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How do you pass on the culture of a country you can’t remember? Three generations of the Hang family in Portland, Maine, try to reconcile memories ...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 3
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When Anne, a young Canadian woman in the 1950’s, is told it’s not possible to study giraffe in the wilds of Africa because she’s a woman, she sets...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 01:05:24
Caption: Jane York and Nura Adam embrace at a meeting, Credit: Lisa Merrill, Bellevue WA
In Bellevue, Washington a group of women meet once a month to discuss their cultural differences and similarities. The conversations are transformi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 08:43
  • Purchases: 1
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It is rare for an Israeli and a Palestinian to fall in love. There are physical barriers, as Israelis can’t enter Palestinian areas, and Palestinia...

Bought by KUOW, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 13, 2013
  • Length: 12:18
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Former Political Prisoner Win Maw plays a guitar he made in prison
As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. In this story, eigh...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, KALW, KUNM, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Genozid Mermorial, Credit: A. Peltner
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 still haunts an entire country

  • Added: Jan 27, 2013
  • Length: 20:15
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18-year-old Radio Rookie Reporter, Danielle came from the Congo when she was 13 years old, leaving her mother and the life that she knew behind in ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: New Academic Building, Goldsmiths College, University of London
The day that changed Norway forever.

Bought by KUT and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 15, 2012
  • Length: 16:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Stefan Baluk during WWII, Credit: Stefan Baluk
A 97 year-old veteran of the Warsaw Uprising recounts parachuting into occupied Poland and fighting in a last-ditch attempt to re-take his home fro...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2011
  • Length: 14:19
  • Purchases: 2
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The Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour pr...

Bought by Prairie Public, KERA, WEZU, KOSU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 58
Caption: Jay Ipson in front of the Virginia Holocaust Museum., Credit: John MacLellan
Jay Ipson, the youngest Holocaust survivor living in Virginia today, lived in an underground lair for six months during the Nazi occupation of his ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 59:14
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Part two of “The Journey: From the Third World to Middle America” by KVSC News Director Chris Duffy takes a look at the Somali population in St. Cl...

  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 31:47
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Part one of “The Journey: From the Third World to Middle America” by KVSC News Director Chris Duffy takes a look at the Somali population in St. Cl...

  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 28:25
Caption: Comedian Mondli Mzizi., Credit: Courtesy Ekhaya Multi Arts Center
Mondli ‘Usher’ Mzizi is a young comedian who travels the country hosting ceremonies and entertaining through his comedy. A University of Natal Dram...

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 14:28
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 15:33
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 08:57
Caption: A pastor at a Southern Sudanese church in a refugee camp in Kenya., Credit: Becky Palmstrom
As the newest country in the world celebrates, Becky Palmstrom travels to Kenya to hear the prayers and songs of the refugees waiting to return to ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 05:18
Caption: The streets of Abidjan, Credit: Carol Spindel
Writer and radio commentator Carol Spindel visited the Ivory Coast last November as the country took a step towards democracy with a historic elect...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast, Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 20:20
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In Portland, a small community exists around the public performance of Middle Eastern music and dance. Portland is also home to an Iraqi community ...

Bought by WMPG, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 11:48
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast  , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony Kammerhofer
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 19:37
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast , Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony Kammerhofer
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2010
  • Length: 15:55
Caption: SOS Children's Villages Podcast, Credit: In-house voice-over talent: Catherine Nash & Anthony Kammerhofer
The SOS Children's Villages Podcast is focusing on family-based child care including children's needs, interests and rights. Featured are monthly r...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 12:00