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Call Your Mother!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy tries to call his mother, but it proves to be more challenging than one would expect.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2015
  • Length: 04:30
Chitresh Das remembered
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Chitresh Das
The restless boy is finally still. Khatak master Pandit Chitresh Das passed away on Jan. 4, 2015 in Northern California.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Diwali Crackers
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy tries to hear through the noise and get to the heart of Diwali.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Kazakhstan -- With this horse, I thee wed...
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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A girl. A boy. A horse. A chase. Listen as this week's Global Guru takes you inside the world of courtship in Kazakhstan...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, PRX Remix, KZYX, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 7
England: What do bell ringers and astronauts have in common?
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week, the Global Guru ventures waaaaaayyyy up into the bell towers of an English church to learn just how mathematical -- and dangerous -- bel...

Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 09, 2011
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 5
Iran's Longest Night
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Rice Flour Cookies
This week the Global Guru stays up all night for the winter solstice in Iran, where acclaimed cookbook author, Najmieh Batmanglij, leads us into th...

Bought by KZYX and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 2
Malian Griot
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Papa Susso
This week the Global Guru goes to Mali to learn the art of a griot, where storyteller, historian, political advisor, detective and genealogist are ...

Bought by WABE, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
India's Karni Mata Temple
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week's Global Guru visits a temple in India where an unlikely rodent reigns supreme

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and WTIP


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
Making or Breaking a Business Deal in China -- with cigarettes
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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The writer Peter Hessler decodes the hidden messages of Chinese cigarettes in business deals.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WBEZ, and WTIP


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 3
East Timor's Umaluliks
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Umalulik in Timor Leste
This week the Global Guru learns how to negotiate land deals, family disputes, wedding arrangements, cattle sales and other deals in Timor Leste.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dissecting Afghanistan's Favorite Sport
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Buzkashi in Kabul
In this moment of World Cup frenzy, the Global Guru takes us to Afghanistan, where we learn about buzkashi -- the country's favorite sport.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 19, 2010
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Unlikely Story of A Thousand-Year-Old Instrument in Cambodia
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Memm at Angkor Wat, Credit: Cambodia Living Arts
A thousand years ago, the image of a strange instrument was carved into the walls of Angkor Wat. It had a lizard scale on one end, attached to a so...

Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 3
Take Me Out to the Japanese Ballgame
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru uncovers the rules behind Japanese baseball. Accidentally smack the matter with the ball? You better practice your bowing...

Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 4
The Hidden Messages in Zulu Beadwork
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: A Zulu girl wears her beadwork, Credit: Hlengi We Dube
You're fourteen, and you're in love with a boy in the next village. How do you tell him? Well, you bead it of course. This week's Global Guru uncov...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2010
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 2
Sweden's Curious Christmas
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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What's Donald Duck got to do with a Swedish Christmas?

Bought by KMXT, KRZA, KUER, KCMJ Community Radio, KZYX and more


  • Added: May 05, 2010
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 14
Hopi Katsinas
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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How do the Hopi bring rain to the desert?

Bought by WTIP, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 05, 2010
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 3
Cambodia-The Plow that Predicts the Future
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week's GG goes inside the Royal Ploughing Ceremony to hear how Cambodians predict the future -- agriculturally AND economically.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2010
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 2
Global Guru - Holland's Peculiar Curses
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru travels to Holland to learn how to insult someone... in Dutch. A surprising look at a secular society.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 2
Global Guru-Thailand's Hot and Cold Food
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru learns how to avoid culinary death in Bangkok -- and just why Thais categorize their food.

Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 3
Global Guru-Mexico's Murals
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru learns about the mural movement in Ajijic, Mexico, two generations after Diego Rivera's vision.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 2
Global Guru-Tasmanian Devils
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru risks life and limb to learn how to track Tasmanian devils in the wild.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 3
Global Guru - Aboriginal Boomerangs
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru wades through tourist kitsch to find authentic aboriginal boomerangs.

Bought by WABE, WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 3
Global Guru-Tanzania's Barbershops
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru explores why there are so many barbershops -- sometimes a dozen in a single block -- in Tanzania.

Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 3