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This week, music from women whose roots lie in the east - China, Japan, India and Korea.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
Caption: Ruchika Tulshyan (left) and Ijeoma Oluo (right).
What does equity really mean? That might be an impossible question to answer objectively, but in this encore episode Ruchika Tulshyan, a workplace ...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Based on an old melody by ancient composer Huan Yi, Chen Qigang’s Reflet d’un temps disparu is stunningly performed by cellist Gautier Capuçon. The...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:30
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Guo Wenjing’s Passacaglia for Orchestra is a work inspired by prehistoric rock paintings in ancient caves on Riyue Mountain. Li Biao leads the orch...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:30
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We'll hear Gustav Mahler's dramatic and passionate Symphony No. 6, as well as Zhou Jiping's luscious Concerto for Violin, featuring eminent soloist...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:30
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We bring in the Chinese New Year with the National Centre for Performing Arts, led by conductors Lü Jia, Peng Jiapeng, and Chen Lin. Works include ...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:30

  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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What if I’m just a butterfly dreaming that I’m a philosopher?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
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If you dream that you're a butterfly, how can you be sure you're not a butterfly dreaming you're a person when you wake up?

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
Caption: Borrowed and Banned logo, Credit: John Snowden
Mike Curato talks about his award-winning graphic novel Flamer, his writing practice, and how it feels to have his story vaulted into national head...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 16:39
Caption: Peng Shepherd, Credit: Rachel Crittenden
Peng Shepherd discusses her speculative mystery The Cartographers, her fascination with maps, her love of speculative fiction, and the challenges o...

Bought by KZUM, KUT, RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 7
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KQAL's Dylan Alzate takes us behind the scenes at the 2022 Dancescape performance on the campus of Winona State University. Original Air Date: 03/0...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 35:47
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Actors Sylvia Kwan and Jacob Yeh discuss their many roles in Lauren Yee's play "The King of the Yees."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and KZUM


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:07
  • Purchases: 4
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Children are often shielded from a painful family past. For Ava Chin, a deep, personal hunger to reclaim her Chinese-American legacy led her to sto...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:25
  • Purchases: 2
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Drummer and composer Sunny Jain, the creative force behind the Bhangra fusion of Red Baraat as well as numerous other projects visits with host Jo...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Nicole Chung, Credit: Carletta Girma
Nicole Chung writes of family and loss with a focus on broader societal failures.

Bought by KMUN, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KZUM


  • Added: Jun 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Jason Rhee, Credit: Mike Jue
In his documentary in process, EJ Lee: All-American filmmaker Jason Rhee tells the story of EJ Lee a Korean immigrant in Louisiana who was a pheno...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMUN, WSLR, KZUM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: May 16, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Amy Tan, Credit: Julian Johnson
In time for Mother's Day: Author and 2021 National Humanities Medalist Amy Tan discusses “The Joy Luck Club,” her writing with its themes of family...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KZUM


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 4
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There’s a sports metaphor I’ve heard used, in basketball mostly, when they say that a player is “in a zone.” Every shot seems to go in; whenever th...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:56
Caption: Host Martha Burk
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Didn’t know we celebrated such a thing? You’re not alone. Lesser known than Black History Month or ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Apr 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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DJ Carrot premieres her “K-popcast” series and discusses the K-pop girl group sensation Black Pink. She discusses the group’s history, albums, coll...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:15
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On this week's episode of The Rhythm Atlas, you'll hear a set of music in celebration of Lunar New Year, a track from the debut album by Montreal g...

Bought by KHNS, Spokane Public Radio, and KAMU


  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Pak Yan (left) and Joe Chan (right) at Friendship Park in Richmond, CA soon after they reunited. The text on the rock reads ‘friendship’ in Chinese
Born in Hong Kong, Pak Yan and Joe Chan were inseparable as kids. But when Joe was in the 6th grade, his family moved to the U.S. The friends were ...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 02:51