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Christmas Traditions Around the World: Is Santa in a pickle?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Christmas traditions around the world have different origins and different meanings -- not all Santa and elves, sometimes funny, many surprising.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Want a Better Country? Here's a Wish List
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
August is the month when we mark Women's Equality Day, when the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote passed in 1920. But we're still behi...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:30
The 90 Second Naturalist February 2023 Modules
From: WGUC/ WVXU
Series: The 90-Second Naturalist
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The 90 Second Naturalist February 2023 Modules

Bought by KCBX, Mountain Streams Radio WKYW-LP, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
Zooming the Lit Fests
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip reflects on how literature festivals have mutated during the COVID pandemic.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Vax Fest India
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Screen shot from India Today
Apparently Indians pay attention to nothing unless it’s turned into a festival. Sandip Roy wonders if that may help stop COVID-19.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Lockdown Olympics
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Chewie makes Dalonga coffee, Credit: Sandip Roy
I had assumed the lockdown was a time when the frenetic world would finally slow down, But on my social media timeline no one has gotten the messag...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Trump's "Discovery of India" tour
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Trump as Baahubali
Sandip Roy looks at all the ways Trump’s recent visit to India has been a benefit to all concerned.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
When Size Matters
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The Statue of Unity in Gujarat, India, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sometimes when picking our monuments we focus on the wrong aspect.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Say My Name
From: Susie Kahlich
Series: Artipoeus : art you can hear
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Artipoeus visits Francoise Shein and Barbara Reiter's project "Inscrire", an installation at the Berlin subway station U Bahnhof Westhafen, near Pl...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2017
  • Length: 24:56
Multi-cuisine Madness
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A sample menu, Credit: Sandip Roy
In a world where consumer choice is deified, multi-cuisine’s stock keeps going up, no matter its quality.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Ballad of Maggi
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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India has tied itself in knots thanks to a noodle problem. The country has been in an uproar since tests alleged that some packets of Maggi instan...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Dear Rahul
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Rahul Richard Verma
Rahul Richard Verma would be the first Indian American to be Ambassador to India. Sandip Roy channels the thoughts of ohh about a billion Indians.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Island Musical Interlude
From: Paul Messing
Series: Paul Messing's Audio Producer's Grab Bag
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A relaxing interstitial piece that may put you in a brief tropical state-of-mind.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:24
Living in a bubble
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 03:36
Rahul's Storm
From: KALW
Caption: Supporters use a Rahul Gandhi poster as an umbrella, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy attended a recent rally for Indian National Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi, but storm clouds were gathering.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
The Umami of Customer Service
From: Veronica Simmonds
Caption: Customers
We all know how sweet it is when our appetites are satisfied, but what's it like to be a satiator?

  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:53
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
How do you sabrage in France?
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: Champagne Bottles Post-Sabrage, Credit: Jane Alexander
This week we sharpen our swords in the Champagne region of France to learn how the French sabrage!

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


  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Curious Cooking Zones of an English Aga
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
Caption: How the heck do you cook on this thing?
The Global Guru production team got hardly any burns at all in the making of our latest episode. This week we travel to England to learn to cook th...

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


  • Added: Sep 06, 2010
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 4
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
Reading Russian Fortunes
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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You're Russian and your son's about to get married. But what if the girl can't be trusted? What if your son's marriage is doomed? Or worse, what if...

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


  • Added: Jun 01, 2010
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 4
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
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-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