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This week, we hear more from Chantal, who tells us about her time detained in France in December. We also cover breaking news on hunger strikes in ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:34
This week,we hear a statement regarding a hunger strike that took place in France this month. On January 8th, detainees at the same immigration ret...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:28
In this episode, we read a statement by Keith Lamar, also known as Bomani Shakur, who just had his execution date set. In his statement, Keith wra...
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 29:15
A generation ago, the dream of owning a bicycle was one shared by a vast number of American kids. While the explosion of competitors like video gam...
- Added: Aug 14, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Bob Kustra talks with Lindsey Hilsum about her book "In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin"
- Added: Jul 25, 2019
- Length: 30:00
An Interview with Deborah Campbell about her Investigative Non-Fiction Book "A Disappearance in Damascus"
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 30:01
This week on the show: What's changed in the textile industry five years after the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh ? --- Women in Poland take to...
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 30:00
If you’re listening to this broadcast, the chances are you can get clean drinking water right from your kitchen sink. But much of the world’s popul...
Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Jul 22, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
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
How do you convince the conservative men of Afghanistan to get behind girls' education?
This is the story of one determined Afghan woman who seems...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 22:31
- Purchases: 1
Best known for her books about the joys of life in Italy, Frances Mayes has published a new memoir. But this time, she takes her readers back to he...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKRN
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 3
In Sudan, where my family is from, there is an ancient beauty ritual that married women perform called dukhan. It’s like a sauna, but with smoke.
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- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 14:52
The U.S. State Department has estimated that 1 million children each year are exploited by the global sex industry. Through a new novel, one author...
Bought by KENW and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
In Bellevue, Washington a group of women meet once a month to discuss their cultural differences and similarities. The conversations are transformi...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 08:43
- Purchases: 1
We look back at the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 10 years later. For Iraqis, for the US military, and for the anti-war movement: how have things changed,...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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 KKRN
- Added: Jun 30, 2011
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
If you get sick in southern Sudan your chances of dying escalate. Health care is a rare thing in that part of the world.
This week, the World Vis...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: May 26, 2011
- Length: 01:50:25
- Purchases: 1
