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We hear what makes tidewater glacier habitat an acoustic refuge, and why glaciers are important to other species in the ecosystem.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 19:11
We hear from Judy Ramos in Lingít Aaní. She tells us about the history of glacier travel in the region, and about the Spirit of the Glacier.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 24:28
The Old Farmer's Ball is a regional folk dance organization in Asheville, North Carolina that is best known for its lively Thursday night contra da...
- Added: Feb 22, 2021
- Length: 49:50
Producer Carla Seidl recalls her experience in Togo, West Africa, through language notes and audio recordings. A sound-rich cultural immersion/aud...
- Added: Nov 30, 2018
- Length: 09:04
What does *not* eating meat say about you? In one young biracial man’s family, his dietary change was construed as white, elite, even feminine. In ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 24:40
- Purchases: 3
Access to water has been declared an international human right, but it may be increasingly difficult to enforce. This episode explores how countrie...
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 20:03
It’s June; the President of the USA has officially designated it LGBT Pride Month, and there’ll be Pride events around the world. But how did the w...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZMU Moab Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 14:08
- Purchases: 3
An homage to Kendall Wild, the former managing editor of the Rutland Herald during the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s. He was eccentric, competitive, a...
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 25:45
Somali artist Aziz Osman left home for Florence, Italy, as a young man to pursue his dream of becoming a painter, sculptor and architect. Extensiv...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:05
Chef Sean Sherman is also known as the Sioux Chef. In September 2014 he opened a business of the same name, catering and educating people on “pre-r...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 10:16
As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...
- Added: Feb 23, 2014
- Length: 14:07
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 01:00:00
Joanna Foster was worried when her first deaf child was born. When her second baby was born deaf and autistic, she was devastated. Joanna started l...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 1
With the legalization of same-sex marriage in Maine, Barton Girdwood got to wondering, what about all the gay men in Maine who never found love? S...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 1
In the small village of Stratton, Maine, a woman believes she's not the master of her own destiny - the spirit of a sea captain is preventing her f...
Bought by KALW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 3
Documentary following the discovery and investigation of a birth chart by an interested skeptic. Hidden from him for years, he attempts to reconcil...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 10:04
Monte Malach, 85, of Battery Park City, Manhattan, remembers a time when soda fountains occupied any busy street corner in New York City.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 01:07
- Purchases: 1
Rebelling against your parents is the norm for most teens in America, but for some young people who immigrate to the U.S. without one or both of th...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 16, 2013
- Length: 06:35
- Purchases: 1
During the Great Depression, Ken Hardesty's grandfather was the de-facto bank for the townspeople of Aurora, West Virginia.
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 03:54
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
- Added: Aug 27, 2012
- Length: 13:14
- Purchases: 1
A simple scene of sharing language, laughter, songs and daily chores with my neighbours in Kigali, Rwanda.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KCUR, KUT, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 4
Despite being a woman in what's traditionally considered a man’s field, Suzanne Leahy has worked her way to becoming a master wooden boat builder -...
Bought by WABE and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 29, 2012
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 2
Paralyzed from the shoulders down and colorblind, Tim Lynn managed to become a talented painter whose work has hung in several San Francisco Bay Ar...
- Added: Oct 12, 2011
- Length: 11:14
A labyrinth is a circular path that leads to a center. Walking a labyrinth is an ancient ritual that pre-dates religion. Eunice Schroeder found a n...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 01, 2011
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 3
