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773: As Read By The Author / 774: Hope: Where Does It Come From?, 3/4/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'As Read By The Author' - One of the most fun things we get to do is bring the soundscape of a novel to life — cue the monsters, the stor...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
2019: To All the Boys I've Loved Before + Workin' Moms, 5/7/2020
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Caption: Sofia Alvarez, Credit: Austin Film Festival
This week on On Story we’ll hear playwright and screenwriter Sofia Alvarez discuss the difference between writing for the stage and screen and the ...

  • Added: May 06, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
The Write Question - Voices of Yellowstone's Capstone - 424
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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In this interview Traute Parrie, Mary Manning, and Aaron Teasedale discuss "Voices of Yellowstone's Capstone: A Narrative Atlas of the Absaroka-Bea...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
129: Candace Bushnell, Is There Still Sex in the City? Live On Stage
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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Candace Bushnell gave us a reason to sit on our couch every week to soak in the stories of the women--and men--of the 90s television culture-chang...

Bought by WCNY, KWIT, Louisville Public Media, KWIT, WNIN and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Spectrum 09/10/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Alexander von Humboldt is still alive - He was the most famous scientist in the world when he was alive. And then he was ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
121: Author Jennifer Weiner Writes a Radical "Beach Read"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Jennifer Weiner
The times, they are a’changin’. This week on Inflection Point, Lauren Schiller talks to author Jennifer Weiner, about her newest bestselling book “...

Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KWIT, WNIN, KSJD and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Write Question - Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle - 451
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Organic farmer, Bob Quinn discusses "Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food," with his co-author, Liz Carlis...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KVNF and more


  • Added: May 01, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Kevin J. Anderson — A writer's life
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents Think People host Alan Wartes spoke with bestselling fantasy and fiction writer Kevin Anderson.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Forgotten Creed: A Conversation with Stephen Patterson
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Stephen J. Patterson
Historian of Religion, Stephen Patterson, reconstructs one of the earliest Christian Creeds that Emphasized Radical Egalitarianism.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World: A Conversation with John Andrew Morrow
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Dr. John Andrew Morrow
Recently discovered texts show the peaceful relationship Islam and Christianity enjoyed for centuries.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
93: How to age without apology - Nina Collins, author of "What Would Virginia Woolf Do?"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Nina Collins
What's so monumental about turning 40 for women and why do we need our own Facebook group? Turns out--pretty much everything. Nina Collins has crea...

Bought by KCSB-FM, KSJD, KWIT, KUT, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Interview: Howard Weiner, author of Dylan & The Dead
From: KISU
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Cory Daniels interview with Howard Weiner

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:24
  • Purchases: 1
Barry Lopez, Arctic Nature Writer
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Barry Lopez, Arctic Nature Writer, Credit: BarryLopez.com
Fourth in a four-part series on authors who write about the ocean and the natural world.

  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 05:12
Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: "The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot", Credit: Robert Macfarlane
In the third of a four-part series on writers who have shaped his interest in the ocean and the natural world, host Peter Neill reads from essayist...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 1
Nature Writer Loren Eisleley
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Loren Eiseley
In the first of a four-part series on writers who have shaped his interest in Nature and the ocean, host Peter Neill highlights the work of 20th ce...

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 9 - Live from Fall for the Book - Passenger on the Pearl
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: Kendall, Vibha, and Gareth with author Winifred Conkling
The largest attempted slave escape on U.S. soil happened in SouthWest Washington, DC. That's the tale in "Passenger on the Pearl." Young readers d...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 39:45
The Write Question - Molly Caro May - 228
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Molly Caro May talks about and reads from 'The Map of Enough' -- a memoir about her search for home.

Bought by KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
A Conversation with Penguin's Elda Rotor and John Morgan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The team behind the new app Poems by Heart discuss how they combine gaming with classic poetry. [28:20]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 1
210: Conrad and the Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Joseph Conrad (back, center) at sea posing with apprentices aboard Torrens. , Credit: Provided courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will suggest that the greatest author of such sea-based literature was Joseph Conrad and will...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:37
Small Business Culture in Winona with Chris Livingston - Owner of The Book Shelf
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of "Culture Clique" we examine small business culture in Winona, with Chris Livingston - Owner of The Book Shelf - located at 162 W...

Bought by KVSC and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 03, 2013
  • Length: 40:08
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Creative Placemakers in Miami
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Three of Miami’s cultural organizers talk about the power of art in building community.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 31:44
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Cowboy Poet, Joel Nelson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Joel Nelson talks about how he grew to love poetry and how he writes and recites poetry, as well as growing up on a ranch and his love of horses, a...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 27:00
Marshall Urlich - Running on Empty
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this edition of Culture Clique, 57 year old extreme endurance athlete Marshall Urlich talks about his transcontinental run and all the feats lea...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 48:20
  • Purchases: 1
Craig Lancaster: 600 Hours of Edward
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Craig Lancaster wrote 600 HOURS OF EDWARD, which is his first novel, during National Novel Writing Month, an annual event in which writers are chal...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1