Thursday, April 1, 2010

Spoken Tamil: Tamil Amudham Radio

Tamil Amudham is a radio program in Detroit. Their main page has links to previous months' radio broadcasts which you can listen to online or download for later listening.

They have a 10 episode series of Akbar Birbal stories as well.
Since these are very famous stories it should be easy enough to find a general idea of what happens in each story, and listen for those elements.


Episode 1: "Akbar meets Birbal" - Tamil -(Aired Dec 10, 2006) Story in written English (not direct translation)
Episode 2: "Mahesh Das becomes Birbal" - Tamil - (Aired Dec 17, 2006) Story in written English
Episode 3: "Interactions with Akbar" - Tamil - (Aired Dec 24, 2006)
Episode 4: "Birbal goes to Heaven" - Tamil - (Aired Dec 31, 2006)
Episode 5: "Catching the thief" - Tamil - (Aired Jan 7, 2007)
Episode 6: "Three quick wits of Birbal" - Tamil - (Aired Jan 14, 2007)
Episode 7: "Koondup Puli" - Tamil - (Aired Jan 21, 2007)
Episode 8: "Unmaiyum Poiyum" - Tamil - (Aired Jan 28, 2007)
Episode 9: "Azhakaana Kuzhandhai" - Tamil - (Aired Feb 4, 2007)
Episode 10: "Thalai Thappinathu" - Tamil - (Aired Feb 11, 2007)

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