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With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. But the transition to aca...
Bought by WJCT and KCPW Salt Lake City
- Added: Jun 28, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Jonathan Elmer, director of Indiana University's College Arts and Humanities Institute discusses Herman Melville's novella, Benito Cereno, a master...
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 29:46
In this episode we discuss how Jack's conquest of the giant relates to 19th century English colonialism with the help of scholar Brian Szumsky. We ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2013
- Length: 22:35
In this episode we explore beast bridegroom tales and other stories where pigs marry peasants and men fall for snakes. It's a mad fairy tale world ...
- Added: Feb 05, 2013
- Length: 27:22
Be it a curmudgeonly Galwegian on the West coast of Ireland, an erudite scholar in Dublin or a literary motorcyclist 'flower child' of San Francisc...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 56:24
- Purchases: 1
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Dec 05, 2012
- Length: 56:10
What does that word mean? Why don’t you hear it on this radio station? Can you use it in Scrabble? Radio Curious seeks the answers from Steve Kl...
- Added: Nov 19, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Literary critic and pop culture enthusiast Ursula Heise dissects environmental storytelling and its relation to science… both real and fiction. [Se...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 34:06
“First Year” is a 2011 novel by retired teacher, J.O. Salls. It’s the story of 23 year old English teacher, Robert Baker. The story takes us throug...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Sep 10, 2012
- Length: 11:23
- Purchases: 2
Quiddity explores Lincoln through poetry with guest - professor & poet, Dan Guillory, whose works include Living with Lincoln and The Lincoln Poems.
- Added: Mar 15, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Dr. Gregory Schmidt from Winona State University's History Department recently gave a talk on the Boatmen of the early 1800's at the Minnesota Mari...
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 39:36
- Purchases: 2
Author Luis Alberto Urrea talks about the inspiration for and writing of his novel Into the Beautiful North, which takes place from Sinaloa, Mexico...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 25:54
- Purchases: 1
Interview about Quist's novel God's Angry Man, the true story of a Minnesota boy orphaned at age seven during te Greaat Depression and indentured a...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 02, 2011
- Length: 17:57
- Purchases: 1
Host Phalana Tiller interviews authors Roger Martin and James Quigley. And Bloomberg Businessweek online columnist Rick Wartzman delivers a piece ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: May 12, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
This week we're delving into the world of American letters with Arnold Weinstein and Jimmy Breslin. Veteran journalist Jimmy Breslin might be the l...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
Part of "Whose Words These Are," our look at poetry in our time: first Christopher Lydon in conversation with novelist Nicholson Baker, whose novel...
Bought by KALW, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WEOS and more
- Added: Apr 04, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 6
How many Victorian books would you have to read to know the Victorians? What if you could read all 1.7 million?
- Added: Mar 29, 2011
- Length: 28:57
Actor Henry Winkler didn't know he had dyslexia till his oldest son was diagnosed with it. Winkler was 31 at the time. He has become the author of...
- Added: Jun 23, 2010
- Length: 06:32
Liberal arts colleges are known for their small class sizes, individual attention, and atmosphere meant to inspire intellectual curiosity in its st...
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 08:46
Poet, Scholar and Artist Tomas Q. Morin talks about his life and career, and reads a few of his own works.
- Added: Mar 17, 2010
- Length: 10:59
A new boxing clinic focuses on both physical fitness and philosophical growth.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUOW
- Added: Mar 11, 2010
- Length: 06:57
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 28, 2010
- Length: 10:22
Reed talks about The Hemingses of Monticello, her award-winning book about Thomas Jefferson and his slave, Sally Hemmings.
Bought by KPIK-LP
- Added: Apr 30, 2009
- Length: 29:47
- Purchases: 1
Ascending - Baltimore School for the Arts explores the lives of students at this amazing school in Baltimore
- Added: Oct 07, 2008
- Length: 43:58
A Muslim, a Christian and a Jew shed light on love, faith and understanding.
- Added: Jan 17, 2008
- Length: 24:34
