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Interviews with Authors, Musicians, Artists, Poets, Or Maybe Just The Guy Down The Street!!!
- Added: May 02, 2013
- Length: 58:01
A personal story from a growing demographic
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 15:09
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
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
Brussels-based reporter, Alison Turner, ducked out of the cold this week to explore an Anglican church - just a stone's throw from the city's fashi...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 08:16
Islam and Mormonism — not exactly a perfect pair? Actually, these two religions have a striking similarity: both are marginalized in American socie...
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 13:10
A Palestinian violin master, an Israeli woman singing Bedouin songs, two Brothers from Tehran improvising age old Sufi music. These are just a few ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 05:34
- Purchases: 1
For the past ten years, drug cartels in Mexico have been worshiping a sort of grim repress, a robed skeleton lady known as Santa Muerte, or Saint D...
Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2012
- Length: 02:28
- Purchases: 2
As the candles of Hanukah connect Jews around the world, holiday songs in Ladino shine a light on a language UNESCO rates as “severely endangered.”...
Bought by WTIP, WAMC, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 27, 2011
- Length: 04:24
- Purchases: 4
A cultural detective searches out a singing stranger and in the process finds out how prayer affects a young man's life.
Bought by Public Radio Remix and KUOW
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
Witches in Romania are now liable to pay 16% income tax -- plus a fine or imprisonment if their predictions don't come true!
It's a whole new appr...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Mar 02, 2011
- Length: 02:49
- Purchases: 1
Often the only chance coffee farmers have to be successful is to band together in groups called cooperatives. In eastern Uganda, there’s one man wh...
- Added: Dec 10, 2010
- Length: 06:33
Hindus are gathering in homes and temples this week in India to celebrate the birthday of one of their most popular deities -- a pot-bellied figure...
- Added: Sep 17, 2010
- Length: 04:17
The month of Ramadan has just come to an end. More than a billion Muslims spend this period fasting from sunup to sundown. In this reporter’s not...
- Added: Sep 10, 2010
- Length: 02:53
People come to fortunetellers for answers and entertainment, but not all fortunetellers use a crystal ball. In Karachi, Pakistan, one street vendor...
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 05:49
Interview with Beat poets Marc Olmsted and Peter Marti on their work, their Buddhist leanings and their love for mentor Allen Ginsberg.
- Added: Mar 15, 2010
- Length: 55:02
More than 250,000 Americans lost their jobs last month. And experts say there’s no telling when the job market will recover. But for ultra-orthod...
- Added: Oct 09, 2009
- Length: 06:43
From the Sudan Radio Project: we hear about the bond that’s grown between two Sudanese men living in Norway who had to spend Ramadan far from their...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Oct 04, 2009
- Length: 06:26
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 29, 2009
- Length: 10:31
The Middle East has the lowest incidence of HIV/AIDS in the world, but the disease there is growing at a rate of 300% per year. One reason is deni...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Jul 17, 2009
- Length: 06:11
- Purchases: 1
Julie Adler, producer for The Tibet Connection talks to Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche about the Tibetan tradition of dream yoga. What is it and why is i...
- Added: Apr 18, 2009
- Length: 06:16
From "Taking Flight" (March 6, 2009): War News Radio reports on how an influx of Iraqi refugees has shaped one neighborhood of Damascus.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 1
Iran is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. But human rights activists, both inside and outside the country, continue to c...
- Added: Feb 06, 2009
- Length: 05:25
Analysis and exploration of current issues surrounding the conflict in Darfur.
- Added: Nov 02, 2008
- Length: 29:00
- Added: Oct 02, 2008
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
