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On this episode, we discussed the new book "Dance-Punk," part of a new series of "Genre" books from 33 1/3. We discussed the history of dance-punk ...
- Added: May 20, 2023
- Length: 28:29
On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about a new book in the "Decades" series that documents the band Faith No More and thei...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 27:59
Martin McDonagh returns to Ireland for this tale of contagious madness between two friends falling out.
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 03:32
- Added: Jan 06, 2023
- Length: 49:59
- Purchases: 1
Leslie Newton Goodding had a busy career. It was when he worked for the U. S. Department of Agriculture that he collected the type specimen for the...
- Added: Dec 07, 2022
- Length: 04:01
Long ago, German immigrants brought their brewing traditions to the United States. More recently, brewers from the U.S. have begun bringing America...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 04, 2022
- Length: 28:51
- Purchases: 1
What do House of Dow, Fowl and Fodder, Old West End Festival, The V Project, Maddie and Bella all have in common? They all have logos created by Ja...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: May 02, 2022
- Length: 06:02
- Purchases: 1
A brother and sister, their addict mother in jail, try to get by under the poverty line in a depressed southern Ohio town, and end up hanging out w...
- Added: Mar 10, 2022
- Length: 03:50
Paris Slim and his Blues
- Added: Sep 01, 2020
- Length: 58:59
Actor Irrfan Khan wasn’t the biggest star in Bollywood, but he was unique.
Irrfan Khan died last week from endocrine cancer. He was 53.
- Added: May 04, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Delbert McClinton is still going as strong as ever after 60 years of performing and working in the music industry. His latest release is stellar in...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:17
In 1971 one of the most successful "Blues" recording labels was founded. This show explores the early history of Alligator Records.
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 01:00:04
Every sci-fi fantasy world comes with a canon of back stories and rules, which may have a lot in common with the original canon -- The Torah.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 27, 2019
- Length: 14:48
- Purchases: 5
Most of us spend close to half of our waking adult lives at work, but I would venture to guess that less than five percent of narrative films take ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 03:56
A young black man yearns to reclaim the old San Francisco house that he grew up in, but which his father lost, in this film about home, friendship,...
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 03:39
On this show I want to cover two films about people trying to do something no one else has done; both of them played in theaters during the past ye...
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 04:26
The World Ocean Observatory is partnering with Main Street Bucksport this year for the 4th annual International Maritime Film Festival, a celebrati...
- Added: May 21, 2019
- Length: 05:04
Elisabeth Moss dominates the screen as a crash-and-burn rock star in Alex Ross Perry’s latest provocative drama.
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 03:54
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a Supreme Court Justice and an advocate for civil rights, especially the rights of women. She was the second woman ever appo...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:39
Sweet Country is a tough, complex Australian film that provides a glimpse into the painful history of that nations’s brutal treatment of its origin...
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:05
A group of Mexican immigrants, as yet undocumented, live together in a crowded apartment in Brooklyn, work hard, and play soccer in an amateur league.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 03:45
Barry Jenkins adapts a James Baldwin novel about a black couple who won’t let anything, including an unjust arrest, keep them apart.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 04:55
Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel has become my favorite living director. That might sound extravagant to say about someone who has only made fou...
- Added: Aug 20, 2018
- Length: 08:38
Did E.T. really come from Calcutta, India?
- Added: May 29, 2018
- Length: 06:00
The Zookeeper’s Wife tells the true story of a married couple in Warsaw, the owners and operators of a zoo, who rescued hundreds of Jews from the g...
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 03:55
