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Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Visit countries where the standard of living is higher than ours

  • Added: Aug 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:50
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
I hold up my pants with suspenders

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 22, 2010
  • Length: :46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry, Credit: Brittany Jencks
In 1962 France was years ahead of the U.S. in ecological awareness and energy conservation, before the word "ecology" was even used in either count...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 05:34
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For fourteen year-old Inonge Sitali, a radio dialogue with her peers about the 2010 FIFA World Cup is an opportunity for her to talk about gender i...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jul 07, 2010
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry, Credit: Brittany Jencks
Fred Flaxman's tongue-in-cheek memoir, "Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry," concludes when the author discovers he's an old man on a subway in Paris.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 03, 2010
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Read Mark Twain's English translation of The Jumping Frog

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Quilt from London Quilters exhibition., Credit: Walter Murch
Quilting binds women together through history and in community.

  • Added: May 24, 2010
  • Length: 09:56
Caption: Statue of Prime Minister Charles James Fox, Credit: Walter Murch
A view of the general election held in the United Kingdom on May 6 2010

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: May 08, 2010
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Gardeners on the ground, Credit: Beatrice Murch
From the philanthropic women of Washing to DC to a group of international environmentalists in Buenos Aires, A few good women can make a difference...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Reporter Laura Spero lives in New York City, but she travels to Nepal every year. There, a single winding road connects Nepal’s capital, Katmandu,...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Apr 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1
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There’s a new form of traveling inexpensively that’s emerged in recent years. Any adventurous tourist can “couch-surf.” It gives travelers the ch...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
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Food shipments may end soon to Haiti where hundreds of thousands of people still live in tents after January’s earthquake. What happens next depen...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:37
Caption: Crowds at the Plaza de Mayo, Credit: Walter Murch
March 24th is Truth and Justice Day, a national holiday in Argentina.

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 09:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Afghanistan in winter can be brutal. If you really want to get warm, the place to go is the local hamam or bath house. In a country where most ho...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2010
  • Length: 03:04
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Melting pot, or salad bowl? How do we maintain our identity?

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Mar 20, 2010
  • Length: 12:57
  • Purchases: 1
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has promised an extensive package of relief supplies and equipment to earthquake ravaged Chile. The temblo...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2010
  • Length: 02:26
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In India recently, a large gathering of women welcomed reporter Will Everett to a special celebration. But Will wasn’t happy about it. In fact, h...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 1
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Just call it snowboarding for Haiti. That’s one of the offshoots of this year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The games provide an international ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2010
  • Length: 03:41
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Author William Powers lived in Liberia for two years. He was an aid worker directing relief programs during the civil war there. When Powers retu...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
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Every weekday jutro I march na fakultet and sit u nastavi to learn a jezik I will never fully razumijem.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2010
  • Length: 12:20
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UNICEF emergency communications specialist Jennifer Bakody recently visited Haitian earthquake survivors in the Dario Contreras Hospital in Santo D...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2010
  • Length: 04:35
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Reporter Amelia de Sousa sends another letter from earthquake ravaged Haiti before leaving for the U.S.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2010
  • Length: 04:44
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Reporters in the field rely to a great extent on self-reliance. But when the chips are down, sometimes you just need a helping hand, as Will Evere...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2010
  • Length: 03:24
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Amelia de Sousa was working in the UN building in Haiti when it collapsed. She managed to crawl out alive. But she lost many colleagues and frien...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 04:19
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Grant Fuller spent nearly two years living in West Africa. While he was there, he traveled around using every means available -- taxi, bus, boat, ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 01:34