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On this episode, we talked about the new book by veteran music journalist John Robb, which features a selection of artist profiles from throughout ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:35
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We are aware of the key role played by insurance, more so as we face increasing events of extreme weather destruction. Government agencies are sign...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 05:16
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about the book "Recombo DNA," an in-depth biography of the band Devo that focuses on th...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:31
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we discussed the book "Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age" b...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:23
Caption: Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee, Credit: University of Michigan
While everyone wants to move on from COVID-19, but professor of epidemiology at Michigan University Bhramar Mukherjee says that the future depends ...

  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Portugal coast , Credit: Tobia Tullius
This week we're discussing the consequence of consumption. We point to a recent exhibit entitled "Waste Age: What Can Design Do?" that highlights t...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 05:32
Caption: Plastic pollution and juvenile fish, Credit: Naja Bertolt Jensen @naja_bertolt_jensen on Unsplash
This week on World Ocean Radio we're weighing in on the debate of water as food. Many are certain that it is not because it does not have the same ...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 05:17
Caption: Sandip Roy and William Dalrymple
How did just a few thousand British control the country of India?

  • Added: Dec 02, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Dal Lake in Kashmir, Credit: By Basharat Shah - Flickr: Dal Lake, CC BY 2.0
Kashmir has been on Sandip’s mind lately, his boyhood memories and the current media blackout.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Bray, France, Credit: Stijn te Strake on Unsplash
"The ocean is a major influence on weather and climate." So states the third Ocean Literacy principle, a series of fundamental concepts to help us ...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2018
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Gay Pride marchers in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
The Indian Supreme Court caught everyone by surprise, including Sandip Roy. Did the court unwittingly decriminalize being gay?

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: April 21 - 23, 2017, Credit: Earth Optimism Summit, Washington, D.C.
In September of 2016, World Ocean Observatory began a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution's Ocean Portal to promote the Earth Optimism S...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2017
  • Length: 04:42
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In September the World Ocean Observatory was invited to attend the Our Ocean Conference hosted by the U.S. State Department in Washington D.C. Duri...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:30
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"Are we training our best new minds in the worst ways?" In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill asks this question and more of...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 05:10
Caption: IISD Report: State of Sustainability Initiatives Review
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill discusses a recent report entitled "The State of Sustainability Initiatives Review: Standard...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2016
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Elected officials or politicians aspiring to be elected officials say things that would register on our Hackle o’ meters and our Politically Unfit...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:19
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The water crisis in Flint, Michigan has been dominating the news cycle for some weeks. The story points to tragic mismanagement of the city’s water...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 05:44
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Today’s Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks :As politicians one-up each other, what’s the difference between the candidate as demagogue- who openly app...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 01:21
Caption: Unsuk Chin, Credit: © Luc Hossepied
Part 2 of a two-part survey of the instrumental concertos by the Korean composer Unsuk Chin

  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
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An exclusive opportunity to hear the Kim Kardashian story from the author of her latest biography, Sean Smith

  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 09:59
Caption: Unsuk Chin
A survey of the instrumental concertos by the Korean composer Unsuk Chin

  • Added: Oct 10, 2015
  • Length: 58:27
Caption: Daniel Catán
A survey of the operas by the late Mexican composer Daniel Catán

  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill continues discussion of the global water crisis. This week he talks about water audits conduc...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 05:31
Caption: Mason Bates
A survey of music by the fast-rising young alt+classical composer, Mason Bates.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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"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 ...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1