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The Big Ponder #43: The Typewriter
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #30: The Zoo
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Growing up, Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller traveled the world with his family. On their trips, they always made time for a visit to the local zoo: in Ber...

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #29: Humor
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Despite the cliché of the unfunny German, there is a rich tradition of comedy in German culture. Soraya Nelson visits comedy clubs in Berlin and in...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 27:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #26: Krampus
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the U.S., Santa keeps tabs on who’s been naughty or nice, but there isn’t much follow through on the naughty list. In much of Europe, however, S...

Bought by WBEZ and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 27:27
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Ponder #24: Happiness
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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How do you quantify something as indescribable as happiness? Michael Hobbes searches for a way to measure life satisfaction that works in both the ...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:17
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #22: Candy
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
As a kid, candy makes the world go round. As an adult, it has the power to bring back long-forgotten childhood memories. Carol McKinley talks about...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #15: Record Booth
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...

Bought by HowSound and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Ponder #9: In Friendship
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Inspired by a year of forced isolation, essayist Bilal Qureshi explores the history, landscape, and meaning of friendship across cultures. At the h...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:47
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #44: Germans in New Orleans
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Historically, New Orleans is a cultural, spiritual and ethnic melting pot. In the streets, you immediately come across signs of French, Caribbean, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 13:32
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #32: Getting to Know the Gateau
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Although it’s not certain who first wrote the recipe, the Black Forest cake has been fully embraced by the Black Forest community as an essential a...

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2019
  • Length: 19:15
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #21: What’s a Sister City Really?
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the historic city of Magdeburg, Germany, there is a Johnny Cash themed country music festival called Nashville Days – complete with corndogs and...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #19: German Bread – A Nourishing Craft
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Germany is internationally renowned for its bread. With its diversity of more than 3,000 varieties the Germans are world champions of bread. Since ...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2019
  • Length: 24:27
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #18: German-Texan Heritage Societies
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Between 1820 and World War I, nearly six million Germans immigrated to the US – in 2017, only about 5,000 made the trip. If Germans aren’t coming t...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2019
  • Length: 19:17
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #16: Culture of Coffee
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Coffee is more than just a beverage – it can be a jumpstart to a day at work or a relaxing afternoon with friends. This episode explores the meanin...

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  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 15:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #13: German-style Wines in the US
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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German entrepreneurs and winemakers have shaped the manufacturing of wine in the US for over a century. Join our producer Gary Lee on a tour of thr...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 20:24
The TIFF
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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The RDD meets the the TIFF (that's the Toledo International Film Festival) on this week's episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. The Tiff is an annua...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2018
  • Length: 06:08
Friends and Freedom Fighters
From: Philip Armand
Caption: Freedom Fighter
Philip Armand grapples with commitment, then spends an afternoon watching the TV show Friends with a group of Kurdish Freedom Fighters.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2016
  • Length: 09:11
Now Boarding
From: Israel Story
Series: Israel Story Podcast
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For the year’s heaviest week of travel, Israel Story brings tales of love and interrogation at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 50:29
Startup Series: Lebanon
From: Hebah Fisher
Series: Kerning Cultures
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A Lebanese startup's journey through the nation's first accelerator and the Central Bank Circular 331 funds.

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 20:47
  • Purchases: 1
Tacos and Banh Mi: A match made in heaven
From: KALW
Caption: Co-owner Tony Torres cooking Shrimp a la Diabla, Credit: Olivia Cueva
On the corner of 14th Avenue and International Boulevard in East Oakland, there's a strip mall with a mini-mart, a laundromat, and then there is Sa...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 15:02
Hello Buffalo
From: Israel Story
Caption: Dubi tending to his water buffalo.
Dubi Ayalon, a retired IDF lieutenant-colonel, traded a life as a school principal in Israel for a life of raising and miking water buffalo in rura...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 17:03
Whistle-Stop Tour
From: Israel Story
Caption: Elik Frumchenko whistles with members of a Chinese whistling festival
A young Israeli is backpacking in China when he becomes the first ever Western professional whistler to perform at a Chinese whistle convention.

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 11:44
  • Purchases: 1
"Even As A Baby You Were Selfish"
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: FEBRUARY 2015
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An amusing passage from one of 2014's Ten Best Books (New York Times Book Review), Family Life is a novel by Akhil Sharma who grew up in Delhi, Ind...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Snap 406: Making It Work, 4/3/2014
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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Tell us it can't be done, and we'll tell you that you simply having thought about it hard enough. Today on Snap Judgment from PRX and NPR we proudl...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
A Parisian Birth Story
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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Are there really that many differences between giving birth in the United States and Paris?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 04:43