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Audio documentaries from the front lines

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Painting the Town Safe

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: City activists are painting sidewalks hoping to encourage more street life in Kolkata., Credit: Sandip Roy

Kolkata is often regarded as a city that has slipped behind other metropolises in India when it comes to money and industry. But the country's crim...

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A Pennsylvania man saw the true power of Atomic Annie

From: WITF

70 years ago, Tom Lambert witnessed the only time a nuclear device was fired from a cannon

Poisonous Legacies

From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast

Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And...

Pride Then and Now

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: The South Asian contingent at the San Francisco Pride Parade in 2016 and also the last time I was there during Pride. , Credit: Sandip Roy

At a time when June is celebrated as Pride month both in Kolkata and San Francisco, Sandip reflects on a what it took to reconcile both parts of on...

Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 12

From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast

Caption: Birtukan Kebede shows of wheat landrace grains, Credit: David Kattenburg

War is not healthy for children and other living things, so the Sixties saying went. It isn’t healthy for Planet Earth’s climate system either. The...

Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 10

From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast

Caption: Thomas Donati, Credit: David Kattenburg

Turning tall cane stalks into small, supple reeds for woodwind instruments. Decarbonizing construction. Tons of carbon are embodied in buildings; t...

Cryptomania: How Cryptocurrency Can Save—or Destabilize—a Country

From: Mateo Schimpf

This week, we take a deep dive into the global world of cryptocurrency.

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Boris Out, Liz In: The Global Impact of the British Election

From: Mateo Schimpf

On this week’s episode, we break down the global implications of new British leadership and then travel to Northern Ireland, where the fate of a B...

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The Necessary Truth

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee, Credit: University of Michigan

While everyone wants to move on from COVID-19, but professor of epidemiology at Michigan University Bhramar Mukherjee says that the future depends ...

Medical Apartheid and the COVID-19 vaccines (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

The world is struggling to contain COVID-19, as variants continue to emerge in countries where the virus is spreading unchecked, killing thousands....

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Tracing the Peace Line in Northern Ireland

From: Mateo Schimpf

On the centenary of Northern Ireland’s birth, we look at the lines and borders that define it.

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In Putin’s Shadow

From: Mateo Schimpf

In this episode, we look at democracy movements fighting to survive in the shadow of a Russian government that’s determined to consolidate power.

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Risk Takers and Negotiators

From: Mateo Schimpf

How do we know when it’s time to take a risk and push, or if it’s better to step back and negotiate?

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Fire and Water: From California to Iran

From: Mateo Schimpf

This week, we take a look at farming communities on opposite sides of the world: both struggling to adapt to climate change, and to better manage o...

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Why A Major Immigration Law Might Be Unconstitutional

From: Mateo Schimpf

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Emily Green tells us the story of Edgar Lopez, a grandfather of four who was killed trying to make his way back hom...

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Making Sense of A Disaster in Haiti

From: Mateo Schimpf

In this episode, we feature an audio diary from an English teacher living in Les Cayes, Haiti. Then we speak with former US Ambassador to Haiti, Pa...

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Making Sense of a Growing Refugee Crisis

From: Mateo Schimpf

In this episode, journalist Hana Baba talks with former refugee Maryan Hassan and author Ty McCormick, whose new book "Beyond the Sand and Sea" tel...

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Dispatch #376 - Coming Out as Dalit

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

It was after reading the suicide note of Dalit student Rohith Vemula, that Yashica Dutt a journalist living in New York, decided that she was going...

Yemen's Hunger Ward

From: Mateo Schimpf

After more than five years of civil war, Yemenis are bracing for what could be the worst famine the world has seen in decades. Hunger Ward, a new d...

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Big Tech and Democracy: What Went Wrong

From: Mateo Schimpf

As we race towards a particularly contentious presidential election in the US, we look at the influence of social media on our democracy. And, as p...

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Dispatch #355 - Saint Rupert

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: A splash screen for Rupert Everett's talk at the Jaipur Lit. Fest., Credit: Sandip Roy and Jaipur Lit. Fest.

Writer and actor Rupert Everett spoke recently with Sandip Roy for the Jaipur Lit. Festival about pandemics and sainthood.

Farmworkers Risk Smoke, Heat, And COVID-19 As California Burns

From: Mateo Schimpf

From Santa Rosa to Salinas, farmworkers are harvesting as California burns. Workers are risking heat, smoke, and COVID-19 to pick grapes and harves...

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The Earth Breathes

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: Sandip Roy's empty street in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy

For these few weeks as humans suffer, the earth is healing itself.

The Future Is Public: Special Report from Amsterdam

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

In just the last decade, more than 2,400 cities in 58 countries have brought privatized resources back under public control. In this episode, Laura...

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