Blue Water Cowboys The Pacific Ocean Blue Water Cowboys Around the World in One Canoe Building the Matthew Turner Sailing is tough business – one of the last frontiers of human experience in the natural world, in one of the last remaining wild parts of the planet–the ocean. There’s a rare group of people who spend as much time as possible there, co…

The Winter Camp Tibet LISTEN (27 MINUTES) /wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Tibet-Jan23-final.mp3 Click to download audio as: MP3 In the Kham region of Tibet, there are families who have been nomadic herders for thousands of years. Almost everything they need, they get from a herd of yaks who graze on the wide expanse of grassy hills within sight of the …

On the Move in Mongolia LISTEN (22 MINUTES) /audio/radio/Preview_OnMove_Final.mp3 Click to download audio as: MP3 Produced and researched by Shebana Coelho Story Consultant/Executive Producer: Stephanie Guyer-Stevens 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 – especi…

The Queen's Trek Bhutan LISTEN (24 MINUTES) /audio/radio/preview_the-queens-trek.mp3 Click to download audio as: MP3 Bhutan is a land of prayer flags and happiness. But people are people, and human suffering, including domestic violence, is as prevalent here as it is anywhere. Queen Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuk takes her job – creating happiness for…

The Price of Rice Vietnam and Laos LISTEN (51 MINUTES) /audio/radio/preview_price_of_rice.mp3 Click to download audio as: MP3 War decimated the landscape of Vietnam. The drastic economic times that followed drove Vietnam into the globalizing economy at lightning speed — and the country soon became the second largest exporter of rice in the world. A…

LiveHopeLove Jamaica Photograph by Kamilah LISTEN (51 MINUTES) /audio/radio/live_hope_love_full.mp3 Click to download audio as: MP3 | WAV HIV/AIDS is defined by people: their complex lives, their bravery, their fear, their sadness, their need, their laughter, their inconsistencies–basically, their rich humanity. LiveHopeLove looks at the universal …

The Story of Lata Solomon Islands LISTEN (53 MINUTES) /audio/radio/Preview_Story_Lata.mp3 Click to download audio as: MP3 The Story of Lata explores the efforts by the people of a remote part of Solomon Islands to preserve their traditional boat building culture and navigation. It explores traditional Polynesian navigation in a region where the tec…

Kawthoolei Thai/Burma Border LISTEN (59 MINUTES) /audio/radio/preview_kawthoolei.mp3 Click to download audio as: MP3 Along the Thai-Burma border, we meet the women peace activists working in the midst of the world’s longest running civil war. In the Karen language, Kawthoolei is the name of a mythical homeland in eastern Burma (Myanmar). The Karen …

Girls From Cambodia LISTEN (54 MINUTES) /audio/radio/preview_girls_from_cambodia.mp3 Click to download: MP3 | Transcript In January of 2005 our team travelled to Cambodia to meet Chanthol Oung, the head of the Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center, a grassroots organization dedicated to preventing violence against women, and working to stop the illegal s…

The Hula Lesson Hawaii LISTEN (54 MINUTES) /audio/radio/preview_hula_lesson.mp3 Click to download audio as: MP3 In “The Hula Lesson” we join Hawaiian Hula teacher Roselle Bailey and her multicultural halau to find out what hula is, what it means to Hawaii, and why so many non-Hawaiians love it. Hula is more than girls dancing with coconut bras and …