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Mr. Right, Mr. Wrong and Everyone In-between

From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!

Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged, when we’ll hear an hour of poetry and music about husbands: Mr. Right, Mr. Wrong and everyone in-bet...

Added: Jun 12, 2023
Length: 01:00:02

Where There's Smoke ...

From: melodically challenged

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, so you’ll have to keep checking your radio during this week’s melodically challenged when we bring you an hour o...

Added: May 09, 2023
Length: 01:00:01

Cupid's Arrow

From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!

Alfred, Lord Tennyson famously wrote “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” All of Cupid’s victims might beg to diff...

Added: May 03, 2023
Length: 01:00:06

The Poetry Bug

From: melodically challenged

Warmer weather brings us sunshine, flowers, trips to the beach, picnics, and BUGS, BUGS, BUGS!!!! And this week, we’ll have bugs: spiders, bees, f...

Added: Apr 26, 2023
Length: 01:00:06

US Poet Laureate Ada Limón

From: New Letters on the Air

For National Poetry Month, we'll hear early work by our current U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. The author of six poetry books, including the 2022 c...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KMUN

Added: Apr 17, 2023
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

2023-04-02 Why Poetry Matters

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

Are poems valuable because they do something for us, or are they gloriously useless?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KMUN and more

Added: Mar 27, 2023
Length: 53:59
Purchases: 8

2314: Why Poetry Matters, 4/4/2023

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly

Are poems valuable because they do something for us, or are they gloriously useless?

Added: Mar 27, 2023
Length: 54:00

Feminist Poets: Past American Voices

From: New Letters on the Air

For Women's History Month, we feature a special program about four important feminist poets who led the the next generations into the 21st century....

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNMU-FM, KBIA, WNMU-FM, WDCB and more

Added: Mar 08, 2023
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 19

2309: Montaigne and the Art of the Essay, 2/28/2023

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly

How did Michel de Montaigne (born February 28, 1533) invent a new way to do philosophy?

Added: Feb 27, 2023
Length: 54:00

2023-02-26 Montaigne and the Art of the Essay

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

If philosophy is a way of life, what kind of writing best helps us live it?

Bought by KMUN, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more

Added: Feb 27, 2023
Length: 53:59
Purchases: 11

“The Future is Disabled”: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

“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

In Good Faith - Dr. Jean P. Kelly & Danny Duncan Collum

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith

Personal accounts on increased devotion after life experiences elicited change

Bought by RadioStPete Florida

Added: Dec 28, 2022
Length: 52:55
Purchases: 1

Desolation Peak

From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio

We are back in Joshua Tree with tales of desert creatures, snowy mountains, and the secret journals of Jack Kerouac newly published as Desolation P...

Bought by KFCF FM

Added: Nov 04, 2022
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 1

Kim Stanley Robinson: Writing the Future Story People Want

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

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

A.M. Homes: “The Unfolding” of American Democracy

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Salman Rushdie praised A.M. Homes’ latest novel, The Unfolding as, “A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in pitch-perfect dialogue, tha...

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

Added: Sep 14, 2022
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 6

2022-09-04 (End of) Summer Reading List: Banned Books Edition

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

What thoughtful and controversial books do some people say other people shouldn’t read?

Bought by WLPR , KTSW 89.9, KMUN, WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more

Added: Sep 06, 2022
Length: 53:59
Purchases: 8

Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith

From: New Letters on the Air

Tracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate 2017-19, kicked off her poetry career with the 2002 Cave Canem Prize, awarded to exceptional manuscripts of firs...

Bought by WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, and WJCU

Added: Jul 20, 2022
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

2022-07-17 Walter Benjamin and the Re-Enchanted World

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

Can we find enchantment without sacrificing reason?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City and more

Added: Jul 18, 2022
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 6

Past American Voice of novelist E.L. Doctorow

From: New Letters on the Air

E.L. Doctorow passed away in July 2015, but left behind twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage drama, winning most of the major...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KAAD-LP, WNJR, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: Jul 12, 2022
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 4

How To Save Diverse Democracies

From: Mateo Schimpf

On this week’s episode, Yascha Mounk joins Ray Suarez to discuss his new book, “The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart And How Th...

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

Added: Jun 24, 2022
Length: 59:45
Purchases: 6

2022-06-12 Jean-Paul Sartre

From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk

The father of Existentialism was born on June 21, 1905.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City

Added: Jun 13, 2022
Length: 53:58
Purchases: 5

Poet Shin Yu Pai

From: New Letters on the Air

Taiwanese-American poet, Shin Yu(Yee) Pai(Pie), reads from her seventh collection, ADAMANTINE, and her earlier work, SIGHTINGS, in which she not on...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WJCU