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Caption: A young apprentice tries his hand at making a mandala.
The Gyuto monks, followers of the Dalai Llama, live in cultural exile in India. They teach love, wisdom and kindness by performing programs of thei...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Africa's first canopy ropewalk at Kakum National Park, Credit: Kelly Ramundo
Ghana has long been a special place for the African American diaspora. For many, "roots tourism" is a rite of passage. But in the early 90s, the We...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Dec 14, 2013
  • Length: 11:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: New Zealand contemporary dance troupe Black Grace. (Artistic Direction: Neil Ieremia; , Credit: Photography: Duncan Cole
If you’ve ever seen New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team, you know something about the Haka. It’s the traditional Maori warrior dance they use as a ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 05:34
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Luis & Luisa Quintero of Luis' Tacqueria in Woodburn, OR, Credit:  Photo by Richard Jensen
Throughout the West, historic discriminatory laws have excluded people of color from settling and owning property. Because of that, many Western st...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 15:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Former Political Prisoner Win Maw plays a guitar he made in prison
As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. In this story, eigh...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, KALW, KUNM, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Luxury hotels and apartments across the street from an earthquake-risk neighborhood., Credit: Ashley Cleek
Istanbul is a massive city of around 15 million people living in 3 million apartments. But Istanbul is also a city that is slated to have a major e...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 11:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Part documentary, part sound-collage, this special explores Costa Rica, considered one of the "greenest" countries in the world, and its national e...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2013
  • Length: 21:19
Caption: Genozid Mermorial, Credit: A. Peltner
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 still haunts an entire country

  • Added: Jan 27, 2013
  • Length: 20:15
Caption: Arkadiy Aronov., Credit: Photo courtesy of  Spartak Sports Club, Rego Park, Queens.
Judo olympians train in humble surroundings at Spartak Sport Club in Rego Park, Queens.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
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"Generation Putin" is an hourlong special on young people and politics in the former Soviet Union. Embeddable on SoundCloud, too.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City, WGBH Radio Boston, KVSC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 55
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Death Must Die is a sound piece that begins before the rising of the sun and reproduces the cycle of a day in the sacred Indian city of Varanasi, w...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Canzioniere
A musician and a restauranteur from Liverpool visit a festival of performances with traditional roots in Catalonia in North East Spain. They meet m...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 33:33
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This time on Peace Talks Radio, we present producer Amy Mayer’s 2011 program that then marked the 50th anniversary of The Peace Corps.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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There I was, an Indian woman on the move in a strange new land - Mongolia - and it didn't feel so strange. So much resonated - especially the voic...

Bought by KUER, KZYX, WRPI, KFOK-LPFM, and KUNM


  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 23:43
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Bashora in Amboseli, Credit: Ron Guijs
Bashora Galgalo is a 47 year old member of the Watha Tribe a minority indigenous hunter gather tribe from Kenya. He was born a hunterat Ndololo in ...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 07:10
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The Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special two-hour pr...

Bought by Prairie Public, KERA, WEZU, KOSU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 58
Caption: “MOHAMED ALI JINNAH: His Moslem tiger wants to eat the Hindu cow” [April 1946]
Christopher Lydon on the road in South Asia, in a compilation of conversations and reflections on Pakistan's past and dynamic present. Featuring no...

Bought by WCPN, KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Rashid Rana's "I Love Miniatures" (2002)
Christopher Lydon on the road in South Asia, in a compilation of conversations and reflections on Pakistan's past and dynamic present. Featuring fi...

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


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Squeezebox Stories, a sound-rich, narrative-driven public radio documentary hosted by Marco Werman of PRI's The World, explores the rich musical wo...

Bought by WCNY, WWNO, KZUM, KLCC, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 20
Caption: A multimedia documentary project--www.peacecorpsvoices.org
A one-hour documentary special in honor of the Peace Corps' 50th anniversary, Peace Corps Voices uses historic recordings and contemporary intervie...

Bought by KALW, Wisconsin Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WRPI, KUNM and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 12
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Amnesty has recently attracted criticism, sometimes from those who have been its most committed activists.  John Tusa asks if it has lost its way a...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 36:34
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Every year, in cities across the world, cyclists throw off their clothes and ride naked as part of the World Naked Bike Ride - a global protest mov...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 15, 2011
  • Length: 18:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Brain of a Sociopath
Narcissists and Sociopaths have always been among us and yet recent research brings us new understanding of just what these serious emotional disab...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 47:10
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A look back at the last Bob Marley & The Wailers concert (Pittsburgh - Sep 23, 1980) with previously unavailable live recordings and exclusive inte...

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WFAE and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37