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IE: Inside Europe, 5/31/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Elections 101: with just one week to go before EU Parliament elections, DW’s Jack Parrock tells you all you need to know Breaking the news: the in...

  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Crypto Crime
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Mitali Mukherjee’s “Crypto Crimes” book cover, Credit: Courtesy of Mitali Mukherjee
Some hailed it as a brave new financial revolution. But where there’s big money to be made, and made fast, there will also be people playing fast a...

  • Added: May 29, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
800-Telescope Reborn
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: In an artist’s rendering, light from quasars passes through intergalactic clouds of hydrogen gas. The light offers clues to the structure of the distant cosmos, Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld and DESI
In an astonishing rebirth, the Mayall 4-m telescope has jumped to the forefront of astronomy once again because it is sturdy and precise enough to...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP, KRWG and more


  • Added: May 26, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Year of the Netizen
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: election posters in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
There’s a new focus this election season in India, a new type of influencer, the ‘Netizen.’ But what does this really mean for the democratic process?

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
799-Nature's Gateways
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: Steven Miller
The Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctuary and the Aldo Leopold Gila Wilderness in New Mexico are gateways to nature where man is only ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, Raven Radio, KGLP and more


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Army has stepped up its training for tunnel warfare, a dangerous - and growing - form of combat
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: An Army Special Forces soldier stands near the entrance of Fort Liberty's subterranean training facility. The elaborate Hamas tunnels in Gaza have brought new attention to underground combat, but the U.S. military began increasing its focus on tunnel warf, Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront
Hamas' elaborate tunnels in Gaza have brought attention to underground warfare, but it's a tactic used by many other potential U.S. adversaries.

Bought by WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUT, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 8
798-Destination Enceladus
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Enceladus, Credit: ESA
Life on Earth appears to have formed in our oceans. Scientists are thus on the hunt for other worlds which have oceans of liquid water and thus po...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WTIP and more


  • Added: May 12, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
IE: Inside Europe, 5/10/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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It’s Eurovision Finals week so we’ve gone all out on a Euro-Culture special! Alongside the hottest-takes from Malmo 2024, we’ll be bringing you th...

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
797-Recoveries
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid 2014 JO25, Credit: NASA Goldstone RADAR
It is essential that asteroid hunters keep track of potentially dangerous asteroids to make sure that their orbits haven’t changed as they encounte...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KRWG, KGLP and more


  • Added: May 05, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
vix Vacare
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The very word vacation has its roots in vacare or to be unoccupied. But in reality vacations are anything but unoccupied. Sandip recounts the woes ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Vets who were exposed to chemicals in the Panama Canal Zone want to be included in the PACT Act
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Steven Price served in the Army in the Panama Canal Zone. He says he was exposed to Agent Orange, DDT, and other toxins. He later developed chronic B-cell leukemia., Credit: Courtesy Steven Price
People who served in the Canal Zone were left out of a law that made it easier to get care and benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Bought by WRFA-LP, KTEP, and WHRV


  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 3
Which Came First?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: An example of the classic 'butter chicken', Credit: Photo by Joe mon bkk, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
A new food fight has erupted in India. And it’s about one of the most famous dishes to come out of India, one that every other Indian restaurant in...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Sonnet for What Will Be Well
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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
IE: Inside Europe, 3/29/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Will Putin use the Moscow theatre attack to further tighten his grip? What if a pro-Western candidate wins Slovakia's presidential election... And ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
The U.S. military is going to Gaza, hoping to deliver food from a football-field-sized floating dock
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Soldiers and family members await the departure of the James A. Loux, an Army watercraft, from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, March 12. It's among several Army and Navy vessels headed to the Mediterranean Sea for a Gaza relief effort., Credit: Steve Walsh / American Homefront
The mobile dock can deliver up to two million meals a day, but key questions about the mission remain unanswered.

Bought by WRFA-LP, KUT, KRPS, and WHRV


  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 4
With fake weapons and phony uniforms, they helped win WWII. Now, they're finally getting medals.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: A soldier sits next to a fake inflatable tank used by the U.S. Army during World War II. The inflatables and other decoys were deployed in Europe to fool enemy troops about the positions and movements of real Army units., Credit: Ghost Army Legacy Project
The U.S. will bestow Congressional Gold Medals on members of a secret Army unit that carried out what came to be known as psychological operations.

Bought by WRFA-LP, KPBS, KUT, and WHRV


  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 4
War Diaries: From Kyiv to Tripoli
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Audio documentaries from the front lines

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Self Help Me!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Self-help books promise a secret formula to individual success and Jay Shetty is just the latest Dale Carnegie to do so. But, even after the Guardi...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
789-Asteroid With A Tail
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: HST
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Taurus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona wh...

Bought by Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, KRWG and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Kara Swisher: Where the Tech Love Story Went Wrong
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Plus, a surprising story about reality TV in Kenya

Bought by WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Painting the Town Safe
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: City activists are painting sidewalks hoping to encourage more street life in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy
Kolkata is often regarded as a city that has slipped behind other metropolises in India when it comes to money and industry. But the country's crim...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
788-100 Years of Wilderness
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Cosmic Campground, Credit: David Thornburg
In 1924 the Aldo Leopold Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico became the first designated wilderness and is an island from which to view the natur...

Bought by Raven Radio, WTIP, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Goodnight sisters and Brothers
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A billboard in Kolkata uses his own catchphrase to bid farewell to India's first radio superstar Ameen Sayani., Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy remembers his childhood radio guru. Amen Sayani died last week at the age of 91.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
787-Far Out
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg
In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

Bought by KRWG, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Kathak's Return Journey
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Photo courtesy the Chitresh Das Institute
Pandit Chitresh Das is credited with bringing the Indian classical dance of kathak to America. Now the Chitresh Das Institute takes it back on tour...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 06:00

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