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Audio Journeys explores La Antigua, Guatemala, on Easter Sunday. Our walking tour begins at a hotel that once was a monestary. (This Audio Journey is also available in our MesoAmerica Series.)

In the highlands of Honduras, a few hundred Lenca people cling tenaciously to their culture, their customs, and each other. On a road trip through Mesoamerica, we find markets and countyside villages. (This Audio Journey is also available in our MesoAmerica Series.)

Patricia Lawrence is riding in the back of a Photo Safari truck at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park.These trucks are one of several ways visitors can get up close to some of the most endangered animals in the world. Most of the animals that live in the Wild Animal Park represent the last individuals of their species anywhere on earth.

Audio Journeys explore Mammoth Cave National Park, Louisville, Kentucky. Mammoth Cave is the world’s longest and most diverse cave system with over 350 surveyed miles. This is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Music by Jason Serfling.

In 1961, Derek Leech emerges fully formed from the polluted Thames, destined to found a global media empire. In 1978, three ambitious young men strike a deal with Leech. They are offered wealth, glamour, and success, but a price must be paid. In 1994, Leech's purpose moves to its conclusion, and as the men struggle, they realize to truth of the ultimate price.

We arrive in San Jose, from a small boat across Lake Petén Itzá. There are few roads into the region. This quiet lakeside hill town has a Mayan and Spanish Language School.

Audio journalist Jessica Spain is in Hawaii exploring the Maritime Culture as she sails in a traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe.

Marvo is a stage magician. His magic is real. Marvo grows up without knowing his parents, without knowing his heritage, without knowing much about life. The magicians have always been with us, since the beginning of civilisation. They fill our heads with the mist, keeping us from witnessing the stark reality of existence. But are things so bad that Marvo will bring it down on all of us, forever? Marvo begins to understand those around him, and his place in the world; he discovers that his remarkable powers can be put to good, or to evil.

Written for the Jewish community at a time of great persecution and distress, Daniel attempts to provide a measure of comfort to a suffering people. As such, it has much to say to all ages about the rewards accessible for those who are faithful throughout their times of stress. Therefore, because the prophecies and promises contained in Daniel are universal, the Christian community of this age has much to benefit from a comprehensive reading and understanding of this powerful audiobook.

Audio Journeys explores the Maya Music Museum in La Antigua, Guatemala, with the museum founder and director. (This Audio Journey is also available in our MesoAmerica Series.)

Audio Journeys explore Cornell Ornithology Lab, Ithaca New York. The Cornell Bird Lab is one of the largest nature research and conservation organizations in the world. This important non-profit organization protects, studies, and records the sounds of birds and other animals around the world. Part 1 of 2 part series.

For decades, Robert R. Fowler was a dominant force in Canadian foreign affairs. In one heart-stopping minute, all of that changed. On December 14, 2008, Fowler, acting as the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy to Niger, was kidnapped by Al Qaeda, becoming the highest-ranked UN official ever held captive. Along with his colleague Louis Guay, Fowler lived, slept, and ate with his captors for nearly five months, gaining rare first-hand insight into the motivations of the world's most feared terror group.

To begin with, I should say that none of this was our fault. When vampires moved in next door and my vile uncle came to stay, we had to act before I was devoured or went insane!It would’ve been easier to fight the evil if me, Boy Dave and Ryan hadn’t been grounded for life. We didn’t know our battle for survival would end in catastrophe...Another side-splitting new comedy from bestselling author Dinah Capparucci.

Three boys, two Easter bunnies, and a whole lot of trouble! When Jordan, Boy Dave and Ryan meet game-obsessed TC, they realize it's time he discovered what the real world is all about - and they're just the boys to show him! But will they be able to save TC, the school, the village and their own skins... before it's too late?

In London England, an exact replica of the 17th century William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre opened in 1995. Audio journalist, Lee Daley is exploring the Globe Theatre with actress and docent, Kitty Grimes. Ms Grimes tells us how the new Globe Theatre began while we walk through the scrim and into a Shakespeare past.

The National Civil War Park is a complex of sites and event locations, including a naval battle, a key industrial complex, the Confederacy's largest hospital, and dozens of miles of elaborate original fortifications.

Chesney’s efforts to 'Save the Day' and 'Win the Girl' make slow progress. This superhero lark is a bit more complicated than he thought. But even as Chesney is trying to learn the ropes, Boss Greeley has made a deal with the Devil. A deal that is making Greeley stronger by the minute. Soon he will be untouchable. Meanwhile Reverend Hardacre digs deeper and finds that not everything in reality is quite what it seems… Now Chesney, the one-time actuary-turned superhero must continue the fight.

For Sergeant David Griffin, a "peacetime" Marine, Beirut was a chance to prove himself capable to the generation of Marines who had been blooded in the Vietnam War. For Corporal Steven Downs, Beirut was a struggle to separate the civilian from the soldier, his distrust of the politicians' decisions from the military mission. For all the Marines serving in Lebanon, it was another war in a foreign country where the enemy could be anywhere or anyone.

Known as 'Stuff', because he knows a lot of stuff, Simon is faced with the typical pitfalls that all teenage boys have to deal with. While he longs to get off with the beautiful Sky, he also wants to dump his girlfriend Delfine.

How do the microscopic particles that make up our brains cause us to experience the tranquil beauty of a setting sun, the haunting strains of Mozart’s "Requiem," or the flush of romantic love? How, in short, can consciousness be explained? In this three-part series, neuroscientist Robert...