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Home Again
From: SCAD Radio
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Student returns to hurricane ravaged hometown

  • Added: Dec 25, 2006
  • Length: 04:52
A Shortcut Through 2006
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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An hour-long retrospective of the year 2006

Bought by KGLT, KUT, KVMR, North Country Public Radio, and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Dec 22, 2006
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 5
History Lessons
From: [redacted] [redacted]
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News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Bought by WRPI, Raven Radio, KXOT Public Radio, and KGOU


  • Added: Dec 21, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Rock-and-roll benefit concerts: Music to UNICEF's ears
From: UNICEF
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This Story is free! With the Concert for Bangladesh George Harrison and Ravi Shankar started the tradition of the super-concert for a humanitarian ...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
A Nightingale Among Ye
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Take to the seas in song with "shantyman" bob Webb.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 1
Climate Change Threatens Siberian Permafrost
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The Siberian permafrost - a sub-Arctic peat bog about the size of France and Germany - is chock full of carbon that's trapped in its frozen soils. ...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
What Comes Next?: Jews & The Afterlife
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The End As Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death
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When it comes to life after death, you get 5 Jews... you get 50 opinions.

Bought by Iowa Public Radio and Audible


  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 18:04
  • Purchases: 2
Talk About It: The Jewish Mourning Process
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The End As Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death
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Grieving for the deceased... and comforting the living.

Bought by Iowa Public Radio and Audible


  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 18:03
  • Purchases: 2
New Doubts About Tuskegee Airmen's Perfect Record
From: Tanya Ott
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America's first black fighter pilots claim they never lost a bomber, but a historian says newly uncovered records prove otherwise.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:18
Black Belt Poverty
From: Tanya Ott
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The Black Belt of the Deep South stretches from Virginia to Texas. It got its name from the dark, rich soil that made cotton production a highly p...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 07:09
Return to Sarajevo, Part Two
From: BBC
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More than a decade after a peace agreement was reached to end Bosnia's bitter war, the BBC's Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to find out what kind...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 22:39
  • Purchases: 1
Return to Sarajevo, Part One
From: BBC
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More than a decade after a peace agreement was reached to end Bosnia's bitter war, the BBC's Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to find out if its pe...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 22:31
  • Purchases: 2
Dancing in the Rain: The Oakland General Strike
From: Dick Meister
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a commentary marking the 60th anniversary of the Oakland general strike, one of the very few general strikes in U.S. history.

Bought by KPFT


  • Added: Dec 08, 2006
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
It's King Biscuit Time
From: WKNO
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In an era when media monopolies dominate the airwaves, there still are independent voices and programs. King Biscuit Time is the longest running d...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 08:06
Paper Trail
From: Julie Subrin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A stamp auction in Frankfurt leads an author to a war-time love story

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 11:45
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Taming the Salt Monster
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The great swathes of the Western Australian wheatbelt were created a century ago when 1000 acres of bush were burned a day and the land became the ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, WRPI, KXOT Public Radio, WYSO and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 6
SOWETO Today
From: Mikko Kapanen
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The largest township of South Africa 12 years after the fall of apartheid

  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 10:30
Battleship Missouri Memorial
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Battleship Missouri Memorial, Credit: USS Missouri Memorial Association
The Battleship Missouri is best known as the site where World War II officially ended on Sept. 2, 1945. Veterans share tales about the ship, nickn...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Delta College Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and KVMR


  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 4
Emma Lazarus vox
From: Julie Subrin
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What people know about the woman who wrote "give me your tired..."

  • Added: Dec 01, 2006
  • Length: 04:28
What happened to San Francisco's "Greektown?"
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Looking for San Francisco's Greektown

  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: 05:42
Gays and the generation gap
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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A look at gay activism across generations

  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: 03:55
Jews and the generation gap
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Jewish identity across generations

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
Trams for the Memories
From: Drew Leifheit
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Piece of olde Budapest reaches end of the line

  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: 08:24
Monty
From: Lisa Tharpe
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Monty talks about cleaning latrines in Vietnam while sitting in a communal hot tub.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
Honoring the Body: Taharah
From: Rebecca Sheir
Series: The End As Beginning: An Audio Exploration of the Jewish View of Death
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Leaving the world as we entered it... but with a twist.

Bought by PRX Remix, Remix Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, Iowa Public Radio, and Audible


  • Added: Nov 27, 2006
  • Length: 15:45
  • Purchases: 5

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