • Length: 05:47
Modi the Magnificent
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Boy in Modi mask
Sandip Roy takes in the theater of Modi's first large scale political rally in New Delhi.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Picture Postcard
From: Jake Warga
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A historical and contemporary look at the picture postcard. Good for Tourism or travel drop-ins.

Bought by Troy Public Radio and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 2
Bartolo's Honey
From: Diane Bock
Caption: Yucatan Honey, Credit: John Bock
A hot, sticky day in the Yucatan.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
Sacred Music from the Navel of the World
From: Zak Rosen
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A Palestinian violin master, an Israeli woman singing Bedouin songs, two Brothers from Tehran improvising age old Sufi music. These are just a few ...

Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 2
Redbricks and Weatherboards
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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I’ve lived in Melbourne’s suburban inner west for five years, walked my street of redbricks and weatherboards every day, but never stopped to liste...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
Black Country Waterways
From: Christopher Williams
Caption: Bonded Warehouse
A short 5minute documentary based on and around the Black Country Waterways based in the Midlands, UK. Interview includes Graham Fisher MBE. One of...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:01
Cannibal Theme Park
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: Fredy and his wall of postcards
Met any cannibals lately? Producer Carla Seidl has, and tells the tale in this engaging sound-rich documentary/personal narrative related to her an...

Bought by WILL


  • Added: May 07, 2009
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cuando la Fuerza Abandona para Uno (When strength abandons you)
From: Megan Martin
Series: Llegando de los Pueblos (Arriving from the Villages)
Caption: Irineo Sánchez Hernández
A migration Story told by Irineo Sánchez Hernández; recorded in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca

  • Added: Dec 01, 2008
  • Length: 08:33
Audio Postcard from Azerbaijan
From: Carla Seidl
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Sound collage from a small village in the north of Azerbaijan

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Nov 04, 2008
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 2
Animals of Australia take a Hold
From: Ray Gard
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A Behind the scenes look at the Australian animals associated with the National Aquarium in Baltimore.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2007
  • Length: 09:55
You Are Here: 1000 years of mapmaking history in one brief segment
From: Jackson Braider
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A short introduction to the wonderful world of maps

Bought by PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUOW, and KTNA


  • Added: Aug 28, 2006
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 4
A Piece of Paradise
From: Sean Kelly
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A documentary about communal land and life in Vanuatu, in the South Pacific.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: May 12, 2006
  • Length: 54:25
  • Purchases: 2