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The Big Ponder #37: Street Names
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Why is a Nazi resistance fighter famous in Brazil yet unheard of in Germany? How did an African American musician become a hero in East Germany? Di...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 1
King of the Hill
From: Israel Story
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From the top of Tell El-Ful, an abandoned hilltop in East Jerusalem, you can see all the way from Amman to Tel Aviv, from Jerusalem to Ramallah. An...

  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:08:41
A Day at the Y
From: Israel Story
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On June 7, 2021 the entire Israel Story team – nine radio producers – descended upon the Jerusalem International YMCA. In a segregated city full of...

  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:12:29
Sbarro: Twenty Years Later
From: Israel Story
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On August 9, 2001, 22-year-old Izz al-Din al-Masri blew himself up at a Sbarro branch in downtown Jerusalem, killing 15 people and injuring over 13...

  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:09:37
Time to 1.5 | 7 | Makoko and Eko
From: Auricle Productions
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In this episode, we pay a visit to two communities in Lagos, just a few miles apart, responding to climate change in very different ways.

  • Added: May 09, 2022
  • Length: 55:00
The Big Ponder #34: Sounds of Nature
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Tosca Terán creates soundscapes using fungi. In this immersive piece, Tosca takes listeners on a soundwalk, pausing periodically to interview other...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 25:59
  • Purchases: 1
The So-called Mystery of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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Three hundred years ago this Easter, Europeans landed on what they called "Easter Island," and ever since, the statues there have been a mystery. B...

Bought by WKSU, KWIT, WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 18
Tell Me How Many Black Seabirds
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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In these times, a poem for the places we find resilience.

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 1
Hot Tub Time Machine
From: Israel Story
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When neighbors Steve Gray and Anat Harrel of Kibbutz Hanaton in the Upper Galilee lost their jobs as tour guides due to the pandemic, they decided ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 36:04
Where the Wild Things Are
From: Israel Story
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When Marie Röder was eight years old, she survived a terrifying encounter with a wild boar in the depths of Berlin’s dark Tegeler Forst. The fright...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 12:16
Of Their Flesh You Shall Not Eat?
From: Israel Story
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Dr. Lidar Sapir-Hen of Tel Aviv University introduces us to a celebrity piglet. Discovered in a Jerusalem home from the 8th century BCE, it challen...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 08:46
The Big Ponder #30: The Zoo
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Growing up, Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller traveled the world with his family. On their trips, they always made time for a visit to the local zoo: in Ber...

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #29: Humor
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Despite the cliché of the unfunny German, there is a rich tradition of comedy in German culture. Soraya Nelson visits comedy clubs in Berlin and in...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 27:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #27: Immersion
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Immersive artwork breaks down the border between the viewer and the artist, submerging the spectator in the exhibit. Nancy Pettinicchio discusses t...

Bought by KVSC, KMXT, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 27:02
  • Purchases: 3
The Big Ponder #26: Krampus
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the U.S., Santa keeps tabs on who’s been naughty or nice, but there isn’t much follow through on the naughty list. In much of Europe, however, S...

Bought by WBEZ and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 27:27
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Ponder #24: Happiness
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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How do you quantify something as indescribable as happiness? Michael Hobbes searches for a way to measure life satisfaction that works in both the ...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:17
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #22: Candy
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
As a kid, candy makes the world go round. As an adult, it has the power to bring back long-forgotten childhood memories. Carol McKinley talks about...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #21: Community
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Community is the story of our lives. It is who we are, who we have been, and who we hope to become. Melissa Gerr visits Jewish congregations in Bal...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #15: Record Booth
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...

Bought by HowSound and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Ponder #14: Sacred Self
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In her early 20s, Sibylle Baier recorded 14 folk songs that she says saved her life. Then, she packed the tape away and forgot about it. Decades la...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
Symbolic Starter
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place
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How can breaking bread—or injera—together make a place home? How one kitchen disaster led the team at Shelter in Place podcast through the Eritrea...

  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 37:21
In The Tunnel
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place
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When we face mental health struggles, who will help us find our way out? In this episode honoring Mental Health Awareness month, the women at She...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #11: Home
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Is ‘home’ a place or more of a feeling? Jocelyn Robinson speaks with three American expats who unpack the relationship between self and place, draw...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
GN_4.13_Water Sports
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Dutch engineers find a way to bring drinkable water to South Africans by combining it with their favorite sporting pastime.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
The Big Ponder #9: In Friendship
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Inspired by a year of forced isolation, essayist Bilal Qureshi explores the history, landscape, and meaning of friendship across cultures. At the h...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:47
  • Purchases: 1

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