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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the book "Songs of Earth," which is an updated version of song collector/folklori...
- Added: May 13, 2023
- Length: 27:30
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about the new book "Overtone Singing," a comprehensive tome that addresses the physics ...
- Added: May 06, 2023
- Length: 28:29
There’s a sports metaphor I’ve heard used, in basketball mostly, when they say that a player is “in a zone.” Every shot seems to go in; whenever th...
- Added: Apr 26, 2023
- Length: 02:56
Ruben Östlund’s satire on the ruling class takes us on a luxury cruise headed for disaster.
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 03:33
Ours is an age of migrants, those martyred by the legal fictions we call borders. Two recent films explore this persistent, troubling experience.
- Added: Jan 25, 2023
- Length: 03:31
HOUR ONE: 'What Afghan Women Want You to Know' - Teachers. Actors. Ancient rug weavers. Whisperers of forbidden poetry. The women of Afghanistan wa...
- Added: Oct 01, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
Now that the Indian Supreme Court has decriminalized homosexuality, the real battles begin. The battle over what is and isn’t “Indian."
- Added: Sep 17, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Sometimes it seems 70 years after Independence India is just unable to shake off its suited and booted colonial hangover, as a recent Facebook post...
- Added: Jul 31, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Television is not just news. It has become the lynchpin of the lynchmob.
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 06:00
It’s the great Western discovery of India all over again.
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Is net neutrality just a right for the West and a luxury for the rest. And must poor countries be told, be grateful, half an internet is better tha...
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 06:00
When Narendra Modi came by last week to the Bay Area the titans of tech pulled out all stops to give him a red carpet welcome.
Amidst all this jub...
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 06:00
When Hardik Patel got 600,000 people to show up at a rally in Ahmedabadn in his native Gujarat everyone sat up and noticed.
But his reservation mo...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
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? ...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
What do immigrants carry with them to America?
The obvious reminders of home -- Spices. Pressure cookers. Pickles.
What’s far more unpredictable i...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 05:58
- Purchases: 1
In India the Supreme Court did not realize that when it recriminalized gay sex, society had come a long way. Like toothpaste it just cannot be pus...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
In the last decade Bollywood has snuck into America. Bollywood aerobics. Bollywood theme parties. It even snuck into the Oscars via Slumdog Million...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The world will need to remember that Nepal is not just a home for temples and palaces and Everest expeditions. It is a country that millions call h...
- Added: Apr 27, 2015
- Length: 06:00
If you think Asian-Amerian man, chances are you don’t think of sweaty guys pushing, shoving and shouting on a court. But that’s exactly what 9-Man ...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
"Did you see a tiger?"
The first question asked of anyone who comes back from Jim Corbett National Park was asked of Sandip Roy recently. Here is ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Once if you wanted to be an Indian city of any standing, you were measured by flyovers, speciality hospitals or multiplexes. These days you are mea...
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 06:00
The Andaman Islands were devastated in the 2004 tsunami, and many of the ancient tongues are dying out, but not because of the tsunami.
- Added: Dec 16, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 2
A Jewish museum just opened in Kolkata. Not a brick and mortar museum, but an online museum.
- Added: Sep 10, 2014
- Length: 04:30
This week we're asking what it takes to get us to give, and how we know if we're doing it right.
Bought by WMUU-LP, WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, WKCC, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 5
Amethi is the pocket borough of India’s most powerful family, the Gandhi's. This time it’s different.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: May 06, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
