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Tiger Balm and Batman Comics
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Edward Lee has questions about his family’s immigration to Canada, and the only person he can ask is his father.

Bought by WTIP, KCUR, WMPG, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:30
  • Purchases: 4
A Colonel's Daughter
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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Makiko Ishihara of Toronto travels to her childhood home in Japan to face some difficult memories.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KCUR, and WETA


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 3
Mei Mei, A Daughter's Song
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Winner of the Peabody award, MEI MEI, A DAUGHTER'S SONG is the personal story of cross-cultural and cross-generational conflict produced by Dmae Ro...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, PRX Remix, The Story, SALTcast Podcast, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2005
  • Length: 26:35
  • Purchases: 17
Arranged Marriage
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Looking at arranged marriage through my mothers eyes.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Nov 16, 2005
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
Testing the Alarms
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Post 9/11 fear divides communities.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 14, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Poetry of Vietnam
From: Don McIver
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Take an audio tour through Vietnam using poetry in Vietnamese and English and inspired by what they called, "The American War.

Bought by WYSO, KUT, and WEKU


  • Added: Aug 30, 2005
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 3
Hawaiian Pidgin English
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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More than half of Hawaii's residents speak Pidgin - a combination of English, Hawaiian and Asian languages.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KREV-LP, KZYX, KUOW and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2005
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 6
HEART-to-HEART Pgm III: Respecting Diversity
From: Claire Schoen
Series: HEART-to-HEART: Caring for the Dying
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Respecting Diversity looks at the influence of culture, race and religion on dying; how the assumptions behind "good end-of-life care" do not nece...

Bought by KMXT, WETA, Audible, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KALW


  • Added: Jul 28, 2005
  • Length: 01:00:45
  • Purchases: 5
Music in the Killing Fields: Daran Kravanh
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Cambodian Musician Daran Kravanh says music saved his life during the Kiling Fields.

Bought by The Story, KGLT, and KZSC


  • Added: Jul 21, 2005
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 3
The Story of Ing (Doc) Hay-Frontier Herbalist-feature
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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The Story of Ing (Doc) Hay is about a frontier herbalist and acupuncturist in John Day, Oregon.

Bought by KZYX, KREV-LP, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 23, 2005
  • Length: 09:10
  • Purchases: 3
Indian Brass Bands
From: WNYC
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Thanks to instruments left behind by the British army, brass band music has become an integral part of Indian musical culture.

Bought by WEFT, WGVU, 2SER FM 107.3, and WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: May 17, 2005
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 4
80 Meters
From: Jennifer Dunn
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Development tensions and forced relocation in rural southwestern China

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 25, 2005
  • Length: 12:34
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Adrift in Sri Lanka
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Marijke van der Meer was a tourist in Sri Lanka when the tsunami hit and recorded her experiences in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.

Bought by Central Florida Public Media


  • Added: Jan 27, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
The Journey of Lady Buddha
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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A mythological and personal documentary about Kuan Yin, the Asian Goddess of Mercy and Compassion

Bought by Room Tone Selects, WCPN, KZYX, KRCB 104.9, KUT-HD and more


  • Added: Dec 24, 2004
  • Length: 56:43
  • Purchases: 11
The Reindeer People
From: Lorne Matalon
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mongolia's remaining reindeer herders are trying to find their way in post-Communist Mongolia.

Bought by The Nature Podcast, WNIN, KFAI Minneapolis, WGCU, and KLCC


  • Added: Dec 21, 2004
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 5
Trauma and Recovery: A Cambodian Refugee Experience
From: Karen Brown
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A documentary on Cambodian refugees still coping with past trauma.

Bought by KBOO, WGBH Radio Boston, and CKMO


  • Added: Nov 16, 2004
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Tokyo "All Aboard" Melodies
From: Andy Raskin
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Melodies heard on Tokyo train platforms.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, KUT-HD, KTNA and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2004
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 7
Don't Take The Colors Apart
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Amerasian Playwright Velina Hasu Houston learned early on to have pride in her identity through her African American father and Japanese mother.

Bought by KVSC, WESM 91.3 FM, KUER, KVSC, KUT and more


  • Added: May 17, 2004
  • Length: 26:09
  • Purchases: 17
Memorial
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Every 100 days, Roberts saves the phone messages of her mom who passed away two years ago as a living memorial.

Bought by WHFR, Prairie Public, Room Tone Selects, WTJU, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: May 02, 2004
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 28
City Lights
From: Jennifer Dunn
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Members of China's floating population recount their hopes and challenges as rural-urban migrants.

Bought by WBEZ and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 27, 2004
  • Length: 20:37
  • Purchases: 2
Wu Man - Pipa player
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Famed pipa virtuoso Wu Man in her own words and her music

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, WCQS, WEKU, KCUR and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2003
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 7

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