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Dispatch 382 - COVID Twitter Wave
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A "reminder" from India's Chamber of Commerce, Credit: Sandip Roy
As India’s second wave of COVID-19 batters India, Twitter is becoming the go to for communication.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
When Phobia Becomes Hate
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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When does phobia cross over into hate speech? Does a social media site need a bloodthirsty exhortation to deliver a 6-inch deep cut before it can act?

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Time and Patience
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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We don’t have to win the war against Covid as much as we need to learn to make peace with its existence in our world for now.

  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Mangos and cyclones
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip's mango tree, Credit: Sandip Roy
When life gives you cyclones, make mango rice.

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Dispatch 326: Social Distance
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Could the global outbreak of COVID-19 keep us apart, in more ways than just physical.

Bought by KFCF FM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
Centenary Celebration
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Centenarians are on Sandip Roy's mind as Lawerence Ferlinghetti turns 100

  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Missing Humanities
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Dr. Homi Bhabha at the Oxford bookstore in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
The CEO of Tech Mahindra said that the top 10 IT companies in India only take 6% of the engineering graduates. What happens to the other 94% he won...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Communities Over Commodities: How to Get There?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Housing affordability and power by design? This week on the show, Monique George of Picture the Homeless and Gianpaolo Baiocchi from NYU's Urban De...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
WhatsApp for?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Need a quick booster shot of national pride? How about a “quote" of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange praising the Indian prime minister? Need to help fome...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Forget your feed
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip forgets to feed his social media stream, and reconnects with the world.

  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Just Like Family
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Alex Tizon recently wrote about his family’s slave, Lola. Some praise Alex TIzon for his courage in confronting a dark chapter in his family’s hist...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Goodbye Carrie
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Carrie Fisher as Leia and Harrison Ford as Han Solo in "The Force Awakens", Credit: Lucasfilm
There was much more to Carrie Fisher than Princess Leia. But some things, good, bad or simply pop define us as people, and become placeholders for...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Sacrifice of Khizr Khan
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Khizr Khan at the DNC Convention
Khizr Khan did something few have been able to do in this bitter and vulgar presidential election.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Orlando
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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That most basic of human gestures of intimacy, a kiss, can still be deadly.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Monica's Story
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Monica Liu
Most people who come to her restaurant and wash down golden fried prawn with cold beer have no inkling about her back story.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Too Late for Suzette
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Suzette Jordan
Justice has finally come for Suzette Jordan.Though she was not there to witness it. In 2013 she became the face of rape in Kolkata, India. Her att...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
What's that poking at your conscience?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Aylan and Galib Kurdi
We are inundated by a circus of gratuitous and salacious images in our media everyday, but one recent photograph has cut through the clutter.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Returning Home: From War Fighter to Student Veteran
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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What is it like to be a student who has fought in a war? Producers at The Stanford Storytelling Project’s podcast, State of the Human asked six Sta...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: May 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Musician's Life: Austin singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves
From: WXPN
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Slaid Cleaves may not be the most well-known Texas musician, but he does boast some influential fans, including novelist Stephen King and public ra...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: May 18, 2009
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
11 Central Ave #60. Wilfred Owen's war poem.
From: 800 lb. Productions
Series: 11 Central Ave
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This week's installment of the radio comic strip. Mixed by Walter Dixon written by Susan Shepherd

Bought by WUGA (part of GPB), WLRN, WBEZ, KUT-HD, and WUSM


  • Added: Nov 20, 2007
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 5
Growing Meat
From: James Schultz
Series: Multiverse, Season Two
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Growing meat without killing animals for food.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2006
  • Length: 01:56
Tornadic Terabytes
From: James Schultz
Series: Multiverse, Season Two
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tiny tornados could make a big, helpful impact.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2006
  • Length: 01:50
Service for two (#160)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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Some medical professionals get caught in the middle.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2006
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cultural Imperalisim and the Press (es#147)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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Is enforcing American standards about not buying positive news coverage a form of cultural imperalism?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 11, 2006
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Do the right thing (es#146)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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What motivates us to do the right thing?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2006
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2