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Folktale of Libations
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: The Folktale of Libations, Credit: Julia Meek
We’re imbibing in music for, from and about intoxicating beverages around the world of good cheer this week. So here's to your joining us for the F...

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 9
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
Folktale of Gardening
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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This week, we're asking: 'How does your garden grow?' in the finest of musical tradtions--hope you'll spend an hour just digging it!

Bought by WFIU, 'The Sea', WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 10
Happy Boisakh (or just have some fried food)
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Calcutta food festival, Credit: Sandip Roy
Contrary to popular belief, Diwali or the Festival of Lights is not New Year everywhere in India. Some celebrate their New Year during Holi the fes...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Folktale of Dishonesty
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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On this week's Folktale, we're chasing guile, duplicity, and random acts of falsehood around the musical globe--and that's the truth!

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2015
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 10
Folktale of Doubt
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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Seeings believing...or is it? We're tracking 2nd guesses, hesitation and other doubtful acts through the music they have inspired this week--firmly...

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Tropes of Fiction
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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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...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 24, 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
Scotland the Free
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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A Scottish separatist whips himself into a nationalistic frenzy about everything from the taste of haggis to Mr. Scott’s job on Star Trek.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:47
Nobel Peace Prize
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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To get its Peace Prize back from trigger-happy Obama, the Nobel Committee uses its most fearsome weapons—begging, asking nicely, even empty threats...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 03:37
Ebola
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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The country suffers from an outbreak of idiocy when The Final Edition gets Americans’ opinions about Ebola.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: :50
  • Purchases: 1
Scottish Independence
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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A pair of loud, grouchy Scotsmen debates independence from England, which country has the more disgusting food, and exactly what goes on under thos...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:06
Human Terrorist #2
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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This wacky sitcom about a sympathetic suicide bomber fires more zingers than a Kalashnikov rifle!

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 04:20
Royal Fetus
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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The X-rated royal baby is back—along with his chipper unborn brother—to discuss conserving Guinness, the Queen’s potty habits, and the gleeful abus...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 03:05
Episode PV27: August’s Best of the Best
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: The Final Edition Radio Hour: Full Episodes
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Hear irradiated gonads, a Fox News minstrel show, a murderously ass-kicking truck, and much more (including some brand new goodies) in our monthly ...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2014
  • Length: 50:33
Putin Statement
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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Friendly neighbor Vladimir Putin helpfully investigates who could possibly have invaded Ukraine.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:51
Immigrant Interview
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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An impartial, journalistic look at whether smelly immigrants are here to steal our women.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2014
  • Length: 03:47
Middle East
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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A news-panel host loses his cool when he realizes that the only thing we can change about the Middle East is the subject.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 03:22
Folktale of Joy
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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This week's show is a literally lighthearted tour around the musical globe--so put on a happy face, let a smile be your umbrella, and tune in for t...

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, 'The Sea', WFIU, WLPR and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2014
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 10
The Border
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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Immigrant kids get a taste of the American dream as they shave alpacas for a hillbilly.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 03:43
Russian Hole
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour
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When a sinkhole opens in Siberia, Americans open their boneheaded, disturbed minds to The Final Edition.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: :46
Royal Baby Returns
From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
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The X-rated royal baby is back to discuss his birthday, the view up Aunt Pippa’s skirt, and bloodthirsty imperial vengeance.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 04:28
Kitchens of Central America (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Wisdom and stories learned from grandmothers in Central Mexican Kitchens. Plus: can years of farming rice change a cultural personality?

Bought by WJCT, KMUN, WABE, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMNF and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Disco Dance of Democracy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Bappi Lahiri at an election rally , Credit: Sandip Roy
The Times of India newspaper called this Indian election a "Dance of Democracy." But for Sandip Roy it's more of a 'Disco' Dance of Democracy.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:30