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- Added: Apr 11, 2022
- Length: 02:00
HOUR ONE: 'Traveling By Book' - From Africa to England, to a kamikaze cockpit, and to realms of fantasy. Books aren’t just books. They’re passports...
- Added: Sep 03, 2021
- Length: 01:58:59
HOUR ONE: "Reading While Young" - Having trouble reading? Maybe the answer is a younger read. We'll celebrate the new season of our "Bookmarks" mic...
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 01:59:01
This week on World Ocean Radio we review a new book by photographer George Steinmetz with essays by Andrew Revkin. "The Human Planet: Earth at the ...
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 04:34
'Tis the season for our end-of-year episode. Each year at the holidays, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads At The Fishhouses, a poem by Eliza...
- Added: Dec 26, 2018
- Length: 04:34
Author Roxanna Elden discusses her new satirical novel Adequate Yearly Progress, which tells the story of the teachers’ lives across one year in th...
- Added: Aug 06, 2018
- Length: 45:49
In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill reads “The Fish,” a poem by Marianne Moore from a collection entitled "American Sea W...
- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 04:11
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 practice of hunting wild birds with trained birds — for fun — is called falconry. Though it came into its own almost 1,000 years ago in England...
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Feb 03, 2017
- Length: 31:40
- Purchases: 1
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
Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. What do you see?...
- Added: Jan 22, 2017
- Length: 09:32
How gratuitous violence is increasingly turning off viewers - Why German detectives are pacifists - Godzilla's hidden messages - The lasting wisdom...
- Added: Jan 06, 2017
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 2
How gratuitous violence is increasingly turning off viewers - Why German detectives are pacifists - Godzilla's hidden messages - The lasting wisdom...
Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WEZU, WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Jan 06, 2017
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 9
How gratuitous violence is increasingly turning off viewers - Why German detectives are pacifists - Godzilla's hidden messages
Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KKRN, WUGA (part of GPB), WNMU-FM and more
- Added: Jan 06, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: :30
A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...
Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WMUU-LP, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 4
A conversation with former U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning Natasha Trethewey.
Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, KRDP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 10
Dramatist Anna Deavere Smith discusses her technique of interviewing real people to use their stories on stage. She talks about the School to Priso...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Fourth in a four-part series on authors who write about the ocean and the natural world.
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 05:12
In the third of a four-part series on writers who have shaped his interest in the ocean and the natural world, host Peter Neill reads from essayist...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: May 16, 2016
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 1
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
At the close of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen not only for its ...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 1
World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill recently witnessed a beautiful full moon rise from an island perch in Maine. The silent, stealthy way that it ro...
- Added: Sep 14, 2015
- Length: 05:11
The Japanese word "Mottainai" refers to the essence of things, and suggests that objects do not exist in isolation, rather that they are intrinsica...
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 05:31
This show examines the life and times of Will Rogers who said, "I never met a man I didn't like"
- Added: Jan 10, 2015
- Length: 02:38:06
Reza Aslan on Zealot and academia; Maxwell Grant on Lev Grossman's Magicians series.
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 44:08
- Added: Oct 07, 2014
- Length: 33:35
- Purchases: 1
