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Nathaniel Philbrick winner of the 2000 National Book Award for his history In the Heart of the Sea talks about the glories of Moby-Dick
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Charles W. Morgan at Sea
In his slim, lucid and compulsively readable book Why Read Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville...

Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Letters of Note
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Shaun Usher
In 2009 Shaun Usher began a blog to showcase correspondence that he felt deserved a wider audience. The blog quickly became popular and widely shar...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:31
A Higher Call: Memorial Day Story
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Charlie Brown & Franz Stigler
On December 20, 1943, a severely damaged American bomber struggles in its flight over war-torn Germany. The 21-year-old pilot had his hands full wi...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPIK-LP, WHRV, WDCB, KVSC and more


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Author David McCullough and "1776"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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David writes both histories and biographies and has narrated many a broadcast program. His latest book is "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris....

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
Racial Innocence (Pledge Drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Robin Bernstein
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 19:59
  • Purchases: 1
Independent Book Stores Speak Up for the Written Word - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Kate Rosenberger@Dog Eared Books, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
Be it a curmudgeonly Galwegian on the West coast of Ireland, an erudite scholar in Dublin or a literary motorcyclist 'flower child' of San Francisc...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 56:24
  • Purchases: 1
The legacy of Harry Crews
From: With Good Reason
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Southern Gothic writer Harry Crews died in March of this year. Although many people have never heard of him, Crews’ stories about outcasts inspired...

  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
Compact Discoveries 196: Yours, Anne
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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A dramatic musical based on "The Diary of Anne Frank," with music by Michael Cohen and libretto by Enid Futterman. Perfect for scheduling in April ...

Bought by KPVL and KENW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
3 Great American Voices
From: Leet and Litwin
Caption: Julia Child
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Willa Cather, John Steinbeck, and Julia Child: All loved to eat. Here's a Cather story about a priest who loved his food more t...

Bought by KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZYX, WXXI Rochester, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2011
  • Length: 55:08
  • Purchases: 6
On The Margins of Music - Alan Lomax & Anthony Burgess
From: Open Source
Caption: Anthony Burgess by David Levine, from The New York Review of Books
First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...

Bought by KRVS, KPIP-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
A Historian's Take on the Tea Party - Jill Lepore & V.S. Naipaul
From: Open Source
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Election day is closing in, and Jill Lepore has a hip historian's take on the question: What Would the Founding Fathers Do? Jill Lepore says there'...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
Poet Robert Pinsky takes on another poet, King David of the Bible - and of the Psalms - in his "Life of David."
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible - the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer - in his "Life of David."

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Peabody Sisters: an interview with biographer Megan Marshall on ThoughtCast
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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An interview with Megan Marshall, the biographer of The Peabody Sisters -- three women who helped found the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-1...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 35:58
  • Purchases: 1
Virgil's Georgics: ThoughtCast interviews the poet and translator David Ferry
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Virgil's Georgics: an interview with poet David Ferry, who recently translated Virgil's second great poem, The Georgics. We're joined by Virgil sch...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Unquiet History 3
From: Matthew Battles
Series: Unquiet History
Caption: PRX default Piece image
October 22, this day in history.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2008
  • Length: 02:52
Revisiting Literary Lives: William Faulkner and Zelda Fitzgerald
From: With Good Reason
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Exploring the lives of William FAulker and Zelda Fitzgerald

  • Added: May 15, 2008
  • Length: 29:37
Interview with DIANE ACKERMAN, author of bestseller "The Zoo Keeper's Wife."
From: Out of Bounds
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Very personal conversation with author Diane ACKERMAN about The Zoo Keeper's Wife, now a major film.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
Banducci's Memorial Day
From: Third Coast Live Radio Theater
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Another San Franciscan Entertainment Icon, gone. This is his memorial party, and some of the characters recalling who he was, and what he stood for.

  • Added: Dec 04, 2007
  • Length: 10:34
The World of 1607 part 4
From: WCVE
Series: The World of 1607
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Image of the Other

  • Added: Nov 07, 2007
  • Length: 01:02
The World of 1607 part 1
From: WCVE
Series: The World of 1607
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"All the World a Stage"

  • Added: Oct 25, 2007
  • Length: 01:03
Louisiana In Words
From: Light of New Orleans
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Editor Joshua Clark and writers from the acclaimed new anthology, LOUISIANA IN WORDS, read short excerpts and discuss this novel approach to descri...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2007
  • Length: 10:14
The Face of Poetry
From: David Kates
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"The Face of Poetry" is an exhibit matching black and white photographs of some of the most important poets of the last 50 years with their poems.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 04:09
Los Angeles Through Chandler's Eyes (Abridged)
From: Jacob Adelman
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A newcomer to Los Angeles discovers the city's past -- and future -- through the books of noir master Raymond Chandler.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2006
  • Length: 13:28
Boxcar Poet
From: Adam Allington
Caption: PRX default Piece image
93-year-old Clive Haswell is a poet who spent his youth riding the rails and playing poker

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2006
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
Evergreen interview w/ DANIEL SCHWARZ author of fascinating book "Imagining the Holocaust"
From: Out of Bounds
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Schwarz discusses his groundbreaking book "Imagining the Holocaust"

  • Added: Apr 12, 2006
  • Length: 29:29