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World in Progress: What is going on in Myanmar? Since the military coup in Myanmar over two years ago that ousted the democratically elected govern...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The "Little Manila" Mabuhay mural, represents welcome, best wishes and life. It greets you in bright yellow on a sky-blue field on the wall of Amazing Grace Restaurant, evoking the taste and fragrance of the Filipines. Calamansi fruits and sampaguita blos, Credit: Jake Hofileña
This episode is from the Queens Memory Podcast, a project archiving stories from Queens, New York. “Little Manila” is a Filipino enclave dating ba...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Noncitizens in San Francisco are now guaranteed the vote in school board elections, including the upcoming recall election. We speak with some immi...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 26:10
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Our show centers on the life and thought of Tanaka Shozo, a radical environmental thinker in early 20th century Japan who criticized the modernizin...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Atlanta & Boulder Mass Shootings Underscore Urgent Need to Pass Gun Violen...

Bought by WKPW and KMXT


  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: General Suharto in the days after the September 30th Movement.
"The Jakarta Method" is the anticommunist mass-murder playbook that, due to its great success (the nearly overnight erasure of the largest unarmed ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Chinatown in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
Why is it when there is tension between two countries, the fear always seems to end up at the dining table.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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
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Sandip Roy embarks of an anti-war march in a time of hastags.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Comics on the panel about comedy and politics, Credit: Sandip Roy
70 years after Independence it sometimes feels as if Indians are still to develop a funny bone. Especially when it comes to politicians.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
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It was the 1960s – and throughout the United States, opposition to the War in Vietnam was growing. The Draft forced young men to make a choice abo...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Shubha Mudgal
Unexpected reverberations of Narendra Modi's victory come to Sunnyvale California.

  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: Onion Ad, Credit: Sandip Roy
Election season in New Dehli with a flavorful twist!

  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
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What India's latest space mission to Mars can tell us about the difficulties in reconciling the aspirations of the "haves" and the "have nots."

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
Caption: Kalpana Pradhan, Kolkata, India
A chaotic system of divorce by folk beliefs and text messages may be nearing its end.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2012
  • Length: 28:44
Caption: A Broad at Home, Credit: Walter Murch
The Conceptual artist Mr. Ai Wei Wei, was detained by the Chinese authorities on Sunday April 3. Where has he been taken and why?

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 09:25
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Open Source is in New Delhi with two stars of the writing class. Namita Gokhale is a novelist, publisher, and sparkplug of the Indian literary boom...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
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We visited the Wat Mai Monestary for Burmese Buddhist monks in Bangkok, Thailand. During our stay we were able to talk directly to the monks about...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 28:02