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12:56pm

Thu October 11, 2012
Arts & Culture

Exploring this "latin" american life with KALW's Radio Ambulante

Radio Ambulante is a new Spanish-language podcast based at KALW. Crosscurrents host Hana Baba speaks with the host and co-founder of Radio Ambulante, local novelist Daniel Alarcón, about what inspired him to create a show that would bring new voices, new perspectives, and a new language to public radio:

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11:47am

Wed October 10, 2012
Arts & Culture

Today's Local Music: Voices of Music

If you’re one of those people who enjoy “The Oldies” – and we mean really OLD “Oldies” -- then you may want to hear Voices of Music from San Francisco. This Early Music ensemble plays renaissance and baroque music written prior to 1800.

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7:45am

Wed October 10, 2012
Dispatches from Kolkata

A fatwa on your speech!

Salman Rushdie's memoir Joseph Anton has brought the fatwa back into the news. India has the dubious distinction of being the first country to ban the book's import. Sandip Roy looks at how that decision still reverberates in the country.

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