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True, funny, sad, joyous, strange, bawdy, poignant, quirky stories about living life in "Expatria." Stories told without notes about living in places away from our physical homes but perhaps closer to our hearts.

Robin Willis


    • Feb 24, 2014 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 7m AVG DURATION
    • 22 EPISODES


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    Israa Hasani--Expatria can be just another word for exile.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2014 7:56


    Childhood dreams of expatria can lead to something much less romantic... a feeling of not having a home anyplace.

    Dorothy Sermol--Scottish Soul

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2014 16:30


    Dorothy Sermol who when not singing sad and beautiful Scottish songs is singing sad and beautiful songs from Spain and Central and South America teaching intercultural communications at Portland, State University.

    Kipp Baratoff--To Africa and back.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2014 16:14


    Kipp had to travel to Africa to save the world to realize that he could save the world from his own backyard.

    Mike Gust--Being an expatriate in your own country.

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2013 18:05


    When you are 17 and from a 1000 acre farm in the Midwest, Portland, Oregon might as well be Bali or Paris or the North Pole.

    Distant Bells at Reichenbachplatz

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2013 0:30


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    U1Berlin at HAU 2 | Hebbel am Ufer

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2013 1:16


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    Central Station Hamburg at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2013 0:41


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    Ubahn at Shlump

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2013 0:35


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    Sounds from Saturday morning

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2013 0:32


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    Train to BCN at Castelldefels

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2013 0:37


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    AutobĆŗs

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2013 0:19


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    Bocadillo Break at Moncho's Barcelona

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2013 0:30


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    Morning, San Gervasi

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2013 1:39


    Stick phone out window at 6 AM.Turn on.

    Rebecca Glazer--The Wedding, The Bureaucracy and The Family

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2013 12:56


    Teo and Rebecca want to get married. The only thing stopping them is the Spanish bureaucratic addiction to paperwork and that black hole known as "lunch".

    Subway to Poble Sec on a Sunday afternoon.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2013 0:29


    On the way to hear Mr, Marc Curcio and Giuliano Cobelli play in a sweet little hole in the wall bodega in Poble sec.

    Pat Gerke--Home on the plain.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2013 8:59


    Grandson to Hungarian refugees Pat leaves the US with his wife Amanda so she can finish her degree in Salamanca, Spain where he finds that he has truly found home.

    John Hugill--Time to go back.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2013 12:09


    2 years to realize that he likes being an expat... and then it's time to go home. Ah life.

    Mark Peters--My Private Idaho

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2013 10:13


    Raised in southeastern Idaho Mark meets and marries a Basque woman and moves to Barcelona where he finds "home" in the quiet place that is neither here nor there.

    Dan Sites--Ibiza is no fiesta when you are in prison.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2013 19:51


    Dan tastes the dark side of Expatria from a prison cel in Ibiza.

    Olga GreƱo--A Tale of two homes.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2013 8:36


    Olga moves to New York with a healthy suspicion that she won't like it. But soon like so many others she fall for the cities substantial charms, eventually finding that she has not one but two homes.

    Hanoch Piven--Duck Puppets

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2013 21:24


    Hanoch tells us a tale of leaving Israel for New York with a broken heart only to be arrested for selling illegal duck puppets. Find out more about Hanoch at www.pivenworld.com

    Rafael Gomez Moriana--Eternally displaced. Eternally at home.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2013 10:04


    Episode 2: Rafael Gomez Moriana Professor of Architecture, writer, blogger and Dad to Yasmina, who undoubtedly will have her own talk show when she grows up. http://criticalismo.blogspot.com.es

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