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During the Nazi regime, many German artists, scientists, and other intellectuals found refuge in Southern California. The authors Lion Feuchtwanger...
- Added: Aug 07, 2019
- Length: 34:48
From Alexander the Great's "pillow book" (The Iliad) to the Mayan Popul Vuh; from Gilgamesh to Harry Potter by way of Goethe and the notion of “wor...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 59:01
On Trauma, Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam.
- Added: Nov 11, 2017
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
Poetry and the pain of experience are the subjects of this episode titled "Our Cheated Hearts." Author Winston Groom incorporated his experiences i...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 25:00
Take note: On this episode we're following the "Race Beat." We talk with Hank Klibanoff who's book "The Race Beat" tells the story of journalists c...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 25:00
A conversation with biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson on what winning a second Pulitzer Prize meant for him and his Harvard colleagues. A look ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 24:59
This episode's stories come from some of Alabama's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists: Rick Bragg who wrote about the Susan Smith murders and the O...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 25:00
In this episode we're looking at the small town through the literary lens. Hear how Shirley Ann Grau author of "Keepers of the House" hung up on th...
- Added: Apr 25, 2017
- Length: 24:59
Jill Lepore joins us to talk about three books: The Story of America; The Secret History of Wonder Woman; and Joe Gould's Teeth.
- Added: Mar 29, 2016
- Length: 01:03:04
Best-selling author Adriana Trigiani talks about life growing up in the small Appalachian town of Big Stone Gap. Plus: What are the biggest challen...
Bought by WCNY, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU and more
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 6
The mystery over what the falcon really is, whether it even existed,and why it has any value has remained so compelling, in fact, that over the yea...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 09:15
Sandip Roy is at the Jaipur Literary festival in Kolkata, India's old capital, speaking with Rana Dasgupta about Delhi, India's new capital...
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 06:00
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
John Steinbeck, the author of such classics as “the Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men” was born to a middle class family in a beautiful, turret...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 07:27
100-second module, from our daily readings for May. A difficult assignment.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
One of our weekday 100-second modules for May: Author Clay Risen reads a compelling passage from his new book of the same title. This is the 50th a...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
Prof. Timothy Moore describes the historical context of Greek tragedies and shares his own research into the music of ancient Roman comedies.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 12:39
- Purchases: 1
Dealers of Americana talk about the allure of old books.
Bought by Remix Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WBHM
- Added: Apr 20, 2009
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 4
An interview with Joni Cole, author, "This Day: Diaries from Women Across America"
- Added: Apr 23, 2006
- Length: 30:03
- Added: Mar 17, 2006
- Length: 06:15
- Added: Mar 10, 2006
- Length: 05:05
- Added: Nov 28, 2005
- Length: 04:10
- Added: Oct 07, 2005
- Length: 07:30
Interview with David Leverenz on the transformation of the image of the role and image of the father. Raymond Geselbracht comments on the relations...
- Added: Mar 06, 2005
- Length: 29:00
Philip Nel author of Dr. Seuss American Icon talks with host, Bryan Le Beau and shares some interesting information about the man, his life and more.
Bought by WHQR
- Added: Dec 28, 2004
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1