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The Joy Luck Club: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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A half-hour audio program that explores Amy Tan's gripping, The Joy Luck Club. It features Amy Tan and readings by actress Ming-Na from the film ad...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KZYX, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 6
Aldo Leopold and the Emerging Land Ethic (59:00 / 54:00 - Free Program)
From: Jack Loeffler
Caption: Aldo Leopold, Credit: Aldo Leopold Foundation
A celebration of the life Aldo Leopold, the man who wrote “A Sand County Almanac” in 1949, and introduced Ethics as the fundamental concept that sh...

Bought by KZYX, WRGY, KUPR low power FM, WMUU-LP, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
Author Molly Gloss and the Heroines of the American West
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Stage and Studio
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This show profiles novelist Molly Gloss, whose books have shed light on untold stories of women in the American West.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
Portrait of an Artist: a semi-regular series
From: KUT
Series: Portrait of an Artist-a semi-regular series
Caption: Tomas Q. Morin
Poet, Scholar and Artist Tomas Q. Morin talks about his life and career, and reads a few of his own works.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2010
  • Length: 10:59
Only I Can Now
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Deb Dunn’s second love, after her husband, was teaching marine biology. But about five years ago, she had to give it up.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2010
  • Length: 05:30
Hark! - the acoustic world of Elizabethan England
From: Battery Radio
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Four centuries ago... did people listen in a different way than we do now? How different were the sounds they heard? And can we tune into their aud...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, HowSound, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 52:24
  • Purchases: 8
A Woman of No Consequence
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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The story of a remarkable Indian woman who struggled with the bonds of tradition and finally broke them in old age, told by her granddaughter.

Bought by WWNO, KFCF FM, KVNF, KVSC, WOMR and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2009
  • Length: 31:32
  • Purchases: 20
Confronting the Warpland: Black Poets of Chicago
From: Ed Herrmann
Caption: Gwendolyn Brooks
Hear some of the great African American poets who have lived and worked in Chicago.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KZYX, WRGY, WLPR , KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2009
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 23
Choosers, Not Beggars
From: Lu Olkowski
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Two men more or less allow themselves to become homeless in order to dedicate their time to writing poetry

Bought by Marfa Public Radio and Remix Radio


  • Added: Sep 21, 2008
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 2
An Angel-headed Hipster's Howl
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Fifty year's after the publication of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" and its subsequent obscenity trial, poets and friends look back at its origins, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, KRZA, KSFR, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
Finding My Kerouac: On the Road at Mid-Life
From: David Berner
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This documentary is about two men who, at mid-life, re-read Kerouac's book and get behind the wheel for a 4000 mile road trip of reflection and di...

Bought by WUSM, WGBH Radio Boston, WVPE, KZYX, WKSU and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2007
  • Length: 57:05
  • Purchases: 7
Poetry Bus
From: Jake Warga
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A short ride on the "poetry bus"

Bought by KSFR, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZSC, and KLCC


  • Added: Jan 28, 2007
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 5
Los Angeles Through Chandler's Eyes (Abridged)
From: Jacob Adelman
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A newcomer to Los Angeles discovers the city's past -- and future -- through the books of noir master Raymond Chandler.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2006
  • Length: 13:28
Boxcar Poet
From: Adam Allington
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93-year-old Clive Haswell is a poet who spent his youth riding the rails and playing poker

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2006
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
Memoir Cafe: Episode 25
From: Gary Smith
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In this 25th episode of Memoir Cafe, women write about reacting to the events around them.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 30:33
Donald Justice: In Pursuit of the Ideal
From: Iowa Public Radio
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An intimate look at the life and work of poet Donald Justice, as told through the memories of friends, family, and fellow poets.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2006
  • Length: 58:15
RN Documentary: Becoming Rebecca West
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A portrait of journalist/writer Rebecca West whose life spanned most of the 20th century, with memories from her great-niece and thoughts from an a...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 01, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship Documentary
From: M. Travis DiNicola
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A documentary about Indianapolis' Creative Renewal Arts Fellowships which has granted 150 "artistic sabbaticals" since 1999.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2004
  • Length: 29:55
Short List 1
From: Tahj Condra
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A short list is sort of like a poem or story with the title at the end.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2004
  • Length: 01:22