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Are Western-imported methods for fighting HIV/AIDS working in Sub-Saharan Africa? Some critics argue that campaigns more aligned with traditional A...
- Added: Nov 28, 2011
- Length: 00:02:00
Four years ago, Katie Davis was homecoming queen at her high school in the United States. Today, the 22-year-old is a single mother of 13 girls in ...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KWMR-FM, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 27, 2011
- Length: 00:05:01
- Purchases: 3
The gap between science in the U.S. and Africa is as wide as the ocean between them. But a nonprofit startup is trying to be a good Samaritan with ...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 20, 2011
- Length: 00:04:19
- Purchases: 3
A one-hour documentary special in honor of the Peace Corps' 50th anniversary, Peace Corps Voices uses historic recordings and contemporary intervie...
Bought by KALW, Wisconsin Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WRPI, KUNM and more
- Added: Aug 11, 2011
- Length: 00:59:02
- Purchases: 12
Actor, co-writer Brit Marling talks physics, metaphysics, and duality.
- Added: Jul 20, 2011
- Length: 00:16:09
Portland, Maine is home to one of the largest Southern Sudanese refugee communities in the United States, many of whom settled in the city after fl...
Bought by WMPG and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 00:02:24
- Purchases: 2
Within weeks of independence for Southern Sudan, the Northern Sudanese Army annexed the disputed town of Abyei. Should Southern Sudan respond milit...
- Added: Jun 03, 2011
- Length: 00:02:00
In the 1970?s, dancer Gail Lyons and drummer Emile Latimer discovered love in Buffalo, New York through West African music. After all these years,...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 03, 2011
- Length: 00:02:45
- Purchases: 1
This hour we sit with Lydia Davis as she reads her beautifully honed, firecracker prose. She writes in the company of Montaigne, Emerson, Proust, B...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN
- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 00:58:59
- Purchases: 1
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
2 November 2010: This month's podcast features an interview with Mohamed Jalloh, Crisis Group's West Africa Analyst about the violence in Guinea an...
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 00:06:39
Election day is closing in, and Jill Lepore has a hip historian's take on the question: What Would the Founding Fathers Do? Jill Lepore says there'...
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 00:58:59
The Lord's Resistance Army continues to pose a terrible threat to civilians across Central Africa. Crisis Group’s Central Africa Analyst Edward Dal...
- Added: Oct 18, 2010
- Length: 00:02:59
This interview is a piece of international radio history - and a personal gift to all children in America and worldwide:
Jane Goodall - legendary ...
- Added: Aug 25, 2010
- Length: 00:31:17
In an ESL class, everyone is new to the country. They're learning a new language, new customs... But what's it like to learn English in a class whe...
- Added: Jun 02, 2010
- Length: 00:06:49
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
In the evening of April 6th 1994 the plane of the Rwandan president was shot down. This sparked the genocide that nearly killed one million people
- Added: Apr 05, 2010
- Length: 00:14:39
SWP Records in Holland has released the amazing recordings of Hugh Tracey
- Added: Mar 13, 2010
- Length: 01:59:31
In this program, we profile two government leaders tackling the monumental problem of war –– Gambia's Fatou Bensouda, Deputy Prosecutor at the Inte...
Bought by WSKG
- Added: Feb 09, 2010
- Length: 00:29:00
- Purchases: 1
Our guest is one of the greats in sound, Tom Clack. We talk about early days at BBC, MTV and traveling the world to record sounds. He performs the ...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Dec 14, 2009
- Length: 00:28:00
- Purchases: 1
Poor people living in African countries are feeling the brunt of global climate change even though it is believed that most Africans cause hardly a...
- Added: Dec 04, 2009
- Length: 00:03:54
We'll introduce you to the Catholic AIDS Action staff in Namibia and their commitment to improving the lives of their countrymen stricken with HIV/...
- Added: Nov 24, 2009
- Length: 00:28:00
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: 00:12:53
You can't help but love insects when you listen to Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins. In this short piece he explains the natural history of the Coc...
- Added: Oct 28, 2009
- Length: 00:01:37
Paula Kahumbu finds a cochineal bug on a cactus and asks entomologist Dino Martins about it. This field recording reveals that this unattractive in...
- Added: Oct 28, 2009
- Length: 00:02:31
