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Basque Radio
From: Addie Goss
Caption: Jean Cinquambre feeding his cows, Credit: Addie Goss
Through much of the last century, French and Spanish Basques herded sheep, alone, in northern Wyoming's mountains. For company, they listened to a...

Bought by WMMT and KVNF


  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 2
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
Crossing East - First Contact - Program One
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Asian sailors and adventurers helped to form the new country of America.

Bought by WCPN, KQED, WGBH Radio Boston, and KQED


  • Added: Feb 12, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Looted Art, part 2
From: BBC
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From 1933 to the wars end, Nazi Germany systematically looted millions of works of art from individuals and the nations they went on to conquer. BB...

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 22:18
Looted Art, part 1
From: BBC
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From 1933 to the wars end, Nazi Germany systematically looted millions of works of art from individuals and the nations they went on to conquer. BB...

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 22:16
Building Bridges Documentary
From: KGSM
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Genocide: How Will History Judge Us?

  • Added: May 28, 2008
  • Length: 28:39
2010: The War for Mexico
From: KUNM
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One-hour documentary about

Bought by KWIT, WSKG, and KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 15, 2008
  • Length: 01:05:08
  • Purchases: 3
Plan Condor in Latin America
From: Marie Trigona
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Overview of Plan Condor in Latin America

  • Added: Dec 03, 2007
  • Length: 04:04
Human Rights in Argentina: Missing witness Julio Lopez
From: Marie Trigona
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Human Rights in Argentina: Witness still missing

  • Added: Sep 19, 2007
  • Length: 04:31
Ripple Rock meets its doom (short version)
From: John Ryan
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The greatest hazard to navigation on Canada's west coast, then and now.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 16, 2007
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
Rock-and-roll benefit concerts: Music to UNICEF's ears
From: UNICEF
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This Story is free! With the Concert for Bangladesh George Harrison and Ravi Shankar started the tradition of the super-concert for a humanitarian ...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 07:09
  • 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
SOWETO Today
From: Mikko Kapanen
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The largest township of South Africa 12 years after the fall of apartheid

  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 10:30
Trams for the Memories
From: Drew Leifheit
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Piece of olde Budapest reaches end of the line

  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: 08:24
World Tour Radio presents Music of Morocco
From: Andrew Reissiger
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Moroccan Amazigh Music, Arabic/Indigenous politics of North Africa

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and KTNA


  • Added: Nov 14, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Law and Peace Part I
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Why has The Hague become the centre for International peace and justice.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 01, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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
Peace, War, & Indifference
From: Andrew Reissiger
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One-hour, newscast compatible program that examines the possibilities of peace in our world today by looking at excerpts from important presidentia...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KQED, New Hampshire Public Radio, WHRV, WETA and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2006
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 6
RN Documentary: Fairbridge Farm School
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Four elderly Dutch people remember how as children recently liberated from the POW camps in Indonesia, they regained their childhood when they wer...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 12, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Return of the Hellenes
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
Caption: Triphon Olympios officiates at a naming ceremony at the annual gathering of Greek pagans on Mount Olympus.. , Credit: Photo by Jon Miller
Jon Miller reports on a resurgence of interest among Greeks in their pre-Christian roots.

Bought by Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland


  • Added: Jul 07, 2006
  • Length: 06:26
  • Purchases: 1
Ladino Transformation
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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Sandy Tolan visits with some of Bulgaria's last Ladino speakers as they try to keep their language from going silent.

Bought by WBEZ, Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland, WFUV, and Third Coast International Audio Festival


  • Added: Jul 04, 2006
  • Length: 07:55
  • Purchases: 4
The Lemon Tree
From: Homelands Productions
Series: World Views
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An award-winning documentary that explores the roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict through the intertwined stories of an Israeli woman and a Palesti...

Bought by KSFR, XRAY.fm, KLCC, KPCC, KGLT and more


  • Added: May 01, 2006
  • Length: 38:21
  • Purchases: 6
Crossing East: Refuge From War - Program Seven
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos had no choice but to flee their homelands and come to America. THE ACTUAL SHOW LENGTH IS 59 MINUTES. THER...

Bought by KRCB 104.9, WCPN, WCPN, KQED, KGNU Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
LIVE! UN Event / Photo Exhibit Opening Ceremony - 1000Women for the Nobel Peace Prize -March 4, 2006
From: Lys Anzia
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UN event / Photo Exhibit Opening Ceremony - 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize / Two files: 1. raw sound file / crowd mingling before event

  • Added: Apr 23, 2006
  • Length: 36:48