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Innocent When You Dream
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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80-something Dan Yamada, rendered speechless by a stroke, recalls his life.

Bought by KCHW, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 10
Hold These Truths
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident...and when they are made known to us, how fully will we see them?"

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KCHW, KMUN, KFCF FM, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 19
809: You Had To Be There / 810: More Than Just A Game, 7/8/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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
For Us All
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The true story of a long road to justice.

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, KFCF FM, KUOW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 11
Hyphenated Identity
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place
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What's in a name? We reflect on where we belong and what it means to be American, especially in the wake of anti-Asian hate crimes.

  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 52:02
Two Revolutions, Many Secrets
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Left: Wilson Dairy Restaurant Right: Helen Zia as baby with mom
In the midst of our dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s hard to imagine what stories we will ultimately tell our children and grandchildren. T...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Sisters Matsumoto
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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After years in an internment camp, a Japanese-American family struggles to adjust to their new lives.

Bought by KUNM, KUNM, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 10
LIVING IN AN AMERICAN INTERNMENT CAMP
From: Michelle Harven
Series: Legacy
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Mary Tamaki Murakami talks about life in an internment camp during World War II and why she sees parallels in today’s treatment of Muslim-Americans.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Gary Koivu and Kim Koivu
From: StoryCorps
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Vincent Chin was a 27-year-old draftsman living near Detroit. On a June night in 1982, he and a group of friends went out to celebrate his wedding,...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 2
Deoli Internees
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Deoli Internees in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
In 1962 a group of Indians were shipped off to internment camps during a war with China.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Follow The Box
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: a photo from the box
Over 25 years ago curators Alan Teller and Jerri Zbiral went to an estate sale in Illinois. Jerri says they stumbled upon a shoebox that would cha...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Urban Boatbuilders staff member studies traditional Japanese boatbuilding
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Angela Robins, former intern at North House Folk School in Grand Marais, was back in town to speak at the Wooden Boat Show about Japanese boatbuild...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:44
Korean Born Author Maija Rhee Devine
From: New Letters on the Air
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As part of Park University's Ethnic Voices Poetry Series at the Kansas City Public Library, Maija (May-jah) Rhee (ree) Devine recounts how her extr...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNJR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Chinese Memoirist and Novelist Anchee Min
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, we revisit best-selling memoirist and fiction writer, Anchee Min. 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Shengqiao Chen and Zehao Zhou
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Shengqiao Chen (L) and Zehao Zhou (R)
Shengqiao Chen (L) tells his friend Zehao Zhou (R) about being smuggled to the U.S. aboard the Golden Venture in 1993.

Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 07, 2013
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 3
Tea Culture with Garret Sorenson and Sarah Crawford
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Garret Sorenson and Sarah Crawford from Mandala Center for Wellness
On this episode of Culture Clique, we sit down for tea in downtown Winona. The founders of Mandala Center for Wellness (Garret Sorenson and Sarah C...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 41:09
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Shigeko Sasamori, An Account of Survival and Hope
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we have the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Shigeko Sasamori. Dr. Sasamori visited Winona State University this fal...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 55:07
  • Purchases: 2
Scare Those Ghosts Away
From: Littleglobe
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Yumei Lay, whose parents immigrated to Chile from China, explores how Chinese and Japanese schools teach the Sino-Japanese wars differently.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 05:01
The Chinatown Friendship Gate
From: Chinatown Youth Radio Philadelphia
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The icon of Philadelphia Chinatown gets a makeover

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
This I Believe - Yinong Young-Xu
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Yinong Young-Xu believes he must guard against exercising the brutality he learned as a child in China.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KBGA 89.9 FM, and KJZZ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2007
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 4
The Forgotten
From: SCAD Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tim Bui of Gulfport, MS tells his story of Katrina.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Dec 25, 2006
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1