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Episode 4 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 4 features Howard Nemerov, Billy Collins and William Stafford. Optional 5-minute drop-in also available.

Bought by WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFHB, KWIT, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:04
  • Purchases: 12
Episode 3 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 3 of Life Distilled features former U.S. Poet Laureates Richard Wilbur, Robert Hass, Rita Dove and Stanley Kunitz. Optional 5-minute drop-...

Bought by WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:00
  • Purchases: 11
Book Review: The Worst Hard Time
From: KRCC-FM
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Book review of dustbowl history

  • Added: Mar 17, 2006
  • Length: 06:15
March 13: Great Celebrities/ Sergey Mikhalkov ( in Russian)
From: Alona Suvórova
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Birthday piece

  • Added: Mar 14, 2006
  • Length: 03:45
Book Review: Zebulon Pike's Journals
From: KRCC-FM
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Book review of Zeb Pike's travel diary

  • Added: Mar 10, 2006
  • Length: 05:05
Episode 2 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 2 features former poet laureates from the 1990s: Joseph Brodsky, Mona Van Duyn and Robert Pinsky. They read some of their most famous poe...

Bought by WCPN, WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRUA and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:01
  • Purchases: 10
Walt Whitman: Song of Myself
From: WNYC
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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


  • Added: Mar 08, 2006
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 53
Feb 18: English - Suvorova about Sholom-Aleichem
From: Alona Suvórova
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Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 18, 2006
  • Length: 03:17
Feb 18: Russian - Suvorova about Sholom-Aleichem
From: Alona Suvórova
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Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 18, 2006
  • Length: 03:27
Feb 10: English - Alona on Boris Pasternak
From: Alona Suvórova
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Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 10, 2006
  • Length: 04:10
Feb 10: Russian - Alona on Boris Pasternak
From: Alona Suvórova
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Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 10, 2006
  • Length: 03:47
Feb 7: English- Alona on Charles Dickens
From: Alona Suvórova
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Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 06, 2006
  • Length: 02:17
Feb 7: Russian - Alona on Charles Dickens
From: Alona Suvórova
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Birthday piece

  • Added: Feb 06, 2006
  • Length: 02:18
A Poem Lovely as a Tree
From: Sarah Elzas
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An exploration of Joyce Kilmer's most famous poem

Bought by KZYX, XRAY.fm, KUT, Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2006
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 9
Joyce Kilmer and Trees
From: Sarah Elzas
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A profile of Joyce Kilmer, author of Trees

Bought by WABE, KTNA, and WFIU


  • Added: Jan 22, 2006
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 3
RN Documentary: Mr Boswell goes to town
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY NETHERLANDS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF THE WRITER JAMES BOSWELL.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
Jan 19: English- Alona on Edgar Allan Poe
From: Alona Suvórova
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Birthday piece

  • Added: Jan 18, 2006
  • Length: 03:05
Jan 19: Russian - Alona on Edgar Allan Poe
From: Alona Suvórova
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Birthday piece

  • Added: Jan 17, 2006
  • Length: 02:51
What's the Word? Famous Love Letters
From: Modern Language Association
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Love letters from some very famous couples

Bought by WLIW, KVSC, Spokane Public Radio, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 19
Monticello's Jewish Hero
From: With Good Reason
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The story of one man who saved Jefferson's estate from ruin and one "being" that captured authors' fancies.

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Dec 15, 2005
  • Length: 29:55
  • Purchases: 1
Book Review: Grip-Sack Guide to Colorado
From: KRCC-FM
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Review of a new old book

  • Added: Nov 28, 2005
  • Length: 04:10
Testing the Alarms
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Post 9/11 fear divides communities.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 14, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Becoming Rebecca West
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A portrait of journalist/writer Rebecca West whose life spanned most of the 20th century, with memories from her great-niece and thoughts from an a...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 01, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Cotopaxi Jewish Colony
From: KRCC-FM
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A look at a community of Jewish immigrants

  • Added: Oct 07, 2005
  • Length: 07:30
History's Greatest Love Affairs: Abelard and Heloise
From: Ed Kliman
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The timeless love story of Abelard and Heloise, complete with period music.

Bought by KZUM and Public Interactive


  • Added: Sep 12, 2005
  • Length: 20:49
  • Purchases: 2

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