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Whitman at War

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon

The best of American poets and the worst of American wars met head-on 150 years ago this summer in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his reflections on nur...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WABE

Added: Jun 07, 2015
Length: 58:37
Purchases: 5

GUESTS: Michel Banabila & Oene van Geel + Kurt Schwitters 1932 (REMIX)

From: Don Hill
Series: Cafe Acousmatic

CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D audio.

Added: Mar 12, 2015
Length: 59:13

How The Bard Meant It (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Searching for the way Shakespeare really sounded. And more...

Bought by WCNY, WABE, KREV-LP, and KKRN

Added: Jan 30, 2015
Length: 53:57
Purchases: 4

In Search of Shakespeare's Accent

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

Off the coast of Virginia, in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, lies a shrinking island called Tangier. Here, an unlikely adventurer docked his sai...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, and PRX Remix

Added: Jan 30, 2015
Length: 03:51
Purchases: 4

Aw Shucks...Oysters!

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

When Captain John Smith sailed into the Chesapeake Bay, he said oysters were as big as dinner plates. This show is our ode to oysters.

Bought by WJCT, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF

Added: Aug 15, 2014
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 4

The Long Shadow of Forrest Carter

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: May 14, 2014
Length: 15:54
Purchases: 1

Herland is Our Land

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

Kristen Egan walks us through a creepy utopian novel from 1915, and explains why environmentalism and eugenics went hand in hand in the early 20th ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Oct 07, 2013
Length: 06:50
Purchases: 4

Robert Penn Warren Archive Humanizes Leaders Of The Civil Rights Movement

From: Eleanor Boudreau

Caption: Pulitzer Prize winning poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren., Credit: Vanderbilt University

In 1964, Southern man-of-letters Robert Penn Warren traveled the country with an old reel-to-reel tape recorder and spoke with dozens of men and wo...

Bought by WCSU-FM

Added: Apr 19, 2013
Length: 08:50
Purchases: 1

The Beat: Lorie Yourd - "Montana Log Cabin Cafe"

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat

Lorie Yourd is a retired educator and a dedicated advocate for the arts living in the Bemidji area. Here she reads her poem "Montana Log Cabin Cafe...

Added: Aug 17, 2012
Length: 02:01

The legacy of Harry Crews

From: With Good Reason

Southern Gothic writer Harry Crews died in March of this year. Although many people have never heard of him, Crews’ stories about outcasts inspired...

Added: May 24, 2012
Length: 02:26

Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California's Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto

From: California Legacy Project

Listeners will find Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California’s Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto both entertaining and enlightening. Two one hour...

Bought by KZYX and KALW

Added: Sep 02, 2011
Length: 01:50:16
Purchases: 2

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - A Big Read Documentary

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read

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

3 Great American Voices

From: Leet and Litwin

SHORT DESCRIPTION: Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, and Julia Child: All loved to eat. Here's a Cather story about a priest who loved his food more t...

Bought by KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, WXXI Rochester, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more

Added: Jun 25, 2011
Length: 55:08
Purchases: 6

On The Margins of Music - Alan Lomax & Anthony Burgess

From: Open Source

Caption: Anthony Burgess by David Levine, from The New York Review of Books

First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...

Bought by KRVS, KPIP-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: Mar 17, 2011
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 5

Master Zacharius

From: Chatterbox Audio Theater

As his creations inexplicably malfunction, an aging clockmaker feels his heart winding down toward death. How far will he go to restore his clocks'...

Added: Nov 08, 2009
Length: 53:40

Hark! - the acoustic world of Elizabethan England

From: Battery Radio

Four centuries ago... did people listen in a different way than we do now? How different were the sounds they heard? And can we tune into their aud...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, HowSound, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFAI Minneapolis and more

Added: Sep 18, 2009
Length: 52:24
Purchases: 8

A Well Read Book Fair

From: Emma Jacobs

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

Vietnam Visits Uncle Bill

From: Vose Productions

"Vietnam Visits Uncle Bill" is a story in which a Vietnam veteran confronts his past through a dialogue with the ghost of the My Lai massacre.

Bought by The PRX Podcast

Added: May 11, 2008
Length: 19:31
Purchases: 1

Chronicles of William Hone (week of December 30, 2007)

From: Vince Hancock

Look both ways before crossing into January. This week: how to greet the New Year.

Added: Dec 30, 2007
Length: 08:30

An Angel-headed Hipster's Howl

From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries

Fifty year's after the publication of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" and its subsequent obscenity trial, poets and friends look back at its origins, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, KRZA, KSFR, New Hampshire Public Radio and more

Added: Jun 05, 2007
Length: 29:30
Purchases: 6

Los Angeles Through Chandler's Eyes (Abridged)

From: Jacob Adelman

A newcomer to Los Angeles discovers the city's past -- and future -- through the books of noir master Raymond Chandler.

Added: Nov 08, 2006
Length: 13:28

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself

From: WNYC

WNYC presents "Walt Whitman: Song of Myself." Hour hosted by Carl Hancock Rux, the program peels back Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" and we disco...

Bought by WKMS, 'The Sea', WLPR , KUER, WRGY and more