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Caption: At a ranch near Mpala, Margaret Kinnaird takes notes about a camel sick with trypanosomiasis as a herder looks on., Credit: Sharon Deem, Saint Louis Zoo
Camels are known for their ability to travel long distances across the desert without water. But they’re also becoming an increasingly important s...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:41
Caption: Customers
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
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A British-born author who has lived in China for decades tells a true-crime tale of the unsolved murder of a young British girl in 1937 in colonial...

  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
Caption: Cliff Brody looks at an old photo of his deceased friend/sergeant, Joe Blakely, who changed Cliff’s life during the Vietnam War., Credit: Rebecca Sheir
How do you thank someone who saves you from tragedy? This Vietnam veteran knows.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 05:40
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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
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
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Anthony, no stranger to faraway places himself, tells the harrowing history of the search for the Northwest Passage in "The Man Who Ate His Boots."...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:11
Caption: Pianist María Teresa Rodríguez
Orchestral works by two giants of Mexican musical nationalism: Manuel Maria Ponce and Carlos Chávez.

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
Caption: Isaac Albéniz
Classical music from mid-20th century Mexico and late 19th-century Spain by Miguel Bernal and Isaac Albéniz, who both died in their 40's.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 58:30
Caption: Calvin Jollimore and his daughter., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Prince Edward Island is known the world over for its mussels. Nothing quite like them and those produced on PEI account for 80 percent of all musse...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 27:06
Caption: American folklorist Alan Lomax
This week on the show, it's the life and legacy of American folklorist Alan Lomax and how his calling to "record the world" changed the course of t...

Bought by WRGY, WCAI / WNAN, KDRP Community Radio, KPVL, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Yucatan Honey, Credit: John Bock
While visiting Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, I had the good fortune to meet a Maya subsistence farmer named Bartolo. When Bartolo found out I was int...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
Caption: Guitarist Quique Sinesi
Contemporary guitar works from Argentina, Puerto Rico, and Spain.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 58:30
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Isaac Albéniz was one of the most outstanding personalities in Spain's musical history. On this edition of "The Spanish Hour," we explore the compo...

Bought by KHSU


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Los Reyes Magos, en el retablo mayor de la Seo de Zaragoza
Traditional Spanish and Catalan carols, plus a Mallorcan Christmas Eve tradition, and a Christmas Tableau by Joaquín Rodrigo.

Bought by WSLR, WUAL, and WFIU


  • Added: Nov 04, 2012
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Musician and his Family, French oil painting (Bibliothèque Marmottan, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris)
This week on The Spanish Hour, music by Fernando Sor, the Beethoven of the Guitar. We’ll hear some of Sor’s virtuosic works for guitar solo, guitar...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2012
  • Length: 58:31
Caption: Interviewing at Pearl Roundabout 20th February 2011
In 'Bahrain: Desert Island Risks', Former expatriate Miranda Diboll took advantage of her housewife visa status in the country and interviewed prot...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 09:59
Caption: Giancarlo Calicchia's "Genesis," a 28-foot long, 2,000+ pound wooden sculpture., Credit: Dan Moulthrop
Cleveland’s Renaissance man hopes to rejuvenate the Rust Belt with art.

  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 12:52
Caption: Kenny Endo
Kenny Endo is one of the leading artists in contemporary percussion and rhythm. He is a consummate artist, blending Japanese taiko with rhythms inf...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2012
  • Length: 52:59
Caption: Alberto Ginastera
The Spanish Hour offers the fifth program in its month-long mini-series celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (September 16-October 15) with works by...

Bought by KHSU and KPVL


  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Venezuelan flutist Marco Granados
From Paraguay to Colombia to Venezuela, The Spanish Hour offers the third in its month-long mini-series celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (Septem...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 58:31
Caption: Alondra de la Parra, Credit: Photo: Lorena 2012
The Spanish Hour celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with a program devoted to Manuel Ponce, one of the geniuses of Mexican music.

Bought by KHSU


  • Added: Sep 01, 2012
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 1
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The familiar faces of the red, white and blue bus, whose lives I will never know.

Bought by The Story, KUT, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
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There I was, an Indian woman on the move in a strange new land - Mongolia - and it didn't feel so strange. So much resonated - especially the voic...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jul 11, 2012
  • Length: 23:43
  • Purchases: 1
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