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Learning Immersion: Spain, Russia, and New York
From: Let's Travel! Radio
Caption: Study Abroad, Credit: Open Press Room
We continue our show on studying abroad with our guests from Fordham University and the New York Institute of Technology as they talk about their c...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2011
  • Length: 13:12
The Study Abroad Trend
From: Let's Travel! Radio
Caption: Study Abroad, Credit: Study Doctor
Join us for this week's show as we learn about the study-abroad experience with our very own Gina Ciliberto and special guest Dr. Ronald Méndez-Cla...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 10:18
Culion Island
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Culion Island is a remote chunk of land in the Philippines that once housed the world’s largest leper colony. At its peak, 16,000 patients lived t...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
Egypt Tourism
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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While other parts of the Arab world are in turmoil now, Egypt celebrates a new beginning. But many Egyptians remain out of work – especially in th...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KRUA


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
Holocaust Survivors
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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Egypt’s neighbor, Israel, is also facing protests about the rising price of bread, water, and gas. The labor movement is planning strikes and prot...

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 1
January's End
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Harrods' at Night
The end of January in London sees the Harrods' sale end, the world news and a new Taxi Driver on the road

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jan 28, 2011
  • Length: 09:28
  • Purchases: 1
Kazakhstan -- With this horse, I thee wed...
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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A girl. A boy. A horse. A chase. Listen as this week's Global Guru takes you inside the world of courtship in Kazakhstan...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, PRX Remix, KZYX, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 7
A Walk Through Wellington
From: WNJR
Series: WNJR in New Zealand 2011
Caption: NZ Broadcast
This sound composition depicts a walk through the multicultural capital of New Zealand, Wellington. It encompasses sounds commonly found in the di...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2011
  • Length: 02:06
A Letter, Returning
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Curley Dog Cafe, Credit: Walter Murch
There is always looking when returning to a place that is loved for memories sake as well as what it means to us today

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 09:14
  • Purchases: 1
England: What do bell ringers and astronauts have in common?
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week, the Global Guru ventures waaaaaayyyy up into the bell towers of an English church to learn just how mathematical -- and dangerous -- bel...

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


  • Added: Jan 09, 2011
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 5
Iran's Longest Night
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Rice Flour Cookies
This week the Global Guru stays up all night for the winter solstice in Iran, where acclaimed cookbook author, Najmieh Batmanglij, leads us into th...

Bought by KZYX and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 2
Malian Griot
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Papa Susso
This week the Global Guru goes to Mali to learn the art of a griot, where storyteller, historian, political advisor, detective and genealogist are ...

Bought by WABE, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
India's Karni Mata Temple
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week's Global Guru visits a temple in India where an unlikely rodent reigns supreme

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and WTIP


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
Modern Kenya Safari (4:37 or 3:45 versions)
From: Jake Warga
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Safari tourism in Africa is changing. Tracking down big game is still central, but more and more tourists are also involved with conservation and h...

Bought by KUT and KUT


  • Added: Dec 04, 2010
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 2
Postcards from Africa
From: Jake Warga
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Personal encounters in homes and streets of various African towns. I first went to Africa feeling like a child, everything new and different, but s...

Bought by KUT and KUT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2010
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 2
East Timor's Umaluliks
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Umalulik in Timor Leste
This week the Global Guru learns how to negotiate land deals, family disputes, wedding arrangements, cattle sales and other deals in Timor Leste.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
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
How did Rwanda become the world's cleanest developing country?
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Umaganda 2009 with Rwandans and US Embassy personnel, Credit: US Embassy -- Kigali
Today we go to Rwanda to see how the population spends the last Saturday of every month. And how those Saturdays have created surprising moments of...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 2
The Curious Cooking Zones of an English Aga
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: How the heck do you cook on this thing?
The Global Guru production team got hardly any burns at all in the making of our latest episode. This week we travel to England to learn to cook th...

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


  • Added: Sep 06, 2010
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 4
The Pakistani Art of Truck Decoration
From: Seattle Globalist
Caption: Truck Grille, Credit: Sarah Stuteville
Shipping is a big business in Pakistan. With new paved highways offering a fast track to Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, trucking is an importa...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 1
Parrot Fortune Teller
From: Seattle Globalist
Caption: Khan's Parrot, Credit: Alex Stonehill
People come to fortunetellers for answers and entertainment, but not all fortunetellers use a crystal ball. In Karachi, Pakistan, one street vendor...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 05:49
A Mind Can Be Malnourished
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Visit countries where the standard of living is higher than ours

  • Added: Aug 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:50
In Stride
From: Jesse Ricke
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A women's telling of a day in her life set to ambience and music. While working in Nicaragua a friend is seriously injured in a motorcycle acciden...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2010
  • Length: 05:00
Probando
From: Jesse Ricke
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This piece is made wholly of interviews and field recordings I captured while in Peru in the summer of 2010. The recordings are blended and produc...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 10:00
Stereotypes
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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When we travel to a foreign country, we often bring our assumptions with us. That’s what reporter Jina Moore did during a trip to the capitol of t...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:36

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