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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we looked at the new book "Music for Prime Time," which documents the rich history of music writt...
- Added: Jun 21, 2023
- Length: 28:30
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about our songwriting/composing club, an upcoming songwriting workshop about "four chor...
- Added: Jun 03, 2023
- Length: 27:29
On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about International Drum Month, and discussed just a few of the many books we have at t...
- Added: May 27, 2023
- Length: 28:30
Ours is an age of migrants, those martyred by the legal fictions we call borders. Two recent films explore this persistent, troubling experience.
- Added: Jan 25, 2023
- Length: 03:31
Frank Capra’s parable about goodness versus the tyranny of profit bombed on its original release, but then gradually gained classic status with lat...
- Added: Jan 25, 2023
- Length: 03:33
My morning ditties are not nearly as amazing as the song of a curved bill thrasher, but they help me begin the day.
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 04:23
Emma Seligman’s debut feature uses a shiva, a Jewish post-funeral gathering, as the setting for a comedy about a young woman who doesn’t fit in, bu...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 04:11
In 1971 one of the most successful "Blues" recording labels was founded. This show explores the early history of Alligator Records.
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 01:00:04
It may take a while to process your feelings once you’ve seen Hereditary, the scary debut feature from writer-director Ari Aster. A lot of horror m...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:45
I’ve remarked more than once, here on the show, on the unique qualities that director Wes Anderson brings to his films.
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:44
Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel has become my favorite living director. That might sound extravagant to say about someone who has only made fou...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 08:38
Egypt has the largest film industry in the Arab world. There have been movies produced in Egypt, mostly in Cairo, since the early silent era.
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 04:21
The Zookeeper’s Wife tells the true story of a married couple in Warsaw, the owners and operators of a zoo, who rescued hundreds of Jews from the g...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 03:55
When you put something on a pedestal, it becomes a prime target for pigeons. Or to put it another way – if a certain movie consistently shows up on...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 05:52
This week, as promised, I’m continuing my discussion of Citizen Kane, Orson Welles’ famous debut film from 1941. Last time I talked about why the f...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 04:45
On October 2 India will mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. But his status as an icon of humanitarianism may be at risk.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 27, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
At a recent conference and planning workshop sponsored by the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, participants took part in a clim...
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 05:27
In Part II of a 2-part series on the Global Water Contract, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill explains the Committee's progressive recommendations...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 05:21
A small unknown town in India has a history that makes it worth stopping in to have a look.
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Will Weaver is a highly successful writer who has published mainly in the area of young-adult fiction. Here though we have an adult non-fiction mem...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 1
Hold that fork! Block that barbeque! Do you know the source of the meat that's sizzling on the grill? Can we trust meat inspectors to catch pathoge...
Bought by WCNY, WZEN.org, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW and more
- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 55:00
- Purchases: 7
A fair is so long so that you can get around to eat everything being offered. Eat your walleye on a stick, and then eat the stick because it's mad...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Aug 10, 2010
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 1
Interviews from an indigenous climate change conference during the summer of 2009 in Alaska.
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Dec 14, 2009
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 12, 2009
- Length: 55:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Apr 12, 2007
- Length: 01:57
- Purchases: 1
