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Not From Here
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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When Allan Johnson asked his dying father where he wanted his ashes scattered, his father replied, it didn’t matter. So began the journey. A journe...

Bought by KPVL and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A tribute to Eduardo Galeano ,he passedApril 13, 2015
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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A tribute to Eduardo Galeano , he passed on April 13, 2015, this interview originally aired Sep 2009 but still relevant today. Eduardo Hughes Gale...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 27:57
#17 MIW Eve Minax - Kink Educator, Trainer, and Author
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Eve Minax on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
With our host, Akeisha Johnson, on this episode of Making It Work we will find out how someone becomes a kink educator and trainer while living in ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 32:17
The Mysterious James Tiptree
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Alice Sheldon, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Alice Sheldon served in the OSS and the CIA. And then she went deep undercover posing as a male science fiction writer. It wasn't an assignment, it...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 23:44
  • Purchases: 2
Superstorm: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kathryn Miles
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy smashed into the Eastern seaboard. A monster nobody was prepared to deal with.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bridging the Divide
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Janet Cheatham Bell
In her collection of essays, author and publisher Janet Cheatham Bell emphasizes our mutual dependency. It’s about identifying and using the power ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Novelist Debra Brenegan
From: New Letters on the Air
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For the holiday weekend, we look back in history at Sara Payson Willis, a novelist, journalist, and feminist who wrote under the pseudonym "Fanny F...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jul 09, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Red Devil 4
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Eric C. Leuthardt
The year is 2053. Neurosurgeon and scientist, Dr. Hagan Maerici, is to designing "neuromorphic artificial intelligence." This is the setting for Dr...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Saving Paradise (pledge drive edition)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Saving Paradise , Credit: Book cover
IdeaSphere … Saving Paradise: Author and environmental activist Mike Bond uses fiction to tell the real story of Hawaii’s fight against corporation...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 20:41
  • Purchases: 2
Maxine Kumin: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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We begin the celebration of Women's History Month with a tribute to Maxine Kumin, who died on February 6, 2014 at the age of 88. A former Consultan...

Bought by KRZA, KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KQED


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Conversation with Novelist, Manil Suri
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The City of Devi, an apocalyptic sex comedy and love story, is the third book in Manil Suri’s trilogy centered on Mumbai. [26:08]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 26:07
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Veteran, Lynn Hill
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Lynn Hill discusses her participation in "Holding It Down" -- Vijay Iyer's and Mike Ladd's performance piece based on the dreams of veterans of col...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 26:45
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Author, Lillian Faderman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Lillian Faderman's writes a "reconstructed memoir" about her mother's life as an immigrant factory worker and single mother during the Great Depres...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
Amiri Baraka: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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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
An Interview with Charlie Price
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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YA author Charlie Price talks about and reads from his novel DEAD GIRL MOON. He also shares information about his teaching career, which included w...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KSJD


  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Legendary poet Gary Snyder
From: New Letters on the Air
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Winner of the 2012 Wallace Stevens Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Academy of American Poets, Gary Snyder discusses the changing worlds of ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Aug 21, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
If You Could Be Mine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sara Farizan
A new novel by Sara Fraizan explores the issues of gender orientation. But, what sets this work apart from its predecessors is that it’s written fo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
IBRT Season 2, Episode 7: 'Harry'
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: The Icebox Radio Theater
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The say Sunday at 11am is the most segregated hour in America. But one of the nice things about this land of freedom to worship is that there seem...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:02
Interview with Philip Levine. Sunday, March 5, 2012.
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
Caption: Philip Levine
Philip Levine talks about his relationship to New York City as well as Detroit's Diego Rivera murals and their impact on his youth and poetry. He...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Interview with Luis Alberto Urrea. Sunday, March 25th, 2012.
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
Caption: Luis Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea discusses his latest book "Queen of America," and his alternating relationship to prose and poetry. He also talks about his expe...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 14:31
Interview with Mark Strand. November 11, 2012.
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
Caption: Mark Strand
Mark Strand encourages a return to writing long-hand; he unveils his writing and revision processes. He reads "The Poems of the Spanish Poet" from ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 14:30
Living Simply In A Complex World (with Joshua Davis)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Folk roots singer songwriter Joshua Davis joins Soulseeds Radio for an inspiring episode in which host Ian Lawton suggests listeners simply live th...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 1
Putting Fear In Perspective (with Seth Glier)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Ian Lawton's theme in this episode of Soulseeds Radio explores putting fear in perspective. As Emerson said, "Do the thing you fear and the death o...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Casting Your Whole Vote (With Joshua Davis)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Soulseeds Radio host Ian Lawton explores casting your whole vote -- not just voting once every four years, but letting your whole life, all your wo...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:27
  • Purchases: 1
You've Gotta Have Faith (with Josh Rose)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Ian Lawton looks at many sides of Faith -- taking power where you can control things in your life, surrendering where you can't control things in y...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 1