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MN Reads: "Climate Grief" by Shawna Weaver
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Shawna Weaver talks about her new book "Climate Grief"

  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 12:37
MN Reads: "Trauma Sponges" by Jeremy Norton
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Firefighter and author Jeremy Norton talks about his new book "Trauma Sponges"

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 11:55
835: Astonishing African Futures / 836: You're Not OK. That's OK., 10/7/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Astonishing African Futures" - The new Black Panther movie, "Wakanda Forever," dominated the global box office. This hour, a literary ta...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Naomi Klein: Tackling the “Doppelganger”, Disinformation & Lies
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In her new book, "Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World”, award-winning journalist Naomi Klein describes being confused with Naomi Wolf, a con...

Bought by KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
799: Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time / 800: Difficult Summer Reading, 6/3/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time" - When you’re on the clock, the hours disappear. Time scarcity is making us and the planet sick. But the...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
EE 23-09: Writing a novel is easy as pie (if only pie were easy), 2/24/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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The creators of How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies talk with Earth Eats about their book.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:02
761: You're Not OK. That's OK. / 762: Writing The Climate Change Story, 1/21/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "You're Not OK. That's OK." - One of our producers created a yard sign. It reads: "You're not OK. That's OK." 300 signs later, it's causi...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
“The Future is Disabled”: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“At the core of my work and life is the belief that disabled wisdom is the key to our survival and expansion,” shares Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Fallen Heroes 2022
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thousands of social justice leaders in communities all over the world passed away this year. We're closing out the year, as we usually do, with in...

Bought by WXDU and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
(2023-01-04 Holiday Re-Air) How do we take a breath? Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ UNDROWNED
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Are you drowning? The start of the school year can be stressful for parents, teachers and students. And this year hasn’t been smooth sailing for ma...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Kim Stanley Robinson: Writing the Future Story People Want
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can a novel become a catalyst to help us address impending climate disaster? That’s one question posed by the legendary Kim Stanley Robinson, in hi...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Sarah Smarsh Explores Class in Rural America
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sarah Smarsh, Credit: Paul Andrews
Sarah Smarsh discusses her book Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth which is 2022-2023 NEA Big Read...

Bought by KZUM, WMPG, WDCB, RADIOLEX, KZUM and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
699: You're Not OK. That's OK. / 700: Difficult Summer Reading, 6/18/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "You're Not OK. That's OK." - One of our producers created a yard sign. It reads: "You're not OK. That's OK." 300 signs later, it's causi...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
NATO and the “Age of Disasters”: The Future of Crisis Management
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray sits down with Ivo Daalder, President of the Chicago Institute on Global Affairs and former US Ambassador to NATO, to discuss the alliance’s ev...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 2
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
How to Stop a Civil War (Before It Starts)
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray Suarez interviews acclaimed author Barbara Walter about the risk factors than can contribute to the outbreak of violence and civil war.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Arundhati Roy: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction and the Pandemic Portal
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Two years ago this month, the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in the United States. “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Jan 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
2021-05-07 Climate Stories We Tell Ourselves
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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How do our identities and values shape the way we listen to others’ climate experience? Author Nathaniel Rich and journalist Meera Subramanian cove...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KICI Iowa City, and KOWS


  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 5
210507: Climate Stories We Tell Ourselves, 5/7/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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How do our identities and values shape the way we listen to others’ climate experience? Author Nathaniel Rich and journalist Meera Subramanian cove...

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
A conversation with poet Sally Wen Mao
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sally Wen Mao, Credit: Sookoon Ang
Sally Wen Mao’s poetry excavates the burden of spectacle for Asian-Americans.

Bought by KMUN, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZUM, and KMUN


  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Paisley Rekdal
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author, teacher, poet and scholar Paisley Rekdal discusses her new book on cultural appropriation - "Appropriate."

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Not Everyone is a Jerk: Rutger Bregman on Humankind
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Life gives us plenty of reasons for cynicism but best-selling author Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists) summons a wealth of evidence that humanki...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Chairman’s Corner-- a weekly podcast with Mary Anne Carter
From: National Endowment for the Arts
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The Chairman's Corner is a weekly podcast with Mary Anne Carter, Chairman of the Arts Endowment where we'll discuss issues of importance to the ar...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 12:38
Dr. Priyamvada Gopal: Self-Determination Arising from Resistance
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode of The Laura Flanders Show, author and scholar Dr. Priyamvada Gopal discusses her latest book, Insurgent Empire, which examines the...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
2020-05-15 Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

Bought by WUTC, WJCT, KICI Iowa City, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8