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Caption: The "Little Manila" Mabuhay mural, represents welcome, best wishes and life. It greets you in bright yellow on a sky-blue field on the wall of Amazing Grace Restaurant, evoking the taste and fragrance of the Filipines. Calamansi fruits and sampaguita blos, Credit: Jake Hofileña
This episode is from the Queens Memory Podcast, a project archiving stories from Queens, New York. “Little Manila” is a Filipino enclave dating ba...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: We ask a climate economist if Putin’s war in Ukraine could see the world fast-track a switch to renewables. From the South...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: Healthcare & the pandemic - In South Korea, there's a big push to get people with disabilities out of care facilities...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: What’s in our air? - It’s all around us and critical for life: air. But besides oxygen, that gas we breathe to live, wha...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on the show: The crackdown on dissent and the situation for Chinese ethnic minorities, in Xingiang and Inner Mongolia. And we'll explore...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Left: Wilson Dairy Restaurant Right: Helen Zia as baby with mom
In the midst of our dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s hard to imagine what stories we will ultimately tell our children and grandchildren. T...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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This week on the show: Speaking your mind - Dangerous times for reporters in Mexico // Journalist paradise South Africa // A colonial-era law st...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Crushed hopes - How young Pakistani brides are ending up in the clutches of sex trafficking rings in China, the activist...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: The power of indigenous people - Indigenous climate leader Pasang Dolma Sherpa talks about the 'historic moment' for i...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Drawing the line - What we smell influences our intestines, how a "smart school" in China spies on its pupils, and fac...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 19, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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World in Progress: Urban futures - On this week's show, we head to Singapore where 100 scientists have gathered for the Future Cities Laborat...

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Inside a re-education camp for Chinese Muslims; Human Rights Watch's Sophie Richardson on surveillance of Uighurs; and how ...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: we'll take a closer look at poverty and how it affects people in different ways around the world. We'll hear about Finland'...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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On this week’s show: Plastic planet? - We are drowning in plastic! It pollutes our oceans, beaches, rivers and forests. Let's talk solutions. W...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFIU, KMUN, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Living Planet: Apes - Apes are humans' closest relatives, but these creatures are increasingly endangered. From Asia to Africa, human activi...

Bought by KRZA, KMUN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUPR low power FM, and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 5
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On this week's show: Disability and Disaster - making emergency plans inclusive. When disasters strike, people with disabilities are even more ...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: A bedcover made by sisters Wei Guoer and Wei Guofeng of Guangxi Province. (Courtesy of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures)
The exhibition, The Quilts of Southwest China, was organized by a bi-national consortium of Chinese and American museums, including the Mathers Mus...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:05
Caption: Susie Ibarra
“I understand Filipino Kulintang, it's melodic phrasing, how it moves linearly, very similar to how perhaps bebop moves in jazz…there’s a lot of si...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, 90.5 WSNC, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 4
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We visited the Wat Mai Monestary for Burmese Buddhist monks in Bangkok, Thailand. During our stay we were able to talk directly to the monks about...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 28:02
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One-hundred thousand Chinese immigrated to America during the second half of the nineteenth century. They first came as miners during the Californi...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2007
  • Length: 03:12