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Carl Sagan, a renowned astronomer, astrophysicist, and science communicator, has left an indelible mark on the scientific and literary worlds. His ...
- Added: Jan 07, 2024
- Length: 07:42
The writer John Nichols first achieved national fame at age 24 with 'The Sterile Cuckoo', but went on to a second act when he moved to Taos, New Me...
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 27:14
Andy Truscott speaks with Don Foster, a 2019 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellow in the field of fiction literature.
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 21:57
Andy Truscott speaks with Dr. JoAnn Balingit and Dr. Traci Currie, the teaching artists and coaches of 2023's Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest in...
- Added: Oct 12, 2022
- Length: 22:28
episode 3: The war in Ukraine is proving to be a real-time lab study of staying one step ahead of the hackers and finding ways to protect and prese...
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 20:30
Join World Footprints as we discuss the power of storytelling, narratives on race and, of course, travel.
- Added: Jul 27, 2020
- Length: 39:54
During the Nazi regime, many German artists, scientists, and other intellectuals found refuge in Southern California. The authors Lion Feuchtwanger...
- Added: Aug 07, 2019
- Length: 34:48
Sandip and writers Amy Tan and Rabih Alameddine explore what makes Jaipur one of the greatest literature festivals in the world.
- Added: Feb 05, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Take note: On this episode we're following the "Race Beat." We talk with Hank Klibanoff who's book "The Race Beat" tells the story of journalists c...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 25:00
A conversation with biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson on what winning a second Pulitzer Prize meant for him and his Harvard colleagues. A look ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 24:59
This episode's stories come from some of Alabama's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists: Rick Bragg who wrote about the Susan Smith murders and the O...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 25:00
In this episode we're looking at the small town through the literary lens. Hear how Shirley Ann Grau author of "Keepers of the House" hung up on th...
- Added: Apr 25, 2017
- Length: 24:59
World reknowned author Kent Nerburn wrote the novel Neither Wolf Nor Dog in the early 1990s. Director Steven Lewis Simpson made it into a movie o...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Mar 10, 2017
- Length: 13:54
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy is at the Jaipur Literary festival in Kolkata, India's old capital, speaking with Rana Dasgupta about Delhi, India's new capital...
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Features an in depth conversation with Akashic Books Senior Editor Ibrahim Ahmad discussing the independent press’ evolution over the last two deca...
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 16:26
100-second module, from our readings for May. An early computer composed classical music!
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
100-second module, from our daily readings for May. A difficult assignment.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
India just lost its grand old man of letters. Khushwant Singh was 99 and still writing when he died in Delhi last week.
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Sandip Roy meets Oakland, CA author Nayomi Muneewara at one of the world's greatest literature festivals.
Her new book is "Island of a Thousand Mir...
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Prof. Timothy Moore describes the historical context of Greek tragedies and shares his own research into the music of ancient Roman comedies.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 12:39
- Purchases: 1
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring the Cherokee National Youth Choir, Author Ellen Kushner, and The Death of a Pres...
- Added: Nov 27, 2013
- Length: 57:59
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring South African Flutist Wouter Kellerman, International Fusion Music Star Ricky Kej...
- Added: Sep 25, 2013
- Length: 58:20
For many, the Eastmont Town Center in East Oakland is the go-to place to apply for food stamps, get medical coverage, find childcare, and get job a...
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 06:27
Drugs, sex and advertising...not necessarily in that order. In Ad Nomad, the Case Histories of Dane Bacchus, we enter the world of pharmaceutical a...
- Added: Aug 27, 2013
- Length: 22:07
Take a trip to the future in a very unique manner-environmental science fiction.
Maureen Dudley grew up in Butte, Montana and it was there that she...
- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 18:53
