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A speck of land in the South Atlantic, Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited island in the world.
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 01:49
Choro is a music of the people that can be found in Brazil’s bars and at barbecues. Band members of Regional de NY, a choro band from Brazil, the...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 04:05
Julian Kytasty is a world-renowned bandurist who's family and musical history can be traced from the Ukraine, through exile from Stalinist USSR, to...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 04:59
Step into the world of Alan Lomax, his archives, and his legacy - The Association of Cultural Equity. Featuring interviews with his daughter Anna ...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 05:38
We all know how sweet it is when our appetites are satisfied, but what's it like to be a satiator?
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 02:53
The ten most water-stressed countries in the world – gosh, it sounds like a bad Buzzfeed article - are all in the Middle East or North Africa. Yeme...
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 08:12
As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. On this edition, we...
- Added: May 02, 2013
- Length: 29:00
A short piece about a long anticipated Cinco de Mayo party. As it turned out, almost everybody at the party, including the hosts thought they were ...
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 04:12
A personal story from a growing demographic
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 15:09
In Bellevue, Washington a group of women meet once a month to discuss their cultural differences and similarities. The conversations are transformi...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 08:43
It is rare for an Israeli and a Palestinian to fall in love. There are physical barriers, as Israelis can’t enter Palestinian areas, and Palestinia...
- Added: Apr 13, 2013
- Length: 12:18
An investigation into the stuff that makes anything digital actually possible: rare earth minerals. Host Benjamen Walker uncovers the dark story be...
Bought by KUT and WCAI / WNAN
- Added: Apr 11, 2013
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
In this edition of WTIP's ongoing historical series, Moments in Time, producer Carah Thomas learns about an ancient style of timber framing from so...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 07:03
- Purchases: 1
This piece examines the tenuous state of relations between the United States and Pakistan.
It follows Montana Public Radio Reporter Dan Boyce on a ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 47:43
Most people know Sufism as the religion practiced by the whirling dervishes. But this mystical form of Islam has taken root in America, too.
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 06:41
This is a story of a 1940's child's journal, set against the backdrop of WWII, that records the play life of a group of boys reenacting war games i...
- Added: Mar 23, 2013
- Length: 52:58
Getting into the top engineering schools in India is statistically harder than breaking into Harvard. So hard that students study for two years in ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 06:22
- Purchases: 1
From: Free Speech Radio News
The small island nation, the Republic of Mauritius, marks the 45th anniversary of independence from British rule this week. But one group isn’t cel...
- Added: Mar 19, 2013
- Length: 06:11
As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. In this story, eigh...
Bought by KUNM and WCAI / WNAN
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
They and their husbands helped to form the 14th of June Movement, named for the 1959 organized uprising against the Trujillo regime.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:55
After re-establishing her power, whenever the armies of other Indian lords attacked Jhansi, Lakshmibai was reportedly seen riding horseback into ba...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 03:11
Six countries and countless meetings with radical women later, Ngoyi boldly returned to South Africa, expecting to be arrested -- which she, needle...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:18
One amazing woman, Anila Ali, is transforming the stereotypes of Muslims in America through her work as a teacher, journalist, author, and activist...
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 08:04
Two Syrians, separated by war, go to great lengths for love.
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 06:29
Ethnically Parsi, Diana grew up in the Indian state of Maharashtra, and went to boarding school there. She talks about how she and her family have ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2013
- Length: 03:09
