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HOUR ONE: Think you've got nothing to hide? This hour, find out who's watching us and why. HOUR TWO: How do you tell the story of your life? Songw...
- Added: Jan 12, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Renunciation" - January is the season of diets and cleanses. Why do we feel compelled to give up our pleasures? HOUR TWO: "Owning The ...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Endings (In Four Novellas)" - New Year's Eve can be depressing. We don't handle endings very well. This hour, how to end - relationships...
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: More and more power is getting consolidated in the hands of a few. If capitalism is broken, what's next? HOUR TWO: Why does an empire c...
- Added: Dec 20, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Rethinking Reviewing" - Social media allows readers to bypass gatekeepers and publish their own opinions. So if everyone's a critic, doe...
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Our Invisible Universe" - Millions of people will travel this weekend to see the Great American Eclipse. How far would you go? HOUR TW...
- Added: Aug 14, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Empathy for Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...
- Added: Jul 27, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "The Art of Reinvention" - Artists reinvent themselves all the time. So why not consider yourself a work of art in progress?
HOUR TWO: ...
- Added: Jul 14, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: "Roadtrippin'" - What makes a road trip something special? It's not the destination.
HOUR TWO: "Do Protests Still Matter?" - In the wa...
- Added: Jul 07, 2017
- Length: 01:58:56
A tribute to singer/songwriting legend Leonard Cohen who passed away November 7, 2016 at the age of 82.
Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, WUTC, KRCB 104.9, KVMR, KMSU and more
- Added: Nov 11, 2016
- Length: 58:52
- Purchases: 21
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” that explores an historical labor event o...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 28:22
Interview by Gary Kanter: Ramsey discusses publishing, PM Press, and that ideas matter. PM Press seeks to create radical and stimulating fiction a...
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 28:06
Poet Carl Phillips explores how life influences the creation of his poetry. Professor Timothy Moore then takes us back to ancient Greece and how an...
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:05
Is there an invisible thread that connects humans to all life around us? Novelist Kathryn Davis explores how the fantastical world in her novel, Du...
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:51
A tribute to Eduardo Galeano , he passed on April 13, 2015, this interview originally aired Sep 2009 but still relevant today.
Eduardo Hughes Gale...
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 27:57
A conversation with a former CBC Manager about leaving her career to follow her passion of writing.
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 12:44
Tent Show Radio takes the show on the road to beautiful Fish Creek, Wisconsin featuring special guest artist Katie Dahl along with host Michael Per...
Bought by WDSE, WRNC-LP, KSRQ, Wisconsin Public Radio, WNMU-FM and more
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Essayist Ula Biss, author of Notes from No Man's Land, offers candid reflections on the role of race in her own life and in American history.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 11:20
- Purchases: 1
The late Jon Hassler was an author, an educator, a playwrite, and an artist. Hassler didn't begin writing until age 37. Nevertheless he published f...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 19:43
- Purchases: 2
A look at community motivated selfishness in "Buy Local" movements.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 04:47
Katie Hae Leo is an actor, and a widely published and award winning poet living in Rochester, Minnesota. Here Katie Hae Leo recites her poem titled...
- Added: Aug 27, 2012
- Length: 02:19
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (1990) is considered one of the finest books about the Vietnam War. But it's almost less about the war and m...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, WKMS, KMUN, KUER, KPIP-LP and more
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 8
A half-hour audio program that explores Amy Tan's gripping, The Joy Luck Club. It features Amy Tan and readings by actress Ming-Na from the film ad...
Bought by Room Tone Selects, KZYX, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED and more
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 6
How does a lifelong passion for books transform itself into an acute fear?
- Added: Jan 18, 2010
- Length: 06:30
Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 29:03
