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Dan Sinykin is a writer and frequent contributor of essays and book reviews to Northern Community Radio. In "Christmas In A Swamp" Sinykin recounts...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 05:32
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By Nancy Alvarez.
I can’t stop thinking about Malala Yusafzay, the young girl who was shot in the head in Pakistan because she spoke out abo...
- Added: Dec 14, 2012
- Length: 07:44
2013 Lead Show track from Mikhail Tank's Darksoul Theatre
Written, performed and produced by Mikhail Tank
Published by Prince of Darkness, BMI
Stu...
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 04:23
In May 2012, over 8000 people took part in the Great Limerick Run in south west Ireland. Alison Turner ran the 6 mile race to raise funds for char...
- Added: Jul 20, 2012
- Length: 13:31
Renowned Indian author Arundhati Roy takes us deep into the revolutionary-filled jungles of India, as she reads excerpts from her new book ‘Walking...
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Poet Natalie Richardson, 16, is a junior at Oak Park and River Forest High School. This is her second year participating in Louder Than a Bomb. Eg...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:36
Another true story told live in London. Joanna LOVES Dallas, so when Larry Hagman (JR) visits a nearby TV studio, Jo does everything in her power t...
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- Added: Jan 09, 2012
- Length: 06:44
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Electronic Intifada founder Ali Abunimah says a global movement against Israeli government policy is breaking through. On this edition, Abunimah ex...
- Added: Nov 08, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Former National Security Advisor James Jones speaks to the Press Club about challenges facing the United States and the recent military mission tha...
- Added: May 21, 2011
- Length: 53:59
Long before most Americans had heard of a place called Fukushima, commentator Graham Shelby spent three years teaching English there. He's been wa...
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
Writer and radio commentator Carol Spindel visited the Ivory Coast last November as the country took a step towards democracy with a historic elect...
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 59:01
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...
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- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 04:08
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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...
Bought by KUT and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 2
Personal encounters in homes and streets of various African towns. I first went to Africa feeling like a child, everything new and different, but s...
- Added: Nov 01, 2010
- Length: 06:43
- Purchases: 2
Visit countries where the standard of living is higher than ours
- Added: Aug 18, 2010
- Length: 03:50
- Added: Jul 22, 2010
- Length: :46
- Purchases: 1
For fourteen year-old Inonge Sitali, a radio dialogue with her peers about the 2010 FIFA World Cup is an opportunity for her to talk about gender i...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2010
- Length: 02:51
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Read Mark Twain's English translation of The Jumping Frog
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- Added: Jun 21, 2010
- Length: 02:12
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Melting pot, or salad bowl? How do we maintain our identity?
- Added: Mar 20, 2010
- Length: 12:57
Reporter Amelia de Sousa lost friends and co-workers in Haiti’s earthquake. Now she works in the UN compound near the airport cranking out stories...
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- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 06:58
- Purchases: 1
A Chinese plane filled with yak dung crashed in Tibet this morning.
- Added: Dec 27, 2009
- Length: :21
John’s girlfriend tells him that he will have a headache if he drinks any more white wine. So John cries out, “Waiter, a bottle of red wine."
- Added: Dec 23, 2009
- Length: 01:32
It was 20 years ago this month the Berlin Wall finally fell. But I still recall the incredibly intense atmosphere I witnessed in the days just afte...
- Added: Nov 01, 2009
- Length: 03:50
Involve yourself in an authentic human drama and put it in a book.
- Added: Aug 20, 2009
- Length: 02:07
The Feria de Mataderos in Buenos Aires is the biggest cattle market in the world. Monday through Thursday 45,000 head of cattle pass though it's p...
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- Added: Aug 06, 2009
- Length: 10:29
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