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Caption: Smoke
Joe Ide is an American crime fiction writer of Japanese American descent. Ide grew up in South Central Los Angeles, which he used as the setting fo...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 13:22
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Mark Greany is the author of twenty novels.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2021
  • Length: 11:42
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Charles Ardai is an American writer. He is the founder and C.E.O. of Juno, an internet company, and founder and editor of Hard Case Crime, a line o...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 11:23
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Brad Taylor is a retired Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army. This is his fifteen Pike Logan thriller.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 12:35
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J Todd Scott idscusses his new novel "Lost River"

  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 16:44
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Samantha Dwyer from Humanities Montana interviews acclaimed science journalist David Quammen about his book, "Spillover: Animal Infections and the ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 23:00
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Writer and naturalist Jack Nisbet discusses his book, "The Dreamer and The Doctor: A Forest Lover and a Physician on the Edge of the Frontier."

Bought by Prairie Public, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Robert Alter
Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Robert Alter, the world’s foremost Hebrew Scriptures scholar. He just released a new translation of the books of...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
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David Quammen discusses his book, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. He also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KWMR


  • Added: Sep 19, 2018
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 3
Caption:  Epic of Gilgamesh, tablet 11, story of the Flood. , Credit: Courtesy of The British Museum.
In Storied States, we examine the shift in how humans lived, moving from hunter-gatherers to sedentary farmers. And contrary to official narrative ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:03
Caption: The Preface of the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex - an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data.
From Alexander the Great's "pillow book" (The Iliad) to the Mayan Popul Vuh; from Gilgamesh to Harry Potter by way of Goethe and the notion of “wor...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
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Thomas Mullen is the author of The Lightning Men, Darktown, and The Last Town on Earth, which was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by USA TODAY. To l...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2017
  • Length: 15:39
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Tod Goldberg is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen books and lives in California. See more of Tod at http://todgoldberg.com.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 16:09
Caption: Robert J Miller
Historical Jesus scholar makes the case for Christians to retire the argument that Jesus was a fulfillment of prophecy.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
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David Swinson is a former D.C. detective. Check him out at http://davidswinson.com/bio.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2017
  • Length: 10:44
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Linda Fairstein is an American author and former prosecutor focusing on crimes of violence against women and children.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 11:57
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Ace Atkins is an American journalist and author. Atkins worked as a crime reporter in the newsroom of The Tampa Tribune before he published his fir...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2017
  • Length: 07:39
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Bill Schutt a vertebrate zoologist, college professor and author. Learn more about him at https://www.billschutt.com/.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 11:33
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Claudia’s writing has been published in The New York Times, Mother Jones, Women’s Day, the Huffington Post and The Stranger, among other magazines ...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 13:03
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Mary Wisniewski is a reporter at the Chicago Tribune and former Reuters investigative reporter covering Midwest crime and politics. Previously a co...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 08:29
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James Rollins is a prolific novelist who lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 09:17
Caption: Author and Publlisher Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Millennial-with-attitude and recent journalism graduate Cheyenne Cockrell challenges Gerald with a dozen questions from wannabes who wake up wantin...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 54:53
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Duane Swierczynski is an Edgar-nominated novelist.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 09:54
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Bill Schutt is a zoologist, professor of biologist, and author.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 13:39
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Thomas O'Malley and Douglas Graham Purdy are writers in the Boston area.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2016
  • Length: 16:52