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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
The UN has revised upwards its estimate of future population growth. The new medium variant for world population by the end of this century is 10....
- Added: May 11, 2011
- Length: 02:00
The last Royal Wedding was when Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles. Members of the Great British public, loyal to the late Diana, Princes...
- Added: Apr 18, 2011
- Length: 12:01
This week on Mountain West Voices: a profile of Canadian writer Angie Abdou (author of The Bone Cage and Anything Boys Can Do), and her new novel, ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Apr 05, 2011
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 3
International Women's Day is a time for women to acknowledge how women are discredited by others. And yes women too discredit women. All of this c...
- Added: Mar 09, 2011
- Length: 04:00
Anthropologist Margaret Willson witnessed harrowing violence and poverty while living in Brazil. She describes how violence and dance are often int...
- Added: Feb 25, 2011
- Length: 12:11
This hour we sit with Lydia Davis as she reads her beautifully honed, firecracker prose. She writes in the company of Montaigne, Emerson, Proust, B...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
A girl. A boy. A horse. A chase. Listen as this week's Global Guru takes you inside the world of courtship in Kazakhstan...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, PRX Remix, KZYX, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 02:56
- Purchases: 7
Is a successful career at odds with a successful relationship?
Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM
- Added: Jan 19, 2011
- Length: 12:34
- Purchases: 1
By the 1960, all the countries surrounding Cambodia were at war. But Cambodia had managed to avoid getting drawn into the Vietnam War. During that ...
- Added: Jan 07, 2011
- Length: 10:18
Carmen Delzell tells about Michoacan and the Day of the Dead and the monarch butterflies. Like all Carmen's pieces, it's very personal, but reache...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 3
Carmen Delzell writes about her travels in Mexico and one of her favorite enchanted cheap hotels, the Hotel Isabel "on the edge of time." This pie...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 2
Carmen Delzell with another lovely meditation on the mysteries of travel and her semi-magical, melancholy life in Mexico. Like all these pieces it...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 2
In this essay, Carmen Delzell tells how she initially left Texas and moved down to Mexico with no ability to speak Spanish and $600 cash from used ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 3
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...
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 3
In this 1999 essay, Carmen Delzell talks about smuggling toys and gifts across the US border into Mexico to give to the people in the village where...
Bought by KUT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 3
The Gaza Strip borders the Mediterranean Sea, and many people in Gaza fish. It’s a traditional line of work for Palestinians there – for men. But n...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 17, 2010
- Length: 05:04
- Purchases: 1
Afghanistan is a male dominated country. Women are often treated as little more than an object or possession. No education, no jobs, and abuse is c...
- Added: Dec 17, 2010
- Length: 28:00
Interview with Dr. Susanne Jalbert who works around the world promoting peace by enabling equitable business development.
- Added: Dec 12, 2010
- Length: 45:22
South Korea is considered to be fairly advanced in many ways, but traditional values remain strong. So if you’re single, and pregnant, you’re likel...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WBEZ
- Added: Dec 10, 2010
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 2
Carmen Delzell talks about what her life is like living in Mexico, how she's happier than ever, but in ways she never imagined. This essay was rec...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 2
Carmen Delzell gets of a bus in Texas at 4am. She's coming back from Mexico with $5.00 in her pocket. She puts her bags in a shopping cart and re...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 3
Women’s lib in Libya? Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi relies on female bodyguards for his personal protection. Some jokingly refer to them as Lara C...
- Added: Nov 19, 2010
- Length: 04:49
UNICEF recently launched the ‘Maisha' Zone Initiative to create an area free of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Kenya. In honor of this even...
- Added: Nov 01, 2010
- Length: 03:55
Girls and women in Nepal live in a culture that treats them as second-class citizens. But they have a very public way of expressing their displeas...
- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 05:00
