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Caption: Right: Grace Lee Boggs, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Left: John Trudell
What is your perspective on Democracy? This week we explore what democracy means.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Sandip Roy spoke with James Crabtree about his new book "The Billionaire Raj."

  • Added: Feb 17, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Nemat Sadat, Credit: Elliott O'Donovan Photography
Sandip Roy speaks with author and Afghan born American, vegan beefcake and most lovable teddy bear, Nemat Sadat.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Paul Beatty at the Kolkata Literary Meet , Credit: Kolkata Literary Meet
If the polls had been right and Hillary Clinton had won someone could have written a great American satire of an America where Donald Trump wins. B...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 19, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Iranian-American writer Firoozeh Dumas' commentaries about her hyphenated life have aired on NPR. But that was a different America. While Firoozeh ...

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


  • Added: Feb 01, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Etgar Keret, an author and a regular contributor to our show, lives less than a ten minute walk from Kikar Malchey Israel, the square where Rabin w...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 20:08
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When the publishers Penguin and Random House merged, it called itself The world's first truly global book publishing company". Sounds powerful. But...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
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Andy attends a poetry reading on Mill Ave.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 20, 2009
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Released Dec. 1967
The JWH album traces Dylan's relationship with America and his spritual journey from outlaw to family man, from joker to thief.

Bought by KPIP-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WETS


  • Added: Aug 14, 2008
  • Length: 01:02:25
  • Purchases: 5
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Muslim scholar Leila Ahmed argues for an alternative to fundamentalist Islam, for an oral, ethical tradition, passed down from mothers and grandmot...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFUV, and KZYX


  • Added: Jun 30, 2004
  • Length: 17:40
  • Purchases: 4
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Confronting the tyrannies of our times through the transformative power of the novel.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, WETA, WFUV, KZYX and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2004
  • Length: 22:40
  • Purchases: 6