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A postcard about westerns and western scores.
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
The New York Times “Spelling Bee” word game really took off during the pandemic lockdown. But Sandip finds the Bee to be a bit exiguous.
- Added: Nov 16, 2021
- Length: 06:00
In a bitterly polarized world bristling with fake news, cancel culture and troll armies, Abba reminds us that being likable is not somehow a mark o...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 06:00
He met a pretty girl in Dehra Dun the hill station he lived in. And asked her to tea. And to set the romantic mood he suggested they turn off the l...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 26, 2021
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
All over the world we denigrate the importance of the “pursuit of happiness.” It can be seen as selfish and we lead circumscribed lives in order t...
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 06:00
How many people will you meet in your lifetime? How many will you remember? Fascinated by the countless chance encounters in their own lives, Susan...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Sep 16, 2021
- Length: 28:45
- Purchases: 1
The opening ceremonies of the 2020 Olympics was filled with Manga touches, but Manga is not all about silly cuteness.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jul 26, 2021
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...
Bought by HowSound and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 15, 2021
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 2
A new documentary explores Allen Ginsberg’s time in India.
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 06:00
One of Satyajit Ray’s most political movies was actually a children’s movie written for his son. But it resonates with adults as well.
- Added: May 25, 2021
- Length: 06:00
While we know all directors through their films, the remarkable Indian director Satyajit Ray left so much more… on paper.
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 06:00
This May is the centenary of Satyajit Ray’s birth, a good excuse to revisit his films. We start with the Apu Trilogy.
- Added: May 10, 2021
- Length: 06:00
India’s most famous filmmaker would have turned 100 this Sunday.
- Added: May 04, 2021
- Length: 06:00
India is the new hot market for streaming providers like Netflix and Amazon Prime. But with success comes controversy.
- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 06:00
A review of the new film Judas and the Black Messiah from Los Angeles Film Critics' Association member Beandrea July.
- Added: Feb 11, 2021
- Length: 05:49
Priya’s Shakti is a comic and animated film about India’s first female superhero Priya and her flying tiger Sahas. Priya has taken on issues like r...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 25, 2021
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
A fond remembrance of Indian actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who died Sunday Nov. 15th after battling the COVID-19 virus.
- Added: Nov 16, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Hey are you going to the big ritual, down in the grove? It's Halloween Night. And while things were pretty bad for a while, lately it has been a li...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Oct 17, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Paris Slim and his Blues
- Added: Sep 01, 2020
- Length: 58:59
The dogs that wander the streets in Kolkata are not strays, but part of an extended family, cared for and fed by many of the cities lesser known in...
- Added: Aug 24, 2020
- Length: 06:00
When lyrics have no meaning, singing becomes pure emotion.
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 04:40
At Bakra Mania, a goat dealership in Mumbai Fahad Zariwala runs the youtube channel FSA Entertainment which showcases many goat gems and “India’s C...
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 06:00
With the news of Olivia de Havilland’s death this week coinciding with the Indian celebration of Rakhi Purnima, Sandip reflects on how the holiday ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2020
- Length: 06:00
My parents, Randy and Vicki, were high school sweethearts in the 1960s, but they broke up when my mom went off to college. Twenty years later their...
- Added: Jul 21, 2020
- Length: 03:48
Actor Irrfan Khan wasn’t the biggest star in Bollywood, but he was unique.
Irrfan Khan died last week from endocrine cancer. He was 53.
- Added: May 04, 2020
- Length: 06:00