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Worlds of Difference: Coming to Terms
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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A look at cultures that must look to the past in order to move forward, with stories from Burundi, Spain, Canada and Turkey.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WPSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WUMB


  • Added: Oct 03, 2005
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 4
RN Documentary: Zeeland '53
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus: Living With Water
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Recreation of the disastrous 1953 flood in the southern Dutch province of Zeeland during which more than 1800 lives were lost.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio and WRPI


  • Added: Sep 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 2
History's Greatest Love Affairs: Abelard and Heloise
From: Ed Kliman
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The timeless love story of Abelard and Heloise, complete with period music.

Bought by KZUM and Public Interactive


  • Added: Sep 12, 2005
  • Length: 20:49
  • Purchases: 2
Jimmy Breslin: The Art of Climbing Tenement Stairs
From: Jon Kalish
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A profile of the legendary newspaper columnist.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and KALW


  • Added: Sep 07, 2005
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 4
Hawaiian Pidgin English
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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More than half of Hawaii's residents speak Pidgin - a combination of English, Hawaiian and Asian languages.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KREV-LP, KZYX, KUOW and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2005
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 6
Music in the Killing Fields: Daran Kravanh
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Cambodian Musician Daran Kravanh says music saved his life during the Kiling Fields.

Bought by The Story, KGLT, and KZSC


  • Added: Jul 21, 2005
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 3
RN: Documentary: A Hiroshima Story
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Sixty years after the bombing of Hiroshima, a 67 year old survivor relates his story of that day in a class of students who are the same age now as...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUER, KFAI Minneapolis, KSFR, and WCQS


  • Added: Jul 20, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 5
Casey Jones
From: Western Folklife Center Media
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Hal Cannon of the Western Folklife Center tells the story of Casey Jones, an engineer who became a folk song legend.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, Marfa Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KRCC-FM and more


  • Added: Jun 30, 2005
  • Length: 09:50
  • Purchases: 6
Skywalkers of Akwesane
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
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How the dangerous skill of high steel became a rite of passage for a Mohawk tribe.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WFHB, KMXT, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 26
Georgia Market Bulletin
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
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A chronicle of rural life in Georgia unfolds between the lines of a farmers' newspaper.

Bought by Audible


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
In the Shadow of Jerusalem's Temple Mount, Archaeologists Sift for Clues
From: Mordechai Twersky
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Jerusalem Archaeology Feature

  • Added: May 19, 2005
  • Length: 05:35
RN Documentary: Song of a Troubled Heart
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The story behind Viennese composer Gustav Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” and his subsequent meeting with Sigmund Freud in Holland.

Bought by WMNR, KFAI Minneapolis, WXDU, Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 17, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
Cowboy Campaign
From: KUT
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Modern Texas cowboys in Tin type photos

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 07:53
Life Before Social Security
From: Richard Paul
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A look a life for the elderly in the years before Social Security was created

Bought by WBEZ, New Hampshire Public Radio, WYSO, KVMR, and WSHU


  • Added: Mar 30, 2005
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 5
Moon, Mars and Money
From: Richard Paul
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Will we go back to the Moon and on to Mars? A reality check.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WSHU, and KBBI Alaska


  • Added: Mar 24, 2005
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 3
RN Documentary: Whitman - The Good Gray Poet
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Poetry
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Explores the later life of Walt Whitman, considered by many to be the Father of Modern Poetry.

Bought by KMUN, KSJD, WHQR, and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:25
  • Purchases: 4
RN Documentary: Whitman - Songs of the Poet
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Poetry
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Explores the early life of Walt Whitman, considered by many to be the Father of Modern Poetry.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KUOW, and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Mar 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 3
The Ebony Hillbillies
From: Amber Edwards
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The Ebony Hillbillies prove you don?t have to be white and Southern to play authentic, down home country music...they are hip, urban, and black. A...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Public Interactive, WKMS, KCUR and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2005
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 8
A Short History of Music as a Weapon
From: Aaron Henkin
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From Scottish bagpipes to Metallica, this radio essay takes listeners on a short tour through the history of music as a weapon.

Bought by Raven Radio, KGUA, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KRUA and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2005
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 11
The Beatles In America - 1964 (2 Hours @ 59:00 or 54:00)
From: Paul Ingles
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A lively two-hour montage of rare archival audio, concert recordings, and new interviews on The Beatles' first U.S. grand tour. Hour 1 focuses on ...

Bought by WSKG, WUSF, WHRV, KSJE, Iowa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2005
  • Length: 01:57:56
  • Purchases: 52
Vince Giordano
From: Amber Edwards
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the "greatest generation" had the greatest music, according to hot jazz bandleader/historian Vince Giordano

Bought by KERA


  • Added: Feb 15, 2005
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1
Cobb's Ice Harvest
From: Whit Richardson
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A brief look at a remote sporting camp in Northern Maine that still harvests ice for use throughout the summer.

Bought by The Nature Podcast and WMBR


  • Added: Feb 13, 2005
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 2
Jews & Blues: Inside Out
From: Inside Out Documentaries
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The story of how Jewish and African-American music came to be mingled is the story of how the soundtrack of the American Century came to be written

Bought by WCPN, 90.5 WSNC, KSFR, WNIJ, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2005
  • Length: 01:02:30
  • Purchases: 13
Biography of 100,000 Square Feet
From: Benjamin Temchine
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How does a public space fail? Can good intentions separated from reality border on negligence?

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KPFA, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KALW, WZBC and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2005
  • Length: 32:00
  • Purchases: 9
Lenny Bruce Gets Busted
From: Jonathan Mitchell
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how comedy's great free speech martyr fought the law, and how the law won

Bought by PRX Remix, Remix Radio, Hearing Voices, KGLT, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2005
  • Length: 08:02
  • Purchases: 7

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