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Dawn Powell

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...

Bought by KALW

Beloved Blues

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned

Despite being one of the most frequently banned authors, Toni Morrison’s work has inspired countless others to tell stories outside the mainstream....

Goodbye to All Fines

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

On October 5th, 2021, all three public library systems in New York City eliminated late fines. The change was 125 years in the making, and it made ...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio

Soul Sister: The Limits of Empathy

From: Radio Diaries

In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...

'Renaissance Fables For The World' 4

From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World

Caption: 'Venus And Organist And Little Dog', Credit: Titian

This program series has 76 shows each of 5 minutes in length. Four great authors of the Renaissance are explored. This program, through the spoken ...

A Change of World

From: The Poetry Foundation

Meryl Streep narrates an hour-long documentary special about how the Women’s Movement changed poetry, and how women poets changed the culture.

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, WNMU-FM, KBIA, High Plains Public Radio and more

O my Homunculus

From: Pop Up Archive
Series: Popcast

In this Popcast, hear about the surprising podcast-like feel of a 1972 radio documentary about Sylvia Plath.

Technology Brings Long-Silent Voices Of 20th Century Poets Back To Life

From: Curt Nickisch

Caption: A rendered image of the etched grooves of a record. IRENE software converts these squiggles to sound., Credit: Julie Martin/NEDCC Courtesy

A innovative technology to preserve endangered sound recordings without playing them (which would further damage them) is bringing the voices of po...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, KALW, and PRX Remix

The Long Shadow of Forrest Carter

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...

Bought by PRX Remix

Poet John Ciardi

From: New Letters on the Air

This month's Save America's Treasures Archive selection features the perfect poet to hear around Memorial Day--the late John Ciardi, who was a gunn...

Bought by KMUN and WJCU

Allen Ginsberg - Drugs

From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America

Author Allen Ginsberg advises that mind-altering drugs have their place in society.

Bought by WRVO Public Media

Daisy & the Doll/Alec's Primer

From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio

Camel's Hump Radio presents two stories from the Vermont Folklife Center Children's Book Series, based on the family history of the Turner family f...

Bought by KTNA