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Sheila Donohue Interview-Vero Wines
From: Mark Lenzi
Series: The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW)
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The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW) Episode 242 Exploring all things wine with you! In this episode Kim and Mark interview Sheila Donohue Founder a...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 33:43
Exploring the world at the speed of andante
From: Suki Wessling
Series: Babblery Minibabbles
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This mini-episode from The Babblery features writers Patrice Vecchione of Monterey and Tania Romanov of San Francisco, who both wrote books about w...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 26:23
Famous For Nothingness
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Sometimes we go astray. But that’s all right, that’s our opposing nature, and we know how to get back on the right road. Not the “straight and narr...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Global Pandemic, Climate Change, Virtual Tourism: Twenty Twenty novel predictions in 1995
From: World Footprints LLC
Caption: Twenty Twenty Book cover
In 1995, the late author Nigel Watts published his highly acclaimed fictional book, Twenty Twenty, that foretold the events the world is experienci...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 35:59
Wizards & Critters
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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When it’s Snakesgiving Time in the Mojave, everybody’s just a little more careful. Goes well with these weird new times, being careful. So please m...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Refusing To Fly
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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This hour of great storytelling begins with a travel adventure story that involves two sisters. We follow that up with some wonderful ancient "crea...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 56:59
  • Purchases: 1
Buzludzha Is Deteriorating. Dora Ivanova Wants To Turn It Into A Museum.
From: Ian Elsner
Caption: Buzludzha as it appears today.
High in the Balkan mountains, a crazy, saucer-shaped Soviet-era communist monument is deteriorating.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2018
  • Length: 09:59
One man's 'Search for America'--listening to what ordinary folks think about democracy
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Lars Hasselblad-Torres, a Vermont writer, artist and educator, is making a road trip across the country to find out what regular people have to say...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 15:40
Duelling Songbirds (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Some people smuggle birds across borders simply so they can hear the songs from their homeland. And some of these birds are players in a very unusu...

Bought by KUER, KENW, WOUB, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 4
It's A Jungle Out There (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The disappearing Amazon has lost 20% of its forest cover - Studying the toothy beasts of the Rio Negro - A Guyanan songbird's journey to NYC - How ...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
It's A Jungle Out There (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The disappearing Amazon has lost 20% of its forest cover - Studying the toothy beasts of the Rio Negro - A Guyanan songbird's journey to NYC - How ...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Tangier Island Sinking (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Residents of Tangier Island could become some of America’s first climate refugees—unless they get a much needed sea wall. Through a partnership wit...

Bought by KENW, WOUB, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 3
370-Life's Parts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers have found the basic ingredients of life in an infant solar system.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WOUB, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Africa's Beating Heart (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The daffodils are blooming, days are getting longer, and gardeners are feeling those familiar twinges of excitement. At the same time, about eight ...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 3
Under Magnolia (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-In her new memoir Under Magnolia, Frances Mayes, the renowned author of Under the Tuscan Sun returns to her hometown to explore her coming of age ...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KRDP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Katchie Cartwright on Fulbright ON
From: Daris Hale
Series: Fulbright On
Caption: Katchie Cartwright
Katchie Cartwright, Ethnomusicologist, jazz musician, travels to Greece and Lebanon as a Fulbright Senior Specialist.

  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 12:51
Far & Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Solomon
What we least understand we fear the most. The way to overcome our personal insecurities is to interact with the world - Andrew Solomon

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dinner at the Patel Motel (Gravy Ep. 33)
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
Caption: Vimal Patel cooks inside -- and outside -- a room in the Day's Inn he operates in North Charleston. , Credit: Photo by Wade Spees for the Post & Courier.
We stay at them around the South and across the United States: Day’s Inn. Best Western. Quality Inn. But there is a food world behind the scenes at...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 28:49
  • Purchases: 2
Lawrence Goldstone, author of "Birdmen"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra and Goldstone discuss the book, which looks at the battle to control the skies during the early days of aviation.

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 30:15
  • Purchases: 1
The Quest: Where do Muslims Fit in the Best?
From: kim fox
Series: Student Produced Audio Documentaries
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This audio documentary was produced by Safaa Magdy for the audio production course at The American University in Cairo in Cairo, Egypt. The course ...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 06:33
WorldCanvass: Cuba: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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On December 17, 2014, U.S. President Obama and Cuban President Castro announced a new era of openness and interaction between their two countries. ...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 21:08
  • Purchases: 1
The Speed of Sound: First Aid Kit
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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The duo First Aid Kit burst onto the scene a few years back with the championing of Conor Oberst, but quickly started blazing their own path. Thei...

Bought by KSUT and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 2
A Canadian Vacation
From: Justin Bull
Caption: Graeme S. Mount, retired professor of history at Sudbury's Laurentian University in Ontario, Canada, at his home in Sudbury, May 2015., Credit: Justin Bull
If the United States were embroiled in a third world war and the American public learned that Barack Obama were taking eight days off in the middle...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 3
A Death Sentence Turns Into A Call Of The Wild
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: Leo Egashira in Glacier Bay, Alaska, Credit: Courtesy of Leo Egashira
Leo Egashira was diagnosed with HIV in 1992. He saw the diagnosis as a slow death sentence so he decided to take a once in a life time trip. He tak...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:17
Life of the Law #40 - Abuse, Abduction and International Law
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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What happens when one parent takes a child across international borders without the other parent’s permission? In 1980, the United States and inter...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 20:21
  • Purchases: 1