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Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
We're deep into Passover, the holiday celebrating the Israelites liberation from slavery as told in the book of Exodus. We hope that all peoples fi...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Meet an extreme ironer, cheese roller, and shin kicking referee (also called a "stickler") on this weird sports episode of Audacious!

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
“Sounds Jewish” marks Leap Year – both on the Gregorian Calendar and the Hebrew Calendar -- with Jewish tunes about leaping and jumping, experienci...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Don’t you love an intimate tango? Jewish singers, instrumentalists and songwriters have brought us tangos in Yiddish and Hebrew for more than a cen...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
"Sounds Jewish" celebrates Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, with a cheerfully curated hour of new and classic holiday tunes.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Just as his music career was heating up, Decio Rubano discovered he was not a U.S. citizen and was deported to Canada as a young man. He came to St...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:15
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Israel Story producers track down people who have lost and found objects all over Israel.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2022
  • Length: 03:47
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Hear the story of Space IL and their attempted journey to the moon.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2022
  • Length: 23:46
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Every few years, once its warehouses of unclaimed lost-and-found items fill up, the Israeli police becomes Sotheby’s for a day. Back in November 20...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 03:47
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Mishy Harman visits Anton Fokarev’s kingdom: The lost-and-found department at the entrance to the Savidor Merkaz train station in Tel Aviv. This is...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2022
  • Length: 05:51
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“There’s a Wall Between Us,” began as a radio piece called “Checkpoints and Secrets,” which followed the winding love affair of two men, an Israel...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2022
  • Length: 17:11
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A postcard from Tongue, Scotland

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A postcard from Montevideo, Uruguay

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Join Montana Public Radio's Tom Berich for an hour of fun and uplifting music from around the world.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bugarik, a serpent with a human head part of "Ghosts, Monsters and Demons of India.", Credit: Courtesy of the artist, Samita.
First comes Halloween, and a few days later is Diwali (the Festival of Lights) and in between is Bhoot Chaturdashi! When the doors between this wor...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
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On this episode of the Apple Seed, you'll hear the wonderful storyteller Heather Forest with a story from Hans Christian Anderson, the Danish maker...

Bought by KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, and WVPE


  • Added: Jul 28, 2021
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Pesticides are harmful. In Vergenoedg, farmers are using ducks as natural and amusing pest control.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
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What happens when you uproot an American institution like the diner and place it somewhere entirely new — like Germany? Florenz Gilly and Leon Ginz...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 30:32
  • Purchases: 1
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The movement itself is called biocouture - this poop to pants movement is raising eyebrows on both sides of the issue.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Ellie the Dog, Credit: Julie Lindahl
Ellie the nine-year-old collie-retriever set out on an unexpected journey across Europe's borders from her home in Sweden to the South of France.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 05:02
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An ode to an Italian mountain, from Thomas van Neerbos.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 04:40
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From Bucharest, Romania, here’s Andreea Sirbu, she’s 18, just finished high school, and her story is about a conversation that made her realise -- ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 05:09
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An artesanal fisherman from a small Catalan village ends up shaping EU fishing law.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2020
  • Length: 26:13
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Blu wakes up in the Forest, suddenly. Attempting to return to the most comfortable place, while a catastrophe takes place on the Skin, more is los...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2019
  • Length: 11:08
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America is a country of immigrants. Most people know that Spanish is the most widely spoken language in the US besides English, but there’s more th...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2019
  • Length: 42:29