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On this show I want to cover two films about people trying to do something no one else has done; both of them played in theaters during the past ye...
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 04:26
A documentary tells of a couple’s struggle to create and maintain an organic farm that is totally in harmony with nature.
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 04:19
English director Joanna Hogg presents the pain of a young woman filmmaker’s destructive relationship with an addict in The Souvenir, while Pamela B...
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 09:07
In the early 1970s, at the peak of her powers and her success, Aretha Franklin decided that she wanted to make a gospel album, going back to the mu...
- Added: May 23, 2019
- Length: 04:35
Elisabeth Moss dominates the screen as a crash-and-burn rock star in Alex Ross Perry’s latest provocative drama.
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 03:54
George Segal plays an American corporal whose wheeling and dealing makes him a kind of king within the narrow world of a Japanese prisoner of war c...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:24
Jia Zhanke is a Chinese writer and director whose films have garnered steady critical acclaim since the 90s. Years ago I reviewed his 2000 film Pla...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 04:24
In 1917, a tragic and criminal episode in American history occurred in the copper mining town of Bisbee, Arizona. Local miners had recently been or...
- Added: Jan 31, 2019
- Length: 04:34
I often hear people make the mistake of assuming that the main character of a movie should be likeable or sympathetic. This idea is a hold-over fro...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 04:11
Regular listeners to this show may be aware that I’m not a fan of most Christmas movies. Occasionally, though, I offer suggestions during the holid...
- Added: Dec 31, 2017
- Length: 04:19
Soderbergh, one of our best and most versatile directors, announced about four years ago that he was retiring from making movies and was going to f...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:24
Among the films of Federico Fellini are a few that have achieved classic status, and deservedly so, such as La Strada, La Dolce Vita, and 8 ½. But ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 04:45
Paul Rucker's art education came from working as a janitor at the Seattle Art Museum. Now a gifted cellist, visual artist, and video producer, Paul...
Bought by WCPN and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 06:44
- Purchases: 2
We'll find out why people love to capture pets in photos, even though they don't behave for the camera.
Bought by North State Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 14:35
- Purchases: 3
Using creative adaptation to overcome the bugs in our systems
- Added: Sep 03, 2014
- Length: 24:35
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 08:22
N’MPower participant and Program Manager, Curtis Billie, interviews Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, a potter from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, in a community ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 06:32
Free, audio book excerpt. Once upon a time, there was a girl who imagined a bear. Actually, she imagined a lot of bears. And then she drew them—bea...
- Added: Nov 23, 2013
- Length: 13:16
Judy Sorum constructs beautiful glowing stained glass panels.
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 23:11
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In th...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 1
The WUNC Summer Youth Radio Institute continues with a story from 19-year-old Jasmine Farmer.
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 1
The Great River Shakespeare Festival's Guide to The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
From: KQAL
Join us as Director Melissa Rain Anderson gives us the background scoop on this hilarious take on 37 of The Bard's well loved plays compacted into ...
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 05:49
Listen in as Director Paul Mason Barnes from The Great River Shakespeare Festival delivers background information on the well loved romantic comedy...
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 07:21
Director James Edmondson takes us through the background on one of Shakespeare's best know tragedies.
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 09:57
The Conceptual artist Mr. Ai Wei Wei, was detained by the Chinese authorities on Sunday April 3. Where has he been taken and why?
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 09:25
