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On this episode, we talked about the book "Subcontinental Synthesis," a collection of essays that document a brief period where a Moog Synthesizer ...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Self-help books promise a secret formula to individual success and Jay Shetty is just the latest Dale Carnegie to do so. But, even after the Guardi...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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On this episode, we talked about the book "The Past is Always Present," which documents Orthodox chant practices among the monasteries of Mount Ath...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2024
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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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  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode, we talked about a recent book that gathers all of David Bowie's interviews with BBC television and radio into one handy and very r...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2024
  • Length: 27:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Two Stories Featuring Self-Sufficient Lifestyles.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Caption: A billboard in Kolkata uses his own catchphrase to bid farewell to India's first radio superstar Ameen Sayani., Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy remembers his childhood radio guru. Amen Sayani died last week at the age of 91.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Love is sometimes a tale of going through hell to get to heaven - or, as Journeys to Love discovers at The Goshen Diner, going through abuse, hunge...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode, we traveled back in time to early 20th. C. Italy, where the Futurists were dropping manifestos and proposing exciting new ideas th...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 28:27
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode focuses on the making of Whit Stillman's third film, The Last Days of Disco, the conclusion in what is often referred to as his Doomed...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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Written by Savannah Spatafora Produced by Emma Lehman

  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 03:03
Caption: Photo courtesy the Chitresh Das Institute
Pandit Chitresh Das is credited with bringing the Indian classical dance of kathak to America. Now the Chitresh Das Institute takes it back on tour...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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On this episode, we discussed the book "Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America," which investigates the rise, fall, and retur...

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Where's the beautiful part, anyway? Well, start by walking about a mile past the last parking lot or dirt road or residential car-parts dump or inf...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: It is so hard to write you this sonnet/because I long for you in another way/ I want to make it like ''Shall I compare thee to a summer day?:"But then there was that summer day..., Credit: Susan Cook "Prologue to "Breathing: American Sonnets"
We know too much of the sequence of the aftermath of a Mass Shooting Sequence.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 02:46
Caption: Scenes from Year of the Dragon celebrations in Kolkata
Kolkata has India's only Chinatown. The Chinese community is dwindling but they still put up a good show for the Chinese New Year. Sandip got  a ta...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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On this episode, we talked about the new book "Well of Souls," which dives further into the earliest history of the banjo than anyone has gone befo...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2024
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Brian Dunning takes a look at the history of the Apollo moon landing hoax conspiracy theory, and those who believe in it.

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The Black Panther Party’s founding in 1966 was inspired by the prevalent issues of police brutality, poverty, and lack of access to healthcare face...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 09:58
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00
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One of Thirteen (13) one-minute vignettes produced by Houston Public Media for "Black History Month".

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00