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Episode 75: Trying To Get Home
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Michael Benanav studies nomadic people as a writer and photographer. So when he was invited to accompany the Van Gujjar of northern India on their ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:19
Walk across America
From: Georgia Walker
Caption: Walk across America, Credit: Van Booth
When Van Booth retired from the army in 2016, he came home with a heavy load of PTSD. He found a spot up on the train tracks to park his car and wa...

Bought by HowSound and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 2
Myrtice Allen Instilled My Passion for Travel
From: Cam Marston
Series: Keepin' It Real with Cam Marston - Short interstitial content.
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Myrtice Allen passed away not long ago. She was 98 years old. I had sent her over 500 postcards which she kept in a shoe box in her small apartment.

Bought by KXCR


  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 1
Ellen Harvey on Public Art and Climate Action
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Today, we take you to Miami Beach, Florida, for a conversation with British-born artist Ellen Harvey. Selected for a high profile public art commis...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2019
  • Length: 12:33
  • Purchases: 1
Earth Day's Murderer and the Apostle of the Cacti
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Did the founder of Earth Day really murder his girlfriend and let her body rot in his apartment closet?

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sand Sculpting
From: Caldwell Akers
Series: The Laborious Hour
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Hear Marianne van den Broek of Just Sand and Water spray, scrape and sculpt sand art on the US' southernmost shore.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
The Big Pond #11: Germans on Harleys
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Every year, tourists from around the world flock to Southern Utah to take in the scenic landscape. Most travel by car, but some opt for a less trad...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 14:54
  • Purchases: 1
Of Fire and Monsters
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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When there’s trouble on the edge of civilization—where the wilderness meets what mankind makes—well, here we encounter fierce things both natural a...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mainlander
From: Patricia Petelin
Series: The Midrange
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I'm not about to declare continental living a danger to one's health, but I'm starting to wonder. What is it about small, isolated places surrounde...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2018
  • Length: 13:08
489-Martian Water
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Exciting new research indicates that there could be a lake of liquid water beneath the south Martian polar cap. Further research will be required t...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WLPR , KUPR low power FM, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
467-Time Travel
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Looking out into space takes you back in time. To experience time travel go to a natural night sky location like the Cosmic Campground Internationa...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KSFR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
180331 Our Sanctuary, New Orleans
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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To stay in New Orleans is to abandon health, wealth and reasonableness in favor of enjoying the moment. Living the non-commercial life of quality ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 01:57:23
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 9
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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"Finding Your Way Home In A Purple Canoe" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Patrick Dobson was stuck in his life, so he decided t...

Bought by KSTK, Prairie Public, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
440-Tracking Elon's Car
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Starman and Tesla will continue to orbit the Sun for millions of years to come as a physical testament to human ingenuity and our sense of humor.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KKRN, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Forget your feed
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip forgets to feed his social media stream, and reconnects with the world.

  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
423-Silent ET
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The hypothesis that Oumuamua, the interstellar space rock, is an alien probe is pretty farfetched, however, how it came to have it's current shape ...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
421-New Aten
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Aten asteroids can make close approaches to Earth. They are difficult to discover because they spend most of their time inside our orbit with thei...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WEJP-LP 107.1, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
407-Plant Companionship
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The plants that Mars explorers take with them will provide a source of fresh fruits and vegetables , fresh air to breathe, and perhaps a psychologi...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, and KKRN


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 31: Why Elephants Never Forget
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Aubrey Bertram traveled to East Asia to help animals that had been abused by humans. But a harrowing experience taught her that good intentions mig...

Bought by KUER, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 18:24
  • Purchases: 3
The Power of Water
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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Stories of men battling white water rapids and floods in Alaska.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
183: Roadtrippin' / 184: Do Protests Still Matter?, 7/8/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Roadtrippin'" - What makes a road trip something special? It's not the destination. HOUR TWO: "Do Protests Still Matter?" - In the wa...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:56
372-Trappist-1 Planets
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The Trappist-1 solar system consists of a dim red star and 7 Earth sized planets. Humans are beginning to explore this fascinating new potentially ...

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KKRN, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
370-Life's Parts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers have found the basic ingredients of life in an infant solar system.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WOUB, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
366-3 Explorers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A tiny space rock which can pass closer to us than the communications satellites may have been ejected from our Moon.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KKRN, KUPR low power FM, and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
364-Laser Surfing
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Laser propelled ultra light space probes could be sent to explore nearby worlds.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, WLPR and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6

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