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Oppenheimer
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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One of the most memorable lines from Oppenheimer the film comes from the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad Gita. Sandip explains our abiding cultural ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
The Nigiri Mountain Railway
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The Nigiri Mountain train, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip takes a ride back in time on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway, one of the oldest mountain railways in India and part of the UNESCO World Heritag...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Streetcars of Desire
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A parade of old streetcars in Kolkata led by a wooden watering car from 1924., Credit: Sandip Roy
Kolkata was the first city in India to have streetcars and the only city to still have them. And they carry within them a rich history of the city ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
The Fontwala
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Some of the typefaces designed by Rajeev Prakash for Indian scripts., Credit: Sandip Roy
Responsible for typefaces of all slants and bolds, Rajeev Prakash is India’s Fontwala!

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Symbols of Freedom
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Enamelled Figures from British India, Credit: Sandip Roy
India celebrates 75 years of Independence from Britain in a new exhibit called March to Freedom.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 16, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Appalachian Vibes: Colby Helms, A. Jordan, Disco Risque
From: Amanda Bocchi
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This week we discover what really happened to the Bondurant boys with Franklin Co country, singer-songwriter and amateur historian, Colby Helms of ...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
The Chettiars
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A grand hall in Chettinad, Credit: Sandip Roy
The great mansions in the  villages of Chettinad in South India still carry the imprints of the worlds their owners once traversed using Birmingham...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour 1
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Modern West-Part 1 of 12 in our Ghost Towning Series and HumaNature... close encounters of the wild kind.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 51:16
  • Purchases: 2
675: Taking Pop Seriously / 676: African Cities Of The Future, 3/26/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Taking Pop Seriously" - Korean pop music has been breaking global charts and hearts, selling millions of records every year. Is is time ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
641: Rethinking The Holidays / 642: Writing Truth And Lies, 11/27/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Rethinking The Holidays" - What are you doing for the holidays this year? We know we need to keep it small, keep it safe. But maybe we c...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
The Jaws of Darkness Do Devour
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The ill counsel of a desert place, that would be howled out in the desert air . . . . Night has fallen on the desert, in this spookiest of seasons....

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Like Coming Home
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn
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In the middle of the 20th century, a ten square block area in North Gowanus was home to the largest Mohawk settlement outside of Canada. We hear ab...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:17
Same As It Ever Was
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Anti-Cholera inoculation in Calcutta in 1894. Picture from the  Wellcome Collection. , Credit: Courtesy Chinmay Tumbe
There are many conversations to have concerning the COVID-19 pandemic, but pandemics were common not too long ago. Maybe we should pay attention in...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Film on Paper
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Ray in his study on the cover of Krittibas magazine
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
The Big Ponder #7: How Buildings Mean
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
Producer Alex van Oss ponders the external, internal, and eternal meanings of buildings in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood. The result is a perso...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Emma Coger Makes a Scene
From: KWIT
Series: Small Wonders
Caption: Supreme Court of Iowa. Emma Coger v. North Western Union Packet Company
In 1872, a black school teacher traveled by steamboat from Quincy, IL, to Keokuk, IA, to visit her family. Along the way, she was forcibly removed ...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2020
  • Length: 05:20
Votes for Women
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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To honor the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we take a trip to Green-Wood cemetery to the grave of Sarah Smith Garnet, one of Brooklyn's B...

Bought by WCNY and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 2
EP149 Frank Goldwasser
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Paris Slim and his Blues

  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
That Which Is But Isn't
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Are they trying to ram a space-alien story down your throat again? Yeah they are, it happens sometimes. Every couple years, for reasons even they c...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
No Face Masks On Mars
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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You heard the captain: No coughing on the spaceship.

Bought by KFCF FM and KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
King Denslow
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
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The Wizard of Oz started as a perfect partnership between L. Frank Baum and W.W. Denslow -- until they became bitter rivals, with each owning half ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 12:22
  • Purchases: 3
The Canon
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Worf visits Rabbi Ben Newman's synagogue (not in canon), Credit: Eric Molinsky
Every sci-fi fantasy world comes with a canon of back stories and rules, which may have a lot in common with the original canon -- The Torah.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 14:48
  • Purchases: 5
Books Are Not Dead
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 16:48
  • Purchases: 1
Polio Pioneers
From: Elaine Vitone
Caption: What was life like before childhood vaccines?, Credit: Illustration by Frank Harris
In this episode, hear from people who grew up in the shadow of a crippling disease—among them, “polio pioneers,” schoolkids from the clinical trial...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 17:14
  • Purchases: 1
20 Years Proud
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Marchers from the very first Kolkata Pride march, Credit: Sandip Roy
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York. But it also marks the 20th anniversary of the first Pride march in Kolkata...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:00