Boise State Public Radio

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Boise State Public Radio: • Produces and broadcasts quality educational, informational, and cultural programming that entertains as well as informs; • Develops and implements cost-effective distance learning technologies; • Provides opportunities for students to work in a professional broadcast environment.

Series

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171 Pieces

Reader’s Corner with Bob Kustra features lively interviews with today’s leading writers about ideas and issues that matter today. Join us each week for thoughtful interviews centered around books on a broad range of topics, from world politics and scientific discovery to the best in literary fiction.


Latest Pieces

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Sides tells the the thrilling and harrowing story of an early attempt to be the first to reach the North Pole in his book, "In the Kingdom of Ice: ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 30:31
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Is it possible to increase intelligence, and if so, how? Dan Hurley explores this question in his book, "Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:30
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Kolbert discusses the powerful and possibly catastrophic mass extinction unfolding right in front of us. Her book won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for N...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 30:01
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On this Independence Day weekend, an interview with National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick about his book "Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 57:22
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Journalist and author Beth Macy recounts the Shakespearean rise and fall of Bassett Furniture during a time of rapid globalization, and how John Ba...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 30:30
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In his book, "The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream, Thomas Dyja makes the case that much of what defined America, particularly ...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2015
  • Length: 30:01
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In his book, “Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era,” James Barrat peers into the future to explore the perils ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 30:11
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Reader’s Corner with Bob Kustra features lively interviews with today’s leading writers about ideas and issues that matter today. This week, to mar...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:35
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An untold story from World War II: Author and journalist Jan Jarboe Russell discusses her book, "The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner E...

  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 30:01
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Jonathan Evison talks with host Bob Kustra about his critically acclaimed novel "The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving"

  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 30:17