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- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: 03:01
Sandip Roy gets virtually stranded in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Lit. Fest.
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 06:00
We hear about systems of mutual support; where peers coping with similar struggles like HIV, mental health issues and surviving prison step into th...
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- Added: Nov 12, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
For years Danna Harman had been reporting the same old political stories for The Jerusalem Post. She wanted out. That’s how she found herself in Ke...
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 20:05
Two journeys - in very different directions, and taken for very different reasons - out of, and then into, Africa.
- Added: Oct 21, 2015
- Length: 44:14
What would you do if you had 100Million Euros (or more!) to spend on a country? What would you spend it on?
The leaders of Macedonia chose statues...
- Added: Oct 13, 2015
- Length: 14:58
Stuff always falls apart while traveling. Plans change, health declines. Items disintegrate… Relationships fade… It doesn’t always happen, but it’s...
- Added: Oct 13, 2015
- Length: 14:44
San Francisco is a renter’s worst nightmare. It might seem obvious. You know, your mum knows, your friends know, but me? I did not know. It is hard...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 09:39
I wanted to go to a bar in Impalila Island, Namibia. I couldn't because I'm white. Good thing- because I wouldn't have wanted to be there anyway.
- Added: Sep 13, 2015
- Length: 09:07
A scientist recounts the harrowing quest for life beneath the ice
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 25:11
Belinda Cai knew only the outline of her father’s childhood in China's Cultural Revolution. Recently, when she asked her father for details, she wa...
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- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 05:41
- Purchases: 1
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
This week we revisit a 2012 interview with Georgetown professor, Jacques Berlinerblau. We discuss his most recent book, How to Be Secular: A Call t...
- Added: Apr 22, 2015
- Length: 59:00
For Sandip Roy, after growing up in India America was a culture shock. After 20 years in America living in India was its own culture shock. Everyth...
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Chaya Gilboa falls deeply in love with a library book, and becomes convinced that her soulmate will have felt the same connection to the text. She ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 12:51
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
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
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
This story was the winner on October 17th, 2013 at Fortier Park. The theme was "Thrown." Lindsey Bottinger tells of the sweaty morning in Spain tha...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 06:12
Ray has been an activist most of his life. He organized lunch counter sit-ins and participated in the March on Washington. When he was drafted to f...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 23:59
Questions for Insecurity — the US Department of Homeland Security’s Application For Naturalization
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 08:32
Ben Weisz investigates what can be learned about changes in Tunisian society since the Arab Spring, from the music which shapes its cultural landsc...
- Added: Jul 09, 2014
- Length: 01:00:04
- Added: May 28, 2014
- Length: 05:48
Sandip Roy sends us an audio postcard from the 2014 Indian election season.
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 08:22
What is a home? Come take a look at the concept of “home” from a different perspective.
- Added: Apr 03, 2014
- Length: 02:32
