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Should Certain Books Ever Be Banned in School?
From: Open to Debate
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Are certain books beyond reproach? It’s a fundamental question making its way across America’s school boards. Those who argue “yes” say schools sho...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
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
Feminist Poet Adrienne Rich
From: New Letters on the Air
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This month's Save America's Treasures recording, features the late, great poet Adrienne Rich, known for her perfectly crafted, award winning poems....

Bought by WRKF, WNMU-FM, and WJCU


  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Juliane Okot Bitek - 407
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet Juliane Okot Bitek discusses her award-winning collection of poems, "100 Days," written in response to the Rwandan genocide in 1994.

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


  • Added: Jun 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Firoozeh in India
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Iranian-American writer Firoozeh Dumas' commentaries about her hyphenated life have aired on NPR. But that was a different America. While Firoozeh ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Election Day
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry about voting, candidates, and American politics/society.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2016
  • Length: 57:40
Ideas Books: Mike Gonzales - The Last Drop, The Politics of Water
From: Craig Barfoot
Caption: Ideas Books: Mike Gonzales
Interview with author Mike Gonzales about his book, The Last Drop. The one indispensable resource, water is increasingly controlled and even owned...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:04
2016 Features Editor of THE NATION Kai Wright
From: New Letters on the Air
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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
Penguin turns chicken
From: KALW
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When the publishers Penguin and Random House merged, it called itself The world's first truly global book publishing company". Sounds powerful. But...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
An Interivew with Mark Trahant
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Mark Trahant talks about and reads from his book 'The Last Great Battle of the Indian Wars: Henry M. Jackson, Forrest J. Gerar...

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


  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 4
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!: MoZo on writing songs inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
Caption: MoZo, Credit: Wade Trenbeath
Songwriters Moe Provencher and Aimee Zoe of MoZo discuss their song inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Written and...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of India - Namita Gokhale & Ashis Nandy
From: Open Source
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Open Source is in New Delhi with two stars of the writing class. Namita Gokhale is a novelist, publisher, and sparkplug of the Indian literary boom...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
A Few Reams of Freedom - Noam Chomsky & C.D. Wright
From: Open Source
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We're talking politics and poetry with Noam Chomsky and C.D. Wright. Noam Chomsky is on an upbeat about American views on war and imperialism, and ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 04, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2