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This holiday season on World Ocean Radio we return with a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson writte...
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 04:03
As India’s second wave of COVID-19 batters India, Twitter is becoming the go to for communication.
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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
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
When life gives you cyclones, make mango rice.
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 06:00
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
Centenarians are on Sandip Roy's mind as Lawerence Ferlinghetti turns 100
- Added: Mar 18, 2019
- Length: 06:00
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
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
Sandip forgets to feed his social media stream, and reconnects with the world.
- Added: Jan 08, 2018
- Length: 06:00
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
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...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 03, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
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
We are inundated by a circus of gratuitous and salacious images in our media everyday, but one recent photograph has cut through the clutter.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 08, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
...And Other Essays is the book's title, by author Clifford Thompson who reads a passage here. Observations with wit about life and people, from m...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 01:40
You hear about it all the time, but how many people truly know what diversity is all about? Can a traffic light teach us?
- Added: Mar 14, 2013
- Length: 02:30
An innocent man is released after 29 years in jail
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 01:36
- Added: Mar 27, 2009
- Length: 05:15
- Purchases: 1
Pollopel Island is host to Bannerman's Castle. But its curious history goes back centuries
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 01:46
A musing on the consequences of frequent traveling.
- Added: Jun 21, 2006
- Length: 01:06
- Purchases: 2
How do we remember best - through people or the buildings we live in?
- Added: Jun 21, 2006
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 20, 2005
- Length: :56
- Purchases: 1
