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Caption:  (Left) Wilson Dairy Restaurant (Right) Helen Zia as a baby with mom., Credit: Photo copyright Helen Zia used with permission
This week's episode is about two women, one who fled Shanghai during Mao's Chinese Revolution, and the other who escaped the Bolshevik Revolution a...

  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Book cover for "The Trauma of Caste", Credit: Penguin Random House
In this episode we talk to Dalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan about the well and alive issue of caste-based discrimination and her cal...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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6 works, including GABRIEL FAURÉ: Dolly Suite, Op. 56. Boston Symphony Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa.

  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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6 works, including GABRIEL FAURÉ: Dolly Suite, Op. 56. Boston Symphony Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa.

  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
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4 works, including MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13. Takacs Quartet.

  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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4 works, including MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13. Takacs Quartet.

  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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80-something Dan Yamada, rendered speechless by a stroke, recalls his life.

Bought by KCHW, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: The faces behind the QueerMandu gay tour group in Nepal., Credit: Sandip Roy
Nepal’s constitution protects sexual minorities. Most recently after a long struggle Nepal registered its first same sex marriage, something India ...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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When Deborah Wei and her family moved to the Philadelphia suburbs in the 1960’s, they were the only Asian family in their neighborhood. Deborah rem...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Amit Shivprasad outside his home in Hollis, Queens. Shivprasad advocates for basement reform, and his community is prone to flooding. Despite previous floods, the area is still undesignated as a flood zone., Credit: Diana Cervantes
Over 100,000 people live in New York City basement apartments; most are immigrants. It’s an open secret that, while basement apartments offer cheap...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 31:45
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Gravy explores the histories underlying the balikbayan box, a tradition where Filipinos in the U.S. send gift boxes to family in the Philippines.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 27:25
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Artist and writer Tessa Hulls discusses her graphic memoir, "Feeding Ghosts."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., GCR (Global Community Radio), Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident...and when they are made known to us, how fully will we see them?"

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KCHW, KMUN, KFCF FM, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 19
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Acclaimed concert violinist Kerson Leong visits with host John Floridis to talk about his career and recordings ahead of an appearance in Montana i...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: An example of the classic 'butter chicken', Credit: Photo by Joe mon bkk, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
A new food fight has erupted in India. And it’s about one of the most famous dishes to come out of India, one that every other Indian restaurant in...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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Three years ago, when violence against Asian Americans spiked, local organizations took action to improve public safety. One group, the Coalition f...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 16:17
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The stars are aligned this week. Its a week for Holi, Ramadan and Good Friday, which is a perfect way to showcase how many faiths in Kolkata exist ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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This week, music from women whose roots lie in the east - China, Japan, India and Korea.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
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Tammy Ho talks about her research on Burmese refugees in the US food system.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Ruchika Tulshyan (left) and Ijeoma Oluo (right).
What does equity really mean? That might be an impossible question to answer objectively, but in this encore episode Ruchika Tulshyan, a workplace ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Three women herpetologists decide that their stories need to be told.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 22:01
  • Purchases: 1
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
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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Based on an old melody by ancient composer Huan Yi, Chen Qigang’s Reflet d’un temps disparu is stunningly performed by cellist Gautier Capuçon. The...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:30
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Guo Wenjing’s Passacaglia for Orchestra is a work inspired by prehistoric rock paintings in ancient caves on Riyue Mountain. Li Biao leads the orch...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:30