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The Love for October
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Autumnal poetry and music.

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 24, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
West Coast Live - Poetry, Mysteries, Movies - Show 1164
From: Sedge Thomson
Series: West Coast Live
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A mystery writer, a philosopher, a poet and a filmmaker, each give us some insights about ourselves through talking about their own work

  • Added: Apr 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:59
The Mysterious James Tiptree
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Alice Sheldon, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Alice Sheldon served in the OSS and the CIA. And then she went deep undercover posing as a male science fiction writer. It wasn't an assignment, it...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 23:44
  • Purchases: 2
A Box Within a Box Within a Box: The Riddle of the Raintree
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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As I considered making a show to serve as a kind of year in review, I first thought to choose my favorite program from each month of the year, 12 s...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 57:06
Books Unbound – “The Burning Secret” by Stefan Zweig, Part 4
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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Stefan Zweig was an Austrian Jew whose books were among the first burned by the Nazis in 1933. He was one of the most beloved writers of the 1920s ...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2014
  • Length: 58:30
Books Unbound – “The Burning Secret” by Stefan Zweig, Part 3
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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Stefan Zweig was an Austrian Jew whose books were among the first burned by the Nazis in 1933. He was one of the most beloved writers of the 1920s ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 57:16
Pearl Curran - "Ghost"-writer
From: Hold That Thought
Series: People, Places, and Ideas to Explore
Caption: Illustration of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth from the American Weekly, ca. 1940
Professor Daniel Shea shares the story of Pearl Curran, who, beginning in 1913, used a Ouija board to transcribe novels, plays, essays, and poetry ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 5: "Hark! Who Goes There? Locating the Self in the Stories We Tell"
From: WFHB
Series: The Custom House
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We enlist the aid of noted scholar of autobiography, John Eakin, as we seek to answer Andrew Bird's question: where exactly does the self reside, i...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:26
The Horror of it All
From: With Good Reason
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Why do we get so much pleasure from movies that frighten us out of their wits?

Bought by WLPR , WXXI Rochester, WXXI Rochester, KXOT Public Radio, and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Oct 24, 2008
  • Length: 29:44
  • Purchases: 5
Show 7: Love Songs Part II
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Dr. Bill King
Extends part 6 by looking at "Visions of Johanna"

Bought by KPIP-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 6
Show 6: Love Songs, Part I
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
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Discussion of Dylan's Love Songs

Bought by KPIP-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2008
  • Length: 59:40
  • Purchases: 6