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Caption: Sherman Alexie (left) with Katy Sewall and Steve Scher, Credit: Joshua Diltz
Native American author, Sherman Alexie, joins Katy Sewall and Steve Scher live on stage to talk about urban animal encounters. The result is a hila...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:41:12
Caption: Tent Show Radio
Terrance Simien (born September 3, 1965 in Mallet, Louisiana) is an American zydeco musician, vocalist and songwriter. He and his band won the Gra...

Bought by KSRQ, KALH, WRNC-LP, KMSU, WDSE and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Alice Sheldon, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Alice Sheldon served in the OSS and the CIA. And then she went deep undercover posing as a male science fiction writer. It wasn't an assignment, it...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 23:44
  • Purchases: 2
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Today's show features an essay on the cultural impact of Harry Potter.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:30
  • Purchases: 2
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As I considered making a show to serve as a kind of year in review, I first thought to choose my favorite program from each month of the year, 12 s...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 57:06
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Stefan Zweig was an Austrian Jew whose books were among the first burned by the Nazis in 1933. He was one of the most beloved writers of the 1920s ...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2014
  • Length: 58:30
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An Audio Drama about table-top, pen and paper role playing games.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 43:00
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Stefan Zweig was an Austrian Jew whose books were among the first burned by the Nazis in 1933. He was one of the most beloved writers of the 1920s ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 57:16
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Poet Paul Legault shares how he challenged the norms of translation in his interpretations of Emily Dickinson's poetry.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 14:00
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Historical fiction is an ongoing balance between fact and fiction, but what if the story takes place outside of reality? Author Sarah Shun-Lien Byn...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 15:12
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How closely must historical fiction mirror recorded history? Author Marshall Klimasewiski weighs in.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 13:39
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Fourth-grade students from Hawthorne School read their poems for this series created for Montana Public Radio's children's program Pea Green Boat, ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 08:54
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Fourth-grade students from Hawthorne School read their poems for this series created for Montana Public Radio's children's program Pea Green Boat, ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 08:50
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Fourth-grade students from Hawthorne School read their poems for this series created for Montana Public Radio's children's program Pea Green Boat, ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 08:56
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:26
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Finding Place in the Placelessness: Justin Hamm and Christina Olson talk with assistant editor John McCarthy about their experiences as editors for...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 15:53
Caption: The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project , Credit: The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project
John Lomax and his son Alan toured the South in the 1930s gathering music for the Library of Congress. Life then, and now, can be pretty tough in ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WWNO, Troy Public Radio, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 54:18
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Luis Rodriguez
Writer and Latino activist Luis J. Rodriguez was born in El Paso and grew up in East L.A. We went to talk Luis Rodriguez simply because he, and hi...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 11:03
  • Purchases: 1
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
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Lessons on Writing With Style is an in depth source of information for writers looking to improve their command of the craft. Today I'm going share...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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We enlist the aid of noted scholar of autobiography, John Eakin, as we seek to answer Andrew Bird's question: where exactly does the self reside, i...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:26
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Carmignano is an invitation to pause and reflect on the limits of our taste, and learn to surpass them. It explores how taste is simultaneously th...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2013
  • Length: 45:00
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What if the curse that ruined your life could be turned into a money making proposition? “Everyone I have ever spent New Year’s Eve with has died ...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2013
  • Length: 07:28
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In this episode we discuss how Jack's conquest of the giant relates to 19th century English colonialism with the help of scholar Brian Szumsky. We ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 22:35