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CONTENT WARNING: Be wary of listening to this episode around young children, as there may be life spoilers. Historian Greg Jenner traces the origin...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 25:35
- Purchases: 1
There’s a language which is said to be the smallest language in the world. It has around 123 words, five vowels, nine consonants, and apparently yo...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 20:24
- Purchases: 1
In a makeshift library in Ethiopia, Yikealo Beyene – an Eritrean refugee – made an unlikely friend. Her harrowing tale stayed with him as he fled h...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 13:59
- Purchases: 1
“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture” is a problematic statement: not just because nobody can agree on who came up with it, but ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 27:04
- Purchases: 3
An in-depth conversation with author Gavin Francis about his book, the human body and his life as a doctor. A beautiful conversation about celebrat...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Sep 11, 2015
- Length: 24:05
- Purchases: 1
The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:51
Podcasting from The Old Oak Street Burial Ground in Grafton, MA, Piazza and I speak with author, Roberta Grimes, about her book “The Fun of Dying: ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 52:54
S. Brent Plate on experience, materiality, and physical objects. Excerpt from TV documentary, Divided Families: Responding with Faith.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 39:21
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 new film 'Mood Indigo' is based on a novel by Boris Vian - so who was Vian? One of France's most popular authors of the 20th Century, musician,...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 14:45
With budget cuts closing many Los Angeles school libraries, students told Hank Rosenfeld about their love of books and what they were currently re...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 1
Episode 16 features an interview from 2009 with the noted writer Sarah Schulman, the author of After Dolores, Shimmer, People in Trouble, Rat Bohem...
- Added: Jan 08, 2014
- Length: 35:31
In this episode we talk about a lesser known tale, The Armless Maiden. How does she get her arms chopped off you ask? Maybe her dad does it to save...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 19:56
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
The oldest feminist bookstore in the country closes, after over 40 years in business.
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 04:39
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
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, talked to Dr Kate Macdonald ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 54:00
Judith Jones, Julia Child's editor, discusses her favorite author with Canada's food sleuth, Marion Kane.
- Added: Jun 25, 2012
- Length: 09:12
A documentary piece featuring citation and commentary from high school students from Fosston, Clearbrook-Gonvick, and Trek North High Schools durin...
- Added: Mar 22, 2012
- Length: 11:09
Listeners will find Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California’s Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto both entertaining and enlightening. Two one hour...
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 01:50:16
- Purchases: 2
Dmae Roberts talks with acclaimed author Lisa See about her novels, her research process, and about the horrors of the "Great Leap Foward" in mid-c...
- Added: Jul 29, 2011
- Length: 29:01
Children's author Luli Gray talks about her new picture book, "Ant and Grasshopper."
- Added: Jun 12, 2011
- Length: 05:00
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
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
Give your listeners a look at life's unpredictable pageant through the eyes of the engagingly grumpy comic book author Harvey Pekar.
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Jul 14, 2010
- Length: 36:07
- Purchases: 1
