PRX - Pieces for Topic: International

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

239 results


Underground Trade Part 1: Hiding in Plain Sight
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
Piece image
On a warm night a Boston suburb saw its image altered with the arrests of individuals connected to a massage parlor. Behind the closed doors poli...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 5
Author Paul French and "Midnight in Peking"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
Piece image
A UK author who has lived in China for decades tells a true-crime tale of the unsolved murder of a young British girl in 1937 in colonial Peking, a...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
The World and Traffic Lights
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
Piece image
You hear about it all the time, but how many people truly know what diversity is all about? Can a traffic light teach us?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Permission to Speak
From: Anna Sussman
Caption: Former Political Prisoner Win Maw plays a guitar he made in prison
As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. In this story, eigh...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, KALW, KUNM, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
China's One Child Policy: Couples struggle to find the loopholes
From: Jennifer Dunn
Series: China's One Child Policy: Stories of Struggles with its Unintended Consequences
Caption: A proud grandmother shows of her grandson in Southern China
Pressed by paternal grandparents to have a boy, couples in China engage in creative ways of tricking the system and having a son without openly vio...

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 2
Nazleen's Story
From: Christine Beaderstadt
Series: Indian Ornamentation and Globalization
Caption: Nazleen holds a photo from her wedding day, a combination of Western and Indian traditions.
With Indian parents, a childhood spent in Pakistan, and now living in America, Nazleen has a unique perspective on Indian dress. She tells us her s...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2013
  • Length: 03:48
China's Bachelor Villages
From: Deborah Jian Lee
Piece image
In China, marriage-aged men outnumber women by the millions. Experts predict that by 2020, the number of men unable to find wives will reach the po...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 11:38
St. Paul's Little Mekong
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Little Mekong, St Paul
Construction of the Central Corridor Light Rail line is affecting businesses in and around University Avenue. In St. Paul's Frogtown neighborhood, ...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:38
Arundhati Roy: Jungles of Resistance
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Piece image
Renowned Indian author Arundhati Roy takes us deep into the revolutionary-filled jungles of India, as she reads excerpts from her new book ‘Walking...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
WorldCanvass:Asia
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
Piece image
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes. This program's focus is Asia.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:32
Jesuit Refugee Service takes a global approach to urban refugee issues
From: Christian Fuchs
Caption: JRS staff from around the world discuss issues surrounding urban refugees while meeting at the St. Gabriel Personnel Development Center in Bangkok, Thailand, March 22, 2012. , Credit: Christian Fuchs — Jesuit Refugee Service/USA
(Washington, D.C.) April 27, 2012 - Jesuit Refugee Service has long recognized that serving urban refugee populations is a major challenge. Isolati...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:29
Yinghua Academy Chinese immersion school
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Piece image
Yinghua Academy is blazing new trails. In 2006, the Chinese-immersion school opened in Northeast Minneapolis as the first of its kind in the Midwes...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Japan
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
Piece image
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:52:56
Across Many Mountains
From: The Tibet Connection
Piece image
An interview with actress, model, martial artists and author Yangzom Brauen and her mother, Sonam Brauen, about Yangzom’s new book, Across Many Mou...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 14:32
Tibet: Protest or Sacrifice?
From: The Tibet Connection
Caption: Dr. Robert J. Barnett, Credit: Columbia University
As self-immolations con­tinue in Tibet, producer Rebecca Novick speaks with Dr. Robert Barnett, Director of the Modern Tibet Studies Program at Col...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Fire This Time
From: The Tibet Connection
Piece image
Desperation leads to dramatic self-immolations in Tibet. Tibetan reporter Lhakpa Kyizom reports from Dharamsala, India.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:40
Dr. Shigeko Sasamori, An Account of Survival and Hope
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Piece image
On this episode of Culture Clique, we have the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Shigeko Sasamori. Dr. Sasamori visited Winona State University this fal...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 55:07
  • Purchases: 2
Nakamura
From: Ross Chambless
Caption: Sakae Nakamura at age 75., Credit: Ross Chambless
A story of language and chance meetings.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
Instruments of India
From: Richard Paul
Piece image
The Instruments that are unique to Indian Music.

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 25, 2011
  • Length: 15:05
  • Purchases: 2
Riding the Tiger: Asia Ascending
From: A World of Possibilities
Piece image
A look into the complicated relationships between Nations in the Far East.

Bought by KQED, KPVL, KUOW, and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2011
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 4
Preserving a Mouthwatering Legacy: Kimchi
From: Emily Berman
Caption: Chef Young Lee offers Reporter Emily Friedman a taste of cabbage kimchi., Credit: Korean Cultural Center
The spicy Korean dish, kimchi, has a long pedigree, dating all the way back to the 7th century, if not earlier. Before freezers, before hydroponic ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 3
The Meskhetians
From: Julia Barton
Caption: Faramus Ibrahimov., Credit: Joshua Sarantitis
Many refugees in the United States have complicated stories to tell. The plight of the Meskhetian Turks spans six decades and four countries. Now s...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 15, 2011
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 1
Nepal: Front Line of Exile
From: The Tibet Connection
Caption: About 20.000 Tibetans live in Nepal, but with­out cit­i­zen­ship or refugee status., Credit: Mikel Dunham
Tibetan exiles in Nepal are stuck in a no-man's land, residing there legally yet unable to get driver's licenses or open bank accounts, lacking man...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jul 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Meat-Pastry Rap Threatens China's Security
From: The Tibet Connection
Piece image
In March, a young Swiss-Tibetan named Karma Emchi pro­duced a funny rap song about a Tibetan meat pas­try and posted it on YouTube. But he couldn't...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2011
  • Length: 05:35
Danny Katz: Staying on the Job in Tokyo
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Messages from Japan
Caption: Messages from Japan, Credit: Eleanor Graf
Danny Katz is a Japanese-American who grew up in the USA, but who now lives and works in Tokyo. After the big earthquake and tsunami, he made the d...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 10, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1

Narrow the results by Topics

Narrow the results by Formats

Narrow the results by Tones