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The Big Ponder #43: The Typewriter
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #42: Beer
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Long ago, German immigrants brought their brewing traditions to the United States. More recently, brewers from the U.S. have begun bringing America...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #30: The Zoo
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Growing up, Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller traveled the world with his family. On their trips, they always made time for a visit to the local zoo: in Ber...

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #29: Humor
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Despite the cliché of the unfunny German, there is a rich tradition of comedy in German culture. Soraya Nelson visits comedy clubs in Berlin and in...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 27:41
  • Purchases: 1
Zooming the Lit Fests
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip reflects on how literature festivals have mutated during the COVID pandemic.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
The Big Ponder #26: Krampus
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the U.S., Santa keeps tabs on who’s been naughty or nice, but there isn’t much follow through on the naughty list. In much of Europe, however, S...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 27:27
  • Purchases: 2
Lake Titicaca, Peru
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from Lake Titicaca, Peru.

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cuzco, Peru
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from Cuzco, Peru.

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Curitiba, Brazil
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from Curitiba, Brazil.

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Montevideo, Uruguay
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from Montevideo, Uruguay

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #15: Record Booth
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...

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  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 2
Vax Fest India
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Screen shot from India Today
Apparently Indians pay attention to nothing unless it’s turned into a festival. Sandip Roy wonders if that may help stop COVID-19.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
The Big Ponder #9: In Friendship
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Inspired by a year of forced isolation, essayist Bilal Qureshi explores the history, landscape, and meaning of friendship across cultures. At the h...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:47
  • Purchases: 1
Lockdown Olympics
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Chewie makes Dalonga coffee, Credit: Sandip Roy
I had assumed the lockdown was a time when the frenetic world would finally slow down, But on my social media timeline no one has gotten the messag...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Trump's "Discovery of India" tour
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Trump as Baahubali
Sandip Roy looks at all the ways Trump’s recent visit to India has been a benefit to all concerned.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Memorabilia
From: Martine Chaussard
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Memorabilia is about a grown man reconnecting with rituals and memories from his childhood. It's about some good old sports collectibles. And my an...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #11: Germans on Harleys
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Every year, tourists from around the world flock to Southern Utah to take in the scenic landscape. Most travel by car, but some opt for a less trad...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 14:54
  • Purchases: 1
When Size Matters
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The Statue of Unity in Gujarat, India, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sometimes when picking our monuments we focus on the wrong aspect.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Say My Name
From: Susie Kahlich
Series: Artipoeus : art you can hear
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Artipoeus visits Francoise Shein and Barbara Reiter's project "Inscrire", an installation at the Berlin subway station U Bahnhof Westhafen, near Pl...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2017
  • Length: 24:56
Multi-cuisine Madness
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A sample menu, Credit: Sandip Roy
In a world where consumer choice is deified, multi-cuisine’s stock keeps going up, no matter its quality.

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Friends and Freedom Fighters
From: Philip Armand
Caption: Freedom Fighter
Philip Armand grapples with commitment, then spends an afternoon watching the TV show Friends with a group of Kurdish Freedom Fighters.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2016
  • Length: 09:11
Dhaka Facebook Fest.?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy gets virtually stranded in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Lit. Fest.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Allusionist 18: Fix part II
From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist
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The messiness of English is the price of its success. It is the most widely spoken language in the world, geographically, being an official languag...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
One Speech to Bind Them All
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Shashi Tharoor
It’s not a kitten video or an on-air blooper or a wardrobe malfunction. Who would have thought a 15 minute debating society speech could go viral? ...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
American laughs in Bangladesh
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Naveed Mahbub
What do immigrants carry with them to America? The obvious reminders of home -- Spices. Pressure cookers. Pickles. What’s far more unpredictable i...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 1