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Times Square, New York City
From: Brooklyn College Radio
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'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
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 25
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know! Featuring Musician Claes Cem and and Author Sergio Magana.

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
Canada to U.S. Kids: What Are Your Relations to These People??
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Samantha Powell and Billy Marohn on an innocent roadtrip. Or are they?
What if you were stuck at the border, having to answer probably *appropriate* questions? What if you maybe trusted the Canadian banking system to j...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:45
Breakfast Culture
From: Brooklyn College Radio
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A look at breakfast and its importance in our culture.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 1
Silent Seekers
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Most people know Sufism as the religion practiced by the whirling dervishes. But this mystical form of Islam has taken root in America, too.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 06:41
VoiceBox: Vocal Music from the Indian Subcontinent
From: VoiceBox
Caption: Richard Michos, Riffat Sultana, and Sukhawat Ali Khan., Credit: Chloe Veltman
Vocalists Riffat Sultana and Sukhawat Ali Khan, siblings who come from a lauded lineage of Pakistani singers (their father is the Pakistani musical...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 02
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Artists David Phillips and Amara Kopakova.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 27:55
German Artist Makes Statement at California Beach
From: Kerstin Zilm
Caption: Artist Michael Sistig and Anti Ark
Michael Sistig Creates the Anti Ark at El Segundo Beach. The open air art installation consists of shipping containers, an emaciated polar bear and...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 07:48
Norwegian filmmakers seek to understand, document Norwegian-Americans
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Norwegian filmmakers Kristian Balsrod & Anton Ligaarden stopped by WTIP's The Roadhouse Feb. 1 to update hosts Ann Possis & Buck Benson on their lo...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 26:39
  • Purchases: 1
Folktale of Thievery
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Thievery, Credit: Julia Meek
As they say in Cambodia: "Stealing may bring profits, but hanging costs far more", so lock the door & hang on to your wallets--this week, we're cha...

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR , WFIU and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 8
Searching for Sasha Krizhanovsky
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
Caption: Sasha & Jessica, Credit: Sarah Stuteville
Armed with a letter from 1990, producer Jessica Partnow goes in search of her childhood Soviet pen pal.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 3
Folktale of Closure
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Closure, Credit: Julia Meek
"Where is the good in goodbye?" Meredith Wilson's "Music Man" pondered this question, which we're revisiting with a tour of departures, leave taki...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:11
  • Purchases: 10
A Basement in Queens
From: Anne Noyes Saini
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
Culturology: Aaron Brown - Top Words of 2012
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Aaron Brown
In this essay Aaron Brown dresses down the most popular words from the year 2012, according to the Global Language Monitor.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 1
Portrait of the "Artiste" as a Young Man by Ali M. Rahman
From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio
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What do you get when you have a naïve twenty something year old writer with delusions of grandeur who is constantly butting heads with his family a...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 08:42
"A Delicate Balance" in Rehearsal
From: Alison Turner
Caption: The Warehouse Theatre in Brussels, Belgium
The American Theater Company in Brussels, Belgium, will perform Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize winning play, "A Delicate Balance" in January 2013. ...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 06:40
WorldCanvass: IWP: Writing the Stories of the World
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 01:55:25
Folktale of Curses!
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Curses!, Credit: Julia Meek
Curses! THIS week's Folktale is 'doomed' to explore hexes, vexes, oaths & other forms of musical evil will, and a voo-doo or two, just for good (or...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, KLCC, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
Latitude News Podcast #4 - Channeling Venice in Cleveland
From: Latitude News
Caption: Giancarlo Calicchia's "Genesis," a 28-foot long, 2,000+ pound wooden sculpture., Credit: Dan Moulthrop
Cleveland’s Renaissance man hopes to rejuvenate the Rust Belt with art.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 12:52
  • Purchases: 1
Here a Cat, There a Cat, Oy Vey, That's a lot of Freaking Street Cats
From: Zak Rosen
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Israel's mild, desert climate makes it possible for cats to give labor three, sometimes even 4-times a year. And when heat cycles can start as ear...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
Kenya's Owen and Mzee - The Mystery behind 'Owen'
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Soila Sayialel saves elephants , Credit: Soila Sayialel
Paula Kahumbu narrates the magical story of Owen, a baby hippopotamus, who developed an unexpected relationship with Mzee, a 130yr old giant tortoi...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 07:27
Escape from hippo attack in the Okovango Delta
From: Paula Kahumbu
Caption: David Coulson at a rock art site in Nairobi Park (sitting), Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Have you ever stared a charging hippo in the face? David Coulson did! Reputed to be Africa's most dangerous animal the hippo is known to be able to...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:26
Kate's Hole in the Skull
From: Will Rogers
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A young woman's journey toward trepanation.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 16, 2012
  • Length: 20:03
  • Purchases: 1
Egypt: Animals feeling the decline in tourism
From: Jake Warga
Caption: bored camels, Credit: jake warga
Talking, in Arabic, with the animals in Egypt. Specifically animals out of work because their country had a revolution and their main clients, tour...

Bought by WABE, Listenwise, KUT, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 5
2012: End of the World! Cancun, Mexico
From: Jake Warga
Caption: Stella predicting the end of the world, Credit: Jake warga
It's the end of the world, according to the Mayan Calendar. A thoughtful and goofy piece exploring Cancun, Mexico.

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZYX, and KUT


  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 4

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