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A Potent Spell: Mother Love and the Power of Fear
Is the concept of “mother blame” a method to control women? Is motherhood a really a fearsome jo...
- Added: Nov 25, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Faster than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation
Joao Magueijo, a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Imperial College of...
- Added: Nov 17, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Socrates’ Way: Seven Masterkeys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost
Socrates of Athens, who lived before the Common Era, is respected as one of the g...
- Added: Nov 10, 2021
- Length: 29:00
I Want That! How We All Became Shoppers: A Cultural History
“I Want That! How We All Became Shoppers: A Cultural History” is the title of a new bo...
- Added: Oct 27, 2021
- Length: 29:00
The Mourning of Angles
The life of Lydia Schaefer is a composite fictional story of a 22 year-old woman who served in the Peace Corps in Peru from...
- Added: Oct 14, 2021
- Length: 29:00
The history of women has existed as long as humans have, but it was not until the last half of the 20th Century that women’s history received recog...
- Added: Oct 06, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In this program we visit concepts of evolution and intelligence, some of which were raised after our series on near term human extinction.
What is...
- Added: Sep 29, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Blood, an Epic History of Medicine and Commerce
Human blood has been compared historically and sociologically to a river that defines human societ...
- Added: Sep 22, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This Classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features a look back at the importance of poetry after 9/11 with readings by Arab-American Naomi Shihab Nye, no...
Bought by WGCU, WDCB, and GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Sep 17, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs
“The Other End of the Leash—Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs”, is a recent book by Pa...
- Added: Sep 16, 2021
- Length: 29:00
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
Imagine arriving by boat in a rural town of 150,000 people where two rivers join in central China. Imagine be...
- Added: Sep 01, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Eighteen more country tracks from off the beaten path.
- Added: Sep 01, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
In June, 2002 I overheard an American woman now living in Israel passionately describe her belief that teaching children to be suicide bombers is t...
- Added: Aug 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
The Territory of Men
“The Territory of Men” is an intimate self-expose written by Joelle Fraser, a former Mendocino Community College English teac...
- Added: Aug 12, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Earl Dixon is a veteran traveler, a veteran piano player, and he’s actually a veteran, too. An interesting story. Earl Dixon, the man on this show,...
- Added: Aug 04, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Zoyas Story, An Afghan Womans Struggle for Freedom
Zoya, a member of the RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan, tells the st...
- Added: Jul 29, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Take Me With You: Around The World Journey to Invite a Stranger Home
Have you ever made friends with someone from a place where you visited as a t...
- Added: Jul 27, 2021
- Length: 29:00
No Turning Back—The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
The place of women in the world and in the American society has changed in many as...
- Added: Jul 15, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Red Water
On September 11, 1857, a group of 120 emigrants en route to California was attacked and slaughtered by Mormon settlers and their Indian ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Parents in Charge, Setting Healthy, Loving Boundaries for You and Your Child
Children are too often seen and treated as small adults, too often dr...
- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Few words in the English language have caused so much pain, hurt and emotion as the N-word. It is...
- Added: Jun 16, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Playing some of the great stuff I found on my recent buying trip to to Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 3
Dead Reckoning, the New Science of Catching Killers
In the fascinating world of medical discovery, the interpretation of how and when a person die...
- Added: May 28, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Down the Great Unknown, John Wesley Powell’s 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
John Wesley Powell, a one-armed civil ...
- Added: May 19, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Have you ever wondered what it is like to work inside a prison? Well, Ted Conover, a non-fiction writer did, so he went to the New York Department ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2021
- Length: 29:00
