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Global Guru-Tanzania's Barbershops
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru explores why there are so many barbershops -- sometimes a dozen in a single block -- in Tanzania.

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


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 3
Bonjour Chanson Series 7, Episode 31
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 7
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Whether you speak French or not, you might enjoy listening to a program where we discuss 6 French Language Musical Artists in English and then list...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 08, 2010
  • Length: 26:46
  • Purchases: 1
Schools in the Philippines cope with flooding
From: UNICEF
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Four major typhoons hit the Philippines in just under two months. Teachers and school administrators used alternative teaching strategies to cope ...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2009
  • Length: 07:41
Shanxi Teacher
From: World Vision Report
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It’s difficult for children in rural China to get a good education. That’s because are few and far between. Many of them have been lured by the h...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Sep 25, 2009
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 1
Ghost Schools
From: World Vision Report
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Primary education is compulsory in Pakistan, but five million children don’t go to school. Cronyism, corruption, and chronic absenteeism on the pa...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 1
Say Wot?
From: Eddy Durnan
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A reflection on English language accents in Britain and elsewhere.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, CKMO, and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 21, 2009
  • Length: 29:58
  • Purchases: 3
MASTERING YOUR DREAMS
From: The Tibet Connection
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Julie Adler, producer for The Tibet Connection talks to Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche about the Tibetan tradition of dream yoga. What is it and why is i...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2009
  • Length: 06:16
Iraqi Student Project
From: World Vision Report
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Syria is home to more than a million Iraqi refugees. Most of them live in the capital city, Damascus. Those who’ve finished high school face a ch...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2009
  • Length: 04:39
Gender in Azerbaijan
From: Carla Seidl
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Local perspectives on gender and the rights and role of women in Azerbaijan

  • Added: Nov 05, 2008
  • Length: 21:47
Audio Postcard from Azerbaijan
From: Carla Seidl
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Sound collage from a small village in the north of Azerbaijan

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Nov 04, 2008
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 2
Learning from Dakar's School of the Road
From: Emma Jacobs
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Amayatou Mbaye, unable to read or write French until age 14, has led a school for nearly 30 years to bring education to the street

Bought by WRVO Public Media and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jul 04, 2008
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 2
Animals of Australia take a Hold
From: Ray Gard
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A Behind the scenes look at the Australian animals associated with the National Aquarium in Baltimore.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2007
  • Length: 09:55
Guatemala's Bilingual-intercultural education aims to keep indigenous girls and boys in school
From: UNICEF
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This Story is Free! English and Spanish versions available. Guatemalan indigenous children in the forefront with Bilingual-Intercultural Education

  • Added: Sep 04, 2007
  • Length: 08:42
Maasai Education
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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After generations of resistance, the Maasai of Kenya are looking to education as a way to keep their culture from dying.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Apr 11, 2007
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 1
Winnie Farao: A Success Story for Girls' Education in Zimbabwe
From: UNICEF
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This Story is free! Winnie Farao, a champion of girls' education who struggled to get an education herself, in Zimbabwe, tells her story

  • Added: Nov 26, 2006
  • Length: 04:48
Education For Change
From: Seattle Globalist
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A Visit to the Pardada Pardadi Girls' Vocational School in rural Uttar Pradesh, India

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Aug 12, 2006
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Fairbridge Farm School
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Four elderly Dutch people remember how as children recently liberated from the POW camps in Indonesia, they regained their childhood when they wer...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 12, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Welsh Renaissance
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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Languages around the world are disappearing at an unprecedented rate. But Welsh is making a comeback, and children are leading the way. Jon Mille...

Bought by Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland


  • Added: Jul 04, 2006
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
National Aquarium in Baltimore
From: Ray Gard
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Australian River Gorge Exhibit

  • Added: Jan 24, 2006
  • Length: 06:49
Vision of Palate
From: Rachel Bonham Carter
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At an herb tasting workshop in New York for people with visual disabilities, Indian chef Vikas Khanna tells of a life-changing accident that sharpe...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 19, 2005
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Keeping the Peace
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Interviews with three Dutch soldiers sent to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban and also the musings of a photographer and a film maker who ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
How much longer will the bell toll.
From: David Barasoain
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A look at the tradition of bell ringing in England.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2004
  • Length: 06:45