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A conversation with author Mary Lahr Schier about her northern climate gardening book.
- Added: Feb 05, 2018
- Length: 15:40
2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. On this episode of Don't Cha Know we discuss the importance of ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2018
- Length: 26:23
This program features a thoughtful conversation with Ken Egan about his historical nonfiction, Montana 1889, including the competing visions for, a...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KWMR
- Added: Jan 23, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
In Storied States, we examine the shift in how humans lived, moving from hunter-gatherers to sedentary farmers. And contrary to official narrative ...
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 58:03
Think about the many stories you’ve heard or read over the years. Some of those stories may have had a major impact on your life, or maybe even the...
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "Renunciation" - January is the season of diets and cleanses. Why do we feel compelled to give up our pleasures? HOUR TWO: "Owning The ...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
From Alexander the Great's "pillow book" (The Iliad) to the Mayan Popul Vuh; from Gilgamesh to Harry Potter by way of Goethe and the notion of “wor...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 59:01
Bestselling author Jamie Ford discusses his novel, Love and Other Consolation Prizes. He also reads short passages from the book.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Our guest on this episode of MN Reads is Andrea Swensson, the author of the book "Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound," pub...
- Added: Dec 29, 2017
- Length: 12:51
HOUR ONE: More and more power is getting consolidated in the hands of a few. If capitalism is broken, what's next? HOUR TWO: Why does an empire c...
- Added: Dec 20, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
Bemidji Community Theater's production of The Sound of Music opened in November. Cast and Crew stopped by the station to chat about it!
- Added: Dec 06, 2017
- Length: 27:42
Writer and musician Tom Sancton entered his teens in the early 1960s playing clarinet on stage and on the streets with the veteran African-American...
- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 52:00
Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Fenn, author of Encounters at the Heart of the World, tells the story of the Plains Mandan tribe as they rose to a...
Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCWP, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more
- Added: Nov 24, 2017
- Length: 53:53
- Purchases: 9
In part two of this interview with husband and wife writers, poet Geoffrey Brock and novelist Padma Viswanathan, the couple discusses their shared ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Nov 08, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Novelist Padma Viswanathan, a 2017 recipient of the Porter Fund Literary Prize, and poet Geoffrey Brock, discuss how they balance their writing car...
- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: 29:00
HOUR ONE: "Even Stranger Things" - Paranormal psychic spy hunters? It was a real U.S. Army project. Join us for an hour of even stranger things. ...
- Added: Oct 27, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
Richard Wilbur passed away on October 14, 2017. We remember him with a re-broadcast of our 2009 conversation with him at his home in Cummington, MA...
- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 58:56
Karen Turman, Assistant Professor of French at Winona State University, compares Prince to a 19th Century French Dandy.
- Added: Oct 04, 2017
- Length: 50:38
Jamie Harrison discusses her new historical novel, The Widow Nash. She also reads passages from the book.
Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KSJD
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
A new documentary sheds light on the ugly history of lynching - The work of author Ernest Gaines - Reflections from Charlottesville residents on th...
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 9
Five previously undiscovered Kurt Vonnegut short stories have been discovered in Indiana University's Lilly Library.
- Added: Sep 11, 2017
- Length: 07:04
Historical Jesus scholar makes the case for Christians to retire the argument that Jesus was a fulfillment of prophecy.
- Added: Aug 25, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
Former celebrity journalist Jeannette Walls discusses her hardscrabble childhood which she depicted in her memoir THE GLASS CASTLE, now an August 2...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and WFIU
- Added: Aug 18, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Cynthia Wolfe joins us to discuss her “Platinum” ranked audio program “Nuclear Nightingales” which consists of readings from the oral history Voice...
- Added: Aug 04, 2017
- Length: 57:43
Kevin Canty discusses his novel, 'The Underworld,' along with the nature of the human experience and Canty's own creative process. He also reads fr...
Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
