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Episode #20 of this weekly music-based program delivering an inspired reinvention of how we inform ourselves about and experience the world we live...
Bought by WSLR
- Added: May 02, 2024
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about producer Ian Brennan's new book "Missing Music," in which he discusses his latest song collecting activities durin...
- Added: Apr 27, 2024
- Length: 28:31
On this episode, we discussed the book "Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America," which investigates the rise, fall, and retur...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Feb 17, 2024
- Length: 28:28
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we looked at the autobiography of Stuart Braithwaite, founder of the long-running post-rock band Mogwai. We listened to some of th...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2024
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 1
Originally Broadcast: November 8, 2006
This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
The understanding of how we humans experienc...
- Added: Dec 22, 2023
- Length: 29:00
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we discussed a new book that delves into the discography of Aphex Twin, a pioneer in IDM and dril...
- Added: Oct 14, 2023
- Length: 27:47
William Gibson’s new play “Golda’s Balcony” is the story of Golda Meir, her life, her love, her work and it’s a significant part of the story of Is...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles continues his talk with filmmaker and author David Leaf about Leaf's 2022 book called "GOD ONLY KNOWS...
Bought by WRVO Public Media, KAAD-LP, KUPR low power FM, North State Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more
- Added: Jun 24, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 8
Award-winning music documentarian Paul Ingles talks with filmmaker and author David Leaf about Leaf's 2022 book called "GOD ONLY KNOWS: The Story o...
Bought by KAAD-LP, WRVO Public Media, KUPR low power FM, North State Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more
- Added: Jun 15, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
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
How can a theatre modality called Theatre of the Oppressed work to raise awareness about the mechanisms of oppression that exist in societies, and ...
- Added: Feb 14, 2023
- Length: 58:59
This week on On Story we’ll hear from comedy veteran Ali LeRoi who’s longtime collaboration with comedian Chris Rock resulted in Everybody Hates Ch...
- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 53:58
From Austin Film Festival this is On Story, a look inside the creative process from today’s leading creators, writers and filmmakers. I’m your host...
- Added: Dec 20, 2022
- Length: 54:00
Javier Bardem shines in this dark satire about a glad-handing business owner threatened with scandal and controversy.
- Added: Nov 15, 2022
- Length: 03:35
This week on On Story, American playwright and screenwriter Ted Tally discusses his film adaptations including, 12 Strong which stars Chris Hemswor...
- Added: Sep 21, 2022
- Length: 54:00
On this week’s episode, we’ll hear from author, screenwriter, and television creator Noah Hawley. Hawley created FX’s award winning series Fargo, w...
- Added: Aug 01, 2022
- Length: 54:00
Lost Illusions is an adaptation of a classic 19th-century novel by Honoré de Balzac. The history of film is full of examples of great books that ha...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 03:26
David Cronenberg pioneered a certain type of horror movie that came to be called “body horror.” Throughout his career, in such films as The Brood, ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 03:36
Three stories about chance and imagination, written and directed by the up-and-coming director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 03:19
George Orwell’s dystopian novel was made into a great film in the year of its title: 1984.
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 03:33
The film version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical is a delightful expression of solidarity in a predominately Latino N.Y. neighborhood, wit...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 03:38
French writer-director Céline Sciamma has followed up her big success from 2019, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, with a surprising story of childhood, ...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 03:28
Victor Kossakovsky shows us the experience of farm animals without the mediation of human words and concepts, in a film that extends compassion to ...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 03:23
Paul Thomas Anderson pays humorous tribute to the 1970s in southern California in this story of a teenage entrepreneur who falls for a clever young...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:26
An evil eye changes the appearance of two young people in love so that they can’t recognize one another, in a film from the country of Georgia that...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:31