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The warmth of sharing cultural identity among strangers turns to ashes when the unstoppable prejudices of others invades. This story was told at th...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2012
  • Length: 03:27
Caption: Erika Kooda
During the school year she'll be checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. This is the second installment of that series of essays.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KPIK-LP


  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 2
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This week our writers grapple with the colors that separate, whether black, brown, or white. Stories by Tyler Thompson, Leslie Epps, and Jennifer M...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: The Monti American Graduate
The Monti - American Graduate Special is an hour of true stories from the front lines of North Carolina’s high school drop out crisis.

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jacorey Monterio, Credit: Portland Press Herald
From the outside, Jacorey looks like the party guy - he's 16, has his own apartment and seems to be living large. But Jacorey's private desire for ...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:58
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A search for the Ward 8, Boston's most famous cocktail, leads to an authentic encounter with an old man at the bar. Sometimes it's the stories that...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 07:35
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The producer wrestles with inequality-related discomforts while he climbs Mt Kilimanjaro.

Bought by Aspen Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 28, 2012
  • Length: 10:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Earthquake devastation in Asia
NEWSFLASH around the world! An all-out nuclear strike on America? The debt is called in. Who will initiate this attack? Where will it come from?

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Protests at the G8 Summit, Edinburgh
The seventh and final incarnation of the historic ‘Empire spirit.’ A union of ten powerful nations – or is it eleven? A revived Roman Empire in Eur...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: An Iranian missile launch
It doesn't really require any prophetic anointing to predict conflict in the Middle East, but what exactly DO the Hebrew prophets tell us to expect...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Israeli Merkava IV tank during Yom Kippur War, 1973
It doesn't really require any prophetic anointing to predict conflict in the Middle East, but what exactly DO the Hebrew prophets tell us to expect...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Jewish refugee
Judah and Israel can expect things to get very troubled in Mega-Babylon. Anti-Semitism will increase and it will become difficult for them to be a...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Anti-Semitic graffiti
What is she guilty of? Wall Street – source of world economic control/globalisation Funded by 'sorcery', i.e. drug production and distribution At...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: US soldier in opium field, Afghanistan
Why would God judge Mega-Babylon? (Part 1) What is she guilty of? Wall Street – source of world economic control/globalisation Funded by 'sorcer...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Igbo women in synagogue, Nigeria, Credit: Kulanu.org
Can we identify any of the ten tribes today? Do they have any connection to Israel? Igbo, Nigeria; Lemba, South Africa – Zimbabwe; Abayaudaya,...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Menashe from India, now a soldier in the IDF
In prophetic word Judah and Israel are inseparable. Can we identify any of the ten tribes today? Do they have any connection to Israel?

  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Downtown Tel Aviv
Through the Hebrew prophets, Yehowah promised he would reward Israel's disobedience by scattering them to 'the four corners of the earth' – but, th...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: New York City by night
Do we need more identifiers? The hammer of the whole earth. The nations will no longer stream to him. A nation who exult in their military...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Modern city by night
Over the centuries many interpretations have been arrived at to identify Mega-Babylon. The possibilities still debated are: Ancient Babylon Rome/...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: The goddess, Ishtar
Mega-city, Mega-Babylon. The goddess, Ishtar, dressed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, silver and precious stones and riding upon a ten...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Ancient Babylon
The Hebrew prophets - from Isaiah and Jeremiah, to the Apostle, John, spoke of a city and nation they referred to by the codename, 'Mega-Babylon'. ...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:30

  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
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An experimental narrative music piece for Radiolab/Longshot Radio's project exploring creativity, failure and revision.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 03:32
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Chloe Espinosa, a student at a Catholic school in Santa Fe, NM, explores the issue of gay rights in the context of religion. She interviews a local...

Bought by WDBM and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 20, 2012
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 2
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In which I write an break-up letter to improv comedy.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 19:49