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Happy Bengali New Year
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Wooden toys at a past Charak Mela festival, Credit: Sandip Roy
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
Folktale of Season's Greetings!
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles...if you have an hour to spare for a Folktale this busy week, you can hear how it ...

Bought by WFIU, 'The Sea', WFIU, WFIU, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 8
Dispatch 288 - World Art New Year
From: KALW
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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
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Memorial Shahid Minar in Dhaka, Credit: Photo courtesy of Trip Advisor
Feb 21st is International Mother Language Day. Learn more at http://www.un.org/en/events/motherlanguageday/

  • Added: Feb 18, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Folktale of Romance
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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This time of year, love is in the air, world round--and on this edition, we're following it's enticing call! If you can spare an hour, we'd just lo...

Bought by WFIU, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WFIU, and WLPR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 4
Folktale of the Solstice Season
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of the Solstice Season, Credit: Julia Meek
This folktale celebrates the dark stretch of the year with musical customs meant to brighten winter's darkest hours.

Bought by WFIU, KLCC, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN and more


  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 11
Folktale of Toyland
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: Folktale of Toyland, Credit: Julia Meek
This edition of Folktales, it's 'game on' as it tracks treasured toys, play songs and play time traditions around the musical globe!

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, and KRZA


  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 5
Happy Independence Day India!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A store in India selling Independence Day memoribilia, Credit: Sandip Roy
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
Passover in Kolkata
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Seder plate
Sandip enjoys a very diverse passover meal in Kolkata

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Kali Puja
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Chinna Masta Kali, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy has a different perspective on India's version of Halloween.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Ladino Chorus Commemorates Passover by Keeping Endangered Language Alive
From: Rhonda J. Miller
Series: Ladino: The Endangered Language of the Spanish Jews
Caption: Kantigas Muestras is a Ladino chorus based in Los Angeles., Credit: Rhonda J. Miller
As Jews around the globe celebrate Passover to commemorate the exodus from slavery in Egypt, a community chorus in Los Angeles is keeping alive the...

Bought by KZYX, KUER, Prairie Public, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 4
Flights of Fancy
From: Tom Wright
Caption: Airports, aeroplanes and airscapes, Credit: PowderPhotography
Come with Tom Wright from Australia to Great Britain over 11,000 miles and nine time zones & hear tales of flying from the Outback, Indonesia, Indi...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 42:53
Merry Montoos
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Montoo at the oven, Credit: Sandip Roy
It’s hardly Santaland but as Christmas approaches Montoo’s bakery, in a dingy lane in central Kolkata, is one of the city's hottest addresses.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Diwali Bang Bang!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Diwali Sweets
It’s like saying "I don’t like Christmas." But Sandip Roy has never been particularly fond of Diwali.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Folktale of New Beginnings
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of New Beginnings, Credit: Julia Meek
The Folktale of New Beginnings: Get ready to 'ring it--sing it--burn it--or break it in: 2013 is on its way, and as Oprah likes to say: "Cheers to ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), KLCC, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
God Had Been There Forever
From: Cathy Corman
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Retired American Presbyterian missionary Barry Alter explains, in India, how the Easter story convinced her that Christianity wasn't about converti...

Bought by KZYX, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, and WEZU


  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 4
VoxPod #8 - Two Arabian Days and Nights
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Today's show features some of the highlights from the 2007 Seattle Arab Festival.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:21
  • Purchases: 1
Christmas with the Enemy
From: Drew Darling
Caption: Christmas on the Western Front, 1914
The Christmas truce along the Western Front of WWI

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WVTF, WUTC, RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2014
  • Length: 59:33
  • Purchases: 21
Diwali Crackers
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy tries to hear through the noise and get to the heart of Diwali.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Folktale of Gratitude
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Gratitude, Credit: Julia Meek
A world of blessings and thankfulness in this episode of gratitude--do hope you can spend an hour with us, just being grateful.

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), KLCC, 'The Sea', GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
WVR Show 382 - Mexico special (One hour to air week of May 7, 2011)
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly One Hour
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You can spend an hour in Mexico this week without ever leaving home. It's all on The World Vision Report. From immigration issues to a plate full ...

Bought by WDSE and WBEZ


  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 2
WVR Show 363 Holiday Special Half Hour
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly Half Hour
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It's all about giving this week on the World Vision Report: giving time, talents, and resources to help others around the world. From dolls going t...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
WVR Show 363 Holiday Special
From: World Vision Report
Series: World Vision Report - Weekly One Hour
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It's all about giving this week on the World Vision Report – giving time, talents, and resources to help others around the world. From dolls going ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 17, 2010
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 4
Timkat in Addis Ababa
From: Seattle Globalist
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A visit to Addis Ababa's celebration of TImkat - Epiphany - January 20 2008

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2008
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
December in New York City
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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Visiting New York City in the snow

  • Added: Dec 07, 2007
  • Length: 09:23