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The Happy Prince
From: PJ Ewing
Series: Lester the Nightfly
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The classic holiday tale by Oscar Wilde is interpreted along with sacred Christmas music.

Bought by Michigan Radio and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 2
2022-09-04 (End of) Summer Reading List: Banned Books Edition
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What thoughtful and controversial books do some people say other people shouldn’t read?

Bought by WLPR , KTSW 89.9, KMUN, WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Novelist and Poet Gerald Vizenor
From: New Letters on the Air
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We honor Native American Heritage Month with U.S. veteran and writer, Gerald Vizenor. Raised on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, Vizenor a...

Bought by KVNF, WNMU-FM, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
2021-09-05 (End of) Summer Reading List
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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With summer ending and some parts of our lives returning to some kind of normal, what should thoughtful people be reading?

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KWMR, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
2021-01-10 Comforting Conversations (Part 2)
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How can insights from the arts and humanities help us cope with difficult times?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
2021-01-03 Comforting Conversations (Part 1)
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How can insights from the arts and humanities help us cope with difficult times?

Bought by KMUN, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KALW, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
The Art of Mistakes: Writing Wrongs
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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If you’ve ever tried to work creatively, this one is for you – in this episode of the FEHLER podcast, our producer Bilal Qureshi sits down with fou...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 25:09
  • Purchases: 1
2020-08-23 (There's Still) Time for Summer Reading
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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There's still time for deep reading this summer (and our 500th episode).

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSKQ, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Election Day II
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music inspired by casting our votes.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2018
  • Length: 56:51
More with Georgia Poet and Novelist Judson Mitcham
From: New Letters on the Air
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Georgia State Poet Laureate Judson Mitcham, whose work will appear in THE BEST AMERICAN POETRTY 2017, is also a gifted fiction writer. In this sho...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Jul 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Translating Dante
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Poet Mary Jo Bang explores the process of translating Dante Alighieri's Inferno, and professor Jessica Rosenfeld explains the origins of literature.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:23
Dead Man Walking (With Brian Vander Ark)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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In the movie The Interpreter, the character played by Nicole Kidman says, "Vengeance is a lazy form of grief." If we're honest, most of us have mo...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 30:08
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat : Dallas Crow - "The Aesthetics of Gravity"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Dallas Crow's work has appeared in Tar River Poetry and Poet Lore. His book, "Small, Imperfect Paradise," is due out from Parallel Press this year....

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat : Gail Rixen - "Shell River"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Gail Rixen has been a finish carpenter, a health care aid, and she currently farms near Nebish, Minnesota. Rixen has published three books of poetr...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
The Beat : Charmaine Donovan - "Bad Boy's Blue Shoes Shuffle"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Charmaine Donovan makes her living as a Chemical Dependency Counselor in the Brainerd area. She's a member of numerous regional and national writer...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
The Beat : John Dallas - "As I Was Trying to Say"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
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Jon Dallas is a poet living in Chisholm, Minnesota. Jon's poetry has appeared in the New Orleans Review, Green Mountain Review, Antigonish Review, ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:13
The Beat : Yaya Fredrickson - "Spawn"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Yahya Fredrickson got his undergraduate degree from Moorehead State University, his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana, and his...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:44
The Beat: Doris Stengel - "Recycling"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
The Beat: Athena Kildegaard - "On Juggler Lake"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Poet Athena Kildeagard, a University of Minnesota - Morris lecturer, looks deeply and metaphorically at a Blue Herring's stop in the poem "On Juggl...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
Aldo Leopold and the Emerging Land Ethic (59:00 / 54:00 - Free Program)
From: Jack Loeffler
Caption: Aldo Leopold, Credit: Aldo Leopold Foundation
A celebration of the life Aldo Leopold, the man who wrote “A Sand County Almanac” in 1949, and introduced Ethics as the fundamental concept that sh...

Bought by KZYX, WRGY, KUPR low power FM, WMUU-LP, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
Author Molly Gloss and the Heroines of the American West
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Stage and Studio
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This show profiles novelist Molly Gloss, whose books have shed light on untold stories of women in the American West.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
Virgil's Georgics: ThoughtCast interviews the poet and translator David Ferry
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Virgil's Georgics: an interview with poet David Ferry, who recently translated Virgil's second great poem, The Georgics. We're joined by Virgil sch...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz
From: Radio Arte
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If she were a lesbian, there wouldn't be anything wrong with that, right?

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Apr 11, 2005
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 1
A Celebration of Southwest Storytellers Part 3: Rina Swentzell, Demetria Martinez, and John Nichols
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Caption: Demetria Martinez
A multi-cultural trio of notable New Mexico writers - Rina Swentzell, Demetria Martinez, and John Nichols - are featured in the third installment ...

Bought by KUNM, KRZA, KUT, and WUFT


  • Added: Nov 21, 2004
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 4