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A woman painter in an age (the 18th century) when such women were rare, is hired to paint a portrait of a countess’s daughter, who is living on a w...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2020
  • Length: 04:17
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Mycology has been a relatively neglected subject over the years. It’s the study of mycelium, which is a term for the vegetative part of a fungus, c...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
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The central dramatic figure of our time is the migrant, whose shifting, uncertain, and perilous fate reflects that of our world. Atlantics, the fir...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2020
  • Length: 04:43
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This episode of The Apple Seed invites you to reflect on stories of progress and change.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2020
  • Length: 53:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Transfigured Night, Credit: Testament
Leonard Slatkin on Schoenberg.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 06:30
Caption: Leonard Slatkin, Credit: RCA
Leonard Slatkin on Corigliano Symphony #1

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Leonard Slatkin, Credit: Chris Lee
Leonard Slatkin talks about the DSO

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:22
Caption: Leonard Slatkin, Credit: Nico Rodamel
Leonard talks about origins

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:52
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Dark Waters tells the story of Robert Bilott, a corporate lawyer with a Cincinnati firm that specialized in defending big chemical corporations aga...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2020
  • Length: 04:56
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In 1935, Hitler had been in power in Germany for two years. The rest of Europe desperately hoped that the disaster that was the Great War of 1914 t...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2020
  • Length: 04:31
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Thinking back on 2019, preparing to put together a list of my favorite films from last year, I was struck more than ever by how my movie experience...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 04:52
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Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer, an African American, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative in 1989. The EJI provides legal assistance to prisoners ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 04:50
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I became a fan of the Safdie brothers, Josh and Benny, after I saw their previous film from a couple years ago, Good Time, which I reviewed on this...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 1
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A collection of stories about stuff that happens in the great outdoors.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 52:41
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Listen to stories about life's unexpected turns.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2020
  • Length: 58:03

  • Added: Jan 22, 2020
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women has been adapted into movies quite a few times before now. The book has usually been relegated to th...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2020
  • Length: 04:46
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Over the long career of director Terrence Malick, he’s developed a unique style all his own, featuring extensive voice-over narration accompanied b...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 04:57
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Is it acceptable to use fallen leaves for garden mulch and compost making or should we leave them alone? And of course, Mike Mcgrath takes your ph...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
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This time of year I’m often asked about what films I recommend to watch for the holiday and I have to say, “Sorry, I’m not really a fan of Christma...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 04:41
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I just saw a film that touched me deeply, a movie playing at the multiplex for which I had not seen any ads or trailers. It’s about a fairly afflue...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 03:39
Caption: A sculptor at NECA works on a Heath Ledger/Joker action figure., Credit: Eric Molinsky
Action figure collectables for adults is booming, even when kids are loosing interest in little plastic guys.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 18:11
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Dr. Steven Schlozman, zombified, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Zombies. I hate them the way Indiana Jones hates snakes. As part of my series Imaginary Worlds, I confront my biggest phobia with the help of a zom...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 16:54
  • Purchases: 3
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Noah Baumbach’s new film is called Marriage Story. As you might expect from a writer and director with a humorous and ironic view of life, the titl...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 04:38
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In his latest and most personal film, Pedro Almodóvar contemplates aging, regret, the need to make films, and life as a gay man in Spain.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:07