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Latitude News Podcast #2 - Two Nations, Under Cod
From: Latitude News
Caption: You bet this story is about fish.
American cod fishermen are broke. Norwegian cod fishermen make $100,000/year. What's up with that?

Bought by KUOW and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 2
Latitude News Podcast #1 - Uganda, U.S. Exporting Anti-Gay Pressure
From: Latitude News
Caption: Ugandan activists holds placards and chant slogans during an anti-homosexuality protest rally in the industrial city of Jinja, Uganda, February 15, 2010., Credit: (REUTERS/James Akena)
Meet the American pastor being sued for persecuting gay Ugandans.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 16:57
  • Purchases: 1
Maasai warrior elephant hunt
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
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I'm sitting in a landrover with 46 year old Soila Sayialel - the car is surrounded by over 50 docile elephants grazing in Amboseli National Park. I...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2012
  • Length: 14:44
Seeking Justice and Police Accountability in Jamaica (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jason Smith Candlelight Vigil, Credit: Madeleine Bair
On the second anniversary of the 2010 uprisings, this special documentary looks at police violence in Jamaica. In May 2010 a government crackdown l...

  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Inside the Syrian Uprising
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As the popular uprising against the Syrian government continues, reporter Reese Erlich is one of the few foreign reporters who got into Syria to in...

Bought by WRIR and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Silent and Unseen: Secret Agent in the Warsaw Uprising
From: Dave McGuire
Caption: Stefan Baluk during WWII, Credit: Stefan Baluk
A 97 year-old veteran of the Warsaw Uprising recounts parachuting into occupied Poland and fighting in a last-ditch attempt to re-take his home fro...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2011
  • Length: 14:19
Amnesty At 50
From: Neil Gardner
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Amnesty has recently attracted criticism, sometimes from those who have been its most committed activists.  John Tusa asks if it has lost its way a...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 36:34
Afghanistan's Other War
From: Vermont Public Radio
Caption: An Afghanistan National Police trainee., Credit: Steve Zind
A half-hour documentary that examines the challenging counter-insurgency mission of the National Guard and how the Guard is training the Afghan Pol...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KSFR, and Maine Public Broadcasting Network


  • Added: Dec 17, 2010
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Kennedy and the Peace Corps: Idealism on the Ground
From: Lester Graham
Caption: Kennedy challenging university students to serve the Third World., Credit: University of Michigan
This compelling documentary explains how a John F. Kennedy challenge to college students ultimately became the Peace Corps. It explores Kennedy's...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WYSO, Iowa Public Radio, WPSU-FM, KUOW and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 53:25
  • Purchases: 11
Cracking the Coup in Honduras
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Independent producer Chris Thomas takes us to the streets of Honduras to look at the roots of a long-standing conflict between a powerful oligarchy...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
Mexico '68: A Movement, A Massacre and the 40-Yr Search for the Truth
From: Radio Diaries
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In the summer of 1968, students in Mexico began to challenge the country's authoritarian government. But the movement was short-lived, lasting less...

Bought by KUT, KCRW, Public Radio Remix, Remix Radio, PRX to iTunes and more


  • Added: Jul 10, 2009
  • Length: 22:25
  • Purchases: 6
Americans investing in Africa
From: National Black Programming Consortium
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Investing in Africa, tips..

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 09:22
India Rising, program four: Can It All Hang Together?
From: BBC
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This landmark series explores what globalisation and a decade of economic reforms have done to India and the way that it sees itself. In the fourth...

Bought by KFAI


  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 22:49
  • Purchases: 1
India Rising, program two: Inside India's Heart of Darkness
From: BBC
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This landmark series explores what globalisation and a decade of economic reforms have done to India and the way that it sees itself. In the seconf...

Bought by KFAI


  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 23:38
  • Purchases: 1
India Rising, program one: New Wealth
From: BBC
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This landmark series produced by the BBC World Service explores the what globalisation and a decade of economic reforms have done to India and the ...

Bought by KFAI


  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 23:49
  • Purchases: 1
India Rising, program five: Debate
From: BBC
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This landmark series explores the what globalisation and a decade of economic reforms have done to India and the way that it sees itself. The concl...

Bought by KFAI


  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 22:02
  • Purchases: 1
Return to Sarajevo, Part Two
From: BBC
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More than a decade after a peace agreement was reached to end Bosnia's bitter war, the BBC's Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to find out what kind...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 22:39
  • Purchases: 1
Return to Sarajevo, Part One
From: BBC
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More than a decade after a peace agreement was reached to end Bosnia's bitter war, the BBC's Allan Little returns to Sarajevo to find out if its pe...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2006
  • Length: 22:31
  • Purchases: 2
Rembrandt Anniversary Special
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
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Rembrandt?s image through the ages, and interviews with a copyist, a collector, and curators of Rembrandt , marking the 400th anniversary of the p...

Bought by WFUV, KXOT Public Radio, WUIS, WCAI / WNAN, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Jun 20, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
RN Documentary: Rembrandt: Portraits of the Artist
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Rembrandt , as he has been seen and portrayed through the ages by admirers and critics, from his contemporaries to the present-day, in various coun...

Bought by KREV-LP and WYSO


  • Added: May 31, 2006
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 2
Foreign Priests in America (59 and 54 minute versions)
From: Charles Lane
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The Problems with importing priests as a stop gap to the priest shortage (59, 54, 29 minute versions)

Bought by KUNM and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 01:02:38
  • Purchases: 2
Looking for Democracy: Uganda: No-Party-Democracy
From: BBC
Series: Looking For Democracy
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Examining democracy in Uganda.

Bought by KUHB


  • Added: Nov 22, 2005
  • Length: 22:30
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: All But Gone - Last Chance to Save the Great Apes
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Anne Blair Gould asks why Chimpanzees, Gorillas and Orang Utans are expected to be extinct within the next 30 years.

Bought by KTNA, KVNF, and KFAI


  • Added: Sep 26, 2005
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 3
RN Documentary: Adams in Amsterdam Part 2 – Dearest of Friends
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Second in series of programs about John Adams’ 1780 trip to the Dutch Republic seeking support and recognition of the fledgling United States of Am...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
RN Documentary: Adams in Amsterdam Part 3 – The Two Republicks
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Third in series of programs about John Adams’ 1780 trip to the Dutch Republic seeking support and recognition of the fledgling United States of Ame...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 29:30