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The very word vacation has its roots in vacare or to be unoccupied. But in reality vacations are anything but unoccupied. Sandip recounts the woes ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Sometimes it takes leaving home to see it whole. Short form audio fiction, finalist in The Sarahs Very Very Short Short Stories contest 2016.
- Added: Mar 21, 2017
- Length: 02:20
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...
- Added: Nov 01, 2010
- Length: 06:43
- Purchases: 2
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
In an intimate meeting, the reporter comes face to face with the 95-year-old keeper of the family flame, himself a direct descendant of the 18th ce...
Bought by KUER, WBEZ, Here and Now, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 09, 2004
- Length: 04:48
- Purchases: 4
Ancient traditions and today's religious government foster tension among Iranians, expressed carefully in quiet conversations. (Fourth of five Parts)
Bought by KUER, Here and Now, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 09, 2004
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 3
The reporter sits his ancestral home and finds hospitable villagers and suspicious police. (Third of five Parts)
Bought by KUER, Here and Now, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 09, 2004
- Length: 04:28
- Purchases: 3
City life is a pastiche of old and new as we hear the call to prayer, the carpetsellers in the bazaar and the chaotic traffic on the streets - and ...
Bought by KUER, Here and Now, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 09, 2004
- Length: 04:52
- Purchases: 3
Even with family ties to this country and preparation, a reporter finds Tehran to be a foreign and intimidating place upon arrival. (First of five ...
Bought by KUER, Here and Now, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 09, 2004
- Length: 04:52
- Purchases: 3