PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque

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I worked in a refugee camp in Thessaloniki, Greece this summer and put together an hour long piece meant to humanize the refugee crisis. Listen to...

Bought by KVSC, KPIP-LP, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2017
  • Length: 55:26
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Pat Kennedy speaks with a patient, Al Ain. , Credit: Nancy Kennedy
The year is 1959, and one in every two babies are dying in childbirth.

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Dec 08, 2016
  • Length: 26:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Steve Moore
Steve Moore is a slight man, drawn somewhat by the disease he lives with. I’d put him at about 140 pounds. But that might be a little much. Steve’s...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 26:08
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Audio stories about what happens when people play sports only for themselves. These are the weekend warriors, the beer leaguers and the rec team al...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2016
  • Length: 01:48:03
Caption: Majd Abdulghani
Majd Abdulghani is a teenager living in Saudi Arabia, one of the most restrictive countries for women in the world. She wants to be a scientist. He...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 30:45
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Castles in the sky and in the sand, Bahrain, Credit: Hebah Fisher
It's 2011, and Bahrain is a divided society.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 42:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Napalm Girl, Credit: Nick Ut
Nick Ut is one of the Associated Press’ most renowned photographers. As he celebrates 50 years with AP, there is one image from his days in Vietnam...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Freedom Fighter
Philip Armand grapples with commitment, then spends an afternoon watching the TV show Friends with a group of Kurdish Freedom Fighters.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2016
  • Length: 09:11
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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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Shota Adamashvili is a country western singer who has never been within a thousand miles of the world he sings about. Is there a place for country...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 26:05
Caption: Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. at New Oleans French Quarter Festival with World Footprints radio., Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
Enjoy travel melodies with three extraordinary musicians as we hear about their personal and cultural journeys. Also learn what Rio de Janeiro is ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2016
  • Length: 59:55
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How we change nature and nature changes us, from wildflower picking in Israel to ayahuasca retreats in Peru.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 54:33
  • Purchases: 1
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For the year’s heaviest week of travel, Israel Story brings tales of love and interrogation at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 50:29
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Israel Story producers crisscrossed the small country, visiting every 48 Herzl Street and collecting stories from whomever they encountered.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 37:16
Caption: The Greek Campus, Cairo, Egypt
A different kind of revolution.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 25:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Impact Hub Dubai
Is Dubai the next Silicon Valley of the Middle East?

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 25:48
  • Purchases: 1
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A Lebanese startup's journey through the nation's first accelerator and the Central Bank Circular 331 funds.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 20:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Three Sudanese teens who have immigrated to the U.S. share three very different takes on what it’s like to live here.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 07:15
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Rabin is a symbol. An icon. But in Israel of 2015, twenty years after the Prime Minister's murder, it isn't so simple to understand what the reall...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:05:56
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For years Danna Harman had been reporting the same old political stories for The Jerusalem Post. She wanted out. That’s how she found herself in Ke...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 20:05
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Two journeys - in very different directions, and taken for very different reasons - out of, and then into, Africa.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2015
  • Length: 44:14
Caption: Beer as cold as your ex's heart
Stuff always falls apart while traveling. Plans change, health declines. Items disintegrate… Relationships fade… It doesn’t always happen, but it’s...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2015
  • Length: 14:44
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An immigrant's dream in Kansas City.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 19:59
Caption: kilimanjaro, Credit: LN Lurie
My experience of climbing the Roof of Africa!

  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 22:22
Caption: Love Baltimore, Credit: LN Lurie
Whenever I travel, I always hear heaps of worries/warnings. Are they actually valid? That’s what we find out.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 13:01