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IGF Book Club—we're reading the Bhagavad Gita, as translated by Laurie Patton.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: May 24, 2024
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 1
In Good Faith welcomes two guests to discuss "Rumi: Studying the Sun".
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 52:28
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time" - When you’re on the clock, the hours disappear. Time scarcity is making us and the planet sick. But the...
- Added: Jan 05, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the...
- Added: Nov 24, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: 'As Read By The Author' - One of the most fun things we get to do is bring the soundscape of a novel to life — cue the monsters, the stor...
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: "How Should We Tell Our History?" - Debates over history are front-page news, from critical race theory to AP history classes. How should...
- Added: Feb 24, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...
- Added: Jul 08, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - Year three of the pandemic. Where should we go to mourn our losses? We'll look for answers from generations past...
- Added: Jan 28, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
Jean Belangie-Nye, Aaron Teasdale, and Ben Ferencz discuss their book, "A Corner of Space and Time: Lee Nye's Eddie's Club Portraits."
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 3
HOUR ONE: "Rituals Of Fear" - The dread, the fear, the horror of it all. Maybe it's good for you? This hour, why we need Halloween. HOUR TWO: "Ev...
- Added: Oct 30, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Rituals Of Fear" - The dread, the fear, the horror of it all. Maybe it's good for you? This hour, why we need Halloween. HOUR TWO: "Ev...
- Added: Oct 25, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
In her biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life, Laura Walls shows us a man deeply engaged with friends, relatives and neighbors, a man thoroughly of...
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 58:55
The times, they are a’changin’. This week on Inflection Point, Lauren Schiller talks to author Jennifer Weiner, about her newest bestselling book “...
Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, KWIT, WNIN, KSJD and more
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 9
We kick off National Preservation Week and continue our celebration of National Poetry Month by pulling from our audio archives to look back on the...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Recently discovered texts show the peaceful relationship Islam and Christianity enjoyed for centuries.
Bought by WETS
- Added: Jul 03, 2018
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
Think about the many stories you’ve heard or read over the years. Some of those stories may have had a major impact on your life, or maybe even the...
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "Renunciation" - January is the season of diets and cleanses. Why do we feel compelled to give up our pleasures? HOUR TWO: "Owning The ...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Even Stranger Things" - Paranormal psychic spy hunters? It was a real U.S. Army project. Join us for an hour of even stranger things. ...
- Added: Oct 27, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
The Fifth Symphony opens very famously with four memorable notes. Beethoven was asked what he meant by this opening and he’s said to have replied, ...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 59:18
This is a series of quotations from women who were passionate about their politics, power and immortality. They sought justice, equality, knowledge...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 29:28
- Purchases: 2
The largest attempted slave escape on U.S. soil happened in SouthWest Washington, DC. That's the tale in "Passenger on the Pearl." Young readers d...
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 39:45
On December 20, 1943, a severely damaged American bomber struggles in its flight over war-torn Germany. The 21-year-old pilot had his hands full wi...
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 7
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will suggest that the greatest author of such sea-based literature was Joseph Conrad and will...
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 05:37
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview author and political activist David George Ball about his book, A Marked Heart, and the historic day he...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 27:30
Author Amy Tan talks about her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, her relationship with her mother, and the art of writing.
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 27:50