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Hoosier: What's In a Name?

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Hosts Doug Storm and Trish Kerle' are joined by historian Jim Madison to discuss the Hoosier through history. Madison has just published a new book...

Added: Sep 23, 2014
Length: 01:01:02

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

Added: May 14, 2014
Length: 15:54
Purchases: 1

Tim Townsend reads from Mission At Nuremberg: An American Army Chaplain and The Trial of The Nazis (5/14)

From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014

100-second module, from our daily readings for May. A difficult assignment.

Bought by WEZU

Added: Apr 24, 2014
Length: 01:40
Purchases: 1

Clay Risen reads from The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for The Civil Rights Act (5/8)

From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014

One of our weekday 100-second modules for May: Author Clay Risen reads a compelling passage from his new book of the same title. This is the 50th a...

Bought by WEZU

Added: Apr 24, 2014
Length: 01:40
Purchases: 1

Pearl Curran - "Ghost"-writer

From: Hold That Thought
Series: People, Places, and Ideas to Explore

Caption: Illustration of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth from the American Weekly, ca. 1940

Professor Daniel Shea shares the story of Pearl Curran, who, beginning in 1913, used a Ouija board to transcribe novels, plays, essays, and poetry ...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Oct 30, 2013
Length: 13:35
Purchases: 1

Tabled Fables Podcast 3 Cinderella

From: Amy Kraft

This podcast talks about the many versions of Cinderella told around the world and the different kinds of footwear she wore to the ball. My persona...

Added: Jan 26, 2013
Length: 21:08

First World War Poetry - Graham Vincent reads Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen

From: Alison Turner
Series: Armistice Day for Expats in Belgium

As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...

Added: Nov 01, 2012
Length: 06:49

The Greatest Sports Writing

From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day

Homer's 23rd chapter in the 2800-year-old poem The Iliad has no rival. As the western world's oldest sports-writing, it set the standard for the t...

Bought by KSLU

Added: Jul 02, 2012
Length: 02:43
Purchases: 1

Leopold Samuel Marks, January 15, 2001

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

Marks was a British code maker in World War II. While still in his early twenties, in charge of wireless communication codes to espionage agents an...

Added: Jan 04, 2012
Length: 04:00

Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California's Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto

From: California Legacy Project

Listeners will find Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California’s Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto both entertaining and enlightening. Two one hour...

Bought by KZYX and KALW

Added: Sep 02, 2011
Length: 01:50:16
Purchases: 2

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - A Big Read Documentary

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read

Actress Mary-Louise Parker said this is one her favorite novels of all time and so she jumped at the chance to read excerpts. There's commentary by...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more

Added: Aug 18, 2011
Length: 29:07
Purchases: 7

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - A Big Read Documentary

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read

Actor Sam Elliott perfectly reads passages from Twain's tribute to American boyhood. The program also includes commentary by Ken Burns, P.J. O'Rour...

Bought by KMUN, KREV-LP, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more

Added: Aug 18, 2011
Length: 29:16
Purchases: 6

The Grapes of Wrath: A Big Read Documentary

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read

Actor Ed Harris reads from one of his favorite novels, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath---an epic story about the Great Depression told through...

Bought by KMUN, KQED, KRZA, KUCB, and PRX Remix

Added: Aug 16, 2011
Length: 28:44
Purchases: 5

A Lesson Before Dying: A Big Read Documentary

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read

Ernest J. Gaines poses one of the most universal questions a novel can ask: Knowing we're going to die, how should we live? This program features G...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KMUN, KPIP-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KQED

Added: Aug 16, 2011
Length: 28:55
Purchases: 5

In The Time of The Butterflies: A Big Read Documentary

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read

A radio program featuring author Julia Alvarez along with Neko Case, Edwidge Danticat, and Junot Diaz, among others.

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KMUN, Kansas Public Radio, KPIP-LP, KQED and more

Added: Aug 16, 2011
Length: 29:55
Purchases: 6

My Antonia: A Big Read Documentary

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read

A beloved American classic, Willa Cather's My Ántonia is best summarized by its epigraph---"the best days are the first to flee." Garrison Keillor ...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, and KQED

Added: Aug 12, 2011
Length: 28:58
Purchases: 3

To Kill A Mockingbird: A Big Read Documentary

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read

Featuring commentary by actor Robert Duvall, playwright Horton Foote, NEA Jazz Master David Baker, and Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, among ot...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more

Added: Aug 12, 2011
Length: 29:17
Purchases: 19

Jane Austen, July 18, 1817

From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today

More of what listeners want to know about the British novelist who produced six classic novels in a lifespan of just 47 years. She's been dead for ...

Added: Jul 11, 2011
Length: 03:00

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

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

Hark! - the acoustic world of Elizabethan England

From: Battery Radio

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

Between Civil War and Civil Rights -3: Democracy's Denial: Revolutions in Wilmington (1898 --

From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights

Caption: Wilmington's black newspaper--after the "riot" and coup

In 1898, White Supremacist Democrats in North Carolina overthrew Wilmington's integrated administration. The plotters killed dozens of African Amer...

Bought by WCPN and KUNM