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The Gyuto Monks: No Ordinary Experience
From: Sallie Bodie
Caption: A young apprentice tries his hand at making a mandala.
The Gyuto monks, followers of the Dalai Llama, live in cultural exile in India. They teach love, wisdom and kindness by performing programs of thei...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
The Soul of Guatemala Part II A Shaking in Our Souls
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: A Mayan woman praying in an Evangelical Church in Guatemala's Highlands, Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part II in a three part series about Guatemala, Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 2
The Soul of Guatemala Part III Christian Citizens
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: El Shaddai Church in Guatemala City, Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part III in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Soul of Guatemala Part I Miracle Town
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: A woman in Almolonga, Guatemala, selling carrots and potatos wholesale., Credit: Jesse Dukes
Part I in a series of three short features about Latin America's Evangelical Frontier.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Soul of Guatemala
From: Jesse Dukes
Series: The Soul of Guatemala
Caption: Pastor Omar Bell laying on hands in El Calvario Church, Almolonga, Guatemala, Credit: Jesse Dukes
Latin America has been overwhelmingly Catholic for centuries, but that's changing, and Guatemala is leading the way, as Latin America's Evangelical...

Bought by WXDU, XRAY.fm, KUT, and The Story


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 30:31
  • Purchases: 4
Death Must Die
From: Soundwalk Collective
Series: Soundwalk Collective 10 Year Anniversary
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Death Must Die is a sound piece that begins before the rising of the sun and reproduces the cycle of a day in the sacred Indian city of Varanasi, w...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 58:00
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
Who Won the Egyptian Revolution?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: by natalia & gabriel on flickr
Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship is gone, but a military council now rules Egypt, and has kept much of Mubarak’s repressive apparatus. Meanwhile extrem...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
James Irwin (Astronaut), August 8, 1991
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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As a child in the 1930s, Irwin predicted he would travel to the moon ... at a time when anything written on the topic was clearly labeled "science ...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Couscous and Cultural Diplomacy
From: Andrea Wenzel
Caption: Frederique and Brian with Elkader, Iowa's namesake Abd al-Qader
What's it like to be the only Muslim in the only US town named after an Arab Muslim… Elkader, Iowa was named after an Algerian jihadist in the 19th...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, Interfaith Voices, KSFR, XRAY.fm, KSFR and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 10
Every Morning I Hear This Voice
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
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A cultural detective searches out a singing stranger and in the process finds out how prayer affects a young man's life.

Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Great Textbook War
From: Trey Kay
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In 1974, Kanawha County was the first battleground in the American culture wars. Controversy erupted over newly-adopted school textbooks. School bu...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMXT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, KUER and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 26
Loss + Found
From: The Ladies Village Improvement Society
Caption: The Masonic Temple, pre refab
The LVIS girls return to you this week (after a brief thesis-induced hiatus) with the Loss and Found episode.

  • Added: May 10, 2009
  • Length: 35:20
A Horse Named "Buckwheat"
From: Rogi Riverstone
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
Imagine 2050 Podcast - November 2008
From: Noah Chandler
Series: Imagine 2050 Podcast
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This month we are in San Francisco, California exploring what it means to be American through those involved in the struggle for same-sex marriage ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2009
  • Length: 09:49
Crypto-Jews
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Hidden Jews of Mexico profile

Bought by WBEZ, WYSO, and WFUV


  • Added: Feb 12, 2009
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 3
Against All Odds: Hope in the Struggle-HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
From: Meg O'Shaughnessy
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Teaming to Combat the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Southern Africa

Bought by KMUN, WDCV, and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 22, 2008
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 3
Postcard: Vietnamese Catholics
From: Interfaith Voices
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A sound-rich portrait of America's oldest Vietnamese Catholic Church

  • Added: Nov 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:19
The Lourdes Miracle
From: John Laurenson
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The extraordinary popularity of the pilgrimage to Lourdes 150 years on.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2008
  • Length: 14:48
Dharamsala Diary: How exiled Tibetans are Responding to the Crisis in their Homeland
From: The Tibet Connection
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Sound images from the exiled Tibetan community in India

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 06:10
March to Tibet: The Forgotten Story
From: The Tibet Connection
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100 Tibetan monks try to walk back to their homeland

  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 10:19
Church Music
From: Charles Lane
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A documentary exploring why we sing music at church and what it does for individuals and communities.

Bought by WORT, North Country Public Radio, WVAS, WGBH Radio Boston, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2008
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 38
Serbian Church Choirs: A Musical Tradition
From: Cissy Rebich
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A musical documentary about Serbian Orthodox church choirs today

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Feb 13, 2008
  • Length: 25:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Bible and a Gallon of Bleach
From: Jen Nathan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Religion and politics are two topics your mother told you never to talk about in public - unless you're a customer at Father Peter's laundromat in ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 07, 2008
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 2
Stories Make the World
From: Claire Schoen
Series: ILLUMINATIONS: Jewish Culture in the Light of the World
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"Stories Make the World" is an hour-long audio documentary celebrating the rich tradition of Jewish storytelling within the context of storytelling...

Bought by WWNO, KUPR low power FM, KMUN, KUNM, KZYX and more


  • Added: Nov 12, 2007
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 25