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Outsourcing the Dream?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Perhaps an unwelcoming America is not such a bad thing for the rest of the world. It’s as if the American Dream itself is being outsourced back to ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Goodbye Carrie
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Carrie Fisher as Leia and Harrison Ford as Han Solo in "The Force Awakens", Credit: Lucasfilm
There was much more to Carrie Fisher than Princess Leia. But some things, good, bad or simply pop define us as people, and become placeholders for...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Reflections from Kolkata Pride
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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I hope when equal rights comes, there will still be room for that ambiguity. That we don’t always need to walk in a straight line.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 12, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
NO Money, money, money
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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A currency note is a promise. The Indian government is holding that promise in abeyance, even breaking that trust, by promising a better future.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kolkata and the Mother
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sunita Kumar with her painting of Mother Teresa, Credit: Photo by Sandip Roy
Many would say she’s just being officially canonized, she was always a saint. But over the past week as international media descended on this city ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Sacrifice of Khizr Khan
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Khizr Khan at the DNC Convention
Khizr Khan did something few have been able to do in this bitter and vulgar presidential election.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
India Trumped
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Indians have no reason to feel left out anymore.  The Donald has noticed them and the Donald has mocked them.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Disaster Tourism
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Rubble after the collapse in Vivekananda , Credit: Sandip Roy
A recent disaster in Kolkata brings out the lookie-loos - and much more.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Nidhi Chaphekar, Credit: Ketevan Kardava
Kardava was doing what is her job as a journalist. The media is doing what they think is their job. The only person who has no choice in this is th...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Bangalore Rage
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Indian officials in Bangalore play 'racism dodge ball' over the attack of a Tanzanian student.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Free Basics?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Modi and Zuckerberg
Is net neutrality just a right for the West and a luxury for the rest. And must poor countries be told, be grateful, half an internet is better tha...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Molecules that Heat the Planet
From: Dr. Ainissa Ramirez
Series: Science Underground
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There are molecules that are heating our planet. Our host asks Michael Mann, a climate change expert, how.

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tri-color Profile
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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I will not overlay my Facebook profile picture with the French tricolor.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Managing the System
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Salman Khan
One hot muggy afternoon last week I understood first hand a fact of life in India – the system never works for you unless you know someone with con...

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  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Indie on Demand Reviews TAKE SHELTER
From: Daniel Persons
Series: The Indie on Demand Movie Review
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A Review of Director Jeff Nichols' Topical, Enigmatic Drama

  • Added: Feb 14, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
Wade: Blow from bale of hay
From: Helen Murphy-Robinson
Series: Agriculture Safety StoryCorps
Caption: Wade Wipperling
Wade Wipperling tells how a stack of unstable bales of hay fell on his head, breaking his neck.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Sep 28, 2011
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1
Akinori Itagaki: Now Young People Are Talking About Nuclear Power in Japan
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Messages from Japan
Caption: Messages from Japan, Credit: Eleanor Graf
Akinori Adachi is an exchange student from Japan who is currently studying in Maine. He says that before the nuclear crisis in Fukushima caused by ...

Bought by KZYX and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 01:19
  • Purchases: 2
Is Air Pollution Really Harming Us?
From: Dueling Docs
Series: Dueling Docs
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A new government report says be careful out there. Others disagree.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
Simplify Me When I'm Dead
From: Miranda Diboll
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How the media simplify a life though obituaries or even just a few simple lines.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Apr 03, 2007
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1