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The Big Ponder #6: The Flag
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In both Germany and the U.S., the flag can be divisive, eliciting pride in some and unease in others. From patriotism to protest, Jocelyn Robinson ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Deep: Rising Sea Levels and Corporate Control of Water (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this episode of Making Contact, we look at the privatization of our earth’s most precious resource – water. People around the world have been or...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
Memes with Force: Transforming the Political Imaginary
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In “Memes with Force,” producer Bella Bravo, speaks with Adrian Wohlleben and Paul Torino, Americans who contributed to the gilets jaunes at its ou...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
A Fisherman goes to Brussels
From: Katz Laszlo
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An artesanal fisherman from a small Catalan village ends up shaping EU fishing law.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2020
  • Length: 26:13
The Writing on the Wall
From: Israel Story
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For everything the West Bank barrier represents to people on both sides, it’s easy to forget that it is an actual physical structure. And as Joel S...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 26, 2019
  • Length: 17:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #28: Exploding Rents in San Francisco and in Berlin
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Rents in San Francisco have exploded in recent years; by now, the metropolis in Northern California has overtaken New York as the most expensive ci...

  • Added: May 15, 2019
  • Length: 31:54
Life on the Line
From: Chloe Williams
Caption: When you drive in from the south, a road sign announces that both Canada and Derby Line are four miles away., Credit: Chloe Williams
The story of a small town split by the border

  • Added: Feb 08, 2019
  • Length: 19:49
Life of the Law #127 UGANDA: Pt 2 - Escape
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Northern Uganda
"I escaped because of my friend. The three of us started planning while we were in south Sudan." Beatrice Ocwee Reporter Gladys Oroma continues ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 44:12
EP 5 — The Call for a New Economy
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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In this episode, we explore a number of different institutions, organizations, and individuals who are breaking ground in working towards building ...

Bought by KUNM and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 56:00
  • Purchases: 2
EP 3 — Betrayal and Solidarity in Greece
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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In 2015, Greece held a referendum to free itself from a debt crisis. We traveled to Athens to bring you an on-the-ground exploration of the afterma...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
EP 2.2 — Welcome to Frome: A Town Divided
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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Part 2 of an in-depth documentary series using the small town of Frome, UK as a microcosm for political, social, and economic successes and challen...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 1
EP 2.1 — Welcome to Frome: This is What the New Economy Looks Like
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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Part 1 of an in-depth documentary series using the small town of Frome, UK as a microcosm for political, social, and economic successes and challen...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 57:07
  • Purchases: 1
Where Do We Go From Here?
From: Hebah Fisher
Series: Kerning Cultures
Caption: Protests at Philadelphia Airport against Trump's immigration ban, Credit: Jacqueline M. Sofia
A look at Trump's US travel ban and its effects.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 24:13
  • Purchases: 1
#5: Munir, News Face and Oranges
From: Nadia Abuelezam
Series: Palestinians Podcast
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We hear from Munir Jirmanus, a physicist near Boston, MA about his multiple experiences and encounters with the concept of "home." Munir tells a nu...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 26:19
Chamizal: A Town Between Two Borders
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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For more than a century, the Rio Grande has been the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But rivers can move.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 2
End of the DIal
From: Garth Mullins
Caption: Banner , Credit: Garth Mullins
Radio is dead. Or so we are told. Video was supposed to have killed the radio star. Is the internet going to finish It off? International broadcast...

Bought by KQED, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and global24radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Modi the Magnificent
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Boy in Modi mask
Sandip Roy takes in the theater of Modi's first large scale political rally in New Delhi.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Permission to Speak: Ex-Political Prisoners in Burma
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. On this edition, we...

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Permission to Speak
From: Anna Sussman
Caption: Former Political Prisoner Win Maw plays a guitar he made in prison
As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. In this story, eigh...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, KALW, KUNM, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Generation Putin - Hour Special
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
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"Generation Putin" is an hourlong special on young people and politics in the former Soviet Union. Embeddable on SoundCloud, too.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City, WGBH Radio Boston, KVSC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 55
Bahrain: Desert Island Risks...
From: Miranda Diboll
Caption: Interviewing at Pearl Roundabout 20th February 2011
In 'Bahrain: Desert Island Risks', Former expatriate Miranda Diboll took advantage of her housewife visa status in the country and interviewed prot...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 09:59
Luis' Story: Immigration and the Mexican Election
From: KCRW
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Luis is an undocumented teenager living in Los Angeles. With the Mexican election looming, he decided to find out why he should care. He turns to ...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2012
  • Length: 07:43
Episode 1: Occupy London
From: James Shield
Series: What's the Big idea?
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December 2011: a hundred Occupy protesters have been camping out in the centre of London's financial district for 2 months. Who are they? Do they a...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 1
Governing the Occupation
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Dispatches from Occupy Maine's consensus process

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 2
Unlikely Connections
From: War News Radio
Caption: Protesters at the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York.
News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 59:02