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Sounds Familiar #1: The Drums From "Be My Baby" and the Life of a Meme
Series: Sounds Familiar
From Blake Cooper
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The debut episode! We're looking at the famous BUM. ba-BUM CH! and why it's been so influential, and so imitated, over the years.

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 00:13:07
From Pharma to Table: The McDonald's-Pfizer Merger
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
From The Final Edition
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Finally, McDonald's and Pfizer have announced a plan to merge operations. The Final Edition investigates...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:47
Fond du Lac Elder Rick DeFoe
Series: Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People
From WTIP
Caption: Rick Defoe and Family, Credit: Kelly Schoenfelder
In this edition of "Anishinaabe Way," Staci Lola Drouillard with WTIP North Shore Community Radio speaks with Fond du Lac elder Rick DeFoe. DeFoe g...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 00:06:56
Language Delays - Airdate: 29 February 2012
Series: Science Update
From Science Update
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Screening criteria for language delays in children depend on the culture.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 00:01:00
Going Viral
Series: Big Picture Science
From Big Picture Science
Caption: Going Viral, Credit: Seth Shostak
Discover how viruses go from birds to pigs to you, how fossil viruses got into your genome, whether E.T. might be a virus, and what it takes for id...

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: 00:54:01
  • Purchases: 1
Voices From The Diaspora: Resistance and Community
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
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Riots all over the world are calling on us to get involved in societal change. But what kind of action is needed, and how do we create real change?...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Remixing Revolution: Art, Music and Politics
Series: Making Contact
From Making Contact
Caption: Artists Rich Medina and Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Credit: Flickr user: kuishimbo
Art and music have long contributed to society and our way of life. But in these dire financial times, it’s not always a priority in our schools. O...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
"Dallas," Your Pitiless Universe
From Julia Barton
Caption: The Ewings of Texas captivated audiences around the world., Credit: CBS/Lorimar Studios
"Dallas," the prime-time soap that aired from 1978-1991, is the show that won't die. The cable network TNT has just commissioned a new series based...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 00:14:10
  • Purchases: 1
Karate Cafe Promo
Series: Karate Cafe
From Karate Cafe
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Short promo spot with clips from the show.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 00:01:00
Disaster, Decline, or Rebirth: A Japanese Fish Story
Series: Global Ethics Corner
From Carnegie Council
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Japan's recent tsunami and nuclear disaster have devastated its fishing industry. Fish are at the heart of Japanese culture, yet worldwide stocks o...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:00
"What is American?"
From Youth Media Project
Caption: Photo by: Fabi Fliervoet, Flickr
In this edition of Audio Revolution! hosts Gabriel Rima and Savannah Chapman-Martinez take you into the depths of identity: What does it mean to be...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, Marfa Public Radio, WFHB, WCAI / WNAN, KALW and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 00:27:40
  • Purchases: 6
Oil on the Bayou - After the Spill
From Julia Botero
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After the explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon Rig killed 11 workers in April 2010, oil began spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from the damaged well,...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2011
  • Length: 00:29:00
OPEN SOURCE: In Global Culture Space - Rana Dasgupta & Hung-Kuan Chen
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're with two artists--musical and literary--working that busy space high above the old boundaries of East and West. Rana Dasgupta is the English-...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 00:58:59
Family Tree
From Youth Media Project
Caption: by Josephnovak33 on Flickr
"Family Tree" is a short piece written and produced by Andres Ortiz. His piece is a journey into Ortiz's unknown family history. Growing up being...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 00:06:08
Kazakhstan -- With this horse, I thee wed...
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
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A girl. A boy. A horse. A chase. Listen as this week's Global Guru takes you inside the world of courtship in Kazakhstan...

Bought by Prairie Public, The Story, and HCC Radio The Dragon


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:56
  • Purchases: 3
Alone in a Desert of Strangers: Thoughts on the Tucson Shooting
From Aengus Anderson
Caption: Gabrielle Giffords Vigil 1/9/11, Credit: David T. Anderson
The January 8, 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona has ignited a fiery discussion about the shooter's cultural context. Some have claimed that Jared L...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2011
  • Length: 00:09:03
England: What do bell ringers and astronauts have in common?
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
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This week, the Global Guru ventures waaaaaayyyy up into the bell towers of an English church to learn just how mathematical -- and dangerous -- bel...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, New Hampshire Public Radio, Public Radio Remix, and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 09, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:59
  • Purchases: 4
Iran's Longest Night
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
Caption: Rice Flour Cookies
This week the Global Guru stays up all night for the winter solstice in Iran, where acclaimed cookbook author, Najmieh Batmanglij, leads us into th...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 20, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:57
  • Purchases: 1
Dancing the Sicilian Tarantella
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
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This week the Global Guru explores the rural Sicilian cure for spider bites. Put on your dancing shoes!

Bought by WTIP, HCC Radio The Dragon, Public Radio Remix, and KUT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Malian Griot
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
Caption: Papa Susso
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
India's Karni Mata Temple
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
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This week's Global Guru visits a temple in India where an unlikely rodent reigns supreme

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and WTIP


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:59
  • Purchases: 2
Making or Breaking a Business Deal in China -- with cigarettes
Series: Global Guru Radio
From Rachel Louise Snyder
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The writer Peter Hessler decodes the hidden messages of Chinese cigarettes in business deals.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WBEZ, and WTIP


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:02
  • Purchases: 3
OPEN SOURCE: Excavating History's Future - Ian Morris and Dennis Lehane
From Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Past is prologue with Ian Morris and Dennis Lehane. Dennis Lehane is the author of "Mystic River," "Gone Baby Gone," "Shutter Island," and most rec...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 00:58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Masai meat eating celebration
From Paula Kahumbu
Caption: Catching the sacred bull, Credit: Peter Greste
Every 10 to 15 years the Masai tribe in Kenya perform one of their most spectacular ceremonies, "The Eating of Meat Ceremony" It marks the end of m...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 00:11:36
That's so CAMP.
From Kaitlin Prest
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You hear the word thrown around a lot, but what does it actually MEAN?

  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 00:07:18