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

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INTERVIEW

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. | »

A member of the Global Recordings Network plays back sample language snippets from a portable tape player to a woman in Mexico

INTERVIEW

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)  | »

 George Bower demonstrating one of the many hand-wind audio players that Global Recordings Network has developed over the years. Credit: Shana Hagan

 

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Photos: Girl with tape player, credit: Adele Horne
George Bower of GRN, credit: Shana Hagan

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