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Corporate disruption and impact investment for the animals
From: JL Fields
Series: Easy Vegan with JL Fields
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Corporate disruptor Liz Dee on impact investing and the cultural shift toward plant-based and cultured alternatives to animal products. Dee is co-o...

  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
Pop Sonnets
From: Richard Paul
Series: Shakespeare Unlimited
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Erik Didriksen takes hit songs from artists like Taylor Swift and Coldplay and rewrites them as Elizabethan-style sonnets.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2017
  • Length: 23:31
Murders have been performed too terrible for the ear.
From: Richard Paul
Series: Shakespeare Unlimited
Caption: l-r: Rex Daugherty (Tybalt), Aaron Bliden (Benvolio), and Brad Koed (Mercutio) in Romeo and Juliet, directed by Aaron Posner, Folger Theatre (2013)., Credit: Teresa Wood
Elizabethan Street Fighting

  • Added: Dec 20, 2017
  • Length: 30:18
Our own voices with our own tongues
From: Richard Paul
Series: Shakespeare Unlimited
Caption: Paul Robeson in Othello, Act I Scene 4, Credit: Folger FSL Collection
Shakespeare in Black and White

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 30:55
YOU can be a protein ninja
From: KCMJ Community Radio
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Prolific vegan cookbook author Terry Hope Romero talks about her latest book - Protein Ninja - and how vegan cooking and taste evolves over the yea...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
Vegan, eco-travel
From: KCMJ Community Radio
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Jeff and Joan Stanford, owners of all vegan The Stanford Inn, dish on their new cookbook Dining at The Ravens.

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Historian Richard Rhodes, author of “John James Audubon: The Making of an American”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Audubon is best known for his 435 paintings of American birds. He came here as a young man in the early 1800s from France with a talent for self-ta...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 1
Science and the Supernatural in the 17th Century
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Once upon a time science and the supernatural were not so far apart.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:42:26
Tracking Subversives: Alan Wald On the Development of the Literary Left
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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According to or my guest, Alan Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” We track three “subversives” in our progra...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 57:14
Gregory White Smith, co-author of “Van Gogh: The Life”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Many observers including his biographers would say he’s the most famous artist in the world. Master of sunflowers and starry skies, Vincent Van Gog...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
"The River of Doubt" by Candace Millard
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This river is a tributary of the mighty Amazon. It snakes through one of the world’s most treacherous jungles and it’s where President Teddy Roosev...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
Infant Loss
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A sensitive discussion among medical professionals about infant loss

  • Added: Oct 10, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
Science writer Mary Roach talks about "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Mary has developed a career specializing in popular science and doing it with respect and wit. Since the publication of her first book “Stiff,” she...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 1
Author Diana Gabaldon: The When & Why's of the World of the "Outlander"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Based on a time-traveling English nurse in the 20th century who is married to an 18th century Scotsman, Diana’s eight books in The Outlander series...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
Why did a 13-year-old become a soldier? Ishmael Beah explains...
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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He used to be one of the many thousands of child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in dozens of conflicts around the world. Ishmael...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 2
Cookbook Author Anne Byrn: "Unbelievably Gluten-Free"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Anne’s particular talent with her cookbooks is creating well written and easy-to-follow recipes. And as many readers know, this is not always true ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 09:48
  • Purchases: 1
CITIZENFOUR -- Laura Poitras Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Laura Poitras, San Francisco, CA 10/21/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Laura Poitras talks irony, leaps of faith, and being nominated for the Homeland Security Watch List.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 18:35
Psychiatrist Judith Orloff with "Ecstasy of Surrender"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Orloff is an Asst. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA who incorporates energy medicine in her practice. In her fifth book she invites reader...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2
Behavioral biologist Karen Pryor, the scientist who brings out the best in dogs
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Karen's latest book is “Reaching the Animal Mind.” Having started out as the world’s foremost dolphin trainer, Pryor is responsible for developing ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Author Adam Johnson, an American obsessed with North Korea
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “The Orphan Master’s Son,” this Stanford University creative writing teacher introduces us to the people of modern-day North Korea. Johnson spe...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 1
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Author Michael Korda and "Ike: An American Hero"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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An author many times over and former editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster, a major publishing company, Michael wrote this biography, “Ike: An Americ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
Author Michael Pollan and "Cooked"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Food guy Michael Pollan’s new book is “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation.” He is a personable, well-spoken walking encyclopedia of Ameri...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Chronicling an immigrant community: Professor Nikos Alexiou's research on Greek America
From: Michael Nevradakis
Series: Dialogos Interview Series
Caption: The Dialogos Interview Series, produced by Dialogos Radio, Credit: Michael Nevradakis
An interview with professor Nikos Alexiou of CUNY Queens College in New York City, who discusses his extensive research on the historical developme...

  • Added: May 26, 2013
  • Length: 35:33
Author Robert Hicks and a Civil War cemetery
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
Caption: McGavock Confederate Cemetery, Credit: Gene Korte
This historical novel brings to life the “Widow of the South,” Carrie McGavock. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place on November 30, 18...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:52
  • Purchases: 1