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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, what you might call an independent spin-off from Ken Burns 2014 documentary on The Roosevelts. We consider Te...
Bought by KMXT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Aspen Public Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 7
Poet Paul Legault shares how he challenged the norms of translation in his interpretations of Emily Dickinson's poetry.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 14:00
Historical fiction is an ongoing balance between fact and fiction, but what if the story takes place outside of reality? Author Sarah Shun-Lien Byn...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 15:12
- Purchases: 1
How closely must historical fiction mirror recorded history? Author Marshall Klimasewiski weighs in.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 13:39
Jonathan Judaken on existentialism and religion; Katy Scrogin on The Myth of the Muslim Tide.
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 53:50
Phyllis Tickle on The Great Emergence; Katy Scrogin on Alain Badiou: Between Theology and Anti-Theology.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 43:16
Catherine Brekus on the Bible and democracy; Katy Scrogin on Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 35:56
Amy Black on the separation of church and state; Katy Scrogin on The Reason I Jump.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 34:11
Lillian Daniel on the problems of being spiritual but not religious; Katy Scrogin on The Still Point of the Turning World.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 32:00
Lillian Daniel on spirituality vs. religiosity; Katy Scrogin on A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 31:18
Reza Aslan on Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth; Katy Scrogin on Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 46:35
Jean Piaget was born in 1896 in Switzerland, and he died in 1980. His background was in biology and he became especially fascinated with studying ...
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 07:20
- Added: Jun 10, 2014
- Length: 03:24
Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 29, 2014
- Length: 03:42
- Purchases: 1
Widows from WWII, Vietnam and Iraq wars discuss changes over time from the loss of their husbands in war.
- Added: Mar 16, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas discusses his dual career as conductor and educator. [30:49]
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 30:49
- Purchases: 2
The ocean has served as a means of exchange for all manner of cargo: oil, chemicals, waste, arms, manufactured goods, raw materials, and human bein...
- Added: Jan 20, 2014
- Length: 05:06
In 1989, when Allan Gurganus published his debut novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, he did something amazing: Through a work of fict...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jan 18, 2014
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 1
Three key speeches of American civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Martin Luther King Junior are excerpted and commented on by two lea...
Bought by KALW, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 33
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has no central "ocean" theme, but many of its myriad studies, project...
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 05:23
Generational discussion on Opportunity...then and now
- Added: Dec 08, 2013
- Length: 29:00
One of the best loved tunes around is Bonaparte’s Retreat. But why? Is it the title? The melody? Lyle Lofgren and Phil Nusbaum seek a solution to t...
- Added: Nov 24, 2013
- Length: 12:00
From: Action Speaks Radio
This week's underappreciated date is the Azusa Street Revival started by William J. Seymour in 1906 and brought about the revival of Pentecostalism...
Bought by WGCU, Spokane Public Radio, WRIR, and WCPN
- Added: Nov 13, 2013
- Length: 53:28
- Purchases: 4
Known as "Nica" or "The Baroness" Pannonica de Koenigswarter was a jazz patron who supported artists such as Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, bo...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 12, 2013
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 1
From: Action Speaks Radio
This week's underappreciated date that changed America is the 1957 publishing of Frommer's "Europe on $5 A Day" and the American travel industry.
Bought by WGCU, Spokane Public Radio, WRIR, and KMXT
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 53:28
- Purchases: 4
