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As a lifelong photographer and filmmaker, Harald Rumpf has spent decades exploring the cities that his subjects call home. In this retrospective of...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 1
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A postcard from Canyonlands, Utah.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Congratulations, you people! It is Fall. You made it. Might take another month or two, until you really notice, but summer is officially over. It'...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
Heat domes and sultry Palm Springs mornings, weird ravens and odd dreams of wildlife appearances. The brain boils in the desert summer. It boils ou...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: The Sutjeska memorial in Tjentište, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Credit: Veronica Tosetti
Veronica Tosetti takes us on a journey around the Spomeniks - a trail of statues commemorating former Yugoslavia, and the people who died in conflict.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 06:13
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Did the founder of Earth Day really murder his girlfriend and let her body rot in his apartment closet?

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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When there’s trouble on the edge of civilization—where the wilderness meets what mankind makes—well, here we encounter fierce things both natural a...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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While hitch-hiking through Serbia, I met a refugee.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 03:01
Caption: Alexander the Great
What would you do if you had 100Million Euros (or more!) to spend on a country? What would you spend it on? The leaders of Macedonia chose statues...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2015
  • Length: 14:58
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I struggle with the "hurry up and wait" mentality. Alaska helped me get over this.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 09:47
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A Trans-Atlantic flight, and the lessons gleaned from it.

  • Added: May 28, 2014
  • Length: 05:48
Caption: GLF Participants, Credit: GLF
Audio Revolution presents stories from the Global Leadership Forum, a program that aims to cultivate culturally competent leaders from around the w...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 27:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Francine Sterle is the author of 2006 book "Nude In Winter," which was a finalist for the LA Times Book of the Year. She has also published two oth...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:53
Caption: Dan Sinykin
Dan Sinykin is a writer and frequent contributor of essays and book reviews to Northern Community Radio. In "Christmas In A Swamp" Sinykin recounts...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Robert Jevne gives us his thoughts on aspirations for the year including not giving into cynicism and remaining upbeat when there is much to be dow...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Robert Saxton
In the second of a series of essays, Robert Saxton reflects on perspective and some of the unique characteristics of living in northern Minnesota. ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Erika Kooda
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year Erika Kooda will be checking in with essays reflecting on her senior ye...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Signs and omens--words, items, and incidents that give us pause, give us a funny feeling that something is just not right. Buck Marsh has a bad fee...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Mansions at night, Credit: Walter Murch
We fly to Las Vegas for the weekend while a racing pigeon finds her way to the farm.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 09:39
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Machias is in Washington County

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 30, 2010
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 1
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
Go Where The Girls Are

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Baiz's exterior is moldering and dull, but inside, it is a conclave for a myriad of cultures and traditions., Credit: Mr. K
You don't have to travel far to experience different cultures.

  • Added: Apr 06, 2010
  • Length: 03:53
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A review of the second dirtiest hotel in the world

  • Added: Jan 31, 2010
  • Length: :54
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The number one dirtiest hotel is in San Francisco. Here's a sample of the reviews: “First and foremost no one should ever walk into a hotel only to...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2010
  • Length: :46