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The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW)
Episode 262
The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW): Uncorking the truth about wine and health with Tony Edwards.
- Added: Apr 27, 2024
- Length: 34:53
We usually don’t think of the free market as a very… sentimental place. But a new book suggests that Adam Smith’s classical economics aren’t so hea...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Jun 09, 2017
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 1
Take note: On this episode we're following the "Race Beat." We talk with Hank Klibanoff who's book "The Race Beat" tells the story of journalists c...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 25:00
This episode's stories come from some of Alabama's Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists: Rick Bragg who wrote about the Susan Smith murders and the O...
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 25:00
In this episode we're looking at the small town through the literary lens. Hear how Shirley Ann Grau author of "Keepers of the House" hung up on th...
- Added: Apr 25, 2017
- Length: 24:59
Best known for her books about the joys of life in Italy, Frances Mayes has published a new memoir. But this time, she takes her readers back to he...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKRN
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 3
David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:59
John Steinbeck, the author of such classics as “the Grapes of Wrath” and “Of Mice and Men” was born to a middle class family in a beautiful, turret...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 07:27
Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 1
What is the human hunger Pope Francis has confirmed – not just Catholic or churchy — all across the world?
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 58:37
China is everywhere in American news, but we seem to hear the same stories over and over. A new book set in Shanghai seeks to tell a less familiar ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 02:32
In 1993, Toni Morrison became only the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Joanne Gabbin, executive director of the Furiou...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 02:39
With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. Two writing professors ha...
Bought by KUOW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 31, 2012
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 3
Sonia Sanchez broke literary ground during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s.
Bought by KENW, KISA Digital Studios, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 3
