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Each month brings its own special feeling. October is a month of apple-crisp days, cool nights and the sense that time is moving on.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Nov 18, 2009
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
"I wanted to tell him that this was only beginning. That for the rest of his life that little girl, who no matter how old she was would always be h...
Bought by Delta College Public Radio
- Added: Nov 18, 2009
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 18, 2009
- Length: 03:38
- Added: Nov 18, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Added: Nov 18, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
We found our castle in Spain -- and celebrated Thanksgiving there.
- Added: Nov 17, 2009
- Length: 02:54
Seeing familiar faces in a box of old photographs
- Added: Nov 17, 2009
- Length: 03:30
How the passage of time touches every life
- Added: Nov 17, 2009
- Length: 03:59
There’s a neighborhood in Cairo simply called “the City of the Dead.” It’s really a vast cemetery made up of rows of mausoleums—some modest, some ...
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:08
The U.N. estimates three million Colombians have been displaced from their homes because of the ongoing war for land between guerrilla fighters, pa...
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 04:47
In Kenya, lines of tents dot the landscape. They house people displaced by post election violence in 2008. There are many such camps in Kenya. M...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 1
Azerbaijan is a country that sits at the crossroads of East and West. And it’s reflected in the culture. Most of the people there are Muslim, but...
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 02:38
Tales of a taxi driver in the after hours of the night
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 15:05
In the Cambodian capitol of Phnom Penh, a small Buddhist shrine sits on the banks of the Ton le Sap River. The area is filled with worshippers, to...
- Added: Oct 09, 2009
- Length: 05:48
The entire housekeeping staff at Hyatt hotels in the Boston area was fired recently. Temporary workers making half their hourly wage replaced them...
- Added: Oct 02, 2009
- Length: 05:07
Parents in some countries have to leave their children with relatives in rural areas and go to cities to find work. Sometimes they’re the people w...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 03:19
- Purchases: 2
Health care is a hot topic right now. And not just in the United States. A report just out from Amnesty International says healthcare in Sierra Le...
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 02:20
13-year old Mamadou Barry had to strike out on his own at an early age. Unlike other kids, Mamadou has no parents sacrificing for his future. He’...
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 02:19
The author discusses his old home computer and general dorkitude.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, WILL, and Remix Radio
- Added: Sep 20, 2009
- Length: 04:06
- Purchases: 4
Rumors are a bad thing to spread. In the middle of the night a few months back, Liberians woke each other up to fetch water from a well. They were...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 11, 2009
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 1
A new president has just been elected in the tiny oil rich country of Gabon, in central Africa.
The country’s former President, Omar Bongo, died in...
- Added: Sep 04, 2009
- Length: 04:36
- Added: Aug 25, 2009
- Length: 04:58
A walk through the Sound Tunnel in Central Park with producer Mary Wilson.
- Added: Aug 13, 2009
- Length: 03:38
In Zimbabwe, its not just white farmers being thrown off the land as part of the government’s redistribution plan, more than a million farm workers...
- Added: Jul 17, 2009
- Length: 01:56
A young man seeking enlightenment once travelled far away to a distant land and climbed a tall mountain where a wise old man was known to dispense ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2009
- Length: :46
