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Only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated: Smallpox. Rahima Banu, a woman from rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: May 19, 2023
- Length: 09:37
- Purchases: 1
The French Pantheon was created in 1790 to honor those who have done great service to the country. The motto over the door reads "To great men, a g...
- Added: Mar 23, 2023
- Length: 02:58
During World War II, over 400,000 German POWs came to the U.S., where they worked on local farms alongside civilians. Cariad Harmon tells the story...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 27, 2022
- Length: 30:35
- Purchases: 1
In both Germany and the U.S., the flag can be divisive, eliciting pride in some and unease in others. From patriotism to protest, Jocelyn Robinson ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 28:10
- Purchases: 1
Since World War II, there have been countless American GIs stationed at military bases all over Germany. Sylvia Cunningham and Monika Müller-Kroll ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 28:52
- Purchases: 1
We explore peacemaking strategies for law enforcement officers who are trying to respond to persistent calls from citizens to address repeated high...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM
- Added: Oct 27, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Ears Adrift speaks with Navy Nurses that are deployed on the USNS Comfort .
- Added: May 08, 2020
- Length: 09:10
From: World Footprints LLC
Join World Footprints as we learn about the cultural heritages of Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhoods and Ecuador’s Huaorani people.
- Added: Mar 23, 2020
- Length: 43:17
Social change and systems change go hand-in-hand. Movements for democracy and human rights are most effective when they aim to transform unjust, un...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Nov 20, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Historically, New Orleans is a cultural, spiritual and ethnic melting pot. In the streets, you immediately come across signs of French, Caribbean, ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO
- Added: Sep 04, 2019
- Length: 13:32
- Purchases: 2
Arianna Skibell takes us to Battir, a pastoral village about three kilometers southwest of Jerusalem. Over the centuries, the serene landscape has ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 27, 2019
- Length: 19:16
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, producer Katie Davis profiles German-American photographer Volkmar Wentzel who was born in Dresden, Germany in 1915 before moving ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 12:31
- Purchases: 1
The pretzel, known as a “Brezel” or “Brezn” in German, is not an ordinary pastry. It has a century-old history full of myths and stories. Where did...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 03, 2019
- Length: 33:17
- Purchases: 2
Driving around Morocco in the late 1950s with counterculture icon Paul Bowles at the wheel, with a case of hot Pepsi, a brick of hash, and a massiv...
- Added: Jun 14, 2017
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 2
A look at the history of modern circus and how Ireland and Irish performers played a pivotal role.
- Added: Feb 11, 2017
- Length: 27:51
In "The White Elephant,” Yochai Maital walks us through the history of Tel Aviv’s ‘New’ Central Bus Station — a derelict eight-story behemoth and m...
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 32:00
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 31, 2015
- Length: 04:38
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 31, 2015
- Length: 04:11
This audio documentary was produced by Karima Ragab for the audio production course at The American University in Cairo in Cairo, Egypt. The course...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 06:57
The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.
- Added: Dec 28, 2015
- Length: 06:52
I visited (ahem...broke into) Buzludzha. An abandoned communist building in Bulgaria. I describe my adventure going through it- but my microphone p...
- Added: Oct 25, 2015
- Length: 08:09
The famous biographer, James Parton, once referred to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as "Hell with the lid off", but tour the Pittsburgh of today--the ci...
- Added: Oct 05, 2015
- Length: 59:55
From: World Footprints LLC
Prepare for a trans-continental bike ride to the South Pole and experience island paradise – USA style - in Georgia, Massachusetts, and California.
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 59:55
The Spanish Colonial-Revival building at 55th Street and Stevens Avenue in south Minneapolis was originally home to the Mayflower Church. In 2005 t...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 05:30
The 9-11 attacks weren’t the first time that America had been bombed. Listen to what happened at Brookings, Oregon on a Wednesday morning in Septem...
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 10:26
