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Caption: Rahima Banu and her mother in 1975, Credit: Daniel Tarantola/WHO
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
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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
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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
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
One step for hate, two steps for peace. A village in Germany took action against local Nazis by tricking them into raising money against their cause.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Guests explore the critical role of archives in our everyday lives and historical experience. Panelists open the virtual doors of archival cabinet...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 30:04
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Guests explore the critical role of archives in our everyday lives and historical experience. Panelists open the virtual doors of archival cabinets...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 26:12
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While immigrants have long fueled the American experiment, passionate debate about the pros and cons of immigration are nothing new. The rhetoric o...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 15, 2017
  • Length: 27:03
  • Purchases: 1
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A look at the history of modern circus and how Ireland and Irish performers played a pivotal role.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2017
  • Length: 27:51
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Host Joan Kjaer interviews Howard Kerr, 2016 recipient of the University of Iowa International Impact Award, about his national and international c...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: 28:05
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Two history books are profiled that both provide a timeline of history for peace periods, peace leaders, key philosophers, important turning points...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 3
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We hear who really came up with the name Greenpeace and why.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 01:09
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Joe Loewenstein describes the small and highly competitive theater scene in which Early Modern playwrights like William Shakespeare flourished.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 14:06
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Robert Henke tracks Shakespeare back to his Italian inspirations and uncovers sources for his early comedies.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 12:26
Caption: Hokule'a
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
Caption: Hokule'a
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
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: 06:52
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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
Caption: Bytow (Poland) Mayor Ryszard Sylka, at left, along with Father Paul Breza and Bytow City Council Chairman Leszek Waszkiewicz, at the Winona Polish Heritage Museum., Credit: Sarah Squires - Winona Post
Today on Culture Clique, we visit with city officials from Winona's sister city in Poland, and with Father Paul Breza. Fr. Paul Breza spearheaded t...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 22:23
  • Purchases: 1
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An exploration of what we remember and why.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 24:24
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A speck of land in the South Atlantic, Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world.

Bought by WXDU and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 2
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Time zones reflect a history of our changing politics, commerce, and technology.

Bought by Listenwise and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 2
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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From Victorian parlors to Starbucks, pigments have defined and connected societies.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 1
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On this edition of Culture Clique, KQAL's Bill Stoneberg visits with Barbara Martinez Jitner, an Emmy and Golden Globe Nominated television and fil...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 37:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: “MOHAMED ALI JINNAH: His Moslem tiger wants to eat the Hindu cow” [April 1946]
Christopher Lydon on the road in South Asia, in a compilation of conversations and reflections on Pakistan's past and dynamic present. Featuring no...

Bought by WCPN, KUOW, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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There is a lot of discussion about hope in this time of the pending election for president. Francis Moore Lappe, author of "Diet for a Small Planet...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2010
  • Length: 29:01