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The Quiet Girl
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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A 9-year-old girl is sent away from her abusive family to live with an older couple, who try to break through her fear and silence to let some love...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:47
Pride and Celebration
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A rainbow cape at 2022 Kolkata Pride March., Credit: Sandip Roy
From the World Cup to Pride Parades, Kolkata is a city that loves to turn everything into a festival.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
A Part of History
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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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...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
CASA
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Lucas County CASA – Court Appointed Special Advocates – is a non-profit organization of volunteers who work for the juvenile court judges to advoca...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 1
Toledo Excel
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Since it began in 1988, TOLEDO EXCEL, a scholarship incentive program at The University of Toledo, has been striving to prepare underrepresented st...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 14, 2022
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
A Question of Faith
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Imam Ahmad Deeb has been serving communities from a very young age. Although he grew up in Orlando, FL he now happily serves as the Imam and Religi...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 1
In Junction
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today we're headed to the Junction neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio to talk to Alicia Smith. She's the executive director of The Junction Coalition, a ...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 06:13
Dispatch 361 - Giving Thanks
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Live turkeys in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite American holiday, and this has been a year where we learned to be thankful for all the things we once took...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
All in the Same Boat
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we bring you an abbreviated special edition of World Ocean Radio in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. In this edition we'll reite...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 30, 2020
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Walls That Divide Us
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Many things divide a country, but it’s the overlooked, personal slights, that hurt the most.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
The Leisure Edge: Part Four of a Seven Part Series on the Ocean Edge
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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We have long enjoyed the ocean edge for leisurely ends: as a place to gather with family and friends to enjoy surf and sand, and to relax in the fr...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2019
  • Length: 04:35
Poet and Editor of The Georgia Review Stephen Corey
From: New Letters on the Air
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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
Memories of a neem
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A typical neem tree, Credit: exoticflora.in
Sandip remembers a bitter part of his childhood.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
The Stray
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy gets adopted by a neighborhood stray.

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: May 07, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Treehouse Adventure
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The tree house
Sandip struggles with a “getting back to nature” trip.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
What Lies Between Us
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Every immigrant has a coming to the America memory. Nayomi Munaweera came to America when she was 12. It was the mid eighties. And Duran Duran.....

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


  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
TSR16-10 Melissa Ethridge
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
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Academy Award and GRAMMY winning artist, Melissa Etheridge, will take the stage to perform songs from her new album, This is M.E., as well as some ...

Bought by KMXT, KALH, WTIP, WRNC-LP, KSJE and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 59:22
  • Purchases: 10
Auntie
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sandip's Aunt
A heartfelt goodbye to a favorite Aunt.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Sanjay's Super Team
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sanjay's Super Team, Credit: Pixar
Sanjay’s Super Team -- the first Pixar film directed by a person of Indian heritage. The first Pixar film with a central character who is a person ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
#1420 - Best of Both: Susan Katz Miller On Interfaith Families
From: Sandburg Media
Series: Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith [Standard Clock]
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Author and journalist Susan Katz Miller is both an interfaith child and an interfaith parent. Her book, Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One ...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
TSR15-09 Jason Isbell
From: Tent Show Radio
Caption: Tent Show Radio
After working as a songwriter, in 2001 at the age of 22, Isbell joined the rock band Drive-By Truckers while they toured in support of their album ...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WKMS, KSRQ, WUMB, WDSE and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 8
World Toilet Day
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Nov. 19th is World Toilet Day, and in developing countries it's serious business.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ezra Pound Award-Winning Poet Alice Friman
From: New Letters on the Air
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The 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry, Alice Friman's other honors include the Ezra Pound Poetry Award for her third book, ZOO. In t...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate" by Judith Kitchen
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate" by Judith Kitchen
Judith Kitchen is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction. Here Dan Sinkyn reviews "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate" a ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "The Last Hunter: An American Family Album." a memoir from Will Weaver
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "The Last Hunter: An American Family Album." by Will Weaver
Will Weaver is a highly successful writer who has published mainly in the area of young-adult fiction. Here though we have an adult non-fiction mem...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 1