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Firoozeh in India
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Iranian-American writer Firoozeh Dumas' commentaries about her hyphenated life have aired on NPR. But that was a different America. While Firoozeh ...

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


  • Added: Feb 01, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cycling 101 for adults
From: Sarah Elzas
Caption: The instructor Jean-Jacques Sacquepey speaks to a group of beginners , Credit: Sarah Elzas
It is said that you never forget how to ride a bike. But what if you never learned in the first place?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 29, 2017
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 2
Birthplace of the UAE
From: Hebah Fisher
Series: Kerning Cultures
Caption: Pat Kennedy speaks with a patient, Al Ain. , Credit: Nancy Kennedy
The year is 1959, and one in every two babies are dying in childbirth.

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Dec 08, 2016
  • Length: 26:32
  • Purchases: 1
S1E1 Back to the Motherland
From: Naima Sakande
Series: Third Culture
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Home is a complicated concept - especially if you have a few of them. What does it feel like to not fit, in a place that you should call home?

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Nov 11, 2016
  • Length: 22:31
  • Purchases: 1
Ep. 13: Running the Boys' Club
From: The Story Exchange
Series: The Story Exchange
Caption: Melissa Austria, Founder of GotStyle
Toronto retailer Melissa Austria has created thriving menswear stores that appeal to guys who hate to shop but want to look good.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 11:44
Majd's Diary: Two Years in the Life of a Saudi Girl
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
Caption: Majd Abdulghani
Majd Abdulghani is a teenager living in Saudi Arabia, one of the most restrictive countries for women in the world. She wants to be a scientist. He...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 30:45
  • Purchases: 3
Novelist Kristin Hannah and “The Nightingale”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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It’s 1939 in southern France and World War II is taking over the lives of two sisters, Vianne and Isabelle. In this well-researched historical nove...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 1
Demographic Danger: A Look at Maternity Wards and Segregation in Israel
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Faces, Credit: Shaina Shealy
Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem was founded on a promise to serve all patients with the same, excellent care. This week, against the backdrop of mil...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
Donna Kukama on Unfinished Stories
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Donna Kukama
South African artist Donna Kukama is creating an unusual book project for the 32nd Sao Paulo Biennial.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 03:59
Dining For Women' Co-Founders Barbara Collins and Marsha Wallace
From: The Hangar Studios
Series: Sandi Klein's Conversations with Creative Women
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Barb Collins and Marsha Wallace, two amazing, inspirational and committed women. They are the co-founders of Dining for Women, the largest educati...

Bought by WCNY, CI Dolphin Radio, and 91.7 WHUS Storrs


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Alexis Okeowo, Foreign Correspondent
From: The Hangar Studios
Series: Sandi Klein's Conversations with Creative Women
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What's it like working as a foreign correspondent? You're about to find out. Alexis Okeowo spent a good part of her career in Nigeria, Uganda and ...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gemma Bulos: Turning A Drop Into A Wave
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Gemma Bulos
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
For Want of a Better Choice: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton
From: WFHB
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A new book, False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton, offers a detailed look at Hillary Clinton’s track record on welfare, Wall S...

Bought by WRGY


  • Added: May 31, 2016
  • Length: 59:37
  • Purchases: 1
Season 2: Better Life Bags#49
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Two: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
Caption: Rebecca Smith
Season 2 - Better Life Bags Social Enterprise Romy interviews Rebecca Smith with Better Life Bags in Hamtramck of Detroit. Hear the incredible st...

  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 35:32
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
"Hijab Diaries"
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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A new podcast new to WFHB

  • Added: Apr 07, 2016
  • Length: 09:41
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
Episode 4: Razia's Way, One School's Fight for Afghanistan's Girls
From: The GroundTruth Project
Series: Season One: Foreverstan
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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
#1520 - Tastes of the Divine: Michelle Voss Roberts
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
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We explore the new field of comparative theology as we discuss Michelle Voss Roberts's award-winning new book, Tastes of the Divine: Hindu and Chri...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
Nicole Tung, Award Winning Photo-Journalist
From: The Hangar Studios
Series: Sandi Klein's Conversations with Creative Women
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Tahrir Square, the conflicts in Libya, and Syria, the refugee crisis in Europe. Award winning photo-journalist Nicole Tung has shared powerful, poi...

Bought by WCNY and CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Mar 14, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending March 18, 2016
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Indigenous Activist Berta Cáceres Slain Amid Honduras' Rising Political Vi...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Women Rising 30: International Slavery and Human Trafficking
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Women Rising Radio #30 profiles women fighting slavery, trafficking and forced labor globally.

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Never Too Young to Save Lives
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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At the mere age of 16, Jihana Mendu went on the adventure of a lifetime to Peru. While there to pursue her ambition of working in the medical field...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
Teodora Schipper (b.1944 in the Philippines)
From: SLB Radio
Series: Women's History Month
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Teodora Schipper (b. 1944 in the Philippines) reflects on her life based on this 2013 interview by 5th graders Addie and Scott of Winchester Thurst...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KGLP


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 2

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