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What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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An evil eye changes the appearance of two young people in love so that they can’t recognize one another, in a film from the country of Georgia that...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:31
Pygmalion
From: KXCI
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Bernard Shaw’s popular comedy, about a phonetics professor who makes a bet that he can turn a street person into a lady, was given near-perfect for...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:02
The Woman Who Ran
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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A married woman visits three friends in the city, and we are inspired to consider what is the nature of happiness for women in a “man’s world.”

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:19
Summer of Soul
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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The Harlem Cultural Festival was a music festival taking place in the same summer of 1969 as Woodstock, and its amazing line-up, and insight into h...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1
The French Dispatch
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Wes Anderson’s playful new film is presented as an issue of a Paris-based American magazine, with three stories about the eternal appeal of non-con...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:20
The Worst Person in the World
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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A film from Norway about a young woman seeking fulfillment in relationships takes the conventions of romantic comedy and turns them over to reveal ...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:27
Poetry In A Troubled Time
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Poetry In A Troubled Time
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Why do people turn to poetry during troubled times? Poetry is often the one language we need. Join us for an hour on poems we need right now.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Lt. Col. Alex Vindman and the New Cold War with Russia
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In an interview with Ray Suarez, retired Lt. Col. Alex Vindman speaks about his time in the Trump White House, the consequences of the politicizati...

Bought by RADIOLEX, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
High Hopes
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Mike Leigh’s 1988 breakthrough film already contains what makes him great: working class issues, funny believable characters, and a fine sensitivit...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 03:56
My Own Private Idaho
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film portrays the difficult yet tender world of runaways.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:25
Went the Day Well?
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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One of the most unusual examples of propaganda ever filmed, made in the midst of the Second World War, imagines what it would be like if Germans ca...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:49
Dear Comerades
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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A veteran of Soviet cinema presents a powerful drama about an incident in 1962, when factory workers in a Don Region city go on strike, and a true ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:38
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Mikio Naruse’s great 1960 film presents a compassionate view of the life of bar hostesses in a disreputable section of Tokyo.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:20
Small Axe
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Five films from British director Steve McQueen, depicting the experiences of West Indian British families in London from the late 1960s through the...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 05:14
The Rescue
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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The true story of the 2018 effort to rescue thirteen boys trapped in a huge flooded cave in Thailand is more exciting than most fiction.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:45
Framing the Games: China’s Human Rights Problem
From: Mateo Schimpf
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What's the calculation for an Olympic athlete determined to make a protest statement at the games? And how has China's treatment of Uyghurs in Xinj...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Nothing About Ukraine Without Ukrainians
From: Mateo Schimpf
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We’re joined by Iryna Tsilyk, documentary filmmaker from Kyiv, and historians Katherine Younger and Emily Channell-Justice, to hear the story of mo...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Where in the World Are All the Vaccines?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, Dr. Seth Berkley, CEO of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, talks with Ray Suarez about overcoming the challenges of vaccine distr...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Return of the Strongmen
From: Mateo Schimpf
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One year after supporters of former President Donald Trump violently stormed the Capitol, how do we make sense of the January 6 insurrection?

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
War and Peace
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In an episode originally aired in April, we look at what happens when you think you know what you’re doing… and don’t listen to the people you are ...

Bought by WKSU, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
AFTER "GET BACK" - THE LAST YEAR IN THE LIFE OF THE BEATLES
From: Paul Ingles
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The year after The Beatles "Get Back" sessions and famous rooftop concert is explored chronologically by hosts Paul Ingles and Harry Norton who tak...

Bought by WWNO, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WRGY, KSJE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
In Putin’s Shadow
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we look at democracy movements fighting to survive in the shadow of a Russian government that’s determined to consolidate power.

Bought by KUOW, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
All About Lily Chou-Chou
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Twenty years ago, in 2001, the internet was really taking off—the steady increase in internet use was accelerating, especially among young people. ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:42
Another Round
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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Thomas Vinterburg’s Oscar-winning comedy tells of four men who decide to use a small amount of alcohol to reinvigorate their jobs and personal live...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:24
Honeyland
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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The traditional way of beekeeping preserved by a Macedonian woman runs up against the modern motive for profit at all costs, in this gorgeous docum...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:24

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