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An audio producer falls into step with a global advocacy campaign at the very moment it rises to call for mandatory action to fortify staple foods ...
- Added: Apr 20, 2023
- Length: 04:00
In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 27:43
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
One day, Jakob Lewis receives an email from a German man named Ingo asking to be his pen pal. The close relationship they develop teaches Jakob tha...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 25, 2021
- Length: 27:55
- Purchases: 1
World Pieces host Jason Kladiva learns about nomads in the Sahara from Ali Fakiri in M'hamid el Ghizlane, Morocco.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 05:10
Isabel Goddard shares her upbringing in England, Spain and Colombia to host Jason Kladiva.
- Added: Jul 10, 2019
- Length: 06:29
Sandip Roy gets virtually stranded in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Lit. Fest.
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Chaya Gilboa falls deeply in love with a library book, and becomes convinced that her soulmate will have felt the same connection to the text. She ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 12:51
Once if you wanted to be an Indian city of any standing, you were measured by flyovers, speciality hospitals or multiplexes. These days you are mea...
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Author, producer and teacher Bryan Ward loves the Dixon Ticonderoga pencil, but his relationship with the writing utensil has soured since he disc...
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 03:42
Jessie Jackson was recently spotted in Calcutta, India. But why?
- Added: Mar 05, 2014
- Length: 04:30
From the 19th century freak show to the East African black market in body parts to the modern cinema, the image of the albino has seized the popula...
- Added: Feb 01, 2014
- Length: 54:00
Alta Blue Skies contributor Catherine Breese offers a brief look at Canada's version of Punxsutawney Phil and the town that created him, Wiarton, O...
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 04:05
Free, audio book excerpt. Once upon a time, there was a girl who imagined a bear. Actually, she imagined a lot of bears. And then she drew them—bea...
- Added: Nov 23, 2013
- Length: 13:16
Anthony Garza has an appearance that seems to mirror everyone's expectation of him. Middle Easterners, Americans and Hispanics strangers enjoy pic...
- Added: Sep 13, 2012
- Length: 03:27
After visiting Tibet, Chinese journalist Zhu Rui underwent a personal transformation, from critic of Tibetan society to one of its most passionate ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 06:45
Long before most Americans had heard of a place called Fukushima, commentator Graham Shelby spent three years teaching English there. He's been wa...
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
There are many aid workers on the ground in Haiti. Some were there before the earthquake last January. Many others have flown in over the last te...
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:37
Reporter Laura Spero lives in New York City, but she travels to Nepal every year. There, a single winding road connects Nepal’s capital, Katmandu,...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 03:58
- Purchases: 1
There’s a new form of traveling inexpensively that’s emerged in recent years. Any adventurous tourist can “couch-surf.” It gives travelers the ch...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 1
Food shipments may end soon to Haiti where hundreds of thousands of people still live in tents after January’s earthquake. What happens next depen...
- Added: Apr 09, 2010
- Length: 03:37
Afghanistan in winter can be brutal. If you really want to get warm, the place to go is the local hamam or bath house. In a country where most ho...
- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 03:04
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has promised an extensive package of relief supplies and equipment to earthquake ravaged Chile. The temblo...
- Added: Mar 05, 2010
- Length: 02:26
In India recently, a large gathering of women welcomed reporter Will Everett to a special celebration. But Will wasn’t happy about it. In fact, h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 03:19
- Purchases: 1
Author William Powers lived in Liberia for two years. He was an aid worker directing relief programs during the civil war there. When Powers retu...
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 03:00
