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Some of us (Fletcher) can never keep straight what, exactly, the subjunctive is, so fortunately Kathy and Ross are here to remind us.
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Sounds Jewish commemorates Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, with solemn music, poignant storytelling and a bit of sardonic comedy.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: May 03, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Apr 26, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
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
“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
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
"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
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
Israel Story producers track down people who have lost and found objects all over Israel.
- Added: Jul 10, 2022
- Length: 03:47
Hear the story of Space IL and their attempted journey to the moon.
- Added: Jul 10, 2022
- Length: 23:46
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
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
“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
A postcard from Tongue, Scotland
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Dec 12, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
A postcard from Montevideo, Uruguay
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Dec 12, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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...
- Added: Jul 28, 2021
- Length: 55:00
- Purchases: 4
Pesticides are harmful. In Vergenoedg, farmers are using ducks as natural and amusing pest control.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:32
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
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
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
An ode to an Italian mountain, from Thomas van Neerbos.
- Added: Aug 30, 2020
- Length: 04:40
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
An artesanal fisherman from a small Catalan village ends up shaping EU fishing law.
- Added: Jan 11, 2020
- Length: 26:13