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Professor Daniel Shea shares the story of Pearl Curran, who, beginning in 1913, used a Ouija board to transcribe novels, plays, essays, and poetry ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 13:35
- Purchases: 1
In this segment we talk with Gwen Westerman about her book Mni Sota Makoce The Land of the Dakota. Gwen co-wrote this book with Bruce White.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Oct 03, 2013
- Length: 38:35
- Purchases: 1
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...
- Added: Oct 01, 2013
- Length: 04:17
Within seconds of hearing someone speak, we make judgments about that person and their background, just based on their accent.
- Added: Sep 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Within seconds of hearing someone speak, we make judgments about that person and their background, just based on their accent.
- Added: Sep 20, 2013
- Length: 53:51
- Purchases: 5
For many, the Eastmont Town Center in East Oakland is the go-to place to apply for food stamps, get medical coverage, find childcare, and get job a...
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 06:27
Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Berryman's Hands." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesot...
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 02:03
From Tolstoy to Lermontov, the program that’s putting the Russian classics to work—in a juvenile detention center.
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 53:50
- Purchases: 3
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
This week Purnima Bose discusses how Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale demonstrates how easily modern America might become a tr...
- Added: Jun 24, 2013
- Length: 27:35
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
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School and an intern at Northern Community Radio. During the school year she's been checking in with e...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 03:06
- Purchases: 2
Dan Sinykin is in the midst of extensive travel in Mexico to do research for his graduate studies. Throughout his travels Sinykin will be submittin...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 12:24
- Purchases: 1
Jennifer Collins, a poet and graduate student at Duquesne University, reads a selection of her poems at the last Coffeehouse Reading event for the ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 08:26
Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...
Bought by WJSU, KMXT, and NPR Illinois
- Added: Apr 25, 2013
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 3
Keeley Teslik, a graduating senior at Duquesne University, reads an excerpt from one of her short stories, and answers some questions about what it...
- Added: Apr 25, 2013
- Length: 13:59
Steven Schwartz, a writer and resident professor at Colorado State University, reads his story "Seeing Miles," and answers some questions on voicin...
- Added: Apr 07, 2013
- Length: 33:34
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
Craig Bernier, a writer of both fiction and non-fiction (as well as a Professor of English at Duquesne University) reads his short story "Something...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 29:16
Heather McNaugher, a poet and professor at Chatham University, reads from her collection and answers some writer-ly questions.
- Added: Feb 14, 2013
- Length: 08:30
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
