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Shelf Discovery: Rules for Second Chances by Maggie North

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a woman’s quest to become her own person outside her outgoing husband’s shadow in Rules for Second ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and GCR (Global Community Radio)

Hawkwind: Every Album, Every Song

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about Hawkwind, the legendary space rock and proto-punk band, and a new book that takes readers through their voluminous...

Shelf Discovery: Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin visits a small Southern town where a few unexpected books change everything in Lula Dean’s Little Library o...

Bought by WUTC, RADIOLEX, WCNY, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida

Banned Books

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour

This time on The Children's Hour, our summer interns Julia Wolfe and Sophie Anderson-Haynie have co-written and produced a program about Banned Boo...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KSTK, KRSC, KICI Iowa City and more

Futuromania

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this book, we talked about the new Simon Reynolds book "Futuromania," which looks at the notion of "the future" as it has manifested in pop musi...

The Defining Words of the Spelling Bee

From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong

After this year's thrilling spell-off in the National Spelling Bee, we try to tease out the definitions of some of the words that won the contest.

Bought by KRPS

Shelf Discovery: The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows the misadventures of a pair of screenwriters attempting to work together to write a rom-com in The ...

Bought by WUTC, WCNY, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida

06172024: Banned Books, 6/17/2024

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)

This time on The Children's Hour, our summer interns Julia Wolfe and Sophie Anderson-Haynie have co-written and produced a program about Banned Boo...

2024-06-09 Summer Reading List

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

This summer, how about a philosophical take on popular culture?

Bought by KSKQ, GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, and KICI Iowa City

Shelf Discovery: The Golden Gals' French Adventure by Judy Leigh

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes on a life-changing vacation with a couple of unlikely friends in The Golden Gals’ French Adventure by ...

Bought by WCNY, WUTC, RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, and GCR (Global Community Radio)

I Sing What You Loved

From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music

Singing as an aspect of life and love.

Sasha Frere-Jones

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about "Earlier," the new memoir by music journalist and musician Sasha Frere-Jones. We listened to some of his music, too.

Shelf Discovery: Everything We Never Said by Sloan Harlow

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a grieving teenage girl as she begins to question everything that happened before her best friend’s...

Bought by RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCNY, WUTC, and RadioStPete Florida

Lit-Rock

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about the new book "Lit-Rock," a collection of essays that explore the many ways that literature and pop/rock music have...

Shelf Discovery: Mind Games by Nora Roberts

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a girl with a gift in her ongoing battle against the man who killed her parents in Mind Games by No...

Bought by WUTC, WCNY, RADIOLEX, and GCR (Global Community Radio)

Jack Wright

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about the book "The Free Musics" by Jack Wright," one of America's foundational free improvisation artists who is still ...

Drugging France (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by WFHB, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Kansas Public Radio, KIYU-FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

Drugging France (hour/no bb or bed)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio

Drugging France (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU, KEDT, and WRGY

Drugging France (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo

In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine. Sara Black says the...

Bought by KIYU-FM and WNMU-FM

Shelf Discovery: The New Bad Thing by Michael Ebner

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a desperate woman’s quest to hunt down a criminal to save her family in the audio edition of The Ne...

Bought by WUTC, WCNY, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida

Neue Detsche Welle

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about a new installment of the 33 1/3 Genre series that explores the short-lived but influential German musical style Ne...

Shelf Discovery: The Heirloom by Jessie Rosen

From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery

On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels the world to explore the history of a bride-to-be’s engagement ring in The Heirloom by Jessie Rosen.

Bought by WUTC, RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, WCNY, and GCR (Global Community Radio)

Living Space

From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library

On this episode, we talked about the new book "Living Space" by Michael E. Veal, which is a thorough and creative examination of John Coltrane's fr...

2419: The Legacy of Freud, 5/7/2024

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly

Did you really want to eat that last piece of cake, or were you secretly thinking about your mother?

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