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Between 1820 and World War I, nearly six million Germans immigrated to the US – in 2017, only about 5,000 made the trip. If Germans aren’t coming t...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 06, 2019
  • Length: 19:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Coffee is more than just a beverage – it can be a jumpstart to a day at work or a relaxing afternoon with friends. This episode explores the meanin...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 15:56
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: When you drive in from the south, a road sign announces that both Canada and Derby Line are four miles away., Credit: Chloe Williams
The story of a small town split by the border

  • Added: Feb 08, 2019
  • Length: 19:49
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German entrepreneurs and winemakers have shaped the manufacturing of wine in the US for over a century. Join our producer Gary Lee on a tour of thr...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 20:24
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Wang Ping wanted to go to Tibet to bless the world. But to do that, she had to risk her own safety.

Bought by KWMR and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 24:04
  • Purchases: 2
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The story of a song that began the music careers of two Israelis each representing vastly different versions of what the future of Israel may hold

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 32:43
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The RDD meets the the TIFF (that's the Toledo International Film Festival) on this week's episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. The Tiff is an annua...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2018
  • Length: 06:08
Caption: Snap Judgment
On the next all-NEW Snap..."Override." You think you have your plan all laid out, until someone or something comes along and messes everything up.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
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Mexico protects it's most valuable waters.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
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In the wake of tragedy, Susi forms an unexpected bond with the woman who should have been her mother-in-law. It's a modern day version of the bibli...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2018
  • Length: 20:12
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Sharon and Cansu are from enemy countries and have no common language. They also happen to be in love. A story of a relationship in the age of Goog...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 09:16
  • Purchases: 2
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An Ultra-Orthodox couple seems to have a fairy-tale love until one of them begins studies at a secular university. Exposure to the outside world st...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 22:17
Caption: Laura Ann Singh, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Laura Ann Singh, as her very name suggests, seemed destined to sing. In the Kingsport, Tennessee home where she grew up music was ever-present. Her...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 26:21
Caption: Off to the links..., Credit: Susan Cook photo
A musical tribute to the most recent historic meeting of minds between You Know Who. And Who Else, to the tune from the 1924 tune "It Had To Be Yo...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:46
Caption: ouda in front of KXCI–photo by her teacher Christina
In episode 25 of Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship, Houda interviews Christina, one of the English Language Development teachers from her schoo...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:10
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're headed to BG to meet Beatrice Maya of La Conexión, a resource of representation for the Latino and Immig...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 06:05
  • Purchases: 1
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UnCommonCore Podcast | Episode 20 | Tom and 2thBrush cover Spring and Summer 2018 fashion in our third installment of the Capsule Show from New Yor...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 01:01:12
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Aubrey Bertram traveled to East Asia to help animals that had been abused by humans. But a harrowing experience taught her that good intentions mig...

Bought by KUER, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 18:24
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: His profession was listed as  "farmer's son". They never saw their family again., Credit: Susan Cook
The US Senate bill to limit immigration by educational status ignores that opportunity is exactly what oppressive regimes deny. Opportunity -as ev...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 05:59
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America has a long, long, long history of embracing immigrants one day, generally because it needed them for economic reasons, a variation of slave...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Virginia's first historic marker to recognize immigrants.
Just as America is a nation of immigrants, Virginia is a commonwealth of immigrants. For the first time ever the state Department of Historic Res...

  • Added: May 22, 2017
  • Length: 08:45
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A Nation of Immigrants is what we are, always have been, and always will be, as long as we remain the United States of America. Bans on immigrants ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
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A boy's escape from war and the beginning of a new life in the United States.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 18:59
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Arik was burning to share his faith with the world. But the people he thought needed his message the most weren’t interested in what he had to say....

Bought by KUER and KRZA


  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 20:43
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Basir Beria on the set of The Kite Runner, Credit: Basir Beria
When you're forced to leave your home, what traditions do you take with you? A journey with an Afghani kite fighting master.

Bought by WCPN and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 30:19
  • Purchases: 2