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The Negotiators: Confronting Conflict
From: Rob Sachs
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In this episode, we learn about two historic negotiations – one failed and one successful – from the negotiators themselves. We begin with a peace...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KUHF, WXXI Rochester, WLPR , Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 20
Monroe Doctrine Centenary - It's Our Hemisphere
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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The Monroe Doctrine on its 200th birthday. Messy American politics in 1823, messy American politics in 2023. And, Cambodia’s Great Lake, the Tonle ...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:39
Poisonous Legacies
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:38
Nothing About Ukraine Without Ukrainians
From: Mateo Schimpf
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We’re joined by Iryna Tsilyk, documentary filmmaker from Kyiv, and historians Katherine Younger and Emily Channell-Justice, to hear the story of mo...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
World in Progress 08/02/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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“The Niles – Myths and Challenges” : The Nile River has been the life line for East Africa for thousands of years. Countless myths are connected ...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
Targeted Anticancer Agents: Changing Treatments to Benefit Patients
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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Recorded during the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), being held June 2 - 6, 2017 in Chicago, Ill, the team ...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 27:47
LTR 10th Anniversary Special
From: Let's Travel! Radio
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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
The Navigators Part 3
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators
Caption: Hokule'a
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 Pulavars: Shadow Puppeteers of Kerala
From: Charles Nuckolls
Caption: K. K. Ramachandra and family., Credit: Charles Nuckolls
K.K. Ramachandra Pulavar and his family continue the ancient tradition of shadow puppetry in Kerala, India.

  • Added: May 18, 2015
  • Length: 22:46
Bombs drop at Brookings, Oregon
From: Ron Johnson
Series: Because It Matters
Caption: Nobuo Fujita, who piloted the plane that bombed Brookings, donating his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city of Brookings
The 9-11 attacks weren’t the first time that America had been bombed. Listen to what happened at Brookings, Oregon on a Wednesday morning in Septem...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:26
The Silent Epidemic - child drowning in SE Asia
From: Mike Hally
Caption: Learning to swim in Bangladesh, Credit: Mike Hally
Winner of a Silver Trophy at the New York Festival 'World's Best Radio Awards' 2014, this startling but ultimately uplifting documentary is about t...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 27:55
Learning to Live Together - Other Projects - Festivals, Language and Youth
From: Mike Hally
Series: Learning to Live Together - Conflict and Peace-building Northern Ireland
Caption: Community worker at the Skegoneill interface, Credit: Mike Hally 2014
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 07:47
Learning to Live Together - North Belfast
From: Mike Hally
Series: Learning to Live Together - Conflict and Peace-building Northern Ireland
Caption: Peace Mural in Belfast, Credit: Mike Hally 2014
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ethnomusicology
From: Pod Academy
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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
Seeking Justice and Police Accountability in Jamaica (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jason Smith Candlelight Vigil, Credit: Madeleine Bair
On the second anniversary of the 2010 uprisings, this special documentary looks at police violence in Jamaica. In May 2010 a government crackdown l...

  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Inside the Syrian Uprising
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As the popular uprising against the Syrian government continues, reporter Reese Erlich is one of the few foreign reporters who got into Syria to in...

Bought by WRIR and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Amnesty At 50
From: Neil Gardner
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Amnesty has recently attracted criticism, sometimes from those who have been its most committed activists.  John Tusa asks if it has lost its way a...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 36:34
Americans investing in Africa
From: National Black Programming Consortium
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Investing in Africa, tips..

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 09:22
  • Purchases: 1
India Rising, program four: Can It All Hang Together?
From: BBC
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This landmark series explores what globalisation and a decade of economic reforms have done to India and the way that it sees itself. In the fourth...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 22:49
  • Purchases: 1
India Rising, program two: Inside India's Heart of Darkness
From: BBC
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This landmark series explores what globalisation and a decade of economic reforms have done to India and the way that it sees itself. In the seconf...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 23:38
  • Purchases: 1
India Rising, program one: New Wealth
From: BBC
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This landmark series produced by the BBC World Service explores the what globalisation and a decade of economic reforms have done to India and the ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 23:49
  • Purchases: 1
India Rising, program five: Debate
From: BBC
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This landmark series explores the what globalisation and a decade of economic reforms have done to India and the way that it sees itself. The concl...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 22:02
  • Purchases: 1
Return to Sarajevo, Part Two
From: BBC
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More than a decade after a peace agreement was reached to end Bosnia's bitter war, the BBC's Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to find out what kind...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 22:39
  • Purchases: 1
Return to Sarajevo, Part One
From: BBC
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More than a decade after a peace agreement was reached to end Bosnia's bitter war, the BBC's Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to find out if its pe...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 22:31
  • Purchases: 2
Foreign Priests in America (59 and 54 minute versions)
From: Charles Lane
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The Problems with importing priests as a stop gap to the priest shortage (59, 54, 29 minute versions)

Bought by KUNM and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 01:02:38
  • Purchases: 2