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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
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about Communism as a quasi-religious faith that might ...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:27
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about fateful explorers in the Arctic.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:45
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about how an angry Ike came off the golf course to kic...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:46
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about the British army in Africa.
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 03:35
Thomas Page on oddball Civil War history
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 03:59
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Shakespeare by Bill Bryson.
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 02:13
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Griftopia by Matt Tiaibi
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 02:18
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War by A. J. Baime
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 02:31
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. What do you see?...
- Added: Jan 22, 2017
- Length: 09:32
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Coccyx is a small triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and other apes. Representing a vestigial tail and most commonly c...
- Added: Jan 21, 2017
- Length: 05:37
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco about the roots of fascism in Europe.
- Added: Jan 12, 2017
- Length: 03:14
Time travel is really possible, in theory...
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 02:35:33
Another hour of Dylan's most literate work, hosted by Paul Ingles, to further mark his winning the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KAAD-LP, KMSU, KMUW, WRGY and more
- Added: Oct 28, 2016
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 10
Jean Bouchebel and his family sweat bullets in an olive grove...
- Added: Sep 21, 2016
- Length: 11:51
Louis the German divides the Rhine and the doomed space shuttle Challenger is used by the Department of Defense on its last successful (classified)...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 02:20:46
Joaquin Murrieta became notorious during the California gold rush, and even inspired an author to write a famous swashbuckler. And an ancient city...
- Added: Sep 17, 2016
- Length: 02:25:39
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
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
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
How well does any nonfiction writer capture "The Truth?" Essayist Edward McPherson explores truth and memory in nonfiction.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 14:17
Author Kelly Link discusses the archetypes of magical realism and William McKelvy explains the hallmarks and legacy of Gothic literature.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:52
Publisher and fiction writer, Danielle Dutton, discusses the poetics of suburbia and the roadblocks of women in publishing. In the second half Prof...
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:51
“It may well be that the Senate Republicans would be better off confirming some moderate Obama nominee to the Supreme Court now, rather than having...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 2
In this Popcast, hear about the surprising podcast-like feel of a 1972 radio documentary about Sylvia Plath.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 04:38
