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The pandemic has exhausted all of us, but just as we’re letting our guard down it will come to town, just like Santa Claus.
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 06:00
More than anything else the pandemic has forced us to reckon with what really lies at the heart and soul of Durga Puja.
- Added: Oct 26, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Durga Puja, the festival of the ten armed Goddess Durga, has always been a time of excess in Kolkata. But this is the story of the “Little Durga.”
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 19, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Earth Day is here, but a lot of us are inside. On this episode of Borrowed, we gather sounds of the natural world from the stoops and parks of Broo...
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- Added: Apr 21, 2020
- Length: 32:47
- Purchases: 1
In the year 1427, there will be no celebration. But Sandip remembers the Bengali New Year festivities from years past, the Charak Mela.
- Added: Apr 14, 2020
- Length: 06:00
The Indian festival ‘Holi’ is usually a riot of abandonment and color…but then Corona came to town.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
This week on World Ocean Radio we have a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson written in 1883. Steven...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 24, 2019
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 1
To ring in the new year, take a dive into the stories of the Coney Island Polar Bear club. We hear from voices from across New York City—a cop spea...
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 10:48
Well we wound up burning the devil, here in Joshua Tree. It's the kind of winter-holiday fun you can expect up here in the High Desert. And Jason P...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Dec 21, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
While the rest of India celebrates Diwali with its sweets and fireworks, Kolkata gets ready for the arrival of the Goddess Kali, the one of the dee...
- Added: Nov 23, 2019
- Length: 06:00
The holiday so nice we celebrate it twice: once when the snakes come out, and once when the snakes go back in the ground for their long winter's nap.
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: May 26, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
On April 15th While Americans rush to file their taxes, Bengalis in Kolkata celebrate their new year.
But April 15 is also World Art Day. And this...
- Added: Apr 16, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Feb 21st is International Mother Language Day.
Learn more at http://www.un.org/en/events/motherlanguageday/
- Added: Feb 18, 2019
- Length: 06:00
A mom and veterinarian politely asks Santa not to bring her children the item that tops their Christmas lists: a puppy. With love and detail, Dr. ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 04:00
Happy Independence Day India!
Sandip Roy reflects on the changes that India has seen in the last 71 years.
- Added: Aug 14, 2018
- Length: 06:00
This Father’s Day special is "sponsored" by Michael Goldberg’s poker game, with stories of reunions with family, classmates and neighbors.
- Added: Jun 26, 2018
- Length: 59:34
This Mother’s Day Sandip remembers Nigel Akkara, who told him about his two mothers.
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Sandip enjoys a very diverse passover meal in Kolkata
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 06:00
- Added: Feb 16, 2018
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
Michael Goldberg shares a special edition of Stay Human for this Christmas Eve.
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 2
Steve Downing shares his thoughts on the holidays in Las Vegas.
- Added: Dec 29, 2017
- Length: 04:38
At the end of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads the poem "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite is chos...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KSFR
- Added: Dec 26, 2017
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 2
Poet Mike Finley shares his poem "Wrecked Christmas" on this weeks segment of Wordish.
- Added: Dec 06, 2017
- Length: 02:04
Steve Downing talks about weather, travel and being a holiday curmudgeon.
Bought by Angelica Community Radio, RadioStPete Florida, and WTIP
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 04:07
- Purchases: 3
Sandip Roy has a different perspective on India's version of Halloween.
- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 06:00
