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Bridgette had to leave her home, South Africa in 1991, during one of the most dynamic periods in that nation’s history. She left just one year afte...
- Added: Jan 25, 2010
- Length: 29:24
Reporter Amelia de Sousa lost friends and co-workers in Haiti’s earthquake. Now she works in the UN compound near the airport cranking out stories...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 06:58
- Purchases: 1
Five suicide bombers and a protracted gun battle between police and Taliban insurgents rocked Kabul, Afghanistan this past week. Reporter Will Eve...
- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 02:20
A Chinese plane filled with yak dung crashed in Tibet this morning.
- Added: Dec 27, 2009
- Length: :21
John’s girlfriend tells him that he will have a headache if he drinks any more white wine. So John cries out, “Waiter, a bottle of red wine."
- Added: Dec 23, 2009
- Length: 01:32
There are some stories that change a reporter’s life. In this reporter’s notebook, Michelle Betz tells us about one story that not only changed he...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 03:50
- Purchases: 1
Author William Powers spent two years in Liberia during that country’s civil war. He directed relief programs for an aid group operating there. P...
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 03:03
Thousands of children in Haiti’s capitol city, Port au Prince, beg on the streets to survive. Most street kids are invisible to those passing by. ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 10, 2009
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
Conservationist Bill Powers worked for five years protecting the rain forest in the Amazon.
He saw first hand how global economic conditions affec...
- Added: Dec 04, 2009
- Length: 03:37
In some places around the world, it’s not access to food that’s the issue. It’s the taste of that food. Reporter Will Everett was recently in Sen...
- Added: Nov 20, 2009
- Length: 02:56
In Azerbaijan, hospitality is highly valued. Guests are welcomed at any time of day.
And they’re always offered the best food, seating, or sleepin...
- Added: Nov 20, 2009
- Length: 02:43
We found our castle in Spain -- and celebrated Thanksgiving there.
- Added: Nov 17, 2009
- Length: 02:54
There’s a neighborhood in Cairo simply called “the City of the Dead.” It’s really a vast cemetery made up of rows of mausoleums—some modest, some ...
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 03:08
It was 20 years ago this month the Berlin Wall finally fell. But I still recall the incredibly intense atmosphere I witnessed in the days just afte...
- Added: Nov 01, 2009
- Length: 03:50
The U.N. estimates three million Colombians have been displaced from their homes because of the ongoing war for land between guerrilla fighters, pa...
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 04:47
In Kenya, lines of tents dot the landscape. They house people displaced by post election violence in 2008. There are many such camps in Kenya. M...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 1
Azerbaijan is a country that sits at the crossroads of East and West. And it’s reflected in the culture. Most of the people there are Muslim, but...
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 02:38
In the Cambodian capitol of Phnom Penh, a small Buddhist shrine sits on the banks of the Ton le Sap River. The area is filled with worshippers, to...
- Added: Oct 09, 2009
- Length: 05:48
Parents in some countries have to leave their children with relatives in rural areas and go to cities to find work. Sometimes they’re the people w...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 03:19
- Purchases: 2
Health care is a hot topic right now. And not just in the United States. A report just out from Amnesty International says healthcare in Sierra Le...
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 02:20
13-year old Mamadou Barry had to strike out on his own at an early age. Unlike other kids, Mamadou has no parents sacrificing for his future. He’...
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 02:19
Rumors are a bad thing to spread. In the middle of the night a few months back, Liberians woke each other up to fetch water from a well. They were...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 11, 2009
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 1
A new president has just been elected in the tiny oil rich country of Gabon, in central Africa.
The country’s former President, Omar Bongo, died in...
- Added: Sep 04, 2009
- Length: 04:36
Involve yourself in an authentic human drama and put it in a book.
- Added: Aug 20, 2009
- Length: 02:07
The Feria de Mataderos in Buenos Aires is the biggest cattle market in the world. Monday through Thursday 45,000 head of cattle pass though it's p...
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Aug 06, 2009
- Length: 10:29
- Purchases: 1
