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A Date With America
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy has his annual date with America... at the Oscar's.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Happy 90th Birthday Tintin!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy remembers his boyhood fascination with Hergé's famous comic, Tintin

  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Mackenzie's Odyssey
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip investigates the journey of a small town Scottish postmaster to his resting place in Kolkata.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Being Green
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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India is home to some of the most polluted cities in the world, but also home to some of the first champions of recycling.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Jungle Crows
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: the Jungle Crows play in a Kolkata park
In Cricket crazy india, an obscure game played with a very strange shaped ball takes hold.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
The Laughing Kanchenjungha
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: No Kanchenjungha :-(, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy finally… finally sees the mysterious Kanchenjungha with his own eyes! Finally!

  • Added: Oct 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Ganesh doesn't care
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The God Ganesh at a temple in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
The Fort Bend county Republican party in Texas tried to appropriate Ganesh and discovered that you can’t lasso an elephant so easily.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
No serial!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy addresses a major calamity in Kolkata.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Starbuck Struck
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Selfies abound at Kolkata Starbucks
In Kolkata Starbucks is not just coffee, it’s clearly cachet.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Across the Universe... again
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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For a little while, in the hills of Rishikesh, India it will be 1968 again.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lit Fest Discoveries
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Jaipur Lit Fest panel, Credit: Sandip Roy
Writer Sandip Roy experiences a deeper meaning to the 'Lit fest’ circuit.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Monsoon on Stage
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The ensemble cast of Monsoon Wedding, Credit: Photo courtesy Kevin Berne/Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Monsoon Wedding by Mira Nair was an unlikely hit in 2001. A movie set in India but not a British Raj nostalgia film. Nor a Passage to spiritual Ind...

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Food Fest! (Diwali 2016)
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Durga Puja and Diwali bookend our festival season in Kolkata. But there’s an ancillary festival that’s almost as important. It needs as much plann...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
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
Goodbye Mr. Universe
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Manohar Aich, Credit: Bishan Samaddar
While the world was marking the passing of Muhammad Ali, another giant in the world of sports in India died in Kolkata to far less notice.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Darling Darjeeling
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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There’s tea... and there’s Darjeeling tea.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Merry Montoos
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Montoo at the oven, Credit: Sandip Roy
It’s hardly Santaland but as Christmas approaches Montoo’s bakery, in a dingy lane in central Kolkata, is one of the city's hottest addresses.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Sanjay's Super Team
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sanjay's Super Team, Credit: Pixar
Sanjay’s Super Team -- the first Pixar film directed by a person of Indian heritage. The first Pixar film with a central character who is a person ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Diwali Bang Bang!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Diwali Sweets
It’s like saying "I don’t like Christmas." But Sandip Roy has never been particularly fond of Diwali.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Let's Go Fly a Kite
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy never learned how to fly a kite, and he regrets it every September.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mango Crazy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Rare Mangoes at a festival, Credit: Sandip Roy
What we call mango in English has a hundred different names in India. Indians don’t love their mangos. They form fanatical fan clubs of different k...

Bought by WDBM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
Remembering Sultan
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Modi rally
I was reporting on India’s 2014 general election which would bring Narendra Modi to power a year ago. Sultan, though that’s not his real name, was...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ask a loaded question
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.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
Mind your own beeswax
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.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
Native Sounds: Louie Gonnie
From: Vision Maker Media
Series: Native Sounds
Caption: Louie Gonnie
Shirley Sneve speaks with Navajo singer Louie Gonnie.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KKWE Niijii Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSQM 91.5 FM, KWIS 88.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2011
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 6