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Author Adam Johnson, an American obsessed with North Korea
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “The Orphan Master’s Son,” this Stanford University creative writing teacher introduces us to the people of modern-day North Korea. Johnson spe...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Shengqiao Chen and Zehao Zhou
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Shengqiao Chen (L) and Zehao Zhou (R)
Shengqiao Chen (L) tells his friend Zehao Zhou (R) about being smuggled to the U.S. aboard the Golden Venture in 1993.

Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 07, 2013
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 3
Author Paul French and "Midnight in Peking"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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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
JazzStories: Toshiko Akiyoshi
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Toshiko Akiyoshi, Credit: Amanda Brown
"The fact is my parents lost all of their assets. If I didn't have something (I was) really into, in my case was piano and jazz, I think it would h...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and KREV-LP


  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 12:08
  • Purchases: 2
Voice of a Young Voter: Ross Rothpanhar On Appreciating Government Services
From: KQED
Series: From the West Coast: Voices of Young Voters
Caption: Ross Rothpanhar, Credit: Ian Hill/KQED
Ross Rothpanhar is a public health major at University of California, Berkeley. He says growing up poor made him appreciate government services.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:06
Dealing With Diabetes
From: Capital Public Radio
Caption: Carolyn Jackson in dialysis, Credit: Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio
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
Latitude News Podcast #3 - Black in China
From: Latitude News
Caption: Jo Bai and her fellow English teachers in Yuyao, China.
Jo is African American. Jo lives in Yuyao, China. Jo gets a lot of attention.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 13:14
  • Purchases: 1
Lessons of Nagasaki
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hope for peace in Nagasaki. Atomic bomb anniversary, 2004., Credit: creative common flickr user: Marufish
The US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Three days later, Nagasaki also fell victim. On this edition, w...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, KSFR, WVTF, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 8
StudioTalk No. 1: Music follows Behaviour.... with Mandolin player Sri Sugato Bhaduri (Kolkata)
From: ElJay Arem
Series: IMC - India meets Classic presents... StudioTalks
Caption: ElJay A. on microphone
Sri Sugato Bhaduri is one of the few mandoline maestros in Indian Classical music and from Kolkata (India). The Mandolin is an Italian instrument b...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
Arundhati Roy: Jungles of Resistance
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Renowned Indian author Arundhati Roy takes us deep into the revolutionary-filled jungles of India, as she reads excerpts from her new book ‘Walking...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
WorldCanvass:Asia
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes. This program's focus is Asia.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:32
Space for a Big Sister
From: Philly Youth Radio
Series: Teen Sanctuaries
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Thien To is a senior at South Philadelphia High. She’s been struggling to hold on to her sanctuary and become the big sister she wants to be.

Bought by WHYY


  • Added: May 20, 2012
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Maxine Hong Kingston
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Maxine Hong Kingston discusses her path-breaking books. [22:55]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 22:55
  • Purchases: 1
Remembrance: On Time And Distance
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Caption: Chu-Yin Lo Roberts
Dmae Roberts produced a special half-hour radio memorial on the 10th anniversary of her mom’s death. Remembrance: On Time And Distance is part memo...

Bought by KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Prairie Public, KVSC, and WBEZ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
Across Many Mountains
From: The Tibet Connection
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An interview with actress, model, martial artists and author Yangzom Brauen and her mother, Sonam Brauen, about Yangzom’s new book, Across Many Mou...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 14:32
Tea Culture with Garret Sorenson and Sarah Crawford
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Garret Sorenson and Sarah Crawford from Mandala Center for Wellness
On this episode of Culture Clique, we sit down for tea in downtown Winona. The founders of Mandala Center for Wellness (Garret Sorenson and Sarah C...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 41:09
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Shigeko Sasamori, An Account of Survival and Hope
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we have the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Shigeko Sasamori. Dr. Sasamori visited Winona State University this fal...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 55:07
  • Purchases: 2
The Joy Luck Club: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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A half-hour audio program that explores Amy Tan's gripping, The Joy Luck Club. It features Amy Tan and readings by actress Ming-Na from the film ad...

Bought by KZYX, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 5
In Desperation, Seafood Workers Sign Away Their Rights
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Caption: Unemployed oyster shucker Tam Nguyen , Credit: Barry Yeoman
For many of Louisiana's oyster shuckers, shrimp peelers, and deckhands, survival after the BP oil spill meant accepting one-time payments of $5,000...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 17, 2011
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: Electric Kulintang - Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Susie Ibarra
“I understand Filipino Kulintang, it's melodic phrasing, how it moves linearly, very similar to how perhaps bebop moves in jazz…there’s a lot of si...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, 90.5 WSNC, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 4
Akinori Itagaki: Now Young People Are Talking About Nuclear Power in Japan
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Messages from Japan
Caption: Messages from Japan, Credit: Eleanor Graf
Akinori Adachi is an exchange student from Japan who is currently studying in Maine. He says that before the nuclear crisis in Fukushima caused by ...

Bought by KZYX and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 01:19
  • Purchases: 2
From Critic to Defender: A Chinese Journalist's Tibetan Odyssey
From: The Tibet Connection
Caption: Chinese journalist Zhu Rui, seated before a Tibetan flag in Dharamsala, India, Credit: Lhakpa Kyizom
After visiting Tibet, Chinese journalist Zhu Rui underwent a personal transformation, from critic of Tibetan society to one of its most passionate ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 06:45
Eyesore Opulence - Peter Hessler & Christian Wiman
From: Open Source
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New Yorker correspondent Peter Hessler reports from the road in China on the human side of miracle growth and epic migration. Then, we meet poet Ch...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
When Former Enemies Sit Down and Talk About World War II
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Japanese WWII Propaganda
A Japanese student got fellow students from England, France, the USA, Germany, China and Japan to tell each other what World War II meant to them, ...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Dec 06, 2010
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
Acupuncture with Jade Fang: Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Photo courtesy of www.acupuncturewinona.com/
On this edition of Culture Clique, we continue our coverage of Acupuncture with Jade Fang of Winona Minnesota. We will learn what acupuncture is li...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 22:22

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