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, hosted and edited by Jonathan Groubert.Jonathan Groubert: The Transom Manifesto
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, human wrongs and how we treat each other". The program was formerly a Dutch-

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radio program, produced by Radio Netherlands Worldwide in conjunction with

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. It was syndicated through

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, and was the first radio program produced in a non-anglophone country ever to gain network distribution on English-language radio in the United States. It was also carried on CBC Radio One in

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and

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. The radio version of the show ended on Radio Netherlands Worldwide on 28 September 2012, due to cutbacks in public expenditure. The show was relaunched as a podcast format in November 2013 but subsequently stopped being carried by WBEZ.

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