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Seeings believing...or is it? We're tracking 2nd guesses, hesitation and other doubtful acts through the music they have inspired this week--firmly...
Bought by WFIU, WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio) and more
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 8
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
A young Israeli is backpacking in China when he becomes the first ever Western professional whistler to perform at a Chinese whistle convention.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 11:44
- Purchases: 1
A funny blog on the site Publishing Perspectives came up with a checklist for the must have ingredients of a bad South Asian diasporan novel. Arran...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
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
COSTA RICA is perhaps Central America's most progressive country.
It is ranked as the "greenest" country on earth. 6% of its land mass in fact is f...
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 01:04:38
Sandip Roy tries to call his mother, but it proves to be more challenging than one would expect.
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 04:30
The University of Iowa’s “Food for Thought” project—its first ever theme semester—offers a platform for engagement on campus and throughout the sta...
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 27:06
Phyllis Allen is Kaitie Marshall?s grandma. She recently spent three months as an aid worker in Darfur for Doctors Without Borders. In this intervi...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 13:29
- Purchases: 1
Youth reporter Zoe Sheinkopf visits a refugee camp in Ghana and sends back an audio postcard full of boisterous singing children.
Bought by KUER
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 03:15
- Purchases: 1
Rahul Richard Verma would be the first Indian American to be Ambassador to India. Sandip Roy channels the thoughts of ohh about a billion Indians.
- Added: Nov 11, 2014
- Length: 04:30
FILMS AROUND THE WORLD deals
with film an an international commodity. In terms of commercial
entertainment at home, on the big screen in theaters e...
- Added: Oct 20, 2014
- Length: 01:00:10
An exploration of Brazil's diverse culture, complex past, artistic traditions, and modern aspirations.
- Added: Oct 18, 2014
- Length: 24:36
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
A relaxing interstitial piece that may put you in a brief tropical state-of-mind.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 01:24
A Scottish separatist whips himself into a nationalistic frenzy about everything from the taste of haggis to Mr. Scott’s job on Star Trek.
- Added: Sep 23, 2014
- Length: 02:47
To get its Peace Prize back from trigger-happy Obama, the Nobel Committee uses its most fearsome weapons—begging, asking nicely, even empty threats...
- Added: Sep 23, 2014
- Length: 03:37
The country suffers from an outbreak of idiocy when The Final Edition gets Americans’ opinions about Ebola.
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: :50
- Purchases: 1
A pair of loud, grouchy Scotsmen debates independence from England, which country has the more disgusting food, and exactly what goes on under thos...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 02:06
This wacky sitcom about a sympathetic suicide bomber fires more zingers than a Kalashnikov rifle!
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 04:20
The X-rated royal baby is back—along with his chipper unborn brother—to discuss conserving Guinness, the Queen’s potty habits, and the gleeful abus...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 03:05
Ray has been an activist most of his life. He organized lunch counter sit-ins and participated in the March on Washington. When he was drafted to f...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 23:59
Hear irradiated gonads, a Fox News minstrel show, a murderously ass-kicking truck, and much more (including some brand new goodies) in our monthly ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2014
- Length: 50:33
Friendly neighbor Vladimir Putin helpfully investigates who could possibly have invaded Ukraine.
- Added: Sep 14, 2014
- Length: 01:51
An impartial, journalistic look at whether smelly immigrants are here to steal our women.
- Added: Sep 14, 2014
- Length: 03:47
