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Host Bob Kustra talks with Hoffman about his nonfiction story of Cold War espionage and betrayal.

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 30:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Chay Allen, acting with Britney Spears
Dr Chay Allen is an art historian who paid his way through his phD by working as an extra on shows including 24 and Downton Abbey.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 12:54
Caption: Oliver Beer, Credit: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropec
British artist Oliver Beer explores the acoustical character of Kilic Ali Pasa Hamam, a historical Turkish bath, with a small group of local young ...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2015
  • Length: 09:33
Caption: Polish Opera Performance of Halka/Haiti
Artist Joanna Malinowska talks about Halka/Haiti, the panoramic film project she and her partner CT Jasper produced for the Polish Pavilion at the ...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 09:37
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A historian raises questions about the morality of the archival process and reveals how the NSA may change the future of history research.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 12:39
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When one thinks of fashion forward countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo usually doesn't come to mind. But Les Sapeurs might make us feel dif...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:44
Caption: German POW Otto Schwingel and Linda Anderson on Anderson's farm near Florence, S.C., Credit: courtesy of Ingebourg Schwingel
During World War II, some 400,000 captured German soldiers were shipped across the Atlantic to prison camps dotted across the U.S. Suddenly the ene...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBBI Alaska, WVTF and more


  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 89
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Radio Curious revisits a two-part 1999 conversation with Mike Frost, a retired Canadian spy and author of “Spy World:  Inside the Canadian and Amer...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 58:02
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Army National Guard Specialist Justin Cliburn tells his wife, Deanne, about Ali, the young Iraqi he befriended during his service in Iraq.

Bought by KOSU and WEZU


  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 2
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In part 2 of our conversation with Andy Statman, we follow his musical path as he blends klezmer, jazz, blues, and bluegrass into a distinctive mu...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, Prairie Public, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 29, 2012
  • Length: 37:49
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Dr. Elizabeth Hausler, Credit: Dowser.org
Engineer and brickmason Dr. Elizabeth Hausler saves lives by making houses more earthquake resistant for little or no extra money. It just requires...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 25, 2012
  • Length: 18:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro
Prof.Stavros Xanthopoylos is the Executive Director of the on line and distant learning project at the Getulio Vargas institute in Rio de Janeiro, ...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2011
  • Length: 15:53
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Linda Murray talks about her organization Solas Nua, the only organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to contemporary Irish arts.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Marine reservist Nina D’Amato used to teach in East Palo Alto as part of Teach for America and served as assistant principal at AP Giannini Middle ...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 08:38
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A recent college graduate receives an unexpected job offer from his uncle: teach English in Ciudad Juárez.

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 03:25
Caption: The Pentagon is building a $12 million tent city at the site of a once proposed $125 million or more military compound for staging war crimes trials at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Credit: Department of Defense
News and features from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Iraqi workers stack up bricks in a brick factory on the outskirts of Najaf, Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Ahmed Altaie, a reserve soldier from Ann Arbor, Michigan, was kidnapped while visiting his wife in downtown Baghdad., Credit: Associated Press
We hear about an American soldier missing in action.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 09:12
Caption:  Founder and editor of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, faces the media. , Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Divided By Borders cover, Credit: Joanna Dreby
Author Joanna Dreby explored the impact of work migration through intimate interviews with extended Mexican families and children in New Jersey and...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Bridgette had to leave her home, South Africa in 1991, during one of the most dynamic periods in that nation’s history. She left just one year afte...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 29:24
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The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new stamp to commemorate the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. It was designed by Clarence Lee, a graphic artist...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2008
  • Length: 04:54
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Hong Kong commemorated the Tiannanman Square massacre in Beijing.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2008
  • Length: 22:08
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PART ONE- Dr. Owens Wiwa documented Petroleum Based injuries and deaths among the local population...and now lives in exile in Canada.

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: 29:54
  • Purchases: 1
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One woman is running a very unusual court of justice in a small Indian village where she uses folk tales, religious stories and her own common sens...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, WJAB, WBEZ, and KWCW


  • Added: Oct 26, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 5