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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
An Application For Naturalization Advisory
From: Nathan Callahan
Series: The SoCal Byte
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Questions for Insecurity — the US Department of Homeland Security’s Application For Naturalization

  • Added: Aug 01, 2014
  • Length: 08:32
The Last Illusion: A Novel
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: JUNE 2014
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A book partly inspired by a Persian myth about a boy raised by a bird! Read by author Porochista Khakpour. Part of our daily series for June.

  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
Wiarton Willie, Canadian Groundhog
From: Bryan Ward
Caption: Fiberglass Wiarton Willie, Credit: Bryan Ward
Alta Blue Skies contributor Catherine Breese offers a brief look at Canada's version of Punxsutawney Phil and the town that created him, Wiarton, O...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 04:05
I smell onions!
From: KALW
Caption: Onion Ad, Credit: Sandip Roy
Election season in New Dehli with a flavorful twist!

  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
The Social Network Show, Free The Girls Episode
From: Jim Nico
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Co-founder/CEO and the National Director of Free The Girls explain how this organization helps women and girls who are victims of human trafficking

  • Added: Oct 06, 2013
  • Length: 49:36
The Sweet Tweet Suite
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs: Stories Inspired by "Appetite"
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When your appetite is for nature and for unusual sounds then you have to go on the odd adventure...

Bought by KRPS and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
Sweet and Sour Tiffany: Chinese Naming Menu
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs: Stories Inspired by "Appetite"
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If you could pick your own name what would you choose? Three Chinese students living in Australia explain their name choices.

Bought by KRPS, WNIJ, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Chaotic Parliament
From: wendy hendrickson
Caption: A carriage passes by the front of the Austrian Parliament traveling along the Ringstrasse., Credit: Photo by: Wendy Hendrickson
Politics doesn't run smoothly when the language to be used is left as an option.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2013
  • Length: 08:25
Folktale of Anger
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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This week's 'Folktale of Anger' provides a musical look at a most volatile topic, so take a chill pill & join us--or do you want to fight about it?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2013
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 8
Smetnjak On the Couch..in Slovenia
From: Constance A. Dunn
Series: On the Couch...
Caption: Smetnjak "trashcan", Credit: Constance A. Dunn
An enactment of the anonymous collective's words. Smetnjak wrote the answers, Constance A. Dunn interprets them. Smetnjak is an anonymous collecti...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 20:26
Nemanja Kojic a.k.a Hornsman Coyote On HIS Couch...
From: Constance A. Dunn
Series: On the Couch...
Caption: Nemanja Kojic (Hornsman Coyote), Credit: Constance A. Dunn
Interview with Serbian musician Nemanja Kojic (Hornsman Coyote) by Constance A. Dunn. Interview from Coyote's living room in Belgrade.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 44:12
Folktale of Home Sweet Home
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Home Sweet Home, Credit: Julia Meek
We all agree there's no place like it! And this week's edition of Folktales is visiting favorite homes and habitats of all ages -- around the music...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, 'The Sea', GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 9
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
Fresh Talk: Ballroom Marfa
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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On a Spring 2012 road trip in the American Southwest, Cathy Byrd meets members of Ballroom Marfa’s creative team to talk about their vision for a D...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2013
  • Length: 16:09
Fresh Talk: Christopher Eamon
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Christopher Eamon
Cathy Byrd meets independent curator Christopher Eamon at Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, to talk about "Manscape: Male as Subject and Object."

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 16:03
Fresh Talk: Kate Moore
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Kate Moore
In the Netherlands, Cathy Byrd meets Australian musician and composer Kate Moore in The Hague to talk about the new music she invents and performs.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 26:30
Folktale of the Market Place
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of the Market Place, Credit: Julia Meek
This week's edition of Folktales finds us "Shopping 'til we drop", in a wide variety of musical fashions-- and as J.C. Penney would say: It's all i...

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR , and WFIU


  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 5
Folktale of Curses!
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Curses!, Credit: Julia Meek
Curses! THIS week's Folktale is 'doomed' to explore hexes, vexes, oaths & other forms of musical evil will, and a voo-doo or two, just for good (or...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, KLCC, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
Folktale of Brave Journeys
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Brave Journeys, Credit: Julia Meek
This episode of Folktales paves the way to enlightenment with musical offerings of encouragement from around the world. Hope you can join us for th...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), KLCC and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 12
Folktale of Friendship
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Friendship, Credit: Julia Meek
A bit of Aristotelian advice, good buddy: "The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend." That's what this week's Folktale is all about.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), KLCC, GCR (Global Community Radio), 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 11
Saint Death
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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For the past ten years, drug cartels in Mexico have been worshiping a sort of grim repress, a robed skeleton lady known as Santa Muerte, or Saint D...

Bought by KENW, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 3
Close Encounter on a 747 Or How not to Join the Mile-High Club
From: Randy Ross
Series: Humorous Travel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The narrator finds himself next to an attractive woman for a ten-hour flight to South Africa.

  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:52
Steve Edwards Soul Show Edition(8) "Soul In The Movies"-The Movie Soundtrack To Your Soul. Hr1
From: Steve Edwards
Series: Steve Edwards Soul Show 2012 Series
Caption: Host/Producer, Credit: Steve Edwards
Were off to the movies for edition 8.It is totally evident that movie soundtracks have had a long history of yielding some of the most memorable ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
JR Comes to Town - Joanna Coffey
From: Matt Hill
Series: Spark - True Stories
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Another true story told live in London. Joanna LOVES Dallas, so when Larry Hagman (JR) visits a nearby TV studio, Jo does everything in her power t...

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 2