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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
Kolkata is famous for its love of books. And its love for sweets. And Sandip Roy just went to Jugal's Literature Festival - the first ever literat...
- Added: Feb 14, 2023
- Length: 06:00
The longest river cruise in the world is underway on it’s maiden voyage in India.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
School's out for the summer and, in a case of perfect timing, a teacher has been nominated for the program. This week we talk to Erin Lottier of To...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: May 31, 2022
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 1
Many towns and cities are indelibly tied up with certain books and films. But few changed the fortunes of a town like a 1974 Bengali film named Son...
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- Added: May 03, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
A postcard about the first day of Major League Baseball, and in my book, the first day of spring.
- Added: Apr 01, 2022
- Length: 02:00
Sandip Roy shares the journey of Mahesh Vinayakram, from the verse of Carnatic music to the world stage of Cirque du Soleil.
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- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Since it began in 1988, TOLEDO EXCEL, a scholarship incentive program at The University of Toledo, has been striving to prepare underrepresented st...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Feb 14, 2022
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
The social media app TikTok has taken India by storm, but a political storm may mean that time has run out for its users.
- Added: Jul 20, 2020
- Length: 06:00
The 85 year old Ruskin Bond is a bit of an accidental Indian, but he is also one of the most loved Indian writers. Sandip Roy met him at the Tata S...
- Added: Jun 18, 2019
- Length: 06:00
There’s good, English, bad English and in a case by itself judicial English - perfect for pontification.
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 06:00
From: New Letters on the Air
Get a humorous account of the holiday season with Kansas blogger Jen Mann's book SPENDING THE HOLIDAYS WITH PEOPLE I WANT TO PUNCH IN THE THROAT. S...
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- Added: Dec 21, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We enjoy many rights and privileges as citizens of a free and democratic society, and we we're asked to do is vote. Easy, right?
- Added: Nov 08, 2016
- Length: 06:00
In India in the 1960s there were few options for a blind child. Blind people often begged in trains and railway platforms singing hymns.
But Baluji...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
The British left India a few years ago. Well almost 70 to be precise. But for some Indians, it’s just like yesterday, and with WillKat otherwise kn...
- Added: Apr 12, 2016
- Length: 06:00
A beloved Old Monk is dying in India. Not that kind of monk, it’s a rum. Not just A rum. The iconic Indian rum. A rite of passage for Indians for t...
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- Added: Aug 04, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Cape Breton fiddler extraordinaire.
- Added: Jun 11, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 9
Sandip Roy on the short film "After My Garden Grows" with filmmaker Megan Mylan and Monica Burman who is featured in the film.
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 05:00
R.D. Burman would have turned 75 last week and Bollywood threw a great birthday bash.
Sandip Roy and Kronos Quartet violinist David Harrington rem...
- Added: Jun 30, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Voting in India is the largest organized event in the world! Sandip Roy goes to the polls.
- Added: Apr 15, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Rain Barrels at home are an easy inexpensive way to make a real difference for local water quality. And why pay for water you can get for free?
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and WORT
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 02:23
- Purchases: 2
The State of Minnesota is supposedly shutting down at least partially by July 1st.
Does that affect you in any way?
Do you work for the state?
Ar...
- Added: Jun 27, 2011
- Length: 05:55
The State of Minnesota is supposedly shutting down at least partially by July 1st.
Does that affect you in any way?
Do you work for the state?
Ar...
- Added: Jun 27, 2011
- Length: 04:37
There's a world of difference between just driving somewhere and heading off on a road trip in that direction.
- Added: Aug 16, 2010
- Length: 03:36
The name's Corolla. I'm just a two-bit, four door sedan, living with a foreign label in a Minnesota union town.
- Added: Aug 16, 2010
- Length: 03:25
