Interchange

Series produced by WFHB

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Interchange, an interview-based radio show and podcast produced by WFHB in Bloomington, Indiana, gets to the questions that have shaped how we understand ourselves.

As WFHB's longest running public affairs show, Interchange has shared conversations with hundreds of scholars and other experts on politics, religion, metaphysics, economics, history, revolution, ecology, and climate change. Today the stakes stand in stark relief, we challenge our perspectives—as individuals and communities, as thinkers and actors, as people in the world—in effort to change our course.


448 Pieces

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What's Old Is New Again: Going Medieval on the Cult of Innovation (2015)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: The astrolabe was a marriage of the planisphere and dioptra, effectively an analog calculator capable of working out several different kinds of problems in astronomy.
It’s December 29th. For our last show of 2020 we’ll turn back to a program from July 2015 as an attempt to hit the reset button. While the book of ...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Experiments in Alignment and the Persistence of the Motley Crew
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Hélio Oiticica and C.L.R. James
Laura Harris utilizes the figuration of the motley crew - sailors from every geography finding labor solidarity in the middle of the ocean - and ex...

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Art Against War & Capital: On the Cartoons of Art Young
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Looking for Peace, Credit: Art Young
Art Young, like many others, was “converted” or radicalized by the injustice of the arrest, trial, and executions of the so-called Haymarket Anarch...

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
How to Be Anti-Fascist: Muriel Rukeyser and The Life of Poetry
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A BAGGAGE TICKET FROM RUKEYSER’S TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGE FROM NEW YORK TO LONDON (1936)
Our show centers on the book The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser which can be seen as an anti-fascist manifesto pitting poetry - the poetic as a ...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
At Your Service: Organizing in the Service Economy
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Fran Quigley is our guest. He’s a clinical professor of law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, and author of If We Can Win...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:40
  • Purchases: 1
The Automation Ruse, Part One: Jason E. Smith on Economic Stagnation
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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With as much as 85% of US jobs now classed in the service sector, where concepts like productivity are hard if not impossible to measure, can autom...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 1
Frankenstein’s Children: Science, Politics, and Fiction after Mary Shelley
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Eileen Hunt Botting's new book, Artificial Life after Frankenstein, asks what are the obligations of humanity to the artificial creatures we make, ...

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 1
Paul Robeson: An Essential American
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is about the great Paul Robeson. Our guests are Sharon Rudahl about her new graphic biography Ballad of an America published by (Rutgers U...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
UBI and Utopia: Part Two of The Automation Ruse
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is economic historian Aaron Benanav, and our show is about automation and the future of work where the road to Utopia (yellow brick and o...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Fixing the Stars: Sylvia Plath at the Edge of Sight
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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She worked with intense dedication to be heard in a world that has no ears to hear women. But, Plath was a woman who wrote many times of her disdai...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Writing Radicals: Mike Gold, Ann Petry, and Thomas McGrath
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Mike Gold, Ann Petry, and Thomas McGrath
Alan Wald's Literary Left Trilogy investigates aspects of intellectual, literary, and cultural movements and figures associated with left-wing poli...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:03
Pushing Lincoln Left: Thaddeus Stevens as Revolutionary
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is about the radical and revolutionary Republican Thaddeus Stevens. While Lincoln continually capitulated to white interests in the North ...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pin Dancing: Eliot Weinberger on Angels and Saints
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger takes us on a brief tour through the extraordinarily creative thinking concerning angels, asking do they h...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Mr. Trotter, the President, and the Klan
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is about William Monroe Trotter, owner and editor of the Boston Guardian from 1901 to 1934, and a radical race-first political agitator. K...

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  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
White Trash Remix
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Isenberg’s 2016 book dissects the stereotype “white trash” by discovering its inherited roots in the nation’s class-oriented founders - really, sim...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Captivating Fictions and The Experimenting Animal
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is author Thalia Field and our show is about the way normative stories, whether told as fiction or science or religion or history, work t...

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  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Margaret Bourke-White’s Focus on Apartheid: The Remix Edition
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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This is a remix of our show Focus on Apartheid from July 2016 with guest Alex Lichtenstein, Professor of History at Indiana University. Our topic i...

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Slavery’s Imperial Skein: Knitting Together the Capitalist Empire
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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While US Slavery established the template for the production of staples like rice, sugar, and cotton, it also troubled the imperial imaginary: how ...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Babo In the Sunshine: Herman Melville and the Tryal Rebellion
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Anthony Imbert. Wrapper illustration for “Life in Philadelphia” (ca. 1829-30).
Today we revisit the great novella of Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno,” serialized in 1855 in Putnam’s Magazine. Written with the US Civil War on t...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Spreading Global Freedom, or the Divine Right to Traffic Drugs, Guns, and People
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show today is with author Mark Driscoll, professor of East Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, whose new book is The Whites Are ...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2