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Layalina: Our Nights, Our Music
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2014
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Layalina is a unique musical collective whose members have connections to the Middle East. Three members of the group share their perspectives on t...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 05:36
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
Super Awesome: Giant Robot's Cultural Evolution
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Giant Robot at OCMA
It used to be that the terms “nerdy” and “cool” were at opposite ends of a spectrum. Collecting comics was for losers, listening to punk rock was f...

  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 08:42
Nadia Hashimi reads from The Pearl That Broke Its Shell (5/6)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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One of our 100-second weekday readings for MAY; an unusual Afghani custom.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
The Musical Hits of Indian Elections - 2014 edition
From: KALW
Caption: Drummers for the Congress Party, Credit: Sandip Roy
An Indian election campaign is not entirely unlike a Bollywood film. The heroes and villains might flip flop depending on your party preference. B...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Author Jenny Bowen, “Wish You Happy Forever"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Though she identifies herself as just an ordinary person with a dream, au contraire, Jenny’s accomplishments are stunning. She is an American who...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2
Legacies of War
From: Sallie Bodie
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Everyday, it seems war is in the news. Headlines report on wars from around the globe. But what happens when a war ends? Today, the group called...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:45
WorldCanvass: A Century of Film in the Public Sphere (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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A discussion of the evolution of film over the last hundred years, both as a vehicle for imaginative storytelling and a genre for commentary, the p...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 24:16
WorldCanvass: A Century of Film in the Public Sphere (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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A discussion of the evolution of film over the last hundred years, both as a vehicle for imaginative storytelling and a genre for commentary, the p...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 23:17
The Hang Family
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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How do you pass on the culture of a country you can’t remember? Three generations of the Hang family in Portland, Maine, try to reconcile memories ...

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Conversation with Novelist, Manil Suri
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The City of Devi, an apocalyptic sex comedy and love story, is the third book in Manil Suri’s trilogy centered on Mumbai. [26:08]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 26:07
  • Purchases: 1
Author Martin Cruz Smith and “Tatiana”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Arkady Renko, a senior investigator in the Moscow prosecutor's office, is back. Smith’s first book in this 8-book series was “Gorky Park” published...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
If you're looking for the one true yoga, you're out of luck
From: Lauren Ober
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Everyone knows that yoga comes from India and is an integral part of the Hindu tradition. But now, it seems everyone wants a piece of it. A new exh...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1
I smell onions!
From: KALW
Caption: Onion Ad, Credit: Sandip Roy
Election season in New Dehli with a flavorful twist!

  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
Suzy Menkes aka 'Samurai Suzy' on The Rise of Global Fashion and China
From: Claudia Cragg
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An interview with Suzy Menkes, @INYTLuxury 2013, the woman who has long unearthed every new fashion trend for The International Herald Tribune (now...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 13:33
Slumdog Space Race (November 7, 2013)
From: Timothy Spangler
Series: The Bigger Picture
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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
Sweet and Sour Tiffany: Chinese Naming Menu
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2013 Third Coast ShortDocs: Stories Inspired by "Appetite"
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If you could pick your own name what would you choose? Three Chinese students living in Australia explain their name choices.

Bought by KRPS, WNIJ, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Author Adam Johnson, an American obsessed with North Korea
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “The Orphan Master’s Son,” this Stanford University creative writing teacher introduces us to the people of modern-day North Korea. Johnson spe...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
Saundhi Mitti (Monsoons)
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Flooded Streets, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy experiences some nostalgia for the monsoons of his childhood.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Olympus Whistleblower, Michael Woodford - "I had walked into a John Grisham novel"
From: Claudia Cragg
Caption: Woodford's Dream Job Turned Into a Nightmare
When Michael Woodford was made President and CEO of that corporation, he became the first Westerner ever to climb the ranks of one of the country's...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 36:04
Immigration Portrait: Katie Lin
From: Jack Straw Cultural Center
Series: Immigration Portraits: Voices from Denny
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“Immigration Portraits: Voices from Denny” was produced by 8th graders from Denny International Middle School and Jack Straw Productions in Seattle...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Length: 04:43
Immigration Portrait: Su Min Sok
From: Jack Straw Cultural Center
Series: Immigration Portraits: Voices from Denny
Caption: PRX default Piece image
“Immigration Portraits: Voices from Denny” was produced by 8th graders from Denny International Middle School and Jack Straw Productions in Seattle...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 1
Underground Trade Part 5: Taken into China
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
Caption: Two girls rescued from sex traffickers, Credit: Phillip Martin
Vietnam is losing its children. For years, girls and young women have been taken — kidnapped and trafficked across the border into Cambodia and so...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 5
Underground Trade Part 4: One Town in Thailand
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
Caption: child victims of sex trafficking in Pattaya, Credit: Phillip Martin
Thailand is considered an incubator for human trafficking…so WGBH Radio's Phillip Martin traveled to one town there to document the relationship be...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 5
Underground Trade Part 6: Trading in Shame
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
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Phillip Martin travels to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to the home of a man whose 19-year old daughter was just rescued from a brothel in China. The ...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 5

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