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The Best Burger in the World?
From: Kieron Yates
Caption: Burgers, Credit: Kieron Yates
Since November 2011 Kristin Frederick has been selling handmade burgers from her American-style food truck on the streets of Paris. With an emphasi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 3
Midwest Road Trip (5 Part Series)
From: Changing Gears
Series: Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt
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Changing Gears reporters spent a week on the road, traveling to places throughout the Midwest where local economies and town cultures revolve aroun...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2011
  • Length: 20:12
Freeway Removal Goes Mainstream: A Survey of Projects
From: Changing Gears
Series: Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt
Caption: Rincon Park and Cupid's Span in the Embarcadero. , Credit: Dewet. Used under GNU Free Documentation License.
How did you get to work this morning? Did you take a freeway into a city? What if it weren’t there? It’s a distinct possibility. Half a century aft...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 04:04
WVR Show 382 - Mexico Special (Half hour to air May 7, 2011)
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour
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Spend a half-hour in Mexico this week without ever leaving home. It's all on The World Vision Report. From immigration issues to a plate full of ta...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
Walking Home: An Interview with Laura Milkins
From: Aengus Anderson
Caption: Camera on head, Laura Milkins walks across Tucson, AZ, Credit: Tom Willette
Laura Milkins is walking from Tucson, Arizona to Grand Rapids, Michigan—with a streaming webcam attached to her head. Milkins is a performance art...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
New Delhi Tour Guides
From: World Vision Report
Series: Stories from the World Vision Report
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We all know how easy it is to take for granted those things we’ve grown up around. But imagine growing up in the midst of historical monuments 700...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 05:09
WVR - Show 342 (Half Hour) - Vacation Getaway Special
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour
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Summer tourism with a twist is the theme this week on the World Vision Report. In Nepal, we follow a street vendor who sells an exotic musical ins...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
WVR - Show 342 (One Hour) - Vacation Getaway Special
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly One Hour
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Summer tourism with a twist is the theme this week on the World Vision Report. In Nepal, we follow a street vendor who sells an exotic musical ins...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUER, KRCB 104.9, Radio Catskill, KBYS 88.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
Crawford Texas After the Bush Years
From: KUT
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Crawford, Texas became the adopted home of George W. Bush during his presidency. But the small town west of Waco has undergone some big changes si...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 03:25
Albergheria Tour
From: World Vision Report
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At the beginning of the 20th century, widespread poverty forced more than one million Sicilians to leave the island and immigrate to the United Sta...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 1
Relearning Trust
From: World Vision Report
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There’s a new form of traveling inexpensively that’s emerged in recent years. Any adventurous tourist can “couch-surf.” It gives travelers the ch...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Dayton Train Transportation
From: Joe Sampson
Caption: John Kurzawa and Charlotte Perko, University of Dayton seniors
There was a time when trains moved millions of Americans everyday. But as cars and airplanes became more popular, train travel slowed. But that may...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2010
  • Length: 02:45
Creative Commutes
From: David Schultz
Caption: Slugging at the Pentagon is just one of the ways people in the Washington region develop their own methods of avoiding traffic-clogged highways., Credit: David Schultz/WAMU
Traffic congestion in the D.C. region is at an all-time high. That's forced many to get creative with their commutes.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2010
  • Length: 06:03
Helping Hand
From: World Vision Report
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Reporters in the field rely to a great extent on self-reliance. But when the chips are down, sometimes you just need a helping hand, as Will Evere...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2010
  • Length: 03:24
Tale of Two Tribes
From: World Vision Report
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Conservationist Bill Powers worked for five years protecting the rain forest in the Amazon. He saw first hand how global economic conditions affec...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2009
  • Length: 03:37
Japan Confidential
From: NPR Intern Edition
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One cub reporter. One murderous, pet-store owning couple. A bunch of angry mobsters. One big, creepy mess.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 1
I-40 Rock Slide Causes Holiday Slump for Tourist Towns
From: NPR Economic Training Project
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Thanksgiving weekend is usually a big one for tourist towns in the North Carolina mountains. But the rock slide that has shut down I-40 is hurting...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2009
  • Length: 01:55
Jumping Parties: Principles or Pragmatism
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Senator Specter is now a Democrat. Was his decision to switch parties principled, pragmatic, or just expedient?

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
Route 66 business owners keep the Mother Road alive
From: Jordan Nelson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A new crop of Route 66 business owners give hope of a new life for America's favorite road.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2009
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 1
Festival Economy
From: Emilie Ritter Saunders
Caption: Uptown Butte, MT, Credit: Emilie Ritter
National Folk Festival brings millions to Montana

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Aug 20, 2009
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
Ranch Economy
From: Emilie Ritter Saunders
Caption: Rocking Z Ranch, Credit: Emilie Ritter
In the last century the American West ranch economy has drastically changed.

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2009
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1