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Constant Wonder - The Next Everest
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Imagine being caught in an earthquake on Mount Everest!

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Sprouting a Seed That Survived the Roman Siege
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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When Romans put down a Judean rebellion in 73 AD, they also extinguished the Judean date palm. Two thousand years later, an unlikely pair of scient...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Summer Shorts: Adventure Stories
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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We've mined our archives for breathtaking adventure stores.

Bought by WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 01, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Lost at Sea
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Jonathan Franklin shares the story of how Salvador Alvarenga survived for more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean. Joan Druett shares the para...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 2
Minnesota 'N Ice: Snowshoeing with the Winona Outdoor Collaborative
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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We’ve all heard of MN nice, well get ready for Minnesota ‘N Ice, a special Culture Clique series where we’ll take a look at the way Minnesotans and...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 30:53
Straight To Hell
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many hero...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
Armada of the Dragoons
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Get in the truck, we're taking a night drive to the Dragoon Mountains in Cochise County, Arizona. Get ready for the weird times. New soundscapes b...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • 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
A New World Record: Will Turner The Real Iron Man
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Will Turner, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Will Turner is the Real Iron Man. No special effects, no suit of armor, no comic book fiction, He’s the genuine article. He now holds the world rec...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2018
  • Length: 15:04
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
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
Winter Life on a Great Lakes Island
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Delaware Avenue., Credit: Elizabeth Miller
Put-In-Bay, on an island in Lake Erie, is a summer destination for vacationers and tourists. But when winter comes and ferry service to the mainlan...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WCMU Michigan, WKSU, and WBFO


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 5
Blue Water Cowboys
From: Outer Voices
Caption: Pulling up the Dinghy, Credit: Stephanie Guyer-Stevens
“Blue Water” sailing is the kind where there’s no land to be seen, hopefully for days or weeks on end, and there’s a rare group of people who contr...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 22:39
  • Purchases: 1
Virginia's Restless Archipelago, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Hogg Island moorings., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Virginia’s Barrier Islands, and the waters and salt marshes that surround them, are among the most pristine coastal regions on the entire Eastern S...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 25:17
Virginia’s Restless Archipelego Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Barry Truitt at the helm., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Virginia’s Barrier Islands and the waters and salt marshes that surround them represent the most pristine coastal region on the Eastern Seaboard. U...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 27:59
Virginia’s Restless Archipelago Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Colony of American oyster catchers on a lesser Barrier Island., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Oyster Virginia is an old fishing village on the seaside of the Easter Shore. On the road in there are old dead rises, some half submerged in the s...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 26:36
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
The Beat: Anthony Swann - "Blue Trailings (Parker's Road Song)"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Anthony Swann likes music, physical books, coffee houses and he lives with his cat, Samba, in Bemidji, Minnesota. Here, Swann presents his poem, "B...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:35
Bosque del Apache
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: A sandhill crane flies over Bosque del Apache., Credit: Megan Wilde
Every winter, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico hosts a spectacular congregation of snow geese and sandhill cranes. Why do t...

Bought by KUPR low power FM and KENW


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Antillanca
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
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A sound postcard from Antillanca, a ski resort in Chile. It's summer, so only the animals are there.

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Jul 23, 2010
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
Newmarket: Birthplace of American horseracing faces threat to 350-year tradition
From: Liz Ruskin
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Stand on a street corner at dawn in Newmarket, England and you'll see a spectacle unique in the world: 3,000 racehorses parade through town every d...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:38
INTO THE HEART OF TIBET: Interview with explorer IAN BAKER
From: The Tibet Connection
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Explorer, Tibet scholar and author Ian Baker talks about his life's work, experiencing the fabled 'hidden lands' of Tibet, which are considered by ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2008
  • Length: 16:00
Making Room For Shenandoah National Park
From: Jesse Dukes
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500 families were displaced from their homes to make space for the Shenandoah National Park

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2008
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 6
CalEarth
From: Eric Molinsky
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Meet the house that beats an earthquake, stays cool without air conditioning, doesn't harm a single tree and costs less than a used car.

Bought by WMPG, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, PRX Remix, American Voices, PRX to iTunes and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2008
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 7