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The Nigiri Mountain Railway
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The Nigiri Mountain train, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip takes a ride back in time on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, one of the oldest mountain railways in India and part of the UNESCO World Heritag...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Some New Kind of Kick
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Tonight we are joined by Kid Congo Powers, legendary guitarist from the Golden Age of The Cramps, The Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and hi...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Paddling an Urban Creek in Northern Michigan
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Caption: Mitch Treadwell paddling Kid's Creek in Traverse City, Credit: Linnaea Melcarek
Mitch Treadwell is an avid paddler who kayaks a small creek in downtown Traverse City, Michigan, called Kid's Creek.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 04:20
From France To Tenerife, Spain
From: Katz Laszlo
Series: The Chain - Love Letters From One European To Another
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Sedera feels light for the first time after her father's death.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 05:47
From Italy to Bosnia Herzegovina
From: Katz Laszlo
Caption: The Sutjeska memorial in Tjentište, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Credit: Veronica Tosetti
Veronica Tosetti takes us on a journey around the Spomeniks - a trail of statues commemorating former Yugoslavia, and the people who died in conflict.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 06:13
Keep Cool Or Die Trying
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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How do we not die in the desert this summer? One way is to stay underneath the swamp cooler, reading and writing letters, to and from various deniz...

Bought by KFCF FM and KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Two-Acre Nation: A Pilgrimage to Zaqistan
From: Benjamin Bombard
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In 2005, an artist in Brooklyn went on eBay, bought two acres of land in a remote part of Utah, and declared it a de facto sovereign nation: Zaqist...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 33:50
The Live Feed Presents: The Brothers Burn Mountain
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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We visit with a Duluth Based band The Brothers Burn Mountain at Historic Trempealeau Hotel. The brothers will share with us more about how they sta...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 39:24
Mumbai Cow Sanctuary Balances Business and Barnyard
From: Katherine Davis-Young
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There are challenges to running a little cow sanctuary in the center of one of the biggest cities in the world.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Aug 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
The Impossible Blue Rose
From: Veronica Simmonds
Series: Visual Arts News podcast
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From Paradise City to Death Valley, Lisa Lipton drummed her way around North America in search of the Impossible Blue Rose

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:59
Pura Vida: Costa Rica's Culture of Conservation
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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Part documentary, part sound-collage, this special explores Costa Rica, considered one of the "greenest" countries in the world, and its national e...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2013
  • Length: 21:19
The Sounds of Whiskey
From: Hal B Klein
Caption: Whiskey in the barrel, Credit: Hal B. Klein
Most people know what whiskey tastes like...but what does it sound like? Booze columnist Hal B. Klein takes us inside Wigle Whiskey, an organic dis...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:22
Kazakhstan -- With this horse, I thee wed...
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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A girl. A boy. A horse. A chase. Listen as this week's Global Guru takes you inside the world of courtship in Kazakhstan...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, PRX Remix, KZYX, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 7
Malian Griot
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Papa Susso
This week the Global Guru goes to Mali to learn the art of a griot, where storyteller, historian, political advisor, detective and genealogist are ...

Bought by WABE, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Hackney Podcast: Coffee
From: Francesca Panetta
Series: The Hackney Podcast
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Artisan coffee has reached London's district of Hackney, with trendy new cafes opening weekly. But the history of the coffee house is a long one da...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 18:21
  • Purchases: 1
Global Guru-Tasmanian Devils
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru risks life and limb to learn how to track Tasmanian devils in the wild.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 3
Hell's Highway
From: Rich Halten
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In the 50's and 60's the scariest horror movies played in Driver's Ed.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 19, 2009
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 1
The Traveling Radio Show Goes to San Francisco! (All inclusive file)
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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Offbeat Travelogue Since 1975.

Bought by KQED and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 23, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Blue Highways Day Trip #3 - Where Have All the Artists Gone?
From: Eric Mack
Series: Blue Highways
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In recent years, many artists have been heading for the hills, or the desert or the prairie. Thousands of artists of all ages have been leaving bi...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Blue Highways #1: Iraq's Forgotten Home Front
From: Eric Mack
Series: Blue Highways
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This on-the-road magazine special looks at the affects of the war on health care and families at home, plus a feature on the flight of artists from...

Bought by KUT-HD, 90.5 WSNC, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 19, 2008
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 3
Robot Car Race
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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In the DARPA Grand Challenge, the cars drive themselves.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2007
  • Length: 04:58
Ripple Rock meets its doom
From: John Ryan
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The greatest hazard to navigation on Canada's west coast, then and now.

Bought by The Nature Podcast and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Mar 13, 2007
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2