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The Write Question - Kelly Schirmann
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Artist Kelly Schirmann discusses her newest book of poetry and prose, "The New World."

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Margaret Bourke-White’s Focus on Apartheid: The Remix Edition
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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This is a remix of our show Focus on Apartheid from July 2016 with guest Alex Lichtenstein, Professor of History at Indiana University. Our topic i...

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Paul Robeson: An Essential American
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is about the great Paul Robeson. Our guests are Sharon Rudahl about her new graphic biography Ballad of an America published by (Rutgers U...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
How to Be Anti-Fascist: Muriel Rukeyser and The Life of Poetry
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A BAGGAGE TICKET FROM RUKEYSER’S TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGE FROM NEW YORK TO LONDON (1936)
Our show centers on the book The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser which can be seen as an anti-fascist manifesto pitting poetry - the poetic as a ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Art Against War & Capital: On the Cartoons of Art Young
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Looking for Peace, Credit: Art Young
Art Young, like many others, was “converted” or radicalized by the injustice of the arrest, trial, and executions of the so-called Haymarket Anarch...

Bought by RADIOLEX and WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago


  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Experiments in Alignment and the Persistence of the Motley Crew
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Hélio Oiticica and C.L.R. James
Laura Harris utilizes the figuration of the motley crew - sailors from every geography finding labor solidarity in the middle of the ocean - and ex...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Against Moral Saints: Kristian Williams on George Orwell and Oscar Wilde
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The show is Against Moral Saints: on the politics and philosophy of two writers who, by reputation at least, must stand as almost antithetical figu...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
The Journey Through Sorrow: Mary Shelley’s Post-Apocalyptic Novel The Last Man
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Woman at Sunset (1818), Caspar David Friedrich
Coping with being totally alone and the sorrow of loss after a global plague are powerfully depicted in Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel The Last Man. Eil...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Prospero’s Roaring War: The Rough Magic of Shakespeare’s Tempest
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Helen Scott’s book tracks the way productions of the play reveal the politics of each successive age – how to some Prospero is the benevolent mage ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
The Art of Exposing Rape in America
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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American artists such as Faith Ringgold, Suzanne Lacy, and Judy Chicago insisted on ending the silence surrounding sexual violence and helped const...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 59:05
Standing Up to the Sacklers
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Art organizations and sponsorship dollars have gone hand in hand for decades. But with backlash and protests over donors ethics, should cultural in...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Queering the World: The Art of Barbara Hammer
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A still from Barbara Hammer's "Menses" (1974)
Barbara Hammer is an American feminist filmmaker known for being one of the pioneers of lesbian film. Hammer is known for creating experimental fil...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Interchange – Shooting the Gulf: Allan Sekula In the American Grain
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Photographer and essayist Allan Sekula was a critic of capitalism and an influential theorist of documentary photography and photojournalism. In "S...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:19
Confronting Nazi Art Looting in the 21st Century
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Phillips de Koninick, Portrait of a Boy, 1673, Eskenazi Museum of Art 2001.45.
From 1933 until the end of World War II, a number of Nazi units known as the Kuntschutz, plundered gold, silver and important art works from all ov...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2018
  • Length: 58:37
2017-12-31 Ai Weiwei: Human Flow
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Ai Weiwei, artist, filmmaker
Ai Weiwei is an artist who uses many canvases to express himself. From art installations to architecture, social media to the big screen, Ai is one...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KCRW, KWIT, WUTC, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 6
Peacemaking on Stage: OSLO
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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An engaging conversation with both the playwright and director of the 2017 Tony-Award Winning Best Play, OSLO. The play tracks the back channel ne...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KVSC, and KUNM


  • Added: Jul 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
The Poetic Address to the Nation
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Poetic Address to the Nation, brought together poets to speak powerfully against the current administration. Featuring Cam Awkward, Guillermo G...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Focus on Apartheid: The Photojournalism of Margaret Bourke-White
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechosl...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 56:31
The Graphically Radical Paul Buhle
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Cartoon Paul Buhle, Credit: Steve Chappell
Our guest is Paul Buhle, one of the foremost historians of American Radicalism and the American Left having authored or edited over 30 books, inclu...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 59:36
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending May 13, 2016
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: New Voter Suppression Laws in 17 States Will Have Major Impact on 2016 Ele...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 04, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Allan Wolper talk to Ed Kashi
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Ed Kashi is a photo journalist whose sensitive lens has captured the racial profiling in Europe, the turmoil in Syria and Iraq, the West Bank, the ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
The Speed of Sound: Speedy Ortiz
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Sadie Dupuis talks with Kyle Meredith about writing about feminism and politics on the latest Speedy Ortiz album, Foil Deer.

Bought by KUCB, KHNS, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4
Terror Skies: The Drone as Judge and Jury
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In Part One, we’re joined by Majed Akhter, an Assistant Professor of Geography at Indiana University Bloomington whose current research examines ho...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 40:40
Sounds of Silents
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Credit: Russian Public Library via Wikipedia Commons
Silent film may be a thing of the past, but scoring music to flickering screen classics isn't. This documentary focuses on three Minneapolis bands ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 26:46
  • Purchases: 2
The Art of MN Author, Jay Walljasper
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Today we visit with a multi talented author who enjoys travel and sustainability. He joins his interests together in supporting a cause called The ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2013
  • Length: 42:58
  • Purchases: 1