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"Living and Grieving in a Time of Covid 19"
From: Shirley Jahad
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We bring you stories of "Living and Grieving in a Time of Covid 19." Each story crosses a line ... from before pandemic ... to after. The stories e...

Bought by Valley Public Radio, KCSB-FM, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, KGNU Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 54:52
  • Purchases: 11
Dispatch 338 - Statue of Limitations
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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In the news recently, statues have been defaced and pulled down from their perches ala Saddam Hussein.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Saltwater Honey
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A crocodile in the Sundarbans, Credit: Sandip Roy
The Sundarbans in Bengal, India have become a speeded up version of global climate change.

  • Added: Jun 09, 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
The New Vendors
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A local vegetable vendor, Credit: Sandip Roy
The COVID-19 lockdown has forced many street vendors inside, but now the sounds of the street are returning.

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Dispatch 333 - Going Home
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A screen capture from Sandip Roy's Twitter feed, Credit: Sandip Roy
The COVID pandemic has had a terrible effect on all of us, and opened our eyes to some of those who were invisible before.

  • Added: May 11, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
That Which Is But Isn't
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Are they trying to ram a space-alien story down your throat again? Yeah they are, it happens sometimes. Every couple years, for reasons even they c...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
012 - Reformation and Counter-Reformation
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Explore the influence the Reformation and Counter-Reformation had on the world of music including the work of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
011 - Canon and Imitation
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Explore the development of imitation, or canon, as a tool of harmony and musical in the works of Josquin Deprez and Johannes Ockeghem.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
009 - Guillame Du Fay
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Discover the music of the 15th Century French composer Guillame Du Fay and how the lines that defined secular and sacred music began to blur in the...

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
008 - Ars Antiqua vs. Ars Nova
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Discover the writings of French theorist, poet, philosopher and composer Philippe de Vitry.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
007 - Troubadours - Bernart de Ventadorn
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Troubadors, or trouveres, were French composers and performers of secular lyrical poetry and song beginning in the late 11th Century.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
006 - Hildegard of Bingen
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Hildegard of Bingen was a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, abbess, polymath, and a literal visionary of the 12th Century.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
005 - Leonin and Perotin
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Learn about anonymity and authorship in the Middle Ages.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 1
004 - Guido de Arezzo
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Learn about one of the first music theorists in our Western musical tradition.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
003 - The Birth of Musical Notation
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Discover how the practice of writing down music began.

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
001 - Ancient Musical Notation
From: Vermont Public
Series: Timeline
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Explore the earliest examples of written music in history.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 1
EP121 Diane Blue
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Diane Blue has been a voice in the Blues music scene for years as a vocalist and harmonica player. This show highlights her solo career as well as ...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:39
Happy Bengali New Year
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Wooden toys at a past Charak Mela festival, Credit: Sandip Roy
In the year 1427, there will be no celebration. But Sandip remembers the Bengali New Year festivities from years past, the Charak Mela.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
The Earth Breathes
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip Roy's empty street in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
For these few weeks as humans suffer, the earth is healing itself.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Indomitable Gauls
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip remembers his early childhood attraction to a group of mustacioed morons. Astrix and Obelix.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
No Face Masks On Mars
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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You heard the captain: No coughing on the spaceship.

Bought by KFCF FM and KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
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
The Sad Samosa
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Cauliflower samosas for Sandip's lunch, Credit: Sandip Roy
I am a samosa and I was meant to play a small but key role in India US diplomacy. This is my sad sad story.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Trump's "Discovery of India" tour
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Trump as Baahubali
Sandip Roy looks at all the ways Trump’s recent visit to India has been a benefit to all concerned.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2020
  • Length: 06:00

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