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Caption: Susan Ahn Cuddy (far right) at the US Naval Air Station in Florida in 1943., Credit: Courtesy of Flip Cuddy.
Flip and Christine Cuddy remember their mother, Susan Ahn Cuddy, a Navy gunnery officer who served in World War II.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:23
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This week on the show: Why Indonesia is a target for tobacco companies Indonesian households spend almost as much on cigarettes as they do on ri...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
Caption: Sandip's neighborhood Ganesh, Credit: Sandip Roy
As the monsoons recede the time has come for Ganesh.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
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This week on the show: Speaking your mind - Dangerous times for reporters in Mexico // Journalist paradise South Africa // A colonial-era law st...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Dal Lake in Kashmir, Credit: By Basharat Shah - Flickr: Dal Lake, CC BY 2.0
Kashmir has been on Sandip’s mind lately, his boyhood memories and the current media blackout.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
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Curt Meyer was looking for adventure, so he took a job aboard a Japanese fishing trawler on the Bering Sea. But when a storm hit, the lack of a sha...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 16:29
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This week on the show: Crushed hopes - How young Pakistani brides are ending up in the clutches of sex trafficking rings in China, the activist...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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On this week's episode of the pod, we have a guest that may be familiar to some of you, and not to others. I am assuming many of my listeners are a...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 43:06
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This week on the show: The power of indigenous people - Indigenous climate leader Pasang Dolma Sherpa talks about the 'historic moment' for i...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Drawing the line - What we smell influences our intestines, how a "smart school" in China spies on its pupils, and fac...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 19, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This documentary takes us into the East Indian community in New Jersey, which ranks third in Asian-Indian population after California and New York....

  • Added: Jun 02, 2019
  • Length: 52:09
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A lawyer-turned-poet and twice a finalist for the National Book Award, Monica Youn reveals why she felt the need to leave the legal field for creat...

  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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World in Progress: Urban futures - On this week's show, we head to Singapore where 100 scientists have gathered for the Future Cities Laborat...

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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In 19th Century San Francisco's Chinatown only 1 in 10 people were women, and most of them were forced into prostitution, trafficked by criminal to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KCSB-FM, KWIT and more


  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
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One of the most common forms of trafficking is labor trafficking. In this episode, Re:Work Radio brings you the story of Lester Ramos and his journ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Indonesia is at a crossroads. The predominantly muslim country that was once hailed for its religious tolerance and diversi...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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In 2016, a team of undercover investigators infiltrated an international ivory-smuggling ring. It all began with a sea cucumber trader in Zanzibar.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 22:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Bob Kustra talks with Daniel Tudor, co-author of the book "North Korea Confidential"

  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Chinese-American Lisa See’s 11th novel, “The Island of Sea Women,” centers on the female friendship and family secrets of the haenyeo. For centurie...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 09:44
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This week on the show: Changing the Game - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they say. But according to South Korean beauty standards that us...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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Pao Houa Her is a photographer dedicated to producing art about Minnesota's Hmong community. Her thought-provoking work highlights the lives of war...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2019
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 2
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Sandip Roy embarks of an anti-war march in a time of hastags.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
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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
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Riyaaz Qawwali represents the diversity and plurality of South Asia. The ensemble’s musicians, who are settled in the United States, hail from Indi...

Bought by KMXT, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Mayda's new album is called MRDR PXP., Credit: Cameron Yang, Styling by: Oskar Ly, Editing: by Sara Beth-Horishnyk.
Mayda is a prolific musician, artist and producer. Her horn-driven, R&B pop music is raw, exciting and feisty. This "Live from Minnesota" performan...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2019
  • Length: 28:34