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Third culture kids spend their formative years trotting the globe, moving between different cultures and countries. Two third culture families shar...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Boise State Public Radio
- Added: Nov 21, 2023
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 2
One day, Jakob Lewis receives an email from a German man named Ingo asking to be his pen pal. The close relationship they develop teaches Jakob tha...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 25, 2021
- Length: 27:55
- Purchases: 1
Rod Clarance has traveled to more countries than you can shake a stick at. His Song Story is pulled from his memories of his first time in Europe.
- Added: May 08, 2020
- Length: 05:22
An Israeli writer was invited by text message to the funeral of a woman she never knew. She attends out of curiosity and finds over seventy people ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 10, 2018
- Length: 06:15
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Palestinians Podcast we hear from author Wafa Ghnaim about her struggle with being the daughter of immigrants in the United Stat...
- Added: Jul 24, 2017
- Length: 37:13
When 16 year-old Max Rakus set off to Germany right after his sophomore year of high school ended, he had no idea that the trip would change him fo...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 01:39
Sam hails from Bosnia, but she’s lived in the US for the last 6 years. Sometimes she finds that her two cultures have opposing values. Add to that ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 02:58
San Francisco is a renter’s worst nightmare. It might seem obvious. You know, your mum knows, your friends know, but me? I did not know. It is hard...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 09:39
I wanted to go to a bar in Impalila Island, Namibia. I couldn't because I'm white. Good thing- because I wouldn't have wanted to be there anyway.
- Added: Sep 13, 2015
- Length: 09:07
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 08:22
How is raising a little girl in the United States different from raising her in India? What happens when you move to America where expectations fo...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Feb 25, 2014
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 1
From the 19th century freak show to the East African black market in body parts to the modern cinema, the image of the albino has seized the popula...
- Added: Feb 01, 2014
- Length: 54:00
The image of India has changed in American eyes, yet so has America's image... in Indian eyes.
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 04:30
When Maryama Abdi came with her family to this country from Somalia, she left behind someone very dear to her.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 01:49
The founder of Tehelka, an indian magazine known for investigative stories on violence against women is involved in it's own rape controversy.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 26, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 15, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
A personal narrative about a traumatizing experience I had in elementary school in Egypt.
- Added: Oct 13, 2012
- Length: 05:22
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
When you visit the West African nation of Togo, you're likely to hear the "yovo song" -- a song chanted by many Togolese youth that goes: "White pe...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 26, 2012
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 1
Renowned Indian author Arundhati Roy takes us deep into the revolutionary-filled jungles of India, as she reads excerpts from her new book ‘Walking...
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Miranda tells us about her love filled jaunt in Paris and how to detect men not of your dreams.
- Added: Apr 02, 2012
- Length: 08:07
- Added: Dec 31, 2011
- Length: 09:57
- Purchases: 1
Israeli United World College student, Nofar Hamrani, shares her moving story about growing up in the Gaza Strip. She begins her story with a famil...
Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 06, 2011
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
After visiting Tibet, Chinese journalist Zhu Rui underwent a personal transformation, from critic of Tibetan society to one of its most passionate ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 06:45
