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Should Certain Books Ever Be Banned in School?
From: Open to Debate
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Are certain books beyond reproach? It’s a fundamental question making its way across America’s school boards. Those who argue “yes” say schools sho...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
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
Pulitzer Prize Winner Leonard Pitts Jr.
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Leonard Pitts Jr.
Writer Leonard Pitts Jr. talks about race, family, and the process of writing his syndicated column which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Pitts a...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WJCU


  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
2021 Producer’s Choice Awards – Part 2: The Poetry Show
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – one who shows us we contain multitudes; one whose life and writing was always an...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Vonnegut on Tralfamadore: Billy Pilgrim and PTSD
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In today's show we explore the history of recognizing the trauma experienced by soldiers in war - PTSD is only the most recent iteration of this di...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KNCT FM, RADIOLEX, and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 4
The Vivisector Inside: On the Experimenting Animal
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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This Extended Version of “Captivating Animals” with Thalia Field includes a discussion of Émile Zola and his attempt to recreate in fiction the sci...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 16, 2021
  • Length: 01:23:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Kelly Schirmann
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Artist Kelly Schirmann discusses her newest book of poetry and prose, "The New World."

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


  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Babo In the Sunshine: Herman Melville and the Tryal Rebellion
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Anthony Imbert. Wrapper illustration for “Life in Philadelphia” (ca. 1829-30).
Today we revisit the great novella of Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno,” serialized in 1855 in Putnam’s Magazine. Written with the US Civil War on t...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Captivating Fictions and The Experimenting Animal
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is author Thalia Field and our show is about the way normative stories, whether told as fiction or science or religion or history, work t...

Bought by WCNY, RADIOLEX, and KWMR


  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Practicing Exile: Timothy Brennan on Edward Said
From: WFHB
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Edward Said, a Palestinian American, born in Jerusalem, was one of the most influential literary scholars in the United States, transforming the ac...

  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Writing Radicals: Mike Gold, Ann Petry, and Thomas McGrath
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Mike Gold, Ann Petry, and Thomas McGrath
Alan Wald's Literary Left Trilogy investigates aspects of intellectual, literary, and cultural movements and figures associated with left-wing poli...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:03
Frankenstein’s Children: Science, Politics, and Fiction after Mary Shelley
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Eileen Hunt Botting's new book, Artificial Life after Frankenstein, asks what are the obligations of humanity to the artificial creatures we make, ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel Part 2
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poets and curators Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel continue to discuss the anthology "We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics," a co...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
How to Be Anti-Fascist: Muriel Rukeyser and The Life of Poetry
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A BAGGAGE TICKET FROM RUKEYSER’S TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGE FROM NEW YORK TO LONDON (1936)
Our show centers on the book The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser which can be seen as an anti-fascist manifesto pitting poetry - the poetic as a ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Five Days in Spain: Muriel Rukeyser and the Revolutionary Muse
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Barcelona - July 1936, Credit: Muriel Rukeyser, permission of William L. Rukeyser
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein describes Savage Coast as a young woman’s political and sexual awakening imbued with the anarchist spirit of the moment; it’...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Out of a Brick Throat: How Poets and Poetry Matter
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A drilling crew poses for the above photo in 1931 (without respirators) in the Hawks Nest Tunnel. Courtesy of Elkem Metals Collection, West Virginia State Archives.
Today, we’ll resurface three poets on the political Left who wrote during the 1930s and 40s: Muriel Rukeyser, Genevieve Taggard, and Martha Millet....

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
The Lovers of The Poor
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music which reacts to racism and social unrest.

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 56:34
  • Purchases: 1
Of Her Kind: Radcliffe’s Messy Experiment in Women’s Liberation
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her book, The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s, published by Knopf, Maggie Doherty, tells the story o...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Journey Through Sorrow: Mary Shelley’s Post-Apocalyptic Novel The Last Man
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Woman at Sunset (1818), Caspar David Friedrich
Coping with being totally alone and the sorrow of loss after a global plague are powerfully depicted in Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel The Last Man. Eil...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Feminist Poet Adrienne Rich
From: New Letters on the Air
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This month's Save America's Treasures recording, features the late, great poet Adrienne Rich, known for her perfectly crafted, award winning poems....

Bought by WRKF, WNMU-FM, and WJCU


  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Billionaire Raj
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy spoke with James Crabtree about his new book "The Billionaire Raj."

  • Added: Feb 17, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Tell It Slant: The Truth of the Bombs Bursting in Air
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: B-24J Liberators of the 579th Bomb Squadron drop incendiary bombs made from fighter plane drop tanks filled with napalm on targets near Royan, France, Apr 15 1945.
H. Bruce Franklin (Crash Course) returns to help us connect lots of dots. He’ll argue, among other things, that we need to learn what three particu...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Alan Pelaez Lopez - 437
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Alan Pelaez Lopez shares their forthcoming work, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien. They also read several pieces.

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


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3