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Before you plan to live or study aboard hear from these experts first about considerations, dos and don’ts prior to embarking on life as an expat o...
- Added: Jan 12, 2020
- Length: 29:55
Dave talks to Gideon Bradshaw and Andrew Cohen, the BBC filmmakers behind the new NOVA series The Planets on PBS. Part of the "Summer of Space" on ...
- Added: Jul 25, 2019
- Length: 59:00
None of us can master every language, but we can all learn phrases that extend a symbolic hand in greeting and say, “To show I respect you, and the...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 17:27
This 6-minute sampler provides a taste of the history, literature, and legacy of Route 66 as discussed in the 3-hour-long radio documentary series ...
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 06:18
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're doing something we've never done before. What are we doing you ask? Well, the Blue Horizon Flying Club w...
- Added: Jan 28, 2019
- Length: 06:24
World War I shattered a way of life for millions. But one positive result, invented by a German-American immigrant, continues to deliver blessings ...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 27:45
Producer Carla Seidl recalls her experience in Togo, West Africa, through language notes and audio recordings. A sound-rich cultural immersion/aud...
- Added: Nov 30, 2018
- Length: 09:04
In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes talks with artist and print maker Seth Roby.
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Jenny K. Messner credits the high school cultural exchange program of AFS with transforming her life. Living in Brazil for a year in the 1970s, Jen...
- Added: Nov 21, 2018
- Length: 14:23
Wherever vacation time takes us, Dr. Lori Dengler encourages researching and exploring regional geology.
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Garbage Truck, pick up day, late afternoon... as the truck fades away in the distance, sounds from the the natural environment fade in, taking over...
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 08:28
As we close Season One of America the Bilingual, we are filled with gratitude for the hundreds of interviewees—teachers, scholars, and bilinguals o...
- Added: Jan 02, 2018
- Length: 08:13
WWNO’s original history podcast TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns next week. Host Laine Kaplan-Levenson traveled to Haiti this past summer and wil...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 11:44
He was rich, persuasive — and wrong. But Ron Unz succeeded in leading our most populous state down a dark path in the history of language education...
- Added: Oct 11, 2017
- Length: 30:16
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on the value of exp...
- Added: Oct 09, 2017
- Length: 48:34
America has been called the place where languages go to die. But not always. In episode 8 of America the Bilingual we hear the story of two America...
- Added: Sep 03, 2017
- Length: 20:02
How hard can it be to go up to the counter at McDonald’s and ask for ketchup? The answer might depend on how confident you are in English.
Michelle...
- Added: Sep 03, 2017
- Length: 14:38
We hear it before we are born. Before the first air rushes into our tiny lungs, before the first light refracts into our blinking, baby eyes, our m...
- Added: Sep 03, 2017
- Length: 15:21
Linguists call it “shift.” The rest of us would call it “loss.” It’s what happens to the languages spoken by immigrants, and it happens fast. By th...
- Added: Sep 02, 2017
- Length: 19:12
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
Comet Johnson will be visible to humans before it starts its trip to the stars.
Bought by Radio Newark, KENW, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, KMXT and more
- Added: Feb 09, 2017
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 6
After a successful trip through the Pluto system, the New Horizons Spacecraft is heading towards an even more distant object.
Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW and more
- Added: Jul 28, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 9
A giant telescope, under construction, will give us a picture of how objects in the Universe change with time.
Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more
- Added: Jul 21, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 9
The red planet is teaming with human activity.
Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more
- Added: Jul 21, 2016
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 9
This special episode talks about the different types of experiences women have while traveling over an expanse of countries. Tune in!
- Added: Jul 05, 2016
- Length: 53:23
