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The Big Ponder #39: Grief
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Grief is all around us these days. But what exactly is it? And why is it? During a time of global trauma and loss, Jocelyn Robinson seeks to better...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 22, 2022
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Yaa Gyasi and Kate Walbert
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Interviews with authors Yaa Gyasi and Kate Walbert.

Bought by WCMU Michigan and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 14, 2020
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 2
Childbirth, Babies & Bonuses
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
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New research on how providing incentives for doctors in the developing world might help more women survive childbirth.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
A Biblical Bond
From: Israel Story
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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
A Good Teacher is Like a Candle
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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
On the Other Side of Fear
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: Houda, her 14-year-old sister Sara, and a friend. A month after Houda’s family moved to Arizona, Melanie took them to visit her friend’s horses. This was the second time Melanie & Houda met, and Houda’s shirt was Melanie’s first clue about what an extraor
Episode 6: Houda brings us to her high school at the beginning of the war, when she was fourteen years old, after her father’s arrest and release.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:15
StoryCorps: Joanne Nucho and Jeff Ono
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Joanne Nucho tells her husband, Jeff Ono, about her grandmother, Isabel, who was born in a refugee camp after her parents fled the Armenian Genocide.

Bought by Public Radio for All, WGUC/ WVXU, WEZU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 4
Novelist Kristin Hannah and “The Nightingale”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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It’s 1939 in southern France and World War II is taking over the lives of two sisters, Vianne and Isabelle. In this well-researched historical nove...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 1
"Hijab Diaries"
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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A new podcast new to WFHB

  • Added: Apr 07, 2016
  • Length: 09:41
Life in a New World
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Elements by Open Orchard Productions
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As a little girl my mom always felt different because she was living in a world where she was the minority. Coming to a new country was not easy, b...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
Tara and Lulama
From: Littleglobe
Caption: AIDS Skeletons, Credit: Bob Smith
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 08:22
Global Internet Dating: Filipina Woman Marries Moves to Small Town North Dakota
From: Erika Lorentzsen
Series: New American Stories
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Filipina woman meets husband on Christian dating site and moves to small town North Dakota. She says their relationship is more than mail order bri...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 07:09
Caribbean-American writer Jamaica Kincaid
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid talks about the influence of her birthplace, the Caribbean island of Antigua, on her use of language and story telling, even though...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 1
Nose as Destiny
From: Bending Borders
Series: Love is Complicated
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Plastic surgery is growing in Afghanistan and more and more women see it as the key to their fate.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, Outer Voices, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2013
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 7
Royal Wedding – the Dad's Wedding
From: Connor Walsh
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The last Royal Wedding was when Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles. Members of the Great British public, loyal to the late Diana, Princes...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 12:01
Are You Jealous? Do You Know Why?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Are you jealous? Have you ever been? Do you know the origin of your jealousy? Jealousy often goes hand in hand with feelings of love, but where doe...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 29:08
A mother's interview
From: Nurudeen Titilope
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A son interviewing his mother on the ways and manners he was brought up.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2009
  • Length: 04:49
Roma Love Story
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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A Roma couple who married as teenagers campaign against child marriage.

Bought by WBEZ, PRX Remix, Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2007
  • Length: 11:32
  • Purchases: 4
interview with Bend it like Beckham filmmaker
From: Holly Kernan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
interview with Gurinder Ghadha, film maker of "Bend it like Beckham"

  • Added: Oct 01, 2003
  • Length: 15:50