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World Ocean Radio: Looking East From West
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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After a recent visit to Japan, an island nation, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill ponders, what if, as in Japan, we applied values individually, ...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
2023-11-05 Zhuangzi: Being One With Ten Thousand Things
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What if I’m just a butterfly dreaming that I’m a philosopher?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
2345: Zhuangzi: Being One with Ten Thousand Things, 11/7/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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If you dream that you're a butterfly, how can you be sure you're not a butterfly dreaming you're a person when you wake up?

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
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
809: You Had To Be There / 810: More Than Just A Game, 7/8/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "You Had To Be There" - A new generation rediscovers pleasure palaces of the past, abandoned movie theaters and concert halls. What are t...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
India's Land of the Lamas
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Gilded Buddha statue at Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh in India., Credit: Sandip Roy
While Buddhism as a religion was founded in India, only 0.7% of Indians describe themselves as Buddhist.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Legacies of WWII (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In recent years, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII has gotten more attention. But most of that attention focuses on the West Coas...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Legacies of WWII (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In recent years, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII has gotten more attention. But most of that attention focuses on the West Coas...

Bought by WTJU, WNED Buffalo, KEDT, KXCV, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Legacies of WWII (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In recent years, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII has gotten more attention. But most of that attention focuses on the West Coas...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WJCU, Harford Community Radio, WFHB and more


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Legacies of WWII (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In recent years, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII has gotten more attention. But most of that attention focuses on the West Coas...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
Seeking Harmony for Global Asian Immigrants
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Iris Chen
On this PEACE TALKS RADIO episode, correspondent Sen Zhan explores three perspectives on the nature of intercultural conflict in transcultural Asia...

Bought by KUT, KUHF, KRVS, New England Public Media, WHRV and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 15
Seeking Harmony for Global Asian Immigrants
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this PEACE TALKS RADIO episode, correspondent Sen Zhan explores three perspectives on the nature of intercultural conflict in transcultural Asia...

Bought by KVSC, KSKA, KMUN, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Jenny Tinghui Zhang
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Chinese-American writer Jenny Tinghui Zhang discusses her debut novel, "Four Treasures of the Sky."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Women fought trafficking and created a refuge in this Chinatown building
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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We look at the history of the Cameron House in San Francisco's Chinatown. The women who founded the organization worked to rescue Chinese women and...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Gift Wrapped America (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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It’s all about the power of the almighty dollar. Meredith Katz says that from From the Boston Tea Party to the Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work, cons...

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
Gift Wrapped America (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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It’s all about the power of the almighty dollar. Meredith Katz says that from From the Boston Tea Party to the Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work, cons...

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KEDT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Gift Wrapped America (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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It’s all about the power of the almighty dollar. Meredith Katz says that from From the Boston Tea Party to the Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work, cons...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, WJCU, WJCT, WFHB and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Gift Wrapped America (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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It’s all about the power of the almighty dollar. Meredith Katz says that from From the Boston Tea Party to the Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work, cons...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, and KXCV


  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Zen
From: Philosophy Talk
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What is the sound of one hand clapping?

  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
The Communists Made Us Do It: The Cold War Cover for Mass Murder
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: General Suharto in the days after the September 30th Movement.
"The Jakarta Method" is the anticommunist mass-murder playbook that, due to its great success (the nearly overnight erasure of the largest unarmed ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WCPN, WCPN, WCNY, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 13
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. ...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, KRDP, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people...

Bought by WKSU, WCPN, WNED Buffalo, KXCV, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 6
Two Revolutions, Many Secrets
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Left: Wilson Dairy Restaurant Right: Helen Zia as baby with mom
In the midst of our dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s hard to imagine what stories we will ultimately tell our children and grandchildren. T...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
117: The End of Human Trafficking May Begin With Radical Empathy -Julia Flynn Siler
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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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