A special show looking back at 2025
The World
PRX
4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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As we wrap up the year, The World takes a look back at some of our favorite stories from 2025. We visit coffee raves in Barcelona. Also, a landmark performance for a female conductor at the Tehran Symphony Orchestra. And inmates in Milan who are repurposing the wood from migrant boats into musical instruments. Plus, crate digging for vinyl records with a collector in Dubai.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the world, time to exhale. |
| 0:08.0 | We're leaving 2025 on a high note. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:14.0 | And I'm Marco Werman. |
| 0:15.0 | This hour, some of our favorite stories from the past year, |
| 0:18.0 | like a running camp inspiring girls in Nairobi. Some of them are like really quiet, shy, they're not confident, and then in camp we are like, |
| 0:26.6 | you can be who you want to be. |
| 0:28.6 | And a musician who pushed his creative limits. |
| 0:32.6 | The life without sacrifice, without challenging, doesn't mean anything. So the most beautiful thing in life is to be something to challenge us, without challenging. Doesn't mean anything. |
| 0:39.5 | So the most beautiful thing in life is to be something to challenge us, to move us forward. |
| 0:42.9 | Plus, and Barcelona, a rave, minus the drugs. |
| 0:46.6 | There are dancers, dancers everywhere, |
| 0:48.6 | but nary a dilated pupil. |
| 0:50.6 | And still, the dance floors hopping. |
| 0:52.6 | We'll tell you why this New Year's Eve on the |
| 0:54.9 | world. This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Marco Wormand. Happy New Year's Eve, |
| 1:03.7 | everybody. We're glad you're spending part of the day with us. As you hunt around for your |
| 1:08.1 | party hats, keep us in your ears because we've teed up some of our favorite and most memorable stories from 2025. |
| 1:14.4 | We begin as many years end on the dance floor. |
| 1:20.9 | When I say wave, I'm guessing a late night party is what comes to mind, probably one with alcohol and drugs. |
| 1:27.7 | The rave we are thinking about now is radically different. |
| 1:31.2 | First of all, it's during the day. |
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