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When artist Benigna Chilla got a frayed sari, more than six decades old, from Sandip's mother it set the stage for an artistic conversation that sp...
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- Added: Jan 02, 2024
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The majority of people regard summer as their favorite season, and we know all the reasons why. Many people look forward to autumn as an escape fr...
- Added: Dec 21, 2023
- Length: 01:52
Sandip Roy remembers Tina Turner as the only rockstar whose poster he put up in his bedroom as a boy in Kolkata.
- Added: May 31, 2023
- Length: 06:00
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
Haley begins her career in the working world at her local NPR radio station, but this new job doesn’t exactly turn out the way she had hoped. It be...
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 08:00
Dyker Heights is a destination this time of year, with houses decked out in lights drawing visitors from all around the world. And inside Dyker Lib...
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 10:42
Looking for a way to reach more customers? Classified ads may be the answer.
- Added: Nov 10, 2022
- Length: 01:21
I lost time to a steady rhythmic swing and clicking of cars traveling over rails. Passing scenery like a thief with no passion for roots, just a tr...
- Added: Jul 23, 2022
- Length: 07:49
As the world continues to limp back to a pre-COVID lifestyle, Sandip ponders the markers of “normalcy” in his life in Kolkata.
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- Added: Jul 05, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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There are 2 species of walnuts here in the borderlands of southern Arizona; the Arizona walnut (Juglans major) that I talked about and a species ca...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:34
This is a true story. Its 1956 and 11 year old Kenny Daniel discovers on televison the King of the Cowboys Roy Rogers. When he writes Roy Rogers a...
- Added: Mar 04, 2022
- Length: 15:57
Today on The Rough Draft Diaries we talk to Dr. Shanda Gore, the principal of MBAC, Minority Business Assistance Center. A development division tha...
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- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 06:10
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How many people will you meet in your lifetime? How many will you remember? Fascinated by the countless chance encounters in their own lives, Susan...
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- Added: Sep 16, 2021
- Length: 28:45
- Purchases: 1
One day, Jakob Lewis receives an email from a German man named Ingo asking to be his pen pal. The close relationship they develop teaches Jakob tha...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 25, 2021
- Length: 27:55
- Purchases: 1
Joann Jones co-founded a community dance class that helps senior citizens fight inactivity and isolation. But as she gets older, Joann has to fight...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 12, 2020
- Length: 06:43
- Purchases: 2
A collection of stories about things that have been passed down from those who came before.
- Added: Jan 23, 2020
- Length: 57:54
It turns out that libraries weren’t always so friendly toward children. That started to change around the turn of the 20th century, thanks to a lib...
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- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 20:41
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Myrtice Allen passed away not long ago. She was 98 years old. I had sent her over 500 postcards which she kept in a shoe box in her small apartment.
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- Added: Sep 20, 2019
- Length: 03:21
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Julian chooses his first official essay to read from the submissions choosing an essay that focuses on family. More specifically, mothers and their...
- Added: May 17, 2019
- Length: 10:29
A mom and veterinarian politely asks Santa not to bring her children the item that tops their Christmas lists: a puppy. With love and detail, Dr. ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 04:00
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Do you remember what your dream job was? Austin elementary school students explore what it's like to see your dreams change.
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 04:19
This Mother’s Day Sandip remembers Nigel Akkara, who told him about his two mothers.
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 06:00
- Added: May 07, 2018
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
A pet bunny gets recast as gay in a children’s book parodying a similar book created by members of VP Mike Pence’s family.
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- Added: Apr 27, 2018
- Length: 04:33
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James Van Der Beek? Nick Carter? Devon Sawa? Puh-lease! According to pre-teen girls of the 90s, none of the above held a candle to the boy who pla...
- Added: Mar 04, 2018
- Length: 25:27
