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Michael Goorjian talks community, being hopeful, and why Kirk Douglas was a real mensch.
- Added: Sep 22, 2023
- Length: 13:56
1996 was a turning point for Burning Man. Two people were run over in their tents. And another person died in a head-on collision.
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 27:08
This week on the show: Legacy of slavery -
We take a closer look at Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade, the darkest chapter in t...
- Added: Nov 25, 2020
- Length: 30:00
Pawel Pawlikowski talks the honesty of black-and-white, non-political nostalgia, and eschewing extraneous exposition.
- Added: Feb 17, 2019
- Length: 16:19
Hear Bob Kustra talk with Amor Towles about his novel "A Gentleman in Moscow"
- Added: Jun 05, 2018
- Length: 30:00
Actress Meta Golding takes on the role of a lifetime: Rosa Parks in Behind the Movement
Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNJR, and KVNF
- Added: Feb 16, 2018
- Length: 27:18
- Purchases: 3
Peter Landesman talks integrity, corruption, and what he grooves on.
- Added: Oct 07, 2017
- Length: 14:29
The Last Flapper is a one woman play co-produced by Visions Theatre and Long Lake Theater that retrospects the life of Zelda Fitzgerald. Wife of...
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 14:19
An engaging conversation with both the playwright and director of the 2017 Tony-Award Winning Best Play, OSLO. The play tracks the back channel ne...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KVSC, and KUNM
- Added: Jul 26, 2017
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 3
On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with a member of the acting company at Great River Shakespeare Festival. This individual has graced the stage...
- Added: Jun 19, 2017
- Length: 08:10
The award-winning Minnesota SkyVault Theater, from Rochester, was in town for Shakespeare week. Troupe members Aidan Driscoll and Rebekah Novinger,...
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 23:00
In today’s Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack takes a journey back to the formative years of St. C...
- Added: Mar 15, 2017
- Length: 30:08
Ewan McGregor talks animal instincts, little losses, and unintended consequences.
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 08:24
Merry Renn Vaughan talks with KUMD host Chris Harwood about historical plays – not those that have made history, but rather those that represent hi...
- Added: Sep 13, 2016
- Length: 11:54
From: Donna Granata
The feature film Trumbo (2015), staring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston, is based on the true story of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. The followin...
- Added: Aug 21, 2016
- Length: 04:38
Elizabethan Street Fighting
- Added: Dec 20, 2017
- Length: 30:18
Poet Mary Jo Bang explores the process of translating Dante Alighieri's Inferno, and professor Jessica Rosenfeld explains the origins of literature.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:23
In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed...
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 58:18
Géza Röhrig László Nemes talk psychic reality, earning our lives, and narrowing the field of vision.
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 12:54
Jay Roach talks fear-based manipulation, Trumbo’s complex personality, and Louis C.K.’s rumpled collar,
- Added: Nov 18, 2015
- Length: 15:35
Timothy Spall talks paring things down, letting the character tell you what to do, and the lexicon of the grunt.
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 25, 2014
- Length: 22:41
- Purchases: 1
Award-winning author Daniel Woodrell, discusses his 2013 novel THE MAID'S VERSION. Told around a mysterious and tragic explosion at a 1920s dance c...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
For the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Teajay details his world, before and after the event through his lens as a youth.
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 18:40
The life of Charlotte Cushman who specialized in playing Romeo in the mid-1800s
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 29:11
- Purchases: 1
William J. Mann is an American novelist, biographer, and Hollywood historian best known for his studies of Hollywood and the American film industry.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 21:16