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Independence
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip's mother Reba Roy who saw India become independent reads Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's novel Independence set in those years., Credit: Sandip Roy
India celebrated its 77th Independence Day this week. Sandip talks to novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni about the turbulent and traumatic years o...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Ballad of Jaswant Singh Rawat
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Statue to fallen soldier Jaswant Singh Rawat up in the Himalaya, Credit: Sandip Roy
October marks the 60th anniversary of the Indo-China war fought in the upper reaches of the Himalaya in 1962. It's not a war that ended in glory fo...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Making Dumplings
From: NANCY GUAN
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I interview my mom about her personal history with this traditional Chinese dish—dumplings.

  • Added: May 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:28
My Bruce-Like Life
From: Larry Tazuma
Caption: LarryT
At 32, Larry Tazuma embarked on a journey to live a life as somebody much more special than himself — as Bruce Lee, the legendary martial artist an...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2018
  • Length: 05:30
The Ghosts of the Gwangju Uprising
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: May 18 Memorial in Gwangju, Korea, Credit: May 18 Memorial Foundation
On May 18, 1980, the people of Gwangju, South Korea rose up for reunification and an end to U.S.-backed military dictatorships. Their actions chan...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Partition Museum
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Amar Kapoor's Diary, Credit: Partition Museum
This August 15th marked 70 years of India’s independence. But this also marks 70 years of one of India’s greatest human tragedies. The partition ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
StoryCorps: Aiko Ebihara and Roy Ebihara
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Seventy-five years ago this month President Roosevelt signed an executive order ordering all Japanese Americans into internment camps, including th...

Bought by Public Radio for All, WEZU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 3
Netaji Lives!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Credit: nataji.org
The mystery of Subhas Chandra Bose has trumped the actual history of Subhas Bose.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
How I left Saigon
From: Valerie Hamilton
Caption: Lawyer and newspaper publisher Dat Huy Phan at his desk at California's Nguoi Viet Daily News, Credit: Marcus Teply
California lawyer and newspaper publisher Dat Huy Phan was a 27-year-old high school teacher in Saigon when the city fell to North Vietnam in April...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 03:47
Fallen Heroes of 2014
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Yuri Kochiyama, Credit: Bob Hsiang
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...

Bought by WNJR and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Burma '88: Buried History
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
Caption: Burmese demonstrators in 1988., Credit: Gaye Paterson
25 years ago, university students in Burma sparked a countrywide uprising. They called for a nationwide strike on 8/8/88, a date they chose for its...

Bought by PRX Remix and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 09, 2013
  • Length: 13:13
  • Purchases: 2
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
Tenzing Norgay (First on Everest), May 9, 1986
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Self-described as a simple mountain coolie, he became one of the world's foremost mountaineers and, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, the first ... ev...

  • Added: May 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Travel in China: Exploring the Culture
From: Let's Travel! Radio
Caption: Ancient Grand Canal runs through the city, Wuxi, Credit: China National Tourist Office
We continue our celebration of the Chinese New Year with special guest Baoshi Jin, assistant director of China National Tourist Office in New York.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 11:10
The Museum of Chinese in America: The Chinese Identity
From: Let's Travel! Radio
Caption: 215 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013, Credit: Museum of Chinese in America
Today we celebrate the Chinese New Year with special guest S. Alice Mong, director of the Museum of Chinese in America.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2011
  • Length: 09:38
The Year of the Rabbit: Count Your Blessings
From: Let's Travel! Radio
Caption: Year of the Rabbit Zen Brush, Credit: Etsy, Inc.
Join us today for the first part of this week's show on the upcoming Chinese New Year with special guest Ms. Peng Zeng, assistant director of the C...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2011
  • Length: 11:47
When Former Enemies Sit Down and Talk About World War II
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Japanese WWII Propaganda
A Japanese student got fellow students from England, France, the USA, Germany, China and Japan to tell each other what World War II meant to them, ...

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Dec 06, 2010
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Chinese Exclusion Act: A Postcard
From: Michelle Chang
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One-hundred thousand Chinese immigrated to America during the second half of the nineteenth century. They first came as miners during the Californi...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2007
  • Length: 03:12
RN Documentary: Modern Day Mongolia
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Mongolia in the 21st century must choose which aspects of modernity and tradition will shape its identity in the 21st century.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WFUV


  • Added: Jan 04, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Chinatown, Five Years Later: An Audio Diary
From: WFUV
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A Chinatown business owner shares her audio diary on what life's been like in the five years since the 9/11 attacks.

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Sep 07, 2006
  • Length: 30:05
  • Purchases: 1
Japan-Asia Postwar
From: Steve Herman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Time does not heal wounds Japan inflicted in Asia before and during WWII

  • Added: Aug 10, 2005
  • Length: 06:38
Hiroshima-60th
From: Steve Herman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Hiroshima remembers 60 years ago when the city was attacked with an atomic bomb

  • Added: Aug 05, 2005
  • Length: 02:59
Japan-Nuclear
From: Steve Herman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Six decades after Hiroshima talk of a nuclear Japan is no longer taboo

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 02, 2005
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 1
Saipan-Emperor
From: Steve Herman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Japanese emperor makes historic visit to Saipan

  • Added: Jun 30, 2005
  • Length: 04:56