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When Korean adoptee Sara Jones went looking for her birth family, she wondered if a strange tattoo given to her in childhood could unlock any secrets.
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jan 11, 2024
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 2
The story of the Supreme Court case that established an immigration principle that we lean on to this day.
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 23:43
Children are often shielded from a painful family past. For Ava Chin, a deep, personal hunger to reclaim her Chinese-American legacy led her to sto...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP
- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 53:25
- Purchases: 2
An American expatriate and his British colleague work tirelessly to rehabilitate Cambodian children from the nightmare of prostitution.
Bought by KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMUN, KWMR and more
- Added: Mar 15, 2023
- Length: 01:58:02
- Purchases: 17
Today on Don't Cha Know, we talk to Eileen Mueller who is the managing director at the Frozen River Film Festival. The Frozen River Film Fest is an...
- Added: Feb 06, 2023
- Length: 42:07
If there’s one thing Bung-Ja Ziporah Kim Rothkopf loves to discuss, it’s food. “I can leave my land,” she says, “I can leave my family. But I could...
- Added: Jun 12, 2022
- Length: 36:44
We’ve all heard of MN nice, well get ready for Minnesota ‘N Ice, a special Culture Clique series where we’ll take a look at the way Minnesotans and...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 30:53
- Purchases: 1
In 1942, FDR authorized the removal and relocation of anyone in certain military areas. The result? The incarceration of over 120,000 people of Jap...
- Added: Jul 21, 2021
- Length: 30:15
This episode is all about one of Appalachia’s most critical natural resources — fierce women. We hear what happens when Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei...
- Added: Oct 20, 2020
- Length: 54:00
Immigrants are spicing up Minnesota food. In this episode of the MinneCulture podcast, host Jumondeh Tweh gets cooking tips from his Liberian mothe...
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 18:01
Wang Ping wanted to go to Tibet to bless the world. But to do that, she had to risk her own safety.
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 24:04
- Purchases: 2
What did want to be when she grew up? A plastic surgeon! No, a science teacher! No, I know—an artist. No, wait—company CEO! Susie Lee CEO of Siren...
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 42:43
Author William deBuys reads from his true account, The Last Unicorn: A Search For One Of Earth's Rarest Creatures (a sample of our 100-second daily...
- Added: Dec 11, 2015
- Length: 01:40
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
Amanda and her husband were eager to start a family. They turned to foreign adoption, and couldn’t imagine the heartbreak, surprises and love that...
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 05:35
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
Filmmaker Debbie Lum talks facing her fears, keeping the conversation going, and why she ended up as a character in her own documentary.
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 14:25
Philly Youth Radio’s Yingci Chen is a first generation Chinese immigrant. She's noticed that Chinese immigrant parents often don't want their kids ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 12, 2013
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Aug 10, 2012
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 2
Meejin Yoon talks about creating work at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape, and technology. [27:29]
- Added: Jan 20, 2012
- Length: 27:29
The spicy Korean dish, kimchi, has a long pedigree, dating all the way back to the 7th century, if not earlier. Before freezers, before hydroponic ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 3
In March, a young Swiss-Tibetan named Karma Emchi produced a funny rap song about a Tibetan meat pastry and posted it on YouTube. But he couldn't...
- Added: Jun 27, 2011
- Length: 05:35
The origin of people living on islands throughout the Pacific has been a mystery for years. Now some archaeologists in Hawaii believe they have th...
- Added: May 12, 2009
- Length: 05:10
Ever wondered how the Himalayas got mapped? What is the connection between Rudyard Kipling's Kim and the the group that mapped the Himalayas?
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: 26:28
Two Golfers Have Holes in One hours apart on the same hole.
- Added: Feb 27, 2008
- Length: 04:08
