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The very word vacation has its roots in vacare or to be unoccupied. But in reality vacations are anything but unoccupied. Sandip recounts the woes ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2024
- Length: 06:00
In the wake of the terrible train accident in eastern India Sandip remembers a gentler kind of train travel in India.
- Added: Jun 06, 2023
- Length: 06:00
The longest river cruise in the world is underway on it’s maiden voyage in India.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Returning for the first time since COVID, Sandip Roy finds a different San Francisco, one seemingly for lease.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 05, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The great mansions in the villages of Chettinad in South India still carry the imprints of the worlds their owners once traversed using Birmingham...
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- Added: Jul 12, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
This Spring, the Paris Book Fair was finally back in person! But even amidst this Parisian fairytale, reality reared its ugly head.
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Sandip yearns for the life of traveler.
- Added: Sep 27, 2021
- Length: 06:00
A new documentary explores Allen Ginsberg’s time in India.
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 06:00
The Sundarbans in Bengal, India have become a speeded up version of global climate change.
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Rod Clarance has traveled to more countries than you can shake a stick at. His Song Story is pulled from his memories of his first time in Europe.
- Added: May 08, 2020
- Length: 05:22
Sandip explores the very unique sounds that make up a Kolkata winter.
- Added: Jan 27, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy tours Borneo and discovers more than just monkeys.
- Added: Jun 28, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Sandip Roy finally… finally sees the mysterious Kanchenjungha with his own eyes! Finally!
- Added: Oct 08, 2018
- Length: 06:00
What's in a tiger sighting? For some it's more important than anything else.
- Added: Jan 15, 2018
- Length: 06:00
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
In the small West African nation of Togo, a typical meal consists of one of two staple foods: pâte (pronounced like “pot”), made from corn flour an...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 04:23
Sandip visits another "returnee," Nguyen Qui Duc in Vietnam.
- Added: Nov 15, 2016
- Length: 06:00
What is a home? Come take a look at the concept of “home” from a different perspective.
- Added: Apr 03, 2014
- Length: 02:32
A girl. A boy. A horse. A chase. Listen as this week's Global Guru takes you inside the world of courtship in Kazakhstan...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, PRX Remix, KZYX, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 02:56
- Purchases: 7
This week, the Global Guru ventures waaaaaayyyy up into the bell towers of an English church to learn just how mathematical -- and dangerous -- bel...
Bought by WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WTIP
- Added: Jan 09, 2011
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 5
This week the Global Guru stays up all night for the winter solstice in Iran, where acclaimed cookbook author, Najmieh Batmanglij, leads us into th...
- Added: Dec 20, 2010
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 2
This week the Global Guru goes to Mali to learn the art of a griot, where storyteller, historian, political advisor, detective and genealogist are ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 3
This week's Global Guru visits a temple in India where an unlikely rodent reigns supreme
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and WTIP
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 2
This week the Global Guru learns how to negotiate land deals, family disputes, wedding arrangements, cattle sales and other deals in Timor Leste.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 05, 2010
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
This week we sharpen our swords in the Champagne region of France to learn how the French sabrage!
Bought by KMXT, WABE, HCC Radio The Dragon, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 23, 2010
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 5
