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We are no strangers to earthquakes here in the Bay Area. But there’s been nothing in recent memory to match the 9.0 quake that shook Japan on March...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 16:21
Seattle’s most famous son may be the martial artist and movie star, Bruce Lee. He grew up in Hong Kong and settled in the Northwest at the age of ...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 04:10
- Purchases: 1
You may know Bruce Lee as a martial artist legend who died at the young age of 32 but there is much more to his story. Lee’s daughter, Shannon, cha...
- Added: Dec 04, 2014
- Length: 04:05
Winner of a Silver Trophy at the New York Festival 'World's Best Radio Awards' 2014, this startling but ultimately uplifting documentary is about t...
- Added: Sep 01, 2014
- Length: 27:55
It’s 1938 in San Francisco. War is brewing around the world, but America's entry into World War II is still several years away. Meanwhile in this ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jul 27, 2014
- Length: 09:59
- Purchases: 1
It used to be that the terms “nerdy” and “cool” were at opposite ends of a spectrum. Collecting comics was for losers, listening to punk rock was f...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 08:42
A three-part Peace Talks Radio program this time features a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb; also remarks from the woman who helped hide Anne...
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 58:54
- Purchases: 2
One of our 100-second weekday readings for MAY; an unusual Afghani custom.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
Producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson speaks with author Shizue Seigel about her book In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans During the Internm...
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 04:48
A discussion of the evolution of film over the last hundred years, both as a vehicle for imaginative storytelling and a genre for commentary, the p...
- Added: Feb 27, 2014
- Length: 23:17
You're listening to Culture Clique, and our series on the Winona State University Winona Works Project. With interviews conducted by students from ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 12:12
- Purchases: 1
Everyone knows that yoga comes from India and is an integral part of the Hindu tradition. But now, it seems everyone wants a piece of it. A new exh...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 1
Jamie Ford talks about and reads from his second novel, Songs of Willow Frost. He also talks about west coast Chinese culture in the early 20th cen...
Bought by WCWP, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jan 01, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
This Chinese-American novelist, perhaps best known for her book, "Joy Luck Club," takes readers to Shanghai and its International Settlement where ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Dec 19, 2013
- Length: 10:04
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 03, 2013
- Length: 04:30
An interview with Suzy Menkes, @INYTLuxury 2013, the woman who has long unearthed every new fashion trend for The International Herald Tribune (now...
- Added: Nov 20, 2013
- Length: 13:33
What India's latest space mission to Mars can tell us about the difficulties in reconciling the aspirations of the "haves" and the "have nots."
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 02:23
In the wake of the 2010 BP oil spill, Vietnamese fisher folk on the Gulf Coast found themselves doubly affected. The disaster made it impossible fo...
- Added: Oct 15, 2013
- Length: 09:48
It turns out that a community best known for winning spelling bees also has some radical skeletons in its closet.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 19, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
A UK author who has lived in China for decades tells a true-crime tale of the unsolved murder of a young British girl in 1937 in colonial Peking, a...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 10:02
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious visits with filmmaker Kristine Samuelson, co-creator of the documentary, “Tokyo Waka: A City Poem” about the 20,000 crows that inhabi...
- Added: May 06, 2013
- Length: 29:01
From: Jennifer Dunn
Series: China's One Child Policy: Stories of Struggles with its Unintended Consequences
Series: China's One Child Policy: Stories of Struggles with its Unintended Consequences
Pressed by paternal grandparents to have a boy, couples in China engage in creative ways of tricking the system and having a son without openly vio...
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 2
A chaotic system of divorce by folk beliefs and text messages may be nearing its end.
- Added: Nov 18, 2012
- Length: 28:44
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Aaron Dignan, the author of The Game Frame, and Jenova Chen of ThatGameCompany.
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 48:19
November is American Diabetes Month and this award-winning program tells first-person stories from the Type 2 diabetes epidemic. Health Care Report...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, KPVL, 90.5 WESA, WEZU, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 54:03
- Purchases: 8
