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Only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated: Smallpox. Rahima Banu, a woman from rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: May 19, 2023
- Length: 09:37
- Purchases: 1
During World War II, over 400,000 German POWs came to the U.S., where they worked on local farms alongside civilians. Cariad Harmon tells the story...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 27, 2022
- Length: 30:35
- Purchases: 1
Tinsley Ellis 20th album "Devil May Care"
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Feb 09, 2022
- Length: 59:09
- Purchases: 1
Driving around Morocco in the late 1950s with counterculture icon Paul Bowles at the wheel, with a case of hot Pepsi, a brick of hash, and a massiv...
- Added: Jun 14, 2017
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 2
The 10th Anniversary special edition episode is here. Hosted by LTR's own Susi, this episode covers a wide range of international & cultural topics...
- Added: Apr 03, 2017
- Length: 58:32
In "The White Elephant,” Yochai Maital walks us through the history of Tel Aviv’s ‘New’ Central Bus Station — a derelict eight-story behemoth and m...
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 32:00
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 31, 2015
- Length: 04:38
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 31, 2015
- Length: 04:11
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 28, 2015
- Length: 06:52
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 28, 2015
- Length: 05:18
The Navigators were ancient Polynesians who sailed the vast Pacific in search of new islands.
- Added: Dec 27, 2015
- Length: 04:26
For more than a century, the Rio Grande has been the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But rivers can move.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 13:25
- Purchases: 2
The term ‘ethnomusicology’ was coined in 1959 by Dutch academic, Jaap Kunst. Put simply, it is the social and cultural study of music. Jo Barratt ...
- Added: Jul 28, 2014
- Length: 21:33
Before the Internet, before television, there was the radio. That's how people heard the news and enjoyed their favorite shows. This story is part ...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 1
In a Japanese P.O.W. camp during World War II, a group of Australian prisoners created performances that sustained them and their “captive” audienc...
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 58:03
They and their husbands helped to form the 14th of June Movement, named for the 1959 organized uprising against the Trujillo regime.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:55
After re-establishing her power, whenever the armies of other Indian lords attacked Jhansi, Lakshmibai was reportedly seen riding horseback into ba...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 03:11
Six countries and countless meetings with radical women later, Ngoyi boldly returned to South Africa, expecting to be arrested -- which she, needle...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:18
When he finally went home to Viet Nam, he began using a name from an I.D. card he had purchased: Ho Chi Minh ... which means "bringer of light." An...
- Added: Dec 09, 2010
- Length: 03:00
This documentary looks back at the 25th Anniversary of David Bowie's "Serious Moonlight" visit to New Zealand. It recounts Bowie being welcomed by ...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jan 15, 2009
- Length: 20:48
- Purchases: 1
From 1933 to the wars end, Nazi Germany systematically looted millions of works of art from individuals and the nations they went on to conquer. BB...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 22:16
Recreation of the disastrous 1953 flood in the southern Dutch province of Zeeland during which more than 1800 lives were lost.
Bought by Marfa Public Radio and WRPI
- Added: Sep 22, 2005
- Length: 29:14
- Purchases: 2
