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Displaced Farm Workers
From: World Vision Report
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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
Summer on the Hill
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Mr. Bennett bikes The Broadwalk, Credit: ?
Who do we meet, who do we see when we walk through the city village, the park or even just in the street where you live?

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jul 03, 2009
  • Length: 10:29
  • Purchases: 1
Stuck in the Mud
From: World Vision Report
Series: Michael Kavanagh's Murrow Award Winning Trio
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Being a reporter that travels to the far corners of the world sounds exciting, but reporter Michael Kavanagh reminds us in a Reporter’s Notebook th...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, and WABE


  • Added: Jun 30, 2009
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 3
Schools: Ancient and Modern
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Villa La Pietra, Credit: Walter Murch
It is time for an Old Girls reunion at St. Catherine's School before heading to Villa La Pietra and New York University, Abroad

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jun 19, 2009
  • Length: 10:58
  • Purchases: 1
Continental Divide
From: Judith Sloan
Series: Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America
Caption: Crossing the BLVD, Credit: Judith Sloan, Warren Lehrer, Scott Johnson
Shekaiba Wakili's aunt was en route to New York, September 11, 2001, when her plane turned around and flew back to Peshawar, Pakistan. Shekaiba str...

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: May 30, 2009
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Fixer
From: World Vision Report
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We rely on journalists to bring us the latest news from around the world. They in turn rely on local helpers, or “fixers,” to get what they need f...

  • Added: May 29, 2009
  • Length: 02:16
AIDS Orphan in Tanzania
From: World Vision Report
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15-year old Anthony Kagoma is an AIDS orphan in Tanzania, one of the million children in that country who’ve been orphaned by the epidemic. David ...

  • Added: May 29, 2009
  • Length: 01:44
Kenneth Jerera in South Africa
From: World Vision Report
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Many of those who leave Zimbabwe for South Africa are children and teenagers. When Tendai Maphosa was in the border town of Musina, he saw scores ...

  • Added: May 22, 2009
  • Length: 02:09
Sisters of the Good Shepherd
From: World Vision Report
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During Pope Benedict‘s recent trip to the Middle East, he called for greater respect for women. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd would endorse tha...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2009
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
Cannibal Theme Park
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: Fredy and his wall of postcards
Met any cannibals lately? Producer Carla Seidl has, and tells the tale in this engaging sound-rich documentary/personal narrative related to her an...

Bought by WILL


  • Added: May 07, 2009
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Chameli Waiba
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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From her village in Nepal, Chameli Waiba believes letters and words have the power to changes lives.

Bought by WEZU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU, KBGA 89.9 FM and more


  • Added: May 04, 2009
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 6
Godlisten (12 Year old Tanzanite Miner)
From: World Vision Report
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The town of Mererani in northern Tanzania is the only place in the world where tanzanite is found. This deep blue gemstone is said to be a thousan...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: May 01, 2009
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
Getting Malaria
From: World Vision Report
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April 25th is World Malaria Day. What’s it like to come down with malaria? Reporter Will Everett call tell you. He came down with a case of mala...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2009
  • Length: 02:33
Hospital in Somaliland
From: World Vision Report
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It’s off the coast of Somalia where pirates are seizing ships carrying oil and food aid. Somalia is considered by many a failed state – volatile a...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 24, 2009
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
Racket Zapper
From: World Vision Report
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In Bangkok, Thailand, the warmer weather and lots of water provide a perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes. But Global Post correspondent Patrick...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2009
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
My Brother's Bite
From: World Vision Report
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Writer Kelsey Timmerman and his brother were on a trip to Honduras and enjoying the jungle, the hammock, and the river that flowed right by their b...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Apr 17, 2009
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 1
Remembrance Day
From: Julie Subrin
Caption: Hillside in Murambi, Credit: Photo by Gregory Warner
A visit to a Rwandan memorial raises questions about when and how we remember genocide.

Bought by Prairie Public and WBEZ


  • Added: Apr 14, 2009
  • Length: 11:48
  • Purchases: 2
Exodus
From: World Vision Report
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Jews around the world celebrate Passover this week. The holiday recounts the Biblical story of the exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land. There’s...

Bought by WTJU and BSR Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 2
Piano Ghost
From: World Vision Report
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It’s usually bad or sad stuff we hear about when it comes to the developing world. But reporter Conrad Fox discovered bad and sad may all be in th...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 05:29
Half a Life Time Ago
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Dancers at the march for the disappeared, Credit: Beatrice Murch
What was happening in the world thirty-three years and half a life-time ago?

  • Added: Mar 30, 2009
  • Length: 09:39
Adham Atieh
From: World Vision Report
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The Nahr Al Bared refugee camp in Lebanon was built in 1949 as a temporary camp for thousands of Palestinians displaced by the creation of the stat...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2009
  • Length: 02:13
Adopting Fadi
From: World Vision Report
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In the Sudanese capital Khartoum, scores of babies are abandoned every year.That’s mostly because they are born out of wedlock, but sometimes becau...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2009
  • Length: 02:55
From Boston to Berlin with college radio host Chance Dorland
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Series: Across the Ocean - the first Transatlantic Radio for kids
Caption: Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange
Ten´s of thousands of students from the States and Europe take part in exchange programmes every year. In this show, Radijojo's American intern a...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2009
  • Length: 18:44
This I Believe - Alaa El-Saad
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Texas student Alaa El-Saad believes in wearing a hijab, a religious head covering for Muslim women.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KBGA 89.9 FM


  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 3
This I Believe - Jim Haynes
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Jim Haynes believes in bringing people together—even total strangers—over Sunday dinner in his home.

Bought by WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 3

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