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Happy Birthday Mr. Bond
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Ruskin Bond signing a book for a fan., Credit: Sandip Roy
An Indian institution turns 90 at the end of this week. It’s not a bricks and mortar institution. It’s one of India’s most prolific writers - Bond,...

  • Added: May 15, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
If I Were To Talk About The Subjunctive
From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong
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Some of us (Fletcher) can never keep straight what, exactly, the subjunctive is, so fortunately Kathy and Ross are here to remind us.

Bought by KECG and KRPS


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bridging Cultures: A Conversation with Diana Abu-Jaber
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Diana Abu-Jaber, Credit: Deborah Kerry Charles
Author Diana Abu-Jaber reflects on her Jordanian roots, the influence of family on her storytelling, and the inspirations informing her memoirs and...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KECG


  • Added: Apr 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
In Good Faith - Book Club, Poetry by Rumi
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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In Good Faith welcomes two guests to discuss "Rumi: Studying the Sun".

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 52:28
  • Purchases: 1
Found in Translation
From: KALW
Caption: Tamil writer Perumal Murugan (center) conversed with his moderator at the Kolkata Literary Meet via an interpreter, Credit: Sandip Roy
Lit fests in India have historically been rather Anglophone affairs but now translated works of Indian literature are finding a much bigger place i...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
The Winter of Content
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A queue on a rainy evening for author autographs and books at the Kolkata Literary Meet. , Credit: Sandip Roy
As lit fest’s, lit meets, literary carnivals pop up all over India, 3 in Kolkata alone in a month, some wonder whether whether this is about books ...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
100 Years of Nonsense
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A building in the Hatibagan neighborhood in North Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sukumar Ray is sometimes called the Edward Lear of Bengal. Abol Tabol his book of nonsense rhymes was part of my growing up. And I dare say every B...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Canadian Rockies
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from the foot of the Canadian Rockies, up across the border.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: "From Lapland to Sápmi" by Barbara Sjoholm
From: WDSE
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Author Barbara Sjoholm talks about her new book "From Lapland to Sápmi"

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 09:33
MN Reads: Swedish Translations with Eva Apelqvist
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Eva Apelqvist talks about her award-winning book "Mörker Över Skateparken" and the upcoming release of her English-translation of "Fire From the Sk...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 07:49
Limeric Lovers Are Like No Others
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The Limeric Lovers Publishers stall at the Kolkata Book Fair, Credit: Sandip Roy
If you think limericks just means Edward Lear, think again. The Limeric Lovers Publishers of Kolkata are devoted fans of limericks in Bengali, a lo...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
Making Home (hour/no bed or bb)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Lauren K. Alleyne lived the first part of her life in Trinidad and then moved to America at 18 and has been there since. Her poems explore what it’...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCHW, KHEN-LP, and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Making Home (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Lauren K. Alleyne lived the first part of her life in Trinidad and then moved to America at 18 and has been there since. Her poems explore what it’...

Bought by KRDP, Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WRMU, WFHB and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Making Home (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Lauren K. Alleyne lived the first part of her life in Trinidad and then moved to America at 18 and has been there since. Her poems explore what it’...

Bought by WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KXCV, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Making Home (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Lauren K. Alleyne lived the first part of her life in Trinidad and then moved to America at 18 and has been there since. Her poems explore what it’...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KXCV


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
The Fest in Festival
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival, Credit: Sandip Roy
Literary festivals have returned to the ground in full form for the first time since the pandemic. Sandip Roy sends an audio postcard from a litfes...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
Novelist and Essayist Russell Banks
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: (Photo by Larry D. Moore CC BY-SA 3.0)
The late novelist, retired Princeton professor, and mountain climber, Russell Banks is the author of the 2021 novel, FOREGONE. In this classic 201...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Five Senses (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 19th century American cities, the smell of rapid industrial growth was overwhelming. This was particularly concerning, because at the time, peop...

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, KCHW, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
705: Decolonizing The Mind / 706: Traveling By Book, 7/9/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
How To Save Diverse Democracies
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, Yascha Mounk joins Ray Suarez to discuss his new book, “The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart And How Th...

Bought by WLPR , Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:45
  • Purchases: 6
NATO and the “Age of Disasters”: The Future of Crisis Management
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray sits down with Ivo Daalder, President of the Chicago Institute on Global Affairs and former US Ambassador to NATO, to discuss the alliance’s ev...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Parisian Fairytale
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip in the Paris Metro
This Spring, the Paris Book Fair was finally back in person! But even amidst this Parisian fairytale, reality reared its ugly head.

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Filipino-American Poet Patrick Rosal
From: New Letters on the Air
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In this interview at the Kansas City Public Library as part of Park University's Ethnic Voices Poetry Series, Patrick Rosal talks about the impetus...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Malcolm is back!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Kolkata Lit. Fest. audience, Credit: Sandip Roy
For the last two years the Kolkata Literary Meet has been a Zoom affair, but this year the audience is back and reminds Sandip just how important t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Putting the 'Book' back in Book Fair
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Runu Mullick, the poetry seller, Credit: Sandip Roy
At the Kolkata Book Fair Sandip wonders if anyone comes to the book fair anymore for actual books, and then 4 handwritten poems proved that they do.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1