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Sole Food
From: Israel Story
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For some people, such as Tali Aronsky, life is a meal. So how can chicken drumsticks, kubeh soup, hard boiled eggs, lamb biryani and lahme bi ajeen...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2022
  • Length: 17:09
Poet Valzhyna Mort Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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In part one of this interview, Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort reads from her early books, including FACTORY OF TEARS, in both English and Belarusian...

Bought by WNJR and WJCU


  • Added: Mar 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Ponder #21: Community
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Community is the story of our lives. It is who we are, who we have been, and who we hope to become. Melissa Gerr visits Jewish congregations in Bal...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:19
  • Purchases: 1
Poet Valzhyna Mort Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Today's classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features poet Valzhyna Mort, whose work gives insight into her native country, Belarus. She shares poetry fr...

Bought by WRKF, WNJR, and WJCU


  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Women Lead On Screen: Helen Clark & Gaylene Preston
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Women's leadership on the screen, in the streets and on the world stage. This week, New Zealand's former prime minister, Helen Clark and filmmaker ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ramadan-Intending to Fast
From: kim fox
Series: Ehky Ya Masr Podcast - Ramadan Series
Caption: Ehky Ya Masr Ramadan Series logo, Credit: Heba Fouad
This audio feature is produced by Nour Ibrahim as she attempts to go on an Islamic fast.

Bought by KJZZ


  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
Just Like Family
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Alex Tizon recently wrote about his family’s slave, Lola. Some praise Alex TIzon for his courage in confronting a dark chapter in his family’s hist...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sri Lanka's War Widows and the Road to Reconciliation
From: Adam Bemma
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Sri Lanka's civil war lasted 26 years. It cost the lives of an estimated 100,000 people and devastated the north and east of the island nation. In ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:38
Ann Brooks on Fulbright ON
From: Daris Hale
Series: Fulbright On
Caption: Ann Brooks
Ann Brooks, Prof. of Education at Texas State University, speaks about her Fulbright experiences in Cambodia.

  • Added: Apr 21, 2016
  • Length: 13:09
Kupatia
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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High School Senior, Eavan Burke, had a life changing experience on the tea plantations of Kenya, Africa. She decided to aid to the workers by creat...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
Miss America isn't fair enough… for Indians
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The fixation with being of 'fair' complexion would hurt Miss Davuluri - in India.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Underground Trade Part 6: Trading in Shame
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
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Phillip Martin travels to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to the home of a man whose 19-year old daughter was just rescued from a brothel in China. The ...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 5
Caribbean-American writer Jamaica Kincaid
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid talks about the influence of her birthplace, the Caribbean island of Antigua, on her use of language and story telling, even though...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 1
India's Shifting Gender Roles: One Girl's Tale
From: Rhitu Chatterjee
Caption: Sarita Meena is 12 years old. She lives in a remote village in northwestern India and is part of the first generation of girls in the village to go to school and have aspirations of economic independence. , Credit: Priyanka Pacahuli
India has come under close scrutiny lately for its poor treatment of women and girls. Yet, this is a time when a growing number of women are enjoyi...

Bought by KSFR, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 11:03
  • Purchases: 7
China's One Child Policy: Couples struggle to find the loopholes
From: Jennifer Dunn
Series: China's One Child Policy: Stories of Struggles with its Unintended Consequences
Caption: A proud grandmother shows of her grandson in Southern China
Pressed by paternal grandparents to have a boy, couples in China engage in creative ways of tricking the system and having a son without openly vio...

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 2
Women Writers and Community
From: New Letters on the Air
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In this special anthology, we explore how women writers foster community across boundaries. Novelist Lisa See shares stories about Chinese women wr...

Bought by WRKF and WJCU


  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
A NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE NEVER SEEN BEFORE: DR. HELEN CALDICOTT
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Dr. Helen Caldicott describes how the nuclear disasters that began in Japan on March 11, 2011, with the massive 9.0 point earthquake and resulting ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Lost Boyfriend (A Postcard from Mexico)
From: Jay Allison
Series: Stories From Carmen
Caption: Carmen Delzell c. 2000
Carmen Delzell tells about how her boyfriend left her Saltillo, the town where she's living in Mexico. She looks for him, but can't find him, even...

Bought by KUOW, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 3
Bridget Ramasodi (South Africa's Promise)
From: My Lens Media
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Bridgette had to leave her home, South Africa in 1991, during one of the most dynamic periods in that nation’s history. She left just one year afte...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2010
  • Length: 29:24
Inside Islam - Women and Shari'a (:20 Promo)
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
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Preview "Inside Islam," a new series from the producers of "Here on Earth." In this edition: Who speaks for Muslim women? You’ve probably heard ...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2009
  • Length: :20
Inside Islam - Women and Shari'a (Billboard)
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
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Preview "Inside Islam," a new series from the producers of "Here on Earth." In this edition: Who speaks for Muslim women? You’ve probably heard ...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2009
  • Length: 01:00
Inside Islam - Women and Shari'a (Full Program)
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
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Preview "Inside Islam," a new series from the producers of "Here on Earth." In this edition: Who speaks for Muslim women? You’ve probably heard ...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2009
  • Length: 52:35
International Women's Day, Los Angeles
From: Leslie Griffin
Series: Los Angeles features
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Hundreds rallied in West Los Angeles in support of International Women's Day.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 03:42
The Street of the Cauldron Makers
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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A well-known Turkish novelist confronts her country's modern history on a nondescript street in Istanbul.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Apr 10, 2007
  • Length: 13:26
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: A Life of Ashes: Widows in India
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A personal journey of an Indian born producer of a widow to look at the situation of widows in India.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, KXOT Public Radio, and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4