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The music of Toby Driver
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the music of Toby Driver, and his essay in the book Arcana Volume IV, which you can borrow from the library. Drive...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2023
  • Length: 28:19
Reading and Writing Ourselves (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as violent images from the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville started spreading.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WRMU, KVSC, KXCV, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Reading and Writing Ourselves (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as violent images from the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville started spreading.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Reading and Writing Ourselves (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as violent images from the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville started spreading.

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KXCV, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Reading and Writing Ourselves (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as violent images from the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville started spreading.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
The Big Three
From: melodically challenged
Series: The Best of melodically challenged Summer of 24
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged whe...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
Shelf Discovery: The Block Party by Jamie Day
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a group of neighbors through a year of scandal and suspicion in the audio edition of The Block Part...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUTC, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Shelf Discovery: Fearless by M. W. Craven
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a former US Marshall on a quest to find a missing woman in Fearless by M. W. Craven.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WUTC


  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Author and Disability Advocate Rebekah Taussig Discusses Her Memoir "Sitting Pretty."
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Rebekah Taussig, Credit: Micah Jones
Marking Disability Pride month by revisiting my 2020 interview with Rebekah Taussig who discusses her memoir in essays "Sitting Pretty The View fr...

Bought by WSLR, WMPG, KMUN, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Shelf Discovery: Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a portrait painter as she adjusts to a new way of seeing her subjects in Hello Stranger by Katherine ...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, WUTC, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 10, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Summer Reading Show (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Summer is here and with it comes our annual With Good Reason summer reading list.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WRMU, KXCV, WFHB and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Summer Reading Show (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Summer is here and with it comes our annual With Good Reason summer reading list.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
Summer Reading Show (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Summer is here and with it comes our annual With Good Reason summer reading list.

Bought by WTJU, KXCV, WMUU-LP, KEDT, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Summer Reading Show (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Summer is here and with it comes our annual With Good Reason summer reading list.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Shelf Discovery: The Better Half by Alli Frank and Asha Youmans
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a middle-aged woman as life takes her through some unexpected twists in The Better Half by Alli Fra...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Bill Frisell
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about "Beautiful Dreamer," the first biography of guitarist and composer Bill Frisell, ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Shelf Discovery: The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins a mom-to-be in reminiscing about her turbulent early 20s in The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WUTC


  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Power of One
From: melodically challenged
Series: The Best of melodically challenged Summer of 24
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Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time. Ron Hall Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged when we will ...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:04
The Mandorla Letters
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about "The Mandorla Letters," the new book by flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell Gan...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2023
  • Length: 27:30
A Confrontation with History (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Confrontation with History (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by KVSC, Kansas Public Radio, KXCV, KMUN, WRMU and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
A Confrontation with History (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by WTJU, KXCV, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
A Confrontation with History (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
2021 National Book Award Winner Tiya Miles Turns Her Hand to Fiction
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tiya Miles, Credit: Stephanie Mitchell
2011 MacArthur Fellow, 2021 National Book Award winner, historian, and novelist Tiya Miles discusses how fiction and history meet in her novel.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZUM, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows one woman’s fight for freedom in The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WUTC, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3

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