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How do you sabrage in France?
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Champagne Bottles Post-Sabrage, Credit: Jane Alexander
This week we sharpen our swords in the Champagne region of France to learn how the French sabrage!

Bought by KMXT, WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Winnipeg Folk Festival Day 2 Hour 4
From: KVSC
Series: KVSC at the Winnipeg Folk Festival
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For the first time in KVSC's 43-year history, a live international broadcast is coming to you from the Winnipeg Folk Festival. With help from the M...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 55:29
Winnipeg Folk Festival Day 2 Hour 1
From: KVSC
Series: KVSC at the Winnipeg Folk Festival
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For the first time in KVSC's 43-year history, a live international broadcast is coming to you from the Winnipeg Folk Festival. With help from the M...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 59:41
Winnipeg Folk Festival Day 1 Hour 2
From: KVSC
Series: KVSC at the Winnipeg Folk Festival
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Join Wayne and Mike in the second hour as they explore this unique music festival and all it has to offer such as music from Bourne and MacLeod, Et...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2010
  • Length: 01:10:24
Winnipeg Folk Festival Day 1 Hour 1
From: KVSC
Series: KVSC at the Winnipeg Folk Festival
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For the first time in KVSC's 43-year history, a live international broadcast is coming to you from the Winnipeg Folk Festival. The festival taking ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2010
  • Length: 01:00:13
Up All Night
From: Seattle Globalist
Caption: Ali Jaffri, Credit: Alex Stonehill
Jessica Partnow takes us through a night in the life of Ali Jaffri, a professional telemarketer in Lahore, Pakistan.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KCRW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 3
Iceland-What IS that smell?
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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Today, the Global Guru ventures into the Viking's culinary history by looking at the delicacy known as hakarl -- or rotten shark.

Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 13, 2010
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 4
Global Guru - Holland's Peculiar Curses
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru travels to Holland to learn how to insult someone... in Dutch. A surprising look at a secular society.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 2
Global Guru-Thailand's Hot and Cold Food
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru learns how to avoid culinary death in Bangkok -- and just why Thais categorize their food.

Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 3
Global Guru-Mexico's Murals
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru learns about the mural movement in Ajijic, Mexico, two generations after Diego Rivera's vision.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 2
Global Guru - Aboriginal Boomerangs
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru wades through tourist kitsch to find authentic aboriginal boomerangs.

Bought by WABE, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 3
August, 21st 1968
From: Joanna Stein
Caption: David Cerny, Ruzovy Tank (Pink Tank), Credit: artlist.cz
Alena Hromadkova remembers the day that The Soviet Union invaded her country, Czechoslovakia.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2009
  • Length: 05:04
WNR: Finding a Laugh in Iraq
From: War News Radio
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From "Pen to Paper" (March 13, 2009): War News Radio goes looking for comedy in Iraq, and finds out what makes a good Iraqi joke.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 03:06
Digital Diarist Quilinta Nepaul, 18, Visits Youth Fair in South Africa
From: UNICEF
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Digital Diarist Quilinta Nepaul, 18, Visits Youth Fair in South Africa

  • Added: Sep 11, 2008
  • Length: 03:54
David Bouchier Essay: Global Absolutely Everything
From: WSHU
Series: Essays by David Bouchier
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David adds to our economic problems by visiting the local shopping center.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2008
  • Length: 03:48
"Give Us Our Darling Back": Russia's 'Claim' on Alaska
From: Rebecca Sheir
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Should the U.S. give Alaska back to Russia? One presidential hopeful thinks so.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 02, 2008
  • Length: 05:44
  • Purchases: 1
Bastille Day Commentary: "Mercy Buckets"
From: Diana Epstein
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Commentary on growing up with a French mother. Very funny

Bought by KUT and WXLV-FM


  • Added: May 16, 2007
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 2
Orange Juice
From: NAISA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Orange Juice: The transglobal nature of drink production.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:03
Victoria Secretes
From: John Ryan
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A proper provincial capital poops in the ocean -- but for how long?

  • Added: Apr 09, 2007
  • Length: 06:16
Decorated Border Fence
From: Michele Ulriksen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A humorous look at how the border fence between the U.S. and Mexico might be decorated to make it politically and culturally acceptable.? Perfect f...

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: Feb 06, 2007
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
Michael and the Mare
From: Jackson Braider
Series: Tales of an Irish M.D.
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Michael, a fisherman's gilly in the County Mayo, discovers there's more than one way to skin a horse!

  • Added: Jun 26, 2006
  • Length: 09:07
A Wall Of Our Own
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Re: the wall on our southern border, Ian's modest proposal

Bought by KRCC-FM


  • Added: May 31, 2006
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 1
Prince Charles Belongs on a Bicycle
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It's time that Charles and the other sponging members of Britain's royal family found a different line of work,

  • Added: Dec 04, 2005
  • Length: 03:26
Japanese "War Brides"
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Japanese American "War Brides" living in Fayetteville, North Carolina discuss their experiences with war, marriage, immigration, and cultural identity

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WETA, and WYSO


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 12:41
  • Purchases: 3
Why Ahmad Never Got to Celebrate Halloween
From: KCUR
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Commentary by Afghani college student about how his parents would not allow him to participate in Halloween.

Bought by WDBM, YouthCast, WXLV-FM, and PRX Administrator


  • Added: Oct 30, 2005
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 4

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