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Lost in Immigration
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Some things are temporary.

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


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Big Ponder #44: Ball Bearings
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Ball bearings — these mechanisms are all around us, inside our wheels and motors. Hidden away, we rarely see them, and most people don’t even know ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 1
Of Their Flesh You Shall Not Eat?
From: Israel Story
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Dr. Lidar Sapir-Hen of Tel Aviv University introduces us to a celebrity piglet. Discovered in a Jerusalem home from the 8th century BCE, it challen...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 08:46
GN_4.13_Water Sports
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Dutch engineers find a way to bring drinkable water to South Africans by combining it with their favorite sporting pastime.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Syrians Reflect on Ten Years of War
From: Mateo Schimpf
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The Syrian people are caught in the crossfire and have essentially lost their country. A decade of war has killed an estimated 600,000 people and d...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Ponder #5: Little America Revisited
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
Since World War II, there have been countless American GIs stationed at military bases all over Germany. Sylvia Cunningham and Monika Müller-Kroll ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #44: Germans in New Orleans
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Historically, New Orleans is a cultural, spiritual and ethnic melting pot. In the streets, you immediately come across signs of French, Caribbean, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 13:32
  • Purchases: 2
Eight Days a Week
From: Israel Story
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Arianna Skibell takes us to Battir, a pastoral village about three kilometers southwest of Jerusalem. Over the centuries, the serene landscape has ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 27, 2019
  • Length: 19:16
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #38: Seeing in the Dark – Volkmar Wentzel’s Photography
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In this episode, producer Katie Davis profiles German-American photographer Volkmar Wentzel who was born in Dresden, Germany in 1915 before moving ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 12:31
  • Purchases: 1
St. Maarten travels that transformed lives
From: World Footprints LLC
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The island of St. Maarten (Sint Maarten) is the common denominator in the stories of two different families whose lives were changed when they land...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:55
Episode 56: The Shuidong Connection
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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In 2016, a team of undercover investigators infiltrated an international ivory-smuggling ring. It all began with a sea cucumber trader in Zanzibar.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 22:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #19: German Bread – A Nourishing Craft
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Germany is internationally renowned for its bread. With its diversity of more than 3,000 varieties the Germans are world champions of bread. Since ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 13, 2019
  • Length: 24:27
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #16: Culture of Coffee
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Coffee is more than just a beverage – it can be a jumpstart to a day at work or a relaxing afternoon with friends. This episode explores the meanin...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 15:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #13: German-style Wines in the US
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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German entrepreneurs and winemakers have shaped the manufacturing of wine in the US for over a century. Join our producer Gary Lee on a tour of thr...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 20:24
RDD: La Conexión
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're headed to BG to meet Beatrice Maya of La Conexión, a resource of representation for the Latino and Immig...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 1
Bush League, The Podcast
From: Nathan Noll
Series: Bush League, The Podcast
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Audio stories about what happens when people play sports only for themselves. These are the weekend warriors, the beer leaguers and the rec team al...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2016
  • Length: 01:48:03
Traveling with singers Gloria Loring, Rene Marie and Rockin' Dopsie, Jr.
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. at New Oleans French Quarter Festival with World Footprints radio., Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
Enjoy travel melodies with three extraordinary musicians as we hear about their personal and cultural journeys. Also learn what Rio de Janeiro is ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2016
  • Length: 59:55
Kilimanjaro - The CLIMB!
From: LN Lurie
Series: Where in the World is LN?
Caption: kilimanjaro, Credit: LN Lurie
My experience of climbing the Roof of Africa!

  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 22:22
Albert Gets His Goat...
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: APRIL 2015
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Author Albert Podell reads from his book, Around The World In 50 years: My Adventure to Every Country on Earth. In this passage, Albert is visiting...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Birds of a Feather
From: Israel Story
Caption: "Yoram" aiming at one of his soon-to-be crow victims.
Every summer tourists flock to the beautiful beaches of Eilat, Israel. But in the past thirty years, a new kind of tourist has made its way down so...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 12:49
  • Purchases: 2
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
The Cell's Mystery
From: Sara Robberson
Caption: Dr. Inoue and his "Shinya Scope". , Credit: Photo by Chris Inoue
Dividing cells are what make up all life. The idea of cell division was first published in 1855, but for nearly a century scientists debated, “How?...

Bought by Listenwise and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 2
New Voices
From: War News Radio
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News and features on the wars in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
The Journey: From the Third World to Middle America Part 2
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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Part two of “The Journey: From the Third World to Middle America” by KVSC News Director Chris Duffy takes a look at the Somali population in St. Cl...

  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 31:47
The Journey: From the Third World to Middle America Part 1
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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Part one of “The Journey: From the Third World to Middle America” by KVSC News Director Chris Duffy takes a look at the Somali population in St. Cl...

  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 28:25