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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: "Against Capitalism" - Congress has passed a Republican resolution "denouncing socialism." But what does that even mean? This hour, a soc...
- Added: Nov 03, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
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: Jun 02, 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: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...
- Added: Jan 06, 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
Ghosts from the past stalk Europe again today in the wake of Russian tanks and missiles. To find a path forward, we might need to look back.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WHFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WLPR , KUNM and more
- Added: Mar 08, 2022
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 8
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
HOUR ONE: "Finding Meaning In Desperate Times" - The pandemic isn't just a health crisis, it's an x-ray into our psyches. This hour, how COVID-19 i...
- Added: Sep 24, 2021
- Length: 01:58:59
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
HOUR ONE: "Writing Truth And Lies" - How close to reality were the "Little House" books? Does it matter? This hour, we'll talk morality in memoirs....
- Added: Jul 19, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Griftopia by Matt Tiaibi
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 02:18
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco about the roots of fascism in Europe.
- Added: Jan 12, 2017
- Length: 03:14
Louis the German divides the Rhine and the doomed space shuttle Challenger is used by the Department of Defense on its last successful (classified)...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 02:20:46
How magic and law shaped the witch trials of early modern Europe
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 29:33
Actor Sam Elliott perfectly reads passages from Twain's tribute to American boyhood. The program also includes commentary by Ken Burns, P.J. O'Rour...
Bought by KMUN, KREV-LP, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Aug 18, 2011
- Length: 29:16
- Purchases: 6
Ted Berrigan Reads his poem "Heroin"
- Added: Mar 23, 2005
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
