PRX - Pieces for Topic: Asian

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

29 results


Caption: An Indian advertisement mourns Matthew Perry., Credit: Courtesy Amul.
The TV show "Friends" might have been about a group of close-knit white New Yorkers but somehow it resonated in many corners of the world including...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Actors Sylvia Kwan and Jacob Yeh discuss their many roles in Lauren Yee's play "The King of the Yees."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KZUM


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:07
  • Purchases: 4
Piece image
HOUR ONE: "You Had To Be There" - A new generation rediscovers pleasure palaces of the past, abandoned movie theaters and concert halls. What are t...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Caption: Cutouts of Pathaan characters at a movie theatre in Kolkata., Credit: Bishan Samaddar
Pathaan, the biggest Bollywood hit of recent times is being hailed as the return of its star Shah Rukh Khan. But a lot more is being read into its ...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
Piece image
The French author Dominique LaPierre died recently and that made Sandip Roy think of the author's legacy on his hometown of Kolkata.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
Piece image
This week on On Story we’ll hear from Dave Callaham, the screenwriter behind Marvel’s Shang-chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Later in the episo...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Sonja Kostich and Stella Abrera, Credit: Quinn Wharton
Sonja Kostich and Stella Abrera—both Asian Americans, former dancers, and co-leaders of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park—talk about the organization and its...

Bought by WMPG, RADIOLEX, KZUM, WDCB, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Daniel K. Isaac, Credit: Emil Cohen
You may know Daniel K. Isaac as Ben Kim from the television series “Billions,” but he’s also a committed and talented actor in theater and an accom...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, RADIOLEX, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:57
  • Purchases: 4
Piece image
In Search of Bengali Harlem is a transformative journey, not just for Alaudin Ullah, but for our understanding of the complex histories of South As...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Led Kaapana, Credit: Marsha Forsythe, Cover Look Photo Corps
To kick off our celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we are revisiting two interviews with cultural...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WDCB, KECG, WRGY, KUT and more


  • Added: May 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Piece image
Twenty years ago, in 2001, the internet was really taking off—the steady increase in internet use was accelerating, especially among young people. ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:42
Piece image
In an industrial town in China, the lives of four people (three young, one old) intertwine on a day darkened by hostility, powerlessness, and reven...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: Hiroya Tsukamoto
Composer, guitarist, and singer-songwriter from Kyoto, Japan. Plus a few Christmas songs from the Newberry & Verch "Holiday Cheer" tour.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Driveways 1
Andrew Ahn - Korean-American Filmmaker - Andy, First Birthday, Spa Night, This Close, Gentefied, Driveways

  • Added: Nov 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: A goat from FSA Entertainment's YouTube channel, Credit: Fahad Zariwala FSA Entertainment
At Bakra Mania, a goat dealership in Mumbai Fahad Zariwala runs the youtube channel FSA Entertainment which showcases many goat gems and “India’s C...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Piece image
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
Piece image
Jia Zhangke is mainland China’s most cutting-edge director, challenging that country’s official story of economic triumph with poetic and elliptica...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:32
Piece image
Stories about things that might seem trivial, or even annoying, but that always reveal something deeper and beautiful underneath.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 54:10
Caption: The Farewell
Yong Ok Lee - Production Designer - Pandemic, We Go On, They, Grace, Dead Women Walking, The Farewell

  • Added: Sep 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Piece image
Sandip Roy misses a piece of India that can only be had in in San Francisco.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Film music you remember, even if you've forgotten the film.
In honor of the Chinese New Year, Robert Bruce and Quinn Riley explore film scores from movies taking place in China: The Land of the Red Dragon.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KUPR low power FM, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 21, 2018
  • Length: 58:22
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Ashe Bhosle in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
Once Asha effortlessly brought India to my kitchen in California. Now she transported me from a balmy night in a park in Kolkata to a foggy evening...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Baluji Shrivastav, Credit: Sandip Roy
In India in the 1960s there were few options for a blind child. Blind people often begged in trains and railway platforms singing hymns. But Baluji...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Gao Hong w/pipa, Credit: Photo Provided by World Music Professionals
Gao Hong came from China to America in 1994. Already established as a world-class player of the Chinese pipa, she has gotten interested in the west...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:40
Caption: Chitresh Das
The restless boy is finally still. Khatak master Pandit Chitresh Das passed away on Jan. 4, 2015 in Northern California.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 06:00