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Nothing is sacred unless we set it aside as sacred. As Americans rapidly abandon organized religion, and the formerly sanctified church and temple ...
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- Added: Mar 30, 2024
- Length: 28:00
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Where's the beautiful part, anyway? Well, start by walking about a mile past the last parking lot or dirt road or residential car-parts dump or inf...
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- Added: Feb 16, 2024
- Length: 28:01
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Poetry and music imbued with Earth, wind, and fire, in actuality or metaphorically.
- Added: Feb 03, 2024
- Length: 59:19
Four decades ago, Betty and Barney Hill were driving back from a visit to Niagara Falls when they endured a strange assault in the deeply haunted W...
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- Added: Jan 06, 2023
- Length: 28:00
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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...
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- Added: May 31, 2022
- Length: 06:14
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A postcard about a group of Alphorn players in the Sierra Nevada.
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- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
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It's Durga Puja time in India and if last year the theme was the disease and the virus this year it’s more about ways to emerge from the pandemic.
- Added: Oct 19, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Could you possibly be ‘helping’ your songbirds to a painful and premature death by providing food and water for them over the summer? On this episo...
- Added: Jul 22, 2021
- Length: 54:58
The waltz figures prominently in these pieces about the human experience.
- Added: Jan 30, 2021
- Length: 54:04
On this new episode of YBYG, Mike teaches you how to get RID of RATS! Plus your fabulous phone calls!!
- Added: Jan 07, 2021
- Length: 54:58
From a skeletal homesteader cabin on a cold Mojave night, it's the annual Desert Oracle Christmas Special. New Mexico writer Anna Merlin joins us t...
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- Added: Dec 23, 2020
- Length: 28:00
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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...
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- Added: Oct 30, 2020
- Length: 28:00
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Writer and actor Rupert Everett spoke recently with Sandip Roy for the Jaipur Lit. Festival about pandemics and sainthood.
- Added: Oct 13, 2020
- Length: 06:00
In this episode of YBYG Mike McGrath takes you into the fall with Tips for 'Taming' Rampant Rousers. Plus your fabulous phone calls!!
- Added: Oct 07, 2020
- Length: 54:58
There is a pandemic demon that needs slaying, and we would do well to heed the lessons of Durga.
- Added: Sep 14, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Music serves as a poignant metaphor in this set of poetry.
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- Added: Sep 12, 2020
- Length: 01:01:57
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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
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For these few weeks as humans suffer, the earth is healing itself.
- Added: Apr 09, 2020
- Length: 06:00
After watching “Tales of the City” on Netflix, Sandip reflects on his own tale of the city.
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Poetry inspired by music and musicians.
- Added: Jan 25, 2019
- Length: 58:15
Three-time Georgia Author of the Year for poetry and editor of THE GEORGIA REVIEW, Stephen Corey reads from his book STARTLED AT THE BIG SOUND: ESS...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 29:00
After 157 years, the Indian Supreme court ruled rules that gay sex is not a crime.
- Added: Sep 10, 2018
- Length: 06:00
The Indian Supreme Court began hearings on July 10 to decide whether Section 377 (which criminalizes homosexuality) of India's constitution violate...
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- Added: Jul 31, 2018
- Length: 06:00
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Sandip enjoys a very diverse passover meal in Kolkata
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Excerpts from Rachel Cohen's essay "Lost Cities" and segments of poetry by Fernando Pessoa and Constantine Cavafy examine the allure of one's home ...
- Added: May 26, 2017
- Length: 53:20