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Carol Delaney deconstructs the myth of Abraham and Isaac and Brene Brown challenges us to Dare Greatly.
Bought by WETS
- Added: Jul 06, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 1
2018 is the 25th anniversary of Angels In America. Author of its oral history, The World Only Spins Forward discusses the influence of the play.
- Added: Jun 22, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
Bart Ehrman asks how did a religion that began with a small group of illiterate day laborers become the dominant religion of the Roman Empire in ju...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KPIP-LP, and WETS
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 3
We hear listener-reader recommendations and a tribute to Ursula K. LeGuin.
- Added: Feb 14, 2018
- Length: 06:22
Soto Zen Priest, Brad Warner, talks about Zen, zazen, and Dogen, the 13th century Japanese Zen Master.
- Added: Dec 30, 2017
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
In 1972, the movie Deliverance shocked audiences with its depiction of brutal, violent people in the backwoods of Georgia. But the man behind the f...
Bought by Harford Community Radio, KENW, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 08, 2017
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 3
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
Terence Davies talks ecstasy, unfairness, and avoiding narrative cul-de-sacs,
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 17:41
Poetry and the pain of experience are the subjects of this episode titled "Our Cheated Hearts." Author Winston Groom incorporated his experiences i...
- 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 1936, just as the Spanish Civil War was beginning, an instantly successful and highly controversial children’s book arrived on the bookshelves. ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Jan 27, 2017
- Length: 03:48
- Purchases: 1
We tend to remember Maya Angelou for her activism in the United States. But a recent tribute at James Madison University showed her poetry’s global...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: 03:12
- Purchases: 3
Previously on CC, we brought you Part One of “How Teaching at a Tribal College Changed My Life—Or at Least My Teaching” with Winona State Universit...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 27:05
On this episode of CC, we bring you “How Teaching at a Tribal College Changed My Life—Or at Least My Teaching” with Winona State University Profess...
- Added: Jul 20, 2016
- Length: 50:24
Next week, the Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference will hold its annual event. Writers from all over the country will be here for workshops, co...
- Added: Jun 16, 2016
- Length: 13:46
The first episode of Season 2 of Character Development delves into the topic of poetry and its relationship with some of our OWRC tutors. Tutors Ja...
- Added: Apr 03, 2016
- Length: 30:08
Scott Hall reviews Bemidji Author Anton Treuer's new book Warrior Nation.
Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 1
The focus in this week’s episode is creativity—specifically, our team wanted to interview OWRC tutors and generate some novel discussions about the...
- Added: Feb 28, 2016
- Length: 25:30
The Wailin’ Jennys are Nicky Mehta, Ruth Moody and Heather Masse – three distinct voices that together make an achingly perfect vocal sound. Starti...
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 59:31
- Purchases: 12
Tammy Bobrowsky reviews The Girl With All the Gifts, Let's Go Fishing!, and we hear listen-reader reviews of Dear Mr. You, and Being Mortal.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 05:44
Heidi Holtan speaks with William Kent Krueger about his 2013 novel, Ordinary Grace, the Cork O'Connor series, and the journey of writing. His next ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2016
- Length: 11:49
Jim Gallagher interviews author and biologist Sue Leaf on her new book, "Portage: A Family, a Canoe, and the Search for the Good Life."
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 12:27
A poem about Thanksgiving by Sharon Olds, read by Eliza Foss
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 01:47
According to or my guest, Alan Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” We track three “subversives” in our progra...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 57:14
Tammy Bobrowsky talks about The Witches: Salem, 1692; Reclaiming Conversation: The power of talk in a digital age; Church of Marvels; The Martian; ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 06:15
