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Season 19 Episode 5 - The Tailenders
Global Recordings Network (GRN), founded in Los Angeles in 1939, has produced audio versions of Bible stories in over 5,500 languages, and 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. The Bible stories played by the missionaries are sometimes the first encounter community members have had with recorded sound, and, even more frequently, the first time they have heard their own language recorded. GRN calls their target audience "the tailenders" because they are the last to be reached by worldwide evangelism. Filmed in the Solomon Islands, Mexico, India and the United States, The Tailenders focuses on the intersection of missionary activity and global capitalism and raises questions about how meaning, carried by the simple sound of a human voice, changes as it crosses language and culture.
Episodes in Season 19
No More Tears Sister
60 min
Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball
60 min
Tintin and I
60 min
The Fall of Fujimori
60 min
The Tailenders
60 min
Al Otro Lado
60 min
Lomax the Songhunter
60 min
Waging a Living
60 min
The Boys of Baraka
60 min
Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela
60 min
No Bigger Than a Minute
60 min
Maquilapolis: City of Factories
60 min
My Country, My Country
60 min
Lawn
60 min
