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World Pieces host Jason Kladiva learns about nomads in the Sahara from Ali Fakiri in M'hamid el Ghizlane, Morocco.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:10
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Isabel Goddard shares her upbringing in England, Spain and Colombia to host Jason Kladiva.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2019
  • Length: 06:29
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Sumeiya- a young Kenyan woman going to university in England – teaches World Pieces host Jason Kladiva about Kenya and it’s differences to England ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2019
  • Length: 06:27
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World Pieces Host Jason Kladiva arrives in Iceland and learns about how Icelanders identify themselves, a genealogy app and the importance of swimm...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2019
  • Length: 07:58
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Some extraordinary people sharing a bit of travel advice, insights and experiences from Moscow to the Camino de Santiago and destinations in betwee...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:50
Caption: Montoo at the oven, Credit: Sandip Roy
It’s hardly Santaland but as Christmas approaches Montoo’s bakery, in a dingy lane in central Kolkata, is one of the city's hottest addresses.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
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Sandip Roy gets virtually stranded in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Lit. Fest.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
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A funny blog on the site Publishing Perspectives came up with a checklist for the must have ingredients of a bad South Asian diasporan novel. Arran...

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  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kids singing at the Jaipur Lit. Fest.
Once if you wanted to be an Indian city of any standing, you were measured by flyovers, speciality hospitals or multiplexes. These days you are mea...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
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Sandip Roy is at the Jaipur Literary festival in Kolkata, India's old capital, speaking with Rana Dasgupta about Delhi, India's new capital...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Jesse Jackson speaks at the IIM, Credit: IIM Calcutta
Jessie Jackson was recently spotted in Calcutta, India. But why?

  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: GLF Participants, Credit: GLF
Audio Revolution presents stories from the Global Leadership Forum, a program that aims to cultivate culturally competent leaders from around the w...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 27:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Sandip Roy listens back to the music of Manna Dey.

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
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What a suicide attack in Tiananmen Square can tell us about the Chinese government's struggle with dissent.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:07
Caption: Music World closes, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip finds himself oddly nostalgic, for a noisy purple bag.

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
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Caption: LK Advani, Credit: lkadvani.in
Recently, the BJP Party had an "All About Eve" moment.

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
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Caption: Nelson Mandela, Credit: omg.com
Sandip Roy believes that Nelson Mandela has yet one more lesson to teach the world.

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
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Caption: Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry, Credit: Brittany Jencks
In 1962 France was years ahead of the U.S. in ecological awareness and energy conservation, before the word "ecology" was even used in either count...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 05:34
Caption: Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry, Credit: Brittany Jencks
Fred Flaxman's tongue-in-cheek memoir, "Sixty Slices of Life ... on Wry," concludes when the author discovers he's an old man on a subway in Paris.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 03, 2010
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Paul Farmer believes heath care is a human right-and he's devoted his life to making that a reality.

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:48
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Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
when President Bush visited Iraq, an Iraqi man threw a shoe at him.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2008
  • Length: :23