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The Great Conjunction
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Prepare for the Great Conjunction of 2020, which you can watch happen in real time, by watching Saturn and Jupiter grow ever closer together in our...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
When Phobia Becomes Hate
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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When does phobia cross over into hate speech? Does a social media site need a bloodthirsty exhortation to deliver a 6-inch deep cut before it can act?

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Time and Patience
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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We don’t have to win the war against Covid as much as we need to learn to make peace with its existence in our world for now.

  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Mangos and cyclones
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip's mango tree, Credit: Sandip Roy
When life gives you cyclones, make mango rice.

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Bless Us, St. Minerva
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Have you heard the Good News about St. Minerva, patron goddess of the desert wilderness? Maybe she is Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, mother of Joshua Tree ...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dispatch 326: Social Distance
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Could the global outbreak of COVID-19 keep us apart, in more ways than just physical.

Bought by KFCF FM, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3
Centenary Celebration
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Centenarians are on Sandip Roy's mind as Lawerence Ferlinghetti turns 100

  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
The Movement of the Ocean: Thoughts for a New Year
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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The ocean, in its constant motion, offers solace and support for the human spirit and provides an immersion in nature for renewal and regeneration....

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jan 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 1
Of Fire and Monsters
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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When there’s trouble on the edge of civilization—where the wilderness meets what mankind makes—well, here we encounter fierce things both natural a...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome To Dirt-Pile City
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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The aftermath of the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of Autumn 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village "Dirt-...

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Horror of the Solar Lodge
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Here in the desert far from prying eyes, the members of the Solar Lodge awaited the apocalypse and built their own grim Ark of the Covenant.

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
180602 Recoil From The Forbidden Zone
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Regretfully, I traveled outside the levees and into the Forbidden Zone. I felt like Kurtz descending into the hellish desert of commercialism, co...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2018
  • Length: 02:55:19
Missing Humanities
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Dr. Homi Bhabha at the Oxford bookstore in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
The CEO of Tech Mahindra said that the top 10 IT companies in India only take 6% of the engineering graduates. What happens to the other 94% he won...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
WhatsApp for?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Need a quick booster shot of national pride? How about a “quote" of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange praising the Indian prime minister? Need to help fome...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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This last year saw the release of Blade Runner 2049, a sequel to the 1982 science fiction classic Blade Runner. It’s rather unusual for a sequel to...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:40
Forget your feed
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip forgets to feed his social media stream, and reconnects with the world.

  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Just Like Family
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Alex Tizon recently wrote about his family’s slave, Lola. Some praise Alex TIzon for his courage in confronting a dark chapter in his family’s hist...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Goodbye Carrie
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Carrie Fisher as Leia and Harrison Ford as Han Solo in "The Force Awakens", Credit: Lucasfilm
There was much more to Carrie Fisher than Princess Leia. But some things, good, bad or simply pop define us as people, and become placeholders for...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Sacrifice of Khizr Khan
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Khizr Khan at the DNC Convention
Khizr Khan did something few have been able to do in this bitter and vulgar presidential election.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Orlando
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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That most basic of human gestures of intimacy, a kiss, can still be deadly.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Nature Writer Loren Eisleley
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Loren Eiseley
In the first of a four-part series on writers who have shaped his interest in Nature and the ocean, host Peter Neill highlights the work of 20th ce...

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  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
Monica's Story
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Monica Liu
Most people who come to her restaurant and wash down golden fried prawn with cold beer have no inkling about her back story.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
More on Water
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Fresh water is the topic of discussion once again on World Ocean Radio. In this episode host Peter Neill re-asserts the gravity of the global fresh...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 05:02
Too Late for Suzette
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Suzette Jordan
Justice has finally come for Suzette Jordan.Though she was not there to witness it. In 2013 she became the face of rape in Kolkata, India. Her att...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
What's that poking at your conscience?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Aylan and Galib Kurdi
We are inundated by a circus of gratuitous and salacious images in our media everyday, but one recent photograph has cut through the clutter.

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1