All Pieces for Rachel Louise Snyder

 
Kazakhstan -- With this horse, I thee wed...
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
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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 Prairie Public, The Story, and HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:56
  • Purchases: 3
England: What do bell ringers and astronauts have in common?
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
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This week, the Global Guru ventures waaaaaayyyy up into the bell towers of an English church to learn just how mathematical -- and dangerous -- bel...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, New Hampshire Public Radio, Public Radio Remix, and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 09, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:59
  • Purchases: 4
Iran's Longest Night
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
Caption: Rice Flour Cookies
This week the Global Guru stays up all night for the winter solstice in Iran, where acclaimed cookbook author, Najmieh Batmanglij, leads us into th...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 20, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:57
  • Purchases: 1
Dancing the Sicilian Tarantella
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
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This week the Global Guru explores the rural Sicilian cure for spider bites. Put on your dancing shoes!

Bought by WTIP, HCC Radio The Dragon, Public Radio Remix, and KUT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Malian Griot
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
Caption: Papa Susso
This week the Global Guru goes to Mali to learn the art of a griot, where storyteller, historian, political advisor, detective and genealogist are ...

Bought by WTIP and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:00
  • Purchases: 2
India's Karni Mata Temple
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
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This week's Global Guru visits a temple in India where an unlikely rodent reigns supreme

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and WTIP


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:59
  • Purchases: 2
Making or Breaking a Business Deal in China -- with cigarettes
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
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The writer Peter Hessler decodes the hidden messages of Chinese cigarettes in business deals.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WBEZ, and WTIP


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:02
  • Purchases: 3
East Timor's Umaluliks
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
Caption: Umalulik in Timor Leste
This week the Global Guru learns how to negotiate land deals, family disputes, wedding arrangements, cattle sales and other deals in Timor Leste.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:59
  • Purchases: 1
How do you sabrage in France?
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
Caption: Champagne Bottles Post-Sabrage, Credit: Jane Alexander
This week we sharpen our swords in the Champagne region of France to learn how the French sabrage!

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:00
  • Purchases: 3
How did Rwanda become the world's cleanest developing country?
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
Caption: Umaganda 2009 with Rwandans and US Embassy personnel, Credit: US Embassy -- Kigali
Today we go to Rwanda to see how the population spends the last Saturday of every month. And how those Saturdays have created surprising moments of...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:53
  • Purchases: 2
The Curious Cooking Zones of an English Aga
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
Caption: How the heck do you cook on this thing?
The Global Guru production team got hardly any burns at all in the making of our latest episode. This week we travel to England to learn to cook th...

Bought by WTIP, HCC Radio The Dragon, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Sep 06, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:58
  • Purchases: 3
Dissecting Afghanistan's Favorite Sport
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
Caption: Buzkashi in Kabul
In this moment of World Cup frenzy, the Global Guru takes us to Afghanistan, where we learn about buzkashi -- the country's favorite sport.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 19, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Unlikely Story of A Thousand-Year-Old Instrument in Cambodia
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
Caption: Memm at Angkor Wat, Credit: Cambodia Living Arts
A thousand years ago, the image of a strange instrument was carved into the walls of Angkor Wat. It had a lizard scale on one end, attached to a so...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:56
  • Purchases: 2
Take Me Out to the Japanese Ballgame
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
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This week the Global Guru uncovers the rules behind Japanese baseball. Accidentally smack the matter with the ball? You better practice your bowing...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WTIP, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:58
  • Purchases: 3
Reading Russian Fortunes
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
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You're Russian and your son's about to get married. But what if the girl can't be trusted? What if your son's marriage is doomed? Or worse, what if...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 01, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:03
  • Purchases: 3
The Hidden Messages in Zulu Beadwork
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
Caption: A Zulu girl wears her beadwork, Credit: Hlengi We Dube
You're fourteen, and you're in love with a boy in the next village. How do you tell him? Well, you bead it of course. This week's Global Guru uncov...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:08
  • Purchases: 2
The Familial Allure of Mexican Botaneros
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
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Unique to the state of Colima, this week's Global Guru explores the familial vaudevillian antics of a Mexican botanero through the eyes of a charmi...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:53
  • Purchases: 2
Sweden's Curious Christmas
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
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What's Donald Duck got to do with a Swedish Christmas?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, WTIP, KUT, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 05, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:56
  • Purchases: 5
Hopi Katsinas
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
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How do the Hopi bring rain to the desert?

Bought by WTIP, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: May 05, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:04
  • Purchases: 3
Iceland-What IS that smell?
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
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Today, the Global Guru ventures into the Viking's culinary history by looking at the delicacy known as hakarl -- or rotten shark.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WTIP, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 13, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:50
  • Purchases: 3

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