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Caption: 'shipwrecked, lost everything, all's well...", Credit: Edgar Cook
Poems are solace in times of not knowing. Today, a Sonnet for What Will Be Well. "There are events that narrowly avoid crossing our paths, eve...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A Registered Maine Guide I know searched for a wounded deer - wounded but not felled- he still seeking to do good for evil - as it is perceived by ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 04:50
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In these times, a poem for the places we find resilience.

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 1
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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...

Bought by Classic107.3 and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Mexico protects it's most valuable waters.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Off to the links..., Credit: Susan Cook photo
A musical tribute to the most recent historic meeting of minds between You Know Who. And Who Else, to the tune from the 1924 tune "It Had To Be Yo...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:46
Caption: ouda in front of KXCI–photo by her teacher Christina
In episode 25 of Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship, Houda interviews Christina, one of the English Language Development teachers from her schoo...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:10
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UnCommonCore Podcast | Episode 20 | Tom and 2thBrush cover Spring and Summer 2018 fashion in our third installment of the Capsule Show from New Yor...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:01:12
Caption: His profession was listed as  "farmer's son". They never saw their family again., Credit: Susan Cook
The US Senate bill to limit immigration by educational status ignores that opportunity is exactly what oppressive regimes deny. Opportunity -as ev...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 05:59
Caption: Napalm Girl, Credit: Nick Ut
Nick Ut is one of the Associated Press’ most renowned photographers. As he celebrates 50 years with AP, there is one image from his days in Vietnam...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Modi rally
I was reporting on India’s 2014 general election which would bring Narendra Modi to power a year ago. Sultan, though that’s not his real name, was...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Co-owner Tony Torres cooking Shrimp a la Diabla, Credit: Olivia Cueva
On the corner of 14th Avenue and International Boulevard in East Oakland, there's a strip mall with a mini-mart, a laundromat, and then there is Sa...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 15:02
Caption: Hungarian-born Blues musician Little G Weevil., Credit: Tanner Latham
Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he s...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WABE


  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 3
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In many parts of the world, torture, harassment and persecution are used to target individuals who criticize , believe, have secrets or religion...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
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The vision of Gorbachev now is destroyed by Vladimir Putin. A sonnet will remind us of what Gorbachev made possible and what is now lost by Putin's...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: :57
  • Purchases: 1
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News and features on global conflict.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2012
  • Length: 08:15
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News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.

  • Added: Dec 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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War News Radio covers the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and more.

  • Added: Nov 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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News and features on the wars in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Keep your hands off my character, Credit: Susan Cook
International Women's Day is a time for women to acknowledge how women are discredited by others. And yes women too discredit women. All of this c...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
when President Bush visited Iraq, an Iraqi man threw a shoe at him.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2008
  • Length: :23
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With the conflict in Afghanistan heating up again, we revisit past pieces about the country to get a better understanding of its current situation.

Bought by KGOU and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Aug 28, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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A selection of our favorite pieces from this summer.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2008
  • Length: 29:00