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V (formerly Eve Ensler): Reckoning with Our Past, Transforming the Future (Suggest- Women's History Month)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“Reckoning” is the new best-selling book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), author of “The Vagina Monologues” and founder of V-Day/One Billion Rising, ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KVNF, KDNK and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Escape to Cairo from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, we bring you a story from our partner Kerning Cultures about Patrice Lumumba’s children, and their escape to Cairo.

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Living Planet 02/11/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week, we tackle a few thorny subjects. In South Africa, we look at poaching – not of animals, but of plants! Plants that could be sitting on y...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 11, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
World in Progress 07/08/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Lake Kivu, a ticking time bomb? - An international team has started extracting methane from Lake Kivu to generate ele...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 10, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 04/02/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Is there such a thing as "clean cobalt"? Cobalt is one of the most important raw materials used to make batteries for smar...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Ep. 12: Siama and Charanga
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: Charanga Tropical
How has immigration, migration, and connection to the rest of the world shaped the sights and sounds of Minnesota? Meet Siama Matuzungidi, a Congol...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2018
  • Length: 12:26
Ep. 9: Minnesota Love Stories
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture Podcast
Caption: Kitten Forever, Credit: Sharyn Morrow via Flickr Creation Commons
When is love an art form in and of itself? Like art, true love comes in many forms. A Congolese couple, separated by the ocean, sing to each other ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 13:51
78: How To Change The Storyteller-Cristi Hegranes, Founder Global Press Institute
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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Cristi Hegranes wanted to be a foreign correspondent since the time she was 6 years old. Within days of achieving her dream job, after all the trad...

Bought by KWMR, KWIT, KUT, KCSB-FM, KWIT and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
#162 - The Broken Narrative
From: HowSound
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Greg Warner is one of my fav radio writers. He deftly put the "broken narrative" to good use in an episode of his NPR podcast "Rough Translation." ...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 20:42
Makers Series 8: Theo Chocolate
From: Slow Melt Productions
Series: The Slow Melt: A Podcast About Chocolate
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Theo Chocolate was founded in 2006 by Joe Whinney and Debra Music and is based in Seattle, USA. The company is known as being the first organic, fa...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 33:16
  • Purchases: 1
Sosthene and Nzigire: A Love Story
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Locals sometimes worry how newcomers will adjust to life in America. But for immigrants, their hearts and voices often reach out across the ocean t...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2017
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 2
UpFront Soul #2016.26 - June 27-July 3, 2016
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: William Onyeabor
We'll sample devilish funk from Gene Anderson, fumigate funky Broadway with Chris Kenner, and hear some wild Nigerian funk from William Onyeabor.

Bought by KMXT, WJAB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZUM, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 8
Siama Matuzungidi and the Global River of Soukous
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Siama Matuzungidi grew up near the Congo River in south central Africa. Today, the Minnesota musician lives near another mighty river, the Mississi...

  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 04:32
Off The List
From: 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
Series: Kind World
Caption: Sasha Chanoff stands next to a hired armed guard in the safe compound outside Kinshasa.
Sasha Chanoff was in his mid-20s when he faced an urgent decision unlike any he’d encountered before — and more than 100 lives depended on it.

Bought by PRX Remix and KALW


  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 2
Mutual Support: We do it Together
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Al Sasser
We hear about systems of mutual support; where peers coping with similar struggles like HIV, mental health issues and surviving prison step into th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
VIRUNGA -- Director Orlando Von Einsiedel, Emmanuel De Merode and Andre Bauma Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Director Orlando Von Einsiedel and subjects Emmanuel De Merode and Andre Bauma talk oil, corruption, and documenting the crimes.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 17:18
Kinshasa orchestra
From: Sarah Elzas
Caption: Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra rehearsing , Credit: Sarah Elzas
Classical music in the Congo

  • Added: Nov 15, 2014
  • Length: 08:12
The Rise of Les Sapeurs - Renata Sago
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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When one thinks of fashion forward countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo usually doesn't come to mind. But Les Sapeurs might make us feel dif...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:44
Women Rising #25 Activists Against Global Armaments and War
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Miriam Nobre, Credit: http://marchamulheres.files.wordpress.com/
We profile women fighting the expansion of global militarism and violence; Stella Soh, Kathy Kelly, and Miriam Nobre.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
Latitude News Podcast #8 — Can the U.S. keep conflict minerals from Congo out of your laptop?
From: Latitude News
Caption: Marie Jeanne, one of Congo's hundreds of thousands of women who are a victim of sexual violence.
Lawmakers in the U.S. want to leverage our consumer power to bring change to the Congo. The question is: do they stand a chance of making a differe...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 14:32
  • Purchases: 1
Sourcing Conflict: Mineral Supply Chains and Human Rights in the Congo
From: Ian Gray
Series: Ceres Sustainability Podcast
Caption: Gold from a days work by an artisanal miner in Kaniola in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Credit: By Sasha Lezhnev - Enough Project
This is the first episode in a mini-series covering the impacts corporate supply chains have on labor standards and human rights. We explore how re...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 16:00
Mountain gorillas save researchers from militia gunfire
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Silverback Kabirizi, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Fewer than 800 Mountain Gorillas remain making them one the world's most endangered species. For more than 20 years people around the world have be...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 11:06
Readings about Conflict and Peace, Part 1
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Part 1 of two programs funded by the upcoming 5-part PBS series "Women, War & Peace," which will air on consecutive Tuesday evenings beginning on O...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2011
  • Length: 30:02
  • Purchases: 1
Julian Smith, author of 'Crossing the Heart of Africa'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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A few months before he was to be married to his long-time girlfriend, Julian Smith was experiencing anxiety about making such a "huge commitment." ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 17, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Congo Crimes Literally Unspeakable
From: PBS Women, War & Peace Podcast
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When Congolese journalist Chouchou Namegabe first started reporting on sexual abuse in her country, the language didn't even have a word for "rape."

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:33