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A Confrontation with History (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Confrontation with History (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by KVSC, Kansas Public Radio, KXCV, KMUN, WRMU and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
A Confrontation with History (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by WTJU, KXCV, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
A Confrontation with History (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
MN Reads: "The Big Sugar" by Mary Logue
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Mary Logue talks about her new book "The Big Sugar"

  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 08:52
799: Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time / 800: Difficult Summer Reading, 6/3/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
8 Jul: Shelley: Goth, Genius, Infidel
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned off the coast of Tuscany on 8th July, 1822. His wife, Mary Shelley, waited an agonizing ten days to disc...

  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 10:08
The Write Question - Debra Magpie Earling
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Bitterroot Salish novelist Debra Magpie Earling discusses her long-awaited second novel, "The Lost Journals of Sacajewea."

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KVNF, KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
MN Reads: "Eastcliff" by Karen Fults Kaler
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Karen Fults Kaler talks about her new book "Eastcliff"

  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 08:52
The Write Question - Timothy Egan
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan discusses "A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Sto...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD, WETS, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Celebrating Reproductive Choice: Felicia Kornbluh, A WOMAN’S LIFE IS A HUMAN LIFE & Dolen Perkins-Valdez, TAKE MY HAND
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with historian Felicia Kornbluh about her book, A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
A Personal History of Modern Ireland with Fintan O’Toole
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Fintan O’Toole about his scathing — and tender — personal history of modern Ireland, We Don’t Know Ourselves. Then we hear Seamus Hean...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
MN Reads: "Making the Carry" by Timothy Cochrane
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Timothy Cochrane talks about his new book "Making the Carry"

  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 13:57
Feminist Poets: Past American Voices
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Women's History Month, we feature a special program about four important feminist poets who led the the next generations into the 21st century....

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNMU-FM, KBIA, WNMU-FM, WDCB and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 19
773: As Read By The Author / 774: Hope: Where Does It Come From?, 3/4/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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
2309: Montaigne and the Art of the Essay, 2/28/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How did Michel de Montaigne (born February 28, 1533) invent a new way to do philosophy?

  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-02-26 Montaigne and the Art of the Essay
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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If philosophy is a way of life, what kind of writing best helps us live it?

Bought by KMUN, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
771: How Should We Tell Our History? / 772: Reading While Young, 2/25/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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
MN Reads: "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself" by David Mura
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author David Mura talks about his new book "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself"

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 17:13
The Visitors' Center (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the summer of 1982, a group of six paraplegic men set out to climb the highest natural peak in Dallas, Texas.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, KCHW, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Visitors' Center (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the summer of 1982, a group of six paraplegic men set out to climb the highest natural peak in Dallas, Texas.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KUT, WXDU, CHSR-FM 97.9, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Visitors' Center (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the summer of 1982, a group of six paraplegic men set out to climb the highest natural peak in Dallas, Texas.

Bought by WTJU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Visitors' Center (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the summer of 1982, a group of six paraplegic men set out to climb the highest natural peak in Dallas, Texas.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
757: The Hidden Geometry Of Everything / 758: African Cities Of The Future, 1/7/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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
Constant Wonder - Making the Modern Christmas
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Christmas wouldn't be the same without Dickens. And, the railroads changed Christmas forever.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1

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