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This week on the show: How the pandemic is changing us -
The coronavirus pandemic has transformed regions and entire countries. In the US, peop...
Bought by WXDU and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Mar 04, 2021
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
IKEA makes alternative delicious foods for the future.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 02:30
Sample BBC Reporting from the 1990s
- Added: Aug 01, 2018
- Length: 06:24
In Kolkata Starbucks is not just coffee, it’s clearly cachet.
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Doug Miles talks with James Rickards author The Road To Ruin The Global Elite's Secret Plan For the Next Financial Crisis.
- Added: Dec 13, 2016
- Length: 19:15
Angela Maria Kelley, of the Center for American Progress, talks frankly about the difficult practical and ethical questions surrounding U.S. immigr...
- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 20:40
Instead of taking a leadership role, U.S. politicians merely "kicked the can down the road" to resolve the debt ceiling crisis, kicking off a U.S. ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 02:00
In a new series, “Stuff that Works” we look at good ideas that solve a specific problem. All across West Africa, you can buy water on the street. ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WBEZ
- Added: Sep 24, 2010
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 3
If you can’t read or write, how can you sign important documents or cash your paycheck? In Afghanistan, you get a signet ring. Engravers carve r...
- Added: Aug 27, 2010
- Length: 02:57
Camels are critical in parts of Africa and the Middle East. If you want to buy one, they’re not cheap and haggling over the price is a long establ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2010
- Length: 02:24
You can’t turn on the TV or open the newspaper these days without seeing something about South Africa. That’s because the World Cup – the biggest ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2010
- Length: 04:35
Mexico City is, in many ways, an old-fashioned place. Vendors still ply neighborhood streets, issuing a variety of calls to lure customers from th...
- Added: Jun 04, 2010
- Length: 03:27
Tragedy. Hopelessness. Devastation. A lot of words have been used to describe Haiti after the earthquake, almost all of them negative. But Gran...
Bought by WBEZ, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 3
In Hong Kong's downtown financial district, it’s not the well-to-do bankers who earn the most respect. It’s the people who shine their shoes. The...
- Added: Mar 19, 2010
- Length: 02:10
Haiti is in the middle of a massive clean up effort. Piles of rubble from buildings that collapsed in the earthquake over a month ago are finally ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 03:55
Everyone’s heard of fortunetellers. But have you ever heard of fortune-telling parrots? You can find them in Pakistan…telling fortunes, and helpi...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
Cairo is one of the noisiest cities in the Middle East. There’s the non-stop traffic, the calls to prayer blasting through loudspeakers, and aggre...
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 03:30
Zimbabwe’s economic woes have driven many into self-employment. Some men have gone into the cart pusher business. As the country’s economy deteri...
- Added: Feb 05, 2010
- Length: 04:08
How do you buy a skyscraper? What are they worth and are they good value? For Americana, Matt Frei speaks to a man in Manhattan who deals in high r...
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 04:01
Despite recent violence, people in Pakistan are getting on with their lives and going about their daily business. Or their nightly business, if yo...
- Added: Oct 23, 2009
- Length: 05:26
The trial of the former President of Liberia resumed in The Hague last week. He is the first African leader to be tried before an international tr...
- Added: Jul 17, 2009
- Length: 03:29
The World Bank announced a few days ago it was funneling $22 million to Zimbabwe. That’s the first injection of capital to Zimbabwe from the World...
- Added: May 22, 2009
- Length: 02:59
David Brown explores the tension between the urban economic boom and the under developed rural areas of modern day India.
- Added: Mar 25, 2009
- Length: 11:56
- Purchases: 2
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Over the last 6 months, cars damaged by Hurricane Katrina and discarded by the U.S., have been ending up in Bolivia.
Bought by KRUA
- Added: Jan 13, 2009
- Length: 03:39
- Purchases: 1
