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This is audio of a formerly incarcerated woman reading a letter she wrote while in prison.
- Added: Nov 03, 2018
- Length: 03:13
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
For someone who writes about films as I do, there are always cases of movies that fly under the radar, escaping my notice, maybe not even playing l...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 03:35
A special live edition of The Moth at Cooper Union in NYC, "Moth Eaten: Adventures in Food". Best-selling author Adam Gopnik and his wife have an o...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KRCB 104.9, KBRP Community Radio and more
- Added: Jul 27, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 38
Novelist Walter Mosley examines the power of language to break and form bonds; an artist connects with her father when he sends her coins he finds ...
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- Added: Jul 04, 2018
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 34
Whip-smart and scary, yet seemingly off-the-cuff, Unsane is Steven Soderbergh’s latest contribution to genre film, in this case the suspense thrill...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 03:58
I often hear people make the mistake of assuming that the main character of a movie should be likeable or sympathetic. This idea is a hold-over fro...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 04:11
Frank was a white supremacist. Jesse was a jihadi extremist. What do we see when we look beyond ideology?
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Apr 24, 2018
- Length: 59:45
- Purchases: 1
Frank was a white supremacist. Jesse was a jihadi extremist. What do we see when we look beyond ideology?
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 59:45
There have been three films this year featuring the rescue of British troops from Dunkirk, and two about Winston Churchill. I’m not sure why this w...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 04:32
Joe Lindsley was the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. What moved the ambitious twenty-something to abandon the conservative media titan?
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 40:13
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. I have to admit I kind of admire the courage it took for a producer to approve such an awkward title for...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 03:34
Regular listeners to this show may be aware that I’m not a fan of most Christmas movies. Occasionally, though, I offer suggestions during the holid...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 04:19
There have been quite a few dramatic films on the theme of the death penalty, most of them making an eloquent case against it, and some of them rea...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 03:26
Soderbergh, one of our best and most versatile directors, announced about four years ago that he was retiring from making movies and was going to f...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:24
The surprise winner at the Cannes Film Festival this year was The Square, a provocative and disturbing satire from Swedish writer-director Ruben Ős...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:17
Among the films of Federico Fellini are a few that have achieved classic status, and deservedly so, such as La Strada, La Dolce Vita, and 8 ½. But ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 04:45
Greg, a New York City cop, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia 11 years after being covered in dust and debris at the World Trade Center atta...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 16:20
- Purchases: 1
Short form audio fiction about a man and his TV crime drama-induced phobia. One of 8 finalists in the Third Coast Short Docs Challenge, 2016.
- Added: Mar 21, 2017
- Length: 02:40
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Tragedy n. “goat song” Named for the dramatic plays of the ancient Greeks, characterized by a protagonist whose flaw or error in judgment leads to ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2017
- Length: 16:26
Autobiographical memories are the stories we tell ourselves, but they’re also a window into other people’s experiences. They’re one of the best way...
- Added: Jan 30, 2017
- Length: 29:10
“A Time for Heroes”
As the children prepare to fight the coming of the white rabbit, and the community struggles with how to protect our sons and ...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 31:54
- Purchases: 1
“Down the Rabbit Hole”
This happened in early October just a few weeks ago in a small coastal town. A boy named Fox, age ten, went missing from hi...
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 30:40
If you have been listening to the news since the highly contagious, Draco Incendia Trychophyton or “Dragonscale” began to spread, you know what kin...
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 21:26
