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Word Cloud of the Year
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A Bengali sign that asks visitors to wear masks during the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
In a big shift from tradition the Oxford English Dictionary said 2020 is a “year which cannot be neatly accommodated in one word,” so maybe this ye...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
A Shortcut Through 2020
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
A final look at an impossible year, 12 months of incredible drama, played out over the world stage in an hour long retrospective

Bought by KMUN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Mississippi Public Broadcasting, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:09
  • Purchases: 13
Feluda
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A book celebrating 50 years of Feluda, Credit: Sandip Roy
The new paper strip test for COVID-19 in India is called “Feluda.” Why such a name? Sandip Roy sleuths out the answer.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
CBC S 1 E 4: Minneapolis, The Supply Chain
From: WNIN
Series: COVID Between the Coasts
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Mistakes were made in keeping PPE and other essential medical supplies available for health care and emergency workers during the pandemic. Are we ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 21, 2020
  • Length: 21:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dispatch 358 - Festival of Democracy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Indians now look at the 2020 American elections and understand that there’s chaos that’s colorful and then there’s chaos thats toxic.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Ep 13 & 14: Gone With The Wind / Behind The Scenes Doc
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 13: Gone With The Wind It is three weeks since Ernie dropped Jerry off back at their home in Washington DC. Jerry has been in the care of...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 11 & 12: A Bed of Coals / The Simple Proposition
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 11: A Bed of Coals Ernie pays a visit to the home office for a meeting with his editor, Lee Miller. Miller, an old friend, knows about Je...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 9 & 10: A Desolate Corporation / The Zipper
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 9: A Desolate Corporation Ernie’s first writing job was as an aviation columnist in The Washington Daily News. Amelia Earhart once said, ...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 7 & 8: Not The Washington Post March / Have You Been Away?
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 7: Not The Washington Post March Finally back on the road, Ernie and Jerry stop into a favorite haunt for the night. However, it is in Oh...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 5 & 6: Perhaps You've Heard Of My Father / Thirty Years Too Soon
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 5: Perhaps You've Heard Of My Father Ernie discovers that his father drove his car through the front plate-glass window of the Dana dry-g...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 3 & 4: The Snake Story / My Mother
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 3: The Snake Story Ernie’s parents are enjoying Ernie and Jerry’s visit home, but his mother just can’t seem to accept what her son has b...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ep 1 & 2: The Bourgeois Standard / That Long Sad Wind
From: WFIU
Series: The Ernie Pyle Experiment!
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Episode 1: The Bourgeois Standard As pressure mounts from the home office, Ernie is forced to use a voice recorder for his work in interviewing t...

Bought by KAAD-LP and WCBE


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
Big Tech and Democracy: What Went Wrong
From: Mateo Schimpf
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As we race towards a particularly contentious presidential election in the US, we look at the influence of social media on our democracy. And, as p...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Dispatch #354: The Shadow of Caste
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Headlines from the Telegraph, Credit: Sandip Roy
The caste system is a long and controversial cultural norm in India, but now the Dalits may be getting a boost from America’s civil rights movements.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
United States Post Office
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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It’s the government on your doorstep — the only Executive Branch agency that visits every home in the country on a regular basis. So how does the U...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2020
  • Length: 23:52
Dispatch 352 - The incorrigible vice
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Chewie wears his mask. Be like Chewie., Credit: Sandip Roy
…the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. — From ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Farmworkers Risk Smoke, Heat, And COVID-19 As California Burns
From: Mateo Schimpf
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From Santa Rosa to Salinas, farmworkers are harvesting as California burns. Workers are risking heat, smoke, and COVID-19 to pick grapes and harves...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 10:51
  • Purchases: 1
Keep Cool and think of Kolkata
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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As San Francisco’s heat wave hits 100º Sandip Roy recalls how to battle heat waves in his native Kolkata.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Political Junkie - Great Moments in Presidential Debates (2020)
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin for a review of many great moments from the history of televised presidential debates, with commentary from several...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WUWM, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WJCT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 13
Goodbye My Tribe (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Goodbye My Tribe
The author of Goodbye My Tribe: An Evangelical Exodus chronicles his journey away from his fundamentalist religion.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WYAP, KMUN, WFHB, WJCT and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
You Should Know Justin Townes Earle: An Appreciation
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Justin Townes Earle (1982 - 2020)
Critically-acclaimed singer/songwriter Justin Townes Earle is celebrated in an hour long retrospective of his musical journey, including comments f...

Bought by WGUC/ WVXU, KMSU, KHNS, KSRQ, KUHF and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
kaMAla, Kamala
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The furor over a Kamala seems much ado over very few syllables, but how one handles the mispronunciation can be telling.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie - Great Moments in Convention History (2020)
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin on a journey through political history as we revisit memorable and historic moments from national party conventions...

Bought by WVPE, Vermont Public, KCPW Salt Lake City, and KBBI Alaska


  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Dispatch 346 - The New Normal
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip wonders if the new normal is really normal?

  • Added: Aug 10, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Dispatch 344 - Olivia's Rakhi Purnima
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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With the news of Olivia de Havilland’s death this week coinciding with the Indian celebration of Rakhi Purnima, Sandip reflects on how the holiday ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2020
  • Length: 06:00

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