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Photo montage based on images from The Tailenders by Adele Horne | Click to read the synopsis

Global Recordings Network (GRN), founded in Los Angeles in 1939, has produced audio versions of Bible stories in over 5,500 languages. GRN aims to record in every language on earth. They distribute the recordings, along with ultra-low-tech hand-wind players, in isolated regions and among displaced migrant workers. GRN calls their target audience "the tailenders" because they are the last to be reached by worldwide evangelism. | Read the synopsis »

Premiered: July 25, 2006 at 10PM | Check for Rebroadcasts

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Behind the Lens: Filmmaker Adele Horne

"I grew up in an evangelical family, and although I'm not an evangelical Christian now, I was quite familiar with the world view, the language and the thought process of evangelicals and evangelical missionaries."
  —Adele Horne

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ON ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

How do languages become endangered, and what does it mean for a culture when its language is lost? Endangered-language experts Peter Ladefoged and Rosemary Beam de Azcona talk about disappearing languages and the recordings of GRN.  » 

UPGRADING THE SAWDUST TRAIL

Larry Eskridge, the associate director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, talks about the intersections between evangelicalism, missionaries, media and popular culture. (pictured, George Bower of GRN)» 
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Posted July 13, 2006

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Photos: Girl with tape player, credit: Adele Horne
George Bower of GRN, credit: Shana Hagan
Adele Horne, "Tailenders" filmmaker, credit: Colleen Hennessey

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