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This week, we’re reporting from Dubai, where the 28th UN climate change conference (COP28) is now underway. Ever since the Paris Agreement was sign...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KECG, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 13
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This week, we’re reporting from Dubai, where the 28th UN climate change conference (COP28) is now underway. Ever since the Paris Agreement was sign...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
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A local aid agency is racing to get medical supplies into Ukraine and bringing refugees into the Bay Area. "Civic" We spoke with those who are angr...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Sandip Roy and Bishop Tutu in 2008 in San Francisco
If there ever was a life to celebrate rather than a death to mourn it was Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Chewie wears his mask. Be like Chewie., Credit: Sandip Roy
…the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. — From ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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Sandip wonders if the new normal is really normal?

  • Added: Aug 10, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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A hour featuring voices from 10 different countries on how they are coping with the COVID-19 outbreak and their quarantine experience.

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  • Added: May 06, 2020
  • Length: 54:34
  • Purchases: 1
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Sandip reflects on the connections between us, and the responsibility of us all to remain apart.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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How does a soldier start bombing his own country? This is the question Houda asked her cousin after he was discharged from mandatory military servi...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2019
  • Length: 04:10
Caption: Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Credit: Bryce Vickmark for news.mit.edu
Abhijit Banerjee, an MIT economist from Kolkata, India wins a Nobel Prize for his work on alleviating global poverty.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
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Sandip Roy compares our current heat wave to a typical “Indian Summer.”

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: An issue of 'trikone'
After 157 years, the Indian Supreme court ruled rules that gay sex is not a crime.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Pride celebrations in Delhi, Credit: Sandip Roy
The Indian Supreme Court began hearings on July 10 to decide whether Section 377 (which criminalizes homosexuality) of India's constitution violate...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Janessa Gans Wilder
The story of how Janessa Gans Wilder, a CIA analyst working in Iraq during the war, became inspired to leave the agency to run a non-profit organiz...

Bought by KSJE and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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Air India’s reputation is of a sort of futzy dowager, very uncool. Even its mascot a Maharajah in a red coat and turban with a pointy mustache see...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
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I hope when equal rights comes, there will still be room for that ambiguity. That we don’t always need to walk in a straight line.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 12, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Indian officials in Bangalore play 'racism dodge ball' over the attack of a Tanzanian student.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Amy Biehl
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio…forgiveness on a grand scale as the family of slain American anti-apartheid activist Amy Biehl work together w...

Bought by KUOW, WEKU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Sam Schwartz - world traffic expert
Sam Schwartz is known worldwide as Gridlock Sam, a nickname the media gave him for coining the term, Gridlock. As New York City's traffic commissio...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 30:05
Caption: Seth Redniss, Reporters without Borders
Seth Redniss is the lawyer for Reporters Without Borders, the French based organization dedicated to defending the world's most important freedom, ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:58
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We talked Syria, Iran, and much more with Jonathan Spyer, columnist for the Jerusalem Post, senior researcher for the GLORIA Center and fellow for ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 55:37
Caption: Sushmita Memorial, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sushmita Banerjee pled a full life. Full of danger, trying to make a difference in this world. This week Sandip Roy remembers her legacy.

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Music World closes, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip finds himself oddly nostalgic, for a noisy purple bag.

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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In this special program, you'll hear Nelson Mandela as you've never heard him before. This program draws on 50 hours of recorded conversations with...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 36