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Sarvodaya: An Alternate Path?
From: Homelands Productions
Series: Worlds of Difference
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An enormous grassroots network in Sri Lanka seeks to provide an alternative to conventional economic development.

Bought by PRX Remix, WBEZ, and The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Apr 11, 2007
  • Length: 10:59
  • Purchases: 3
Symphony Space Live: The Ying Americans
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Symphony Space Live
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The Ying Americans put the focus on new American music for string quartet through commissioned work.

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


  • Added: Mar 15, 2007
  • Length: 58:39
  • Purchases: 2
Commentarty: Shame on Baseball -- They Left Out Lefty Again
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Despite his extraordinary career, Lefty O'Doul has again been bypassed for admission to Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Mar 04, 2007
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
Pastures of Plenty: Sailing East: Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos in the Fields
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Pastures of Plenty: A History of California Farm Workers
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Program 1 in a four part series about farmworker history.

Bought by KSQD Santa Cruz, North State Public Radio, KUSP, WCBU, KUOW and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2007
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 12
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
RN Documentary: Cavalry, Caravans and Christians: Genghis Khan and Europe's first global age
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The lasting impact of the Mongol invasions on Europe, 800 years after Genghis Khan united the Mongols into one nation.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WRPI


  • Added: Jan 18, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Crossing East Music Featre: Violinist Aishu Venkataraman
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Profile of 13-year-old prodigy and her musician family

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 08, 2007
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
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
Tejidos Culturales 12-Japanese-American Community in the Valley
From: KRZA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This program looks at the Japanese-American Community in the San Luis Valley and how they arrived.

Bought by KCEI 90.1 FM Red River/Taos, NM and KRFC


  • Added: Jan 01, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
Losing Home
From: Radio Rookies
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Wen Ou tells about her struggle to maintain a connection with her homeland in China.

Bought by KUOW, WXLV-FM, KCUR, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Dec 18, 2006
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 4
RN Documentary: The Music of Lutes and Harps
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
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The first generation of children born under China?s one-child policy have reached adulthood and have their own, new views of family life.

Bought by WFUV


  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Crossing East: Jared Rehberg Music Feature
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Singer/Songwriter Jared Rehberg is perhaps the only transracial and international adoptee who sings about being an adoptee.

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Nov 07, 2006
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
21 Secrets of Spawning Eels
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: November 2006 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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Researchers in Japan have discovered the spawning grounds of Japanese eels.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 11, 2006
  • Length: 01:34
  • Purchases: 1
North Korea-Nuclear Asia
From: Steve Herman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Will North Korea's nuclear test spark a NE Asia arms race?

  • Added: Oct 08, 2006
  • Length: 05:04
Tell Me Wai
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: New Zealand Stories
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Maori group called 'Wai" blends traditions with a hip hop sound in New Zealand.

Bought by WNJR and KSUT


  • Added: Oct 06, 2006
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2
This I Believe - Ying Ying Yu
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Even at 13, Ying Ying Yu believes she has a duty to her parents, her ancestors and her homeland.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KJZZ, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 06, 2006
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 5
Crossing East: Filipino Guitarist Angelo Pizarro
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Angelo Pizarro comes from a musical family. Born in the Philippines, he shares Filipino folk, jazz, and blues with the Seattle music scene.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 17, 2006
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 3
Crossing East: Shasta Taiko
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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A 1st Person profile of Russel Baba and Jeannie Aiko Mercer of Shasta Taiko

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Sep 15, 2006
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
Crossing East: Jon Jang Music Feature
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Profile of Composer and Pianist Jon Jang

  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 04:59
Crossing East: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Slack Key Guitar is a unique art form in Hawaii

Bought by KZYX and KSUT


  • Added: Sep 13, 2006
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 2
North Korea-Japanese Spy Satellite
From: Steve Herman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Japan has launched its third spy satellite, intended to keep a nervous eye on North Korea.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2006
  • Length: 02:37
Japan-Prime Minister
From: Steve Herman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A profile of Japan's next prime minister

  • Added: Sep 09, 2006
  • Length: 05:49
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
Kawthoolei
From: Outer Voices
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Along the Thai-Burma border, we meet the women peace activists working in the midst of the world's longest running civil war.

Bought by KUER, WUFT, WGBH Radio Boston, KWIT, KUER and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2006
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12

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