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On October 2 India will mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. South Africans say India gave us Mohandas Gandhi. We returned him as the Maha...
- Added: Apr 03, 2017
- Length: 05:59
A visit, a cooking lesson and lunch with the celebrated chef Claudia Roden. Claudia discussed lost Jewish communities through their cuisines. Inc...
- Added: Mar 22, 2017
- Length: 14:46
- Purchases: 2
This week we talk about the Harlem Hammer, COINTELPRO, and punching nazis.
- Added: Feb 28, 2017
- Length: 42:03
This week we discuss protests in several different contexts.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 52:53
This week we talk about the German kunstschutz unit, the Venus de Milo, and slavery reparations.
- Added: Feb 23, 2017
- Length: 44:53
Mario Soares, former PM and President of Portugal, statesman, exile, political prisoner, "father of democracy", passed away last week at the age of...
- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 05:09
Manipur’s court records talk about a game back in the 1st century AD and what’s different about polo in Manipur is that this not just a game for po...
- Added: Jan 17, 2017
- Length: 06:00
This particular Untold Stories of Central Minnesota is the first in a series of three concerning the Untold Story of Immigration in our area. As ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 28:35
On October 2 India will mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. But his status as an icon of humanitarianism may be at risk.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 27, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
A short radio documentary about the 1981 Memorial Day Flood in Austin, Texas that killed 13 people.
- Added: Sep 25, 2016
- Length: :00
Most of us around the world wake up to alarm clocks or the clock radio turning on.
For decades thousands and thousands of Indians around the world...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Speaking out about unjust events and atrocities that others passively accept segregates the outspoken, often. In their own time, they are often ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 04:34
The real meaning of the Buddhist concept of karma is murky, but the Republican Presidential campaign has become an explanatory sponge for it- fully...
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 04:49
Mary Leonardson was a button fanatic traveling around the world roughly between the 1920s to the 1950s meeting up with various button clubs to coll...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 12:24
Philip Armand accidentally falls into a vortex of Bliss, then the bliss hangs up.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 05:43
History is written by the Big and the Small. "The Vietnam War" documentary has reminded us that. The Moving Wall, a half scale version of the smoot...
- Added: May 27, 2016
- Length: 07:06
From the moment you see Sam Bellamy, you know that there’s something different about him. He dresses differently from most people. He carries himse...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 12:23
- Purchases: 1
Michael Goldfarb tells the story of how the God Intoxicated Man, Benedict Spinoza, seeded the Englightenment and became the philosopher for today.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: May 23, 2016
- Length: 53:38
- Purchases: 2
It's FM91's 40th birthday! WGTE FM in Toledo began broadcasting May 2, 1976 and for four decades has continued to deliver the highest quality arts,...
- Added: May 02, 2016
- Length: 06:20
The world's largest bus station, and a bus driver who wanted to be God.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 54:12
- Purchases: 1
Most people who come to her restaurant and wash down golden fried prawn with cold beer have no inkling about her back story.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Philip Armand tries to figure out the correlation between commitment and risk-taking and discovers Einstein's mistakes, and what they mean for his ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:54
In 1962 a group of Indians were shipped off to internment camps during a war with China.
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Over 25 years ago curators Alan Teller and Jerri Zbiral went to an estate sale in Illinois. Jerri says they stumbled upon a shoebox that would cha...
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 06:00
One of Allen Ginsberg's first publishers was taken to court for a book that an undercover police officer deemed "not fit for children to read."
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :59
