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This is the first of five episode charting the life, career and influence of filmmaker Whit Stillman during the rise of a new American auteur movem...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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Andy Truscott speaks with Greg Hammond, an author from Wilmington, Delaware – and one of the Delaware Division of the Arts’ 2022 Emerging Individua...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 22:13
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KBFT Native Writing Fest Series is a Live Community Writers Event & Interview with the world's most notable writers! In this segment we meet with B...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 05:39
Caption: resist, Credit: flocabulary
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 01:01
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James Forman Jr., a former Washington, D.C., public defender, Yale University professor, and author of the Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York’s...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 24:54
Caption: Imaginative view of Madame Delphine's House, 253 Royal Street in the Vieux Carre., Credit: KEMBLE, EDWARD WINDSOR / HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about George Washington Cable, and the beautiful danger of writing New Orleans-based historical fic...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 10:22
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CONTENT WARNING: Be wary of listening to this episode around young children, as there may be life spoilers. Historian Greg Jenner traces the origin...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 25:35
  • Purchases: 1
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There’s a language which is said to be the smallest language in the world. It has around 123 words, five vowels, nine consonants, and apparently yo...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Dec 14, 2015
  • Length: 20:24
  • Purchases: 1
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“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture” is a problematic statement: not just because nobody can agree on who came up with it, but ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 24, 2015
  • Length: 27:04
  • Purchases: 3
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An in-depth conversation with author Gavin Francis about his book, the human body and his life as a doctor. A beautiful conversation about celebrat...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 24:05
  • Purchases: 1
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The new film 'Mood Indigo' is based on a novel by Boris Vian - so who was Vian? One of France's most popular authors of the 20th Century, musician,...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 14:45
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This podcast talks about the many versions of Cinderella told around the world and the different kinds of footwear she wore to the ball. My persona...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 21:08
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The oldest feminist bookstore in the country closes, after over 40 years in business.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 04:39
Caption: Judith Jones
Judith Jones, Julia Child's editor, discusses her favorite author with Canada's food sleuth, Marion Kane.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 09:12