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What is your perspective on Democracy? This week we explore what democracy means.
- Added: Mar 03, 2021
- Length: 59:00
“We have the right to hate Germany because we love it,” German writer Kurt Tucholsky wrote. Listening to positions from both sides of the Atlantic ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 17, 2020
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Exactly one hundred years ago this month, at a time of political polarization and the Spanish Flu pandemic, William Butler Yeats published “The Sec...
- Added: Nov 20, 2020
- Length: 27:15
Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...
Bought by WMMT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED, KVNF, WRIR and more
- Added: Jun 29, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
HOUR ONE: More and more power is getting consolidated in the hands of a few. If capitalism is broken, what's next? HOUR TWO: Why does an empire c...
- Added: Dec 20, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Roadtrippin'" - What makes a road trip something special? It's not the destination.
HOUR TWO: "Do Protests Still Matter?" - In the wa...
- Added: Jul 07, 2017
- Length: 01:58:56
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about Communism as a quasi-religious faith that might ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:27
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Submission by Michel Houellebecq.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 04:12
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
The word “inauguration" takes us all the way back to the politics of ancient Rome and the birds behind the words inauguration, inaugural, auspiciou...
- Added: Jan 20, 2017
- Length: 22:14
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Michael Eric Dyson's new book, "The Black Presidency Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America", explores the powerful, surprising way the p...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:00:50
“It may well be that the Senate Republicans would be better off confirming some moderate Obama nominee to the Supreme Court now, rather than having...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 2
The 2016 Features Editor of THE NATION, Kai Wright, discusses his 2009 anthology, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE THROUG...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WNJR
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
America's formidable guardian of the Constitution, Justice Antonin Scalia, is dead...
- Added: Feb 20, 2016
- Length: 02:22:45
Etgar Keret, an author and a regular contributor to our show, lives less than a ten minute walk from Kikar Malchey Israel, the square where Rabin w...
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 20:08
California wants to deprive you of fuel, and that's why you're already paying a new "global warming" tax.
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 15:58
Hosts Doug Storm and Trish Kerle' are joined by historian Jim Madison to discuss the Hoosier through history. Madison has just published a new book...
- Added: Sep 23, 2014
- Length: 01:01:02
In this compilation of archive interviews from 1988 and 1996 along with part of a previously unaired 2004 recording, we look back at the life of Am...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Ann Niedringhaus is a Duluth poet who has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She belongs to a Duluth writers group that is currentl...
- Added: Oct 18, 2012
- Length: 02:03
A radio program featuring author Julia Alvarez along with Neko Case, Edwidge Danticat, and Junot Diaz, among others.
Bought by KMUN, Kansas Public Radio, KPIP-LP, KQED, and KRZA
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 29:55
- Purchases: 5
We arrived in Iraq carelessly; we should leave carefully. Former Congressman Lee Hamilton discusses America's goal in Iraq and how it might achieve...
Bought by WBFO
- Added: May 21, 2009
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 1
From: Action Speaks Radio
Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial air...
Bought by KREV-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRNC-LP, WRVO Public Media, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: May 11, 2009
- Length: 58:51
- Purchases: 5
Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 29:03
The JWH album traces Dylan's relationship with America and his spritual journey from outlaw to family man, from joker to thief.
Bought by KPIP-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WETS
- Added: Aug 14, 2008
- Length: 01:02:25
- Purchases: 5
Ghada Kanafani, Palestinian Poet in Exile
- Added: Feb 02, 2006
- Length: 20:05
- Purchases: 2
A powerful 1985 reading of an anti slavery poem by the late Amiri Baraka. In this piece, Baraka treats the issue of voice - and what happens when a...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Mar 23, 2005
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
