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Authro Rachel Howzell Hall brings a new detective into crime fiction.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Rachel Howzell Hall
With her character Lou Norton, Hall creates one of the few African American female detectives.

Bought by KISA Digital Studios, KPIP-LP, WTJU, WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 5
Ferdinand the Cultural Icon (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The unlikely story of a pacifist bull - Hidden messages scribbled in library books - Murder & poetry in Chaucer's London - A novel look at race rel...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
Ferdinand the Cultural Icon (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The unlikely story of a pacifist bull - Hidden messages scribbled in library books - Murder & poetry in Chaucer's London - A novel look at race rel...

Bought by WCNY, KTOO, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
Ferdinand the Cultural Icon (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The unlikely story of a pacifist bull - The hidden messages scrawled in library books

Bought by WJCT, WCQS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WUGA (part of GPB), KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 9
Ferdinand, The Misunderstood Bull (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In 1936, just as the Spanish Civil War was beginning, an instantly successful and highly controversial children’s book arrived on the bookshelves. ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer 100: Natasha Trethewey on Native Guard (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
Pulitzer 100: Natasha Trethewey on Native Guard (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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A conversation with former U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning Natasha Trethewey.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:58
Can't Look... Have To Look (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How gratuitous violence is increasingly turning off viewers - Why German detectives are pacifists - Godzilla's hidden messages - The lasting wisdom...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WLIW


  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Can't Look... Have To Look (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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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
Can't Look... Have To Look (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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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
BHM Special: Natasha Trethewey on Native Guard (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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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 Georgia Public Broadcasting and WNSB


  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
BHM Special: Natasha Trethewey on Native Guard (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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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 WGTE Public Media, WUGA (part of GPB), Georgia Public Broadcasting, WNSB, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
BHM Special: Natasha Trethewey on Native Guard (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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A conversation with former U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning Natasha Trethewey.

Bought by WNSB, KRZA, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
Author and 2011 National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward grieving with words
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jesmyn Ward, Credit: Tony Cook
In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WNJR, Public Radio for All, WMUU-LP, and 91.7 WHUS Storrs


  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Pulitzer100: Natasha Trethewey On Native Guard (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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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
Pulitzer100: Natasha Trethewey On Native Guard (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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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
Pulitzer100: Natasha Tretheway On Native Guard (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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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
Maya Angelou's Africa (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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We tend to remember Maya Angelou for her activism in the United States. But a recent tribute at James Madison University showed her poetry’s global...

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


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 3
Author and National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick on reading Moby Dick
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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In a slim, lucid and compulsively readable book, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville’s classic Moby-Dick.

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Novelist Vaddey Ratner writes her story of Cambodia
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Vaddey Ratner, Credit: Christina Sherk
Vaddey Ratner's novel, In the Shadow of the Banyan honors her lost family

Bought by WNJR, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Author Kelly Link: startling readers in unexpected ways.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Kelly Link combines the ordinary and the magical—with flair.

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Master of Horror
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Edgar Allan Poe
Mystery Writer Laura Lippman talks about the terrifying brilliance of Edgar Allan Poe.

Bought by WLPR , WNJR, Radio Catskill, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
Under Magnolia (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-In her new memoir Under Magnolia, Frances Mayes, the renowned author of Under the Tuscan Sun returns to her hometown to explore her coming of age ...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KRDP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Pulitzer 100: The Wondrous Junot Diaz (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood. -Jon Pineda's memoir "Sleep in Me" chronicles his s...

Bought by WCNY, KRDP, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 5
Pulitzer 100: The Wondrous Junot Diaz (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood.

Bought by WJCT, WJCU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WUGA (part of GPB), WLIW and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7