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Host Trish Kerle’ welcomes comedian W. Kamau Bell, whose work openly challenges racism, sexism, homophobia, and more.
- Added: Mar 11, 2014
- Length: 01:02:09
First, in the Angel Effect, John Geiger investigates common accounts of extraordinary experiences when ordinary people claim to have been visited b...
Bought by WCWP
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 54:51
- Purchases: 1
First, Dr. Brene Brown argues that vulnerability is the basis of both courage and fulfillment in life. In her book, Daring Greatly, Brown challenge...
Bought by WCWP
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 59:55
- Purchases: 1
First, Winston Groom is the author of fourteen books including the best-seller Forrest Gump, and now, The Aviators. Then, Helen Elaine Lee, profess...
- Added: Nov 26, 2013
- Length: 54:51
First, the Secretary General of the OECD, Angel Gurria, discusses how the organizations work is based on continued monitoring of major educational ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2013
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 2
First, Philip Caputo journeys across the country from Key West to Alaska to find out how America remains united in spite of having an endlessly div...
- Added: Oct 01, 2013
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 2
The lives of thirteen people are featured in a new book–-but the real star is a 1957 Chevrolet Townsman wagon. Auto Biography tells the true story ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
The lives of thirteen people are featured in a new book--but the real star is a 1957 Chevrolet Townsman wagon. Auto Biography tells the true story ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 53:48
- Purchases: 3
No big time record label, no commercial producers, just music as it is supposed to be.
- Added: Jul 30, 2013
- Length: 27:34
This episode of Rumble Strip Vermont is about the high art of Vermont road maintenance.
- Added: Jul 18, 2013
- Length: 49:42
First, Brian Castner served three tours of duty in Iraq as the head of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit. When IEDs were discovered, he and his m...
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 2
First, Arlie Russell Hochschild discusses how outsourcing is changing the very nature of human relations. She explains the dangers and rewards of d...
- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 2
Today on Art Beat we have the opportunity to visit with the filmmaker who was the subject of his own documentary. Philip Lawerence was on the medic...
- Added: Jun 06, 2013
- Length: 38:28
- Purchases: 2
On Art Beat we interview an individual who is mostly known currently as a filmmaker for “The Price of Sand.” This individual started out as a camer...
- Added: Jun 06, 2013
- Length: 28:49
- Purchases: 2
First, the notorious gangster James Whitey Bulger was the most wanted fugitive of his generation. In a probing new biography, Kevin Cullen and Shel...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 2
First, the negative effects that cancer treatment takes on self-image is often overlooked. Realizing there is more to healing than medicine; Marian...
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 2
Filmmaker Brigetta Wagner speaks about her production Rosehill, a Bloomington-based feature film going into production in May, that tackles themes ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2013
- Length: 59:05
Winter is here! The sights, sounds and smells of winter, with Mark Rothko on the stage.
- Added: Mar 03, 2013
- Length: 30:00
First, author Peter Trachtenberg, is a husband and self-proclaimed cat person. After he discovers his cat Biscuit is missing, he begins to study th...
Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and WCNY
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 59:54
- Purchases: 2
Tony Award-winning actor, Ben Vereen, joins forces with “Taking Control of Your Diabetes,” to educate people on the importance of getting tested an...
- Added: Nov 06, 2012
- Length: 59:55
- Purchases: 2
First, Darrell Hammond discusses his life and fame in on screen and behind the camera. Then, Joan Walsh argues that America’s fundamental divide is...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 59:56
- Purchases: 1
First, music icon Kenny Rogers details his lifelong journey from the boy who loved to sing to living legend in his memoir, "Luck or Something Like ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 01:00:47
- Purchases: 2
First, Bill O’Reilly examines all aspects of the most notorious crime of the twentieth century in his book, “Killing Kennedy.” Then, journalist Dav...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 59:55
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Eric Manheimer's memoir, “Twelve Patients”, tells the stories of twelve very different patients at the famous Belleview Hospital, including his...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Sep 25, 2012
- Length: 59:55
- Purchases: 1
First, Judy Smith, expert crisis management consultant and author discusses, “Scandal”, the new ABC TV series based on her career, and explains how...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Sep 18, 2012
- Length: 59:56
- Purchases: 1
