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Sound Ecology: Apapane
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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The apapane is a forest bird native to the Hawaiian islands. It is a member of the honeycreeper family and an important pollinator.

Bought by WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dispatch #376 - Coming Out as Dalit
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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It was after reading the suicide note of Dalit student Rohith Vemula, that Yashica Dutt a journalist living in New York, decided that she was going...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Food Justice: A new way of Thinking about the Most Basic Stuff of Life
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Food justice is the notion that everyone should have access to healthful food as well as the opportunity to grow, market and serve it. It’s also th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Dispatch 358 - Festival of Democracy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Indians now look at the 2020 American elections and understand that there’s chaos that’s colorful and then there’s chaos thats toxic.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Buffalo NY: Grappling with Gentrification in one of America’s Most Unequal Cities
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Buffalo, New York, was once a booming industrial town fueled by cheap power from Niagara Falls, a center of commerce and trade, the first city in t...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Little Durga
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Kids of Bhandarkhali and their Durga, Credit: Meghdutam Foundation
Durga Puja, the festival of the ten armed Goddess Durga, has always been a time of excess in Kolkata. But this is the story of the “Little Durga.”

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
20 Years Proud
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Marchers from the very first Kolkata Pride march, Credit: Sandip Roy
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York. But it also marks the 20th anniversary of the first Pride march in Kolkata...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Game of Democracy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Modi film poster
When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die. In elections, though, you might just live to fight another day.

  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Remembering the Great War in India
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy remembers the veterans of World War 1, the Indian veterens.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Pride by Moonlight
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A photo from the exhibition "Full Moon on a Dark Night" at Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata, Credit: courtesy Soumya Sankar Bose from the show Full Moon on a Dark Night at Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata
This year Sandip Roy sees a new side of queer life in India.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Sound Ecology: Raptors
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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What is a raptor? Naturalist Ken Burton offers up some details on these amazing birds, including addressing the concept of convergent evolution.

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
NEA Jazz Moments with Saxophonist and Composer, Charles Lloyd
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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A born innovator, musician Charles Lloyd has been on the path to NEA Jazz Master for decades. In these Moments, he talks about growing up surrounde...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 13
Radio Retrospective: Radio at War
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Frank Sinatra being interview during World War II, Credit: Wikipedia
Radio reached its height of popularity during World War II. But the war also ushered in its greatest competitor - television.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMMT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 3
Radio Retrospective: The First Woman of Sound Effects
From: Katy Sewall
Series: Radio Retrospective
Caption: Ora Nichols (left) and the CBS Sound Effects Team, Credit: Wikipedia
Ora Nichols lead the sound effects team that brought "War of the Worlds" to life on the radio. That doesn't mean she got along with Orson Wells. Me...

Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 3
Hearing Red
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
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Sounds affect us in ways we might not notice.

Bought by KSKA and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 2
The West Cambridge Youth Center
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
Series: Green Audio Tour of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Caption: Find the full-size tour map at: http://web.mit.edu/tyr/tours/Cambridge-Green-Audio-Tour/CambridgeGreenAudioTourMap-8.5x11.pdf
An older building in West Cambridge is renewed in an eco-friendly way

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:46
Fresh Pond
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
Series: Green Audio Tour of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Caption: Find the full-size tour map at: http://web.mit.edu/tyr/tours/Cambridge-Green-Audio-Tour/CambridgeGreenAudioTourMap-8.5x11.pdf
Fresh Pond. A great name for where Cambridge's water comes from.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
Danehy Park
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
Series: Green Audio Tour of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Caption: Find the full-size tour map at: http://web.mit.edu/tyr/tours/Cambridge-Green-Audio-Tour/CambridgeGreenAudioTourMap-8.5x11.pdf
A park built on reclaimed land?

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
Sustainable Transportation
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
Series: Green Audio Tour of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Caption: Find the full-size tour map at: http://web.mit.edu/tyr/tours/Cambridge-Green-Audio-Tour/CambridgeGreenAudioTourMap-8.5x11.pdf
Getting around Cambridge without a car.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 03:01
The Urban Canopy
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
Series: Green Audio Tour of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Caption: Find the full-size tour map at: http://web.mit.edu/tyr/tours/Cambridge-Green-Audio-Tour/CambridgeGreenAudioTourMap-8.5x11.pdf
Can a city also be a forest? Cambridge thinks so.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
The Charles River
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
Series: Green Audio Tour of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Caption: Find the full-size tour map at: http://web.mit.edu/tyr/tours/Cambridge-Green-Audio-Tour/CambridgeGreenAudioTourMap-8.5x11.pdf
The Charles River is no longer dirty water.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:55
Green Harvard
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
Series: Green Audio Tour of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Caption: Find the full-size tour map at: http://web.mit.edu/tyr/tours/Cambridge-Green-Audio-Tour/CambridgeGreenAudioTourMap-8.5x11.pdf
Although Harvard is known as the "Crimson," it's really very green.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 03:31
Main Library and High School
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
Series: Green Audio Tour of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Caption: Find the full-size tour map at: http://web.mit.edu/tyr/tours/Cambridge-Green-Audio-Tour/CambridgeGreenAudioTourMap-8.5x11.pdf
Learning in a "green" environment.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:27
City Hall Annex
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
Series: Green Audio Tour of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Caption: Find the full-size tour map at: http://web.mit.edu/tyr/tours/Cambridge-Green-Audio-Tour/CambridgeGreenAudioTourMap-8.5x11.pdf
Converting an "old" building into a new "green" one.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:52
Farmer's Markets
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
Series: Green Audio Tour of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Caption: Find the full-size tour map at: http://web.mit.edu/tyr/tours/Cambridge-Green-Audio-Tour/CambridgeGreenAudioTourMap-8.5x11.pdf
A visit to a local farmer's market.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 01:39