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Most city dwellers view traffic as an unavoidable downside of urban life. But according to Susanne Papawassiliu, freeway standstills have their ben...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 21, 2022
- Length: 28:33
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: A much-needed update for our COVID vaccines — and also, if it turned out tires were absolutely horrible for our health... w...
- Added: Jun 10, 2022
- Length: 30:00
On this episode of the Apple Seed we'll hear a story by the great storyteller Charlotte Blake-Alston, about a village who's survival depends someho...
Bought by KSJE, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, WVPE, and KTXK
- Added: Sep 14, 2021
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 5
On this episode of the Apple Seed you'll hear a story from Len Kebrall, about two pals, a buddy story! Thing is, these buddies are frogs. The adven...
- Added: Jun 29, 2021
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 2
Pesticides are harmful. In Vergenoedg, farmers are using ducks as natural and amusing pest control.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:32
Over 200 years ago, German immigrant Henry Berger opened a bakery in East Baltimore – and since that day, Berger Cookies have been handmade in the ...
- Added: May 01, 2019
- Length: 17:02
World music show presented with spoken links by a Yorkshireman with an impenetrable accent - Think 'Uncle Peter' but musical. For more on the show ...
- Added: Aug 16, 2018
- Length: 01:00:00
Dr Chay Allen is an art historian who paid his way through his phD by working as an extra on shows including 24 and Downton Abbey.
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 12:54
This week, our faders are primed and beats matched for a chart-topping Folktale of Cover Songs! Better tune in, if you catch my riff?
Bought by WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR and more
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 9
When one thinks of fashion forward countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo usually doesn't come to mind. But Les Sapeurs might make us feel dif...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 05:44
Voting in India is the largest organized event in the world! Sandip Roy goes to the polls.
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 04:30
'Right, well for visitors this place serves as a first impression home base and for many a lasting memory of the city that never sleeps. But do the...
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 06:24
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 07:33
- Purchases: 1
Shipping is a big business in Pakistan. With new paved highways offering a fast track to Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, trucking is an importa...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 03:21
- Purchases: 1
People come to fortunetellers for answers and entertainment, but not all fortunetellers use a crystal ball. In Karachi, Pakistan, one street vendor...
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 05:49
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
With help from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund, KVSC has sent Wayne Bergerson, host of Frets on Saturday mornings, and long-time KVSC d...
- Added: Jul 10, 2010
- Length: 55:47
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
It's a most peculiuar experience, spending the Fourth of July in that Canadian territory settled by pro-British "Loyalists" who fled the U.S. afte...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM, RadioFreePalmer, Marfa Public Radio, and KUNV
- Added: Jun 11, 2007
- Length: 03:14
- Purchases: 4
I was only 12 at the time, but I'm sure I played a key role at the founding conference of the United Nations 60 years ago this month.
- Added: Jun 09, 2005
- Length: 02:53
