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Caption: Claudia Quigg
112 Pieces

In less than four short minutes, Claudia Quigg gives parents a healthy dose of encouragement, as she thoughtfully examines the issues facing today’s families.

Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
24 Pieces

Quiddity is a highly produced literary radio program with a companion international (print) literary journal. Quiddity is produced and published by Illinois Public Radio’s hub-station, NPR member and PRI affiliate WUIS, and Benedictine University. The journal publishes exemplary prose and poetry from emerging and established writers around the world. The radio program features interviews with select authors, best-selling and burgeoning. It also includes readings of new, original works by poets and writers.


Latest Pieces

Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features part two in a two-part series on the enduring capacity of Moby-Dick, with a focus on one man's particular devotion to Melville's greatest ...

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 20:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features part one in a two-part series on the enduring capacity of Moby-Dick, with a focus on one man's particular devotion to Melville's greatest ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 18:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features a conversation with organizational theorist Dr. Jody Fry about spirituality in business and management. Dr. Fry is the founder of the Inte...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 19:30
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features a conversation about American Troubador and Chicago Renaissance Poet Vachel Lindsay, who achieved national prominence as the "Prairie Poet...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 20:27
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A 29 minute interview with Richard Klemensen, publisher of Little Shoppe of Horrors: The Journal of Classic British Horror Films, on the 40th anniv...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features a conversation with August Wilson scholar Jeannie Zeck about Wilson’s plays and the many influences on his work; the show also features pe...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:03
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Quiddity explores Lincoln through poetry with guest - professor & poet, Dan Guillory, whose works include Living with Lincoln and The Lincoln Poems.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Abraham Lincoln through Fiction—a conversation with professor and novelist Adam Braver, whose work includes Mr. Lincoln's Wars; also, poetry from D...

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Claudia Quigg
Fun with Dick and Jane was the answer. The question? “What book do you remember from your early childhood?”

  • Added: Nov 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:26
Caption: Claudia Quigg
It makes sense that a child who gets straight A’s in math and reading will go on to be a CEO at a Fortune 500 company. But what about the straight ...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:31