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The Big Ponder #44: Ball Bearings
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Ball bearings — these mechanisms are all around us, inside our wheels and motors. Hidden away, we rarely see them, and most people don’t even know ...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #43: The Typewriter
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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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
Sole Food
From: Israel Story
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For some people, such as Tali Aronsky, life is a meal. So how can chicken drumsticks, kubeh soup, hard boiled eggs, lamb biryani and lahme bi ajeen...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2022
  • Length: 17:09
68 and Counting: 1998
From: Israel Story
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A behind-the-scenes account of a scandal that rocked “Pa’amoney Ha’Yovel” (Bells of Jubilee), Israel’s fiftieth anniversary celebration. Yet the fi...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 10:28
The Big Ponder #37: Street Names
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Why is a Nazi resistance fighter famous in Brazil yet unheard of in Germany? How did an African American musician become a hero in East Germany? Di...

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  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 1
A Day at the Y
From: Israel Story
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On June 7, 2021 the entire Israel Story team – nine radio producers – descended upon the Jerusalem International YMCA. In a segregated city full of...

  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:12:29
The Big Ponder #34: Sounds of Nature
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Tosca Terán creates soundscapes using fungi. In this immersive piece, Tosca takes listeners on a soundwalk, pausing periodically to interview other...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 25:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #30: The Zoo
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Growing up, Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller traveled the world with his family. On their trips, they always made time for a visit to the local zoo: in Ber...

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #29: Humor
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Despite the cliché of the unfunny German, there is a rich tradition of comedy in German culture. Soraya Nelson visits comedy clubs in Berlin and in...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 27:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #27: Immersion
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Immersive artwork breaks down the border between the viewer and the artist, submerging the spectator in the exhibit. Nancy Pettinicchio discusses t...

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  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 27:02
  • Purchases: 3
The Big Ponder #26: Krampus
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the U.S., Santa keeps tabs on who’s been naughty or nice, but there isn’t much follow through on the naughty list. In much of Europe, however, S...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 27:27
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Ponder #24: Happiness
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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How do you quantify something as indescribable as happiness? Michael Hobbes searches for a way to measure life satisfaction that works in both the ...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:17
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #22: Candy
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
As a kid, candy makes the world go round. As an adult, it has the power to bring back long-forgotten childhood memories. Carol McKinley talks about...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #21: Community
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Community is the story of our lives. It is who we are, who we have been, and who we hope to become. Melissa Gerr visits Jewish congregations in Bal...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #15: Record Booth
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...

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  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Ponder #14: Sacred Self
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In her early 20s, Sibylle Baier recorded 14 folk songs that she says saved her life. Then, she packed the tape away and forgot about it. Decades la...

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  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Ponder #11: Home
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Is ‘home’ a place or more of a feeling? Jocelyn Robinson speaks with three American expats who unpack the relationship between self and place, draw...

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  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #9: In Friendship
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Inspired by a year of forced isolation, essayist Bilal Qureshi explores the history, landscape, and meaning of friendship across cultures. At the h...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:47
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #5: Little America Revisited
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
Since World War II, there have been countless American GIs stationed at military bases all over Germany. Sylvia Cunningham and Monika Müller-Kroll ...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #3: Radio Wanderlust
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Bilal Qureshi explores the German-English idea of ‘Wanderlust’ through his personal audio archives and conversations with fellow travelers. Does th...

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #1: I Love You, I Hate You
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
“We have the right to hate Germany because we love it,” German writer Kurt Tucholsky wrote. Listening to positions from both sides of the Atlantic ...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 31: Why Elephants Never Forget
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Aubrey Bertram traveled to East Asia to help animals that had been abused by humans. But a harrowing experience taught her that good intentions mig...

Bought by KUER, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 18:24
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 18: Go Tell It In The Desert
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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Arik was burning to share his faith with the world. But the people he thought needed his message the most weren’t interested in what he had to say....

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 20:43
  • Purchases: 2
Reconciliation, a Tale of Two Seas
From: Hebah Fisher
Series: Kerning Cultures
Caption: Castles in the sky and in the sand, Bahrain, Credit: Hebah Fisher
It's 2011, and Bahrain is a divided society.

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 42:13
  • Purchases: 1
Rabin Is....
From: Israel Story
Series: Israel Story Podcast
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Rabin is a symbol. An icon. But in Israel of 2015, twenty years after the Prime Minister's murder, it isn't so simple to understand what the reall...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:05:56