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What's the Word? Women Public Intellectuals

From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March

While men of letters have traditionally achieved the influential position of public intellectual, in the twentieth century a number of important wo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WLIW, WNMU-FM, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more

Added: Mar 13, 2007
Length: 29:45
Purchases: 17

What's the Word? Women Warriors

From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March

From Joan of Arc to GI Jane--a look at women warriors.

Bought by KETR-FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KVNF, WHFR and more

Added: Feb 23, 2007
Length: 29:54
Purchases: 29

What's the Word? Elizabeth I and Victoria

From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March

Literary portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria

Bought by WLIW, WNMU-FM, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

Added: Feb 23, 2007
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 12

What's the Word? Pride and Prejudice

From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March

Jane Austen's _Pride and Prejudice_ continues to be popular nearly two hundred years after it was first published.

Bought by WLIW, WNMU-FM, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

Added: Feb 22, 2007
Length: 29:46
Purchases: 14

How To Sell A Novel - a 4-minute primer

From: Paul Levinson
Series: A View to Media

an award-winning author of 5 novels tells what it takes to sell one

Added: Dec 14, 2006
Length: 03:57

How To Write a Novel - a 3-minute primer

From: Paul Levinson
Series: A View to Media

an award-winning author of 5 novels tells what it takes to write one

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio

Added: Dec 12, 2006
Length: 03:07
Purchases: 1

Just Add Hormones, One Woman's Transition to Life as a Man

From: Claudia Cragg

Matt Kailey discusses his new memoir

Added: Nov 14, 2006
Length: :00

A light in the shadows: An interview with Suheir Hammad

From: Christopher Brown

An in-depth interview with Palestinian poet Suheir Hammad

Added: Jun 16, 2006
Length: 37:00

A Review of Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood

From: Nanci Olesen

Nanci Olesen describes her (very positive) reaction to Rise Up Singing, Black Women Writers on Motherhood

Added: Feb 16, 2006
Length: 01:34

RN Documentary: Mr Boswell goes to town

From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY NETHERLANDS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF THE WRITER JAMES BOSWELL.

Added: Jan 19, 2006
Length: 29:30

Novel-Writing Marathon (NaNoWriMo)

From: Janis Jaquith

I have one month in which to write a 50,000-word novel--and this is the month.

Bought by WSCS-FM

Added: Nov 15, 2005
Length: 03:24
Purchases: 1

Testing the Alarms

From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries

Post 9/11 fear divides communities.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston

Added: Nov 14, 2005
Length: 29:30
Purchases: 1

RN Documentary: Becoming Rebecca West

From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries

A portrait of journalist/writer Rebecca West whose life spanned most of the 20th century, with memories from her great-niece and thoughts from an a...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Nov 01, 2005
Length: 29:31
Purchases: 1

How Mulien Saves His Mother from Hades

From: KCUR

Taiwanese story that is the basis for Ghost Month in Buddhist Culture.

Bought by KZYX and PRX Administrator

Added: Oct 30, 2005
Length: 06:11
Purchases: 2

"The Woodpecker"

From: KCUR

Muskogee Creek Indian story called "The Woodpecker."

Bought by PRX Remix, KZYX, and KSUT

Added: Oct 30, 2005
Length: 03:12
Purchases: 3

Slam: Literary Fad or Movement

From: Don McIver

In the 80's Marc Smith invented the Poetry Slam, which has swept the country and created a spoken word revolution.

Bought by KRZA, Marfa Public Radio, KUT-HD, KUHB, WEKU and more

Added: Aug 29, 2005
Length: 58:54
Purchases: 7

Until the Fat Lady Sings

From: Chrysti M. Smith
Series: Chrysti the Wordsmith

The expression "the opera ain't over until the fat lady sings" gained national attention in 1978.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and WUAL

Added: Jul 19, 2005
Length: 02:03
Purchases: 2

Dressed to the Nines

From: Chrysti M. Smith
Series: Chrysti the Wordsmith

"Dressed to the nines," like so many English idioms, is a mysterious expression.

Added: Jul 19, 2005
Length: 02:02

Amazon

From: Chrysti M. Smith
Series: Chrysti the Wordsmith

Who were the original Amazons, and why do they share a name with the South American river and the bookselling giant amazon.com?

Bought by KVNF

Added: Jul 15, 2005
Length: 02:03
Purchases: 1

Rule of Thumb

From: Chrysti M. Smith
Series: Chrysti the Wordsmith

The genesis of the phrase "rule of thumb" is uncertain.

Added: Apr 15, 2005
Length: 02:03

Good Samaritan

From: Chrysti M. Smith
Series: Chrysti the Wordsmith

The story behind the coinage of the common expression "good Samaritan."

Added: Apr 15, 2005
Length: 02:03

Best Laid Plans

From: Chrysti M. Smith
Series: Chrysti the Wordsmith

A discussion of the origin of the expression "the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KHSU

Added: Apr 15, 2005
Length: 02:02
Purchases: 2

Quilting the Black-eyed Pea

From: With Good Reason

Poets Nikki Giovanni and Lucinda Roy discuss their roles as African American poets in contemporary America and share personal visions of the "Middl...

Bought by KPVL and WCSU-FM