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This Week in Water for February 26, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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William Shakespeare…Eco Warrior? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2023
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 6
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 2
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Beyond Earth’s Edge: A Celebrity Space Poetry Jam!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The moon and Earth's edge, photgraphed from the International Space Station., Credit: NASA
Creators of an outstanding new collection of poems about spaceflight and exploration join Mat Kaplan to talk about the book as Bill Nye and other n...

Bought by WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioStPete Florida, KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 10
Winning Back Your Voice
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we speak with two writers, Laura Lasuertmer and Wendy Lee Spacek. Spacek and Lasuertmer run a writing workshop in the local jail. They t...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
Summer of Kites 2019
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we have several kites, or messages, from people inside and outside of the prison walls. First, we have a statement that was recorded for...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Prison Poetics
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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First, we have updates on the Vaughn 17 and hunger strikes and noise demonstrations from immigrant detention centers around the country. After the ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:51
Reflections in Defiance: Kites From Florida, Indiana, and Greece
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week is focused on words from prisoners sent or smuggled from inside. From the jail in Evansville, Indiana, to letters from participants in Op...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2020
  • Length: 30:04
Books and Gifts for Your Favorite Space Nerds
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Senior Editor Emily Lakdawalla visits Mars rover Curiosity at JPL., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Our own Emily Lakdawalla, Planetary Society senior editor and book lover, shares her 2019 list of favorite space books. She also presents a list of...

Bought by KDNK, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMUU-LP, KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Big Talk! w/ Michael Glab: Adrian Matejka pt. II
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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On today's special edition of Big Talk!, Michael Glab speaks with Indiana State Poet Laureate Adrian Matejka about his poetry and the inspiration h...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 08:23
Andy Weir’s New Novel Puts a City on the Moon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Andy Weir’s Artemis is the new novel set in a city on the Moon. , Credit: Crown Publishing
The author of #1 bestseller The Martian is back with Artemis, a superbly-researched, rollicking adventure in the first city on the Moon. You might ...

Bought by WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Big Talk! w/ Michael Glab: Annette Oppenlander
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Bloomington author Annette Oppenlander discusses her books, including a coming of age novel set in World War II Germany, with Michael Glab on this ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 08:38
The Muse on the Inside
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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Our topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners' Writing Project, a piece by Sh...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2017
  • Length: 28:19
Lily of El Dorado
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Louis the German divides the Rhine and the doomed space shuttle Challenger is used by the Department of Defense on its last successful (classified)...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:20:46
Pitching Poetry: Recalculating Charles Bernstein
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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"Recalculating" is Charles Bernstein's first new book of poetry since his daughter, Emma Bee Bernstein, died in December of 2008, and is in large m...

  • Added: May 31, 2016
  • Length: 57:19
Safe as Houses, Part One: ‘The House of Cobwebs’ by George Gissing
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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A struggling writer finds unexpected kindness and friendship from his poor landlord in this short story by George Gissing, whom George Orwell ranke...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2
IU Alum Evolves Poem from Personal Experiences
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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A Bloomington artist who has altered a single poem for years, all the while performing it for live audiences.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2016
  • Length: 07:38
The Edge of Christmas, Second Christmas: Classic Stories for the Season
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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Stories about how our need for redemption from our disappointment expresses itself in the holiday season marked by the solstice and the turn of the...

Bought by KRPS, KRPS, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 58:12
  • Purchases: 3
AMERICAN GIRLS HORROR STORIES, PART ONE: ‘DARKWATER’ BY W.E.B. DU BOIS
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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A month of sci-fi, fantasy, gothic, and horror begins with two stories from W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1920 collection Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 05, 2015
  • Length: 59:53
  • Purchases: 1
An Interview with Indiana Author James Madison
From: WFHB
Series: Standing Room Only
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Author James Madison spoke on June 24th at the annual meeting of the Friends of Monroe County Library about his new book Hoosiers: A New History of...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 56:17
“Killing Voltaire: An Observance for Charlie Hebdo”
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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“Killing Voltaire: An Observance for Charlie Hebdo” is a collaborative response by the Books Unbound community to the deadly attack January 7 on th...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 58:44
“Lost Borders” by Mary Hunter Austin, Conclusion
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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The interconnected story cycle “Lost Borders” by Mary Hunter Austin concludes. Austin’s character types and settings are in many ways familiar from...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 59:51
“Lost Borders” by Mary Hunter Austin, Part 4
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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The interconnected stories of ‘’Lost Borders’’ are set in the desert landscape of southern California, where author Mary Hunter Austin moved with h...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:08:57
The Many Voices of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Part Two
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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Born in New Orleans and an early figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935) considered fiction her most representative form ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 1
“The Mulatto” by Victor Séjour
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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“The Mulatto” first appeared in 1837 in an anti-slavery magazine published by free people of color in France. Its author was the 19-year-old Victor...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 58:27
  • Purchases: 1
“Benito Cereno” by Herman Melville, Part Four
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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A four-part presentation of Herman Melville’s classic and problematic historical fiction “Benito Cereno” concludes. In the final episode, Captain A...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:33