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We travel to China and find ourselves dancing in between the communist government and religion, outsiders and Christianity, parents and the next ge...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 30:53
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In part one of our "China's road to Jerusalem" series, we set the the stage for the inevitable collapse of the west as we know it.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 12:22
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Marton about her book about Stalin's last American spy.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
Caption: Fred L. Soper crossing a bridge to investigate an area where yellow fever occurred, Credit: Photo by Wilbur A. Sawyer courtesy National Library of Medicine
Eighty years ago, one man set out to eradicate the mosquito that now causes Zika virus—and it sullied his reputation forever.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 12:08
  • Purchases: 2
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Living in Fukushima 3 years later. Who pays the nuclear bill in the case of a disaster? Shooting Fukushima with photographer Donald Weber.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 14:02

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 16:50
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Four journalists drive right into Tskhinvali on the first day of the 2008 Russian Georgian war. This episode is a first hand account from a war rep...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 27:50
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The Navigators were ancient Polynesians who sailed the vast Pacific in search of new islands.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2015
  • Length: 04:26
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An immigrant's dream in Kansas City.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 19:59
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Author Kara Richardson Whitely reads from her inspiring book, Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds. The world's highest free-standing mou...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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You knew it was coming. The day has arrived, and the universe wants its due. On the next Snap Judgment from NPR and PRX, "The Big Payback."

  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
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On an all-NEW Snap, "Overthrow." You give the big speech, lead the big charge, but when you look behind you...there's no one there. Snap Judgment, ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
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Author Charles Spencer reads again from his gripping book (a best seller in England), "Killers of The King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I....

  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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Author Charles Spencer reads from his gripping book (a best seller in England), "Killers of The King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I." Just...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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On the next Snap Judgment from PRX and NPR... "You Don't Know Me." Amazing stories about misunderstanding someone else's world.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
Caption:  (From left) Maria's father, mother, grandmother, and grandfather at their home in Manila - the same home where they once encountered a supernatural creature. Maria learned about many traditional Filipino beliefs from her grandmother, Conchita Carpio., Credit: Courtesy of the Caoagdan family
In the Philippines superstitions and the existence of supernatural creatures are firmly believed. RadioActive Youth Media reporter Maria Delmar Cao...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:44
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When they think they're all alone, and no one is watching, that's when they are their true selves. On the next Snap Judgment, from PRX and NPR, pee...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
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Next on an all-NEW Snap, what happens when the Avengers are a no-show? From PRX and NPR, Snap Judgment proudly presents "The B Team".

  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
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When people look at your ID they think they know who they're dealing with. But on the next all-NEW Snap Judgment... we throw them for a loop. From ...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
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Ice up, son. On the next Snap Judgment it's about to get all black and blue. From PRX and NPR, we proudly present..."Striker"

  • Added: Jul 10, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
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Tell us it can't be done, and we'll tell you that you simply having thought about it hard enough. Today on Snap Judgment from PRX and NPR we proudl...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
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This is a dramatic, sound-rich recreation of the wartime diary of Barbara Jean Roberts. As a young woman, a newly trained nurse, she left her home ...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2014
  • Length: 26:31
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History repeats, 650 years later. An entire village held hostage for eleven months by a madman and his weapon-toting mercenaries. During that time,...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2013
  • Length: 17:01
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Soft spoken Thai chef, Somchai Sirweawneter, went from the frying pan to the fire when he answered a call from the American Embassy at the height o...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Samantha Powell and Billy Marohn on an innocent roadtrip. Or are they?
What if you were stuck at the border, having to answer probably *appropriate* questions? What if you maybe trusted the Canadian banking system to j...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:45