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Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack continues with Part 2 of KVSC’s 36th Annual Trivia Weekend, Game of Trivia: A Quest for Futile Fac...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 32:03
- Purchases: 1
Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack takes us on a two part journey through KVSC’s 36th Annual Trivia Weekend, Game of Trivia: A Quest ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 29:42
- Purchases: 1
The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:51
McLean recorded his first album, Tapestry, in 1969 in Berkeley, California, during the student riots. After being rejected 72 times by labels, the ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 11
Raymond Chandler is often called the greatest American crime novelist. But something very important to Chandler had gotten lost. No one noticed u...
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 16:08
- Purchases: 2
Podcasting from The Old Oak Street Burial Ground in Grafton, MA, Piazza and I speak with author, Roberta Grimes, about her book “The Fun of Dying: ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 52:54
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 2
How magic and law shaped the witch trials of early modern Europe
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 29:33
On the 35th Anniversary of Alien, "The Icy Winds of Lovecraft" looks at how Alien and John Carpenter's The Thing were both influenced by the strang...
- Added: Oct 08, 2014
- Length: :58
S. Brent Plate on experience, materiality, and physical objects. Excerpt from TV documentary, Divided Families: Responding with Faith.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 39:21
Hosts Doug Storm and Trish Kerle' are joined by historian Jim Madison to discuss the Hoosier through history. Madison has just published a new book...
- Added: Sep 23, 2014
- Length: 01:01:02
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
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 18, 2014
- Length: 28:30
When Shakespeare’s work is translated into foreign languages, does it cease to be Shakespeare?
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 24:11
On the road from The Grand Theater in downtown Wausau, WI. Featuring Frank Montano, Charlie Parr, Michael Perry, the Blue Canvas Orchestra and spe...
Bought by Wisconsin Public Radio, WRNC-LP, WNMU-FM, WDSE, KMXT and more
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 6
It’s odd to think cannibals, cannabis-growers, Vietnam War protesters, and prison escapees all have something in common. But they do: the necessity...
- Added: Jun 11, 2014
- Length: 21:04
- Purchases: 2
Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 15:54
- Purchases: 1
Even casual conversations have surprisingly musical qualities. Linguist Brett Hyde delves into the rhythms behind language and the principles that ...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: May 08, 2014
- Length: 12:30
- Purchases: 1
In 1999, The Band officially called it quits. In this hour long audio essay, Don McIver looks at the history of The Band to examine the nature of ...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 58:03
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Before becoming the first African American on The Supreme Court, Marshall risked his life in ...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
100-second module, from our daily readings for May. A difficult assignment.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
One of our weekday 100-second modules for May: Author Clay Risen reads a compelling passage from his new book of the same title. This is the 50th a...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
With budget cuts closing many Los Angeles school libraries, students told Hank Rosenfeld about their love of books and what they were currently re...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 1
We sat with Reginald Dwayne Betts and listened as he shared his own story of incarceration and his ongoing process of becoming a writer and poet.
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 12:41
- Purchases: 2
Since 1996, the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) has organized annual exhibits and led poetry workshop with inmates at Michigan's correctional f...
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 11:25
