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Humans are the only animal to produce emotional tears. Asking questions about this behavior can help us better understand how we live our lives.
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Author Sue Leaf talks about her new book "Impermanence"
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 08:20
The classic holiday tale by Oscar Wilde is interpreted along with sacred Christmas music.
Bought by Michigan Radio and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 58:28
- Purchases: 2
Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik talk about their new book "Blood in the Tracks"
- Added: Sep 14, 2023
- Length: 13:41
There are no visitor facilities. Roads are mostly washed-out jeep tracks. There is no water. And there's no way out, unless you come back the way y...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jun 03, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Author Karen Fults Kaler talks about her new book "Eastcliff"
- Added: May 11, 2023
- Length: 08:52
Minnesota Book Award Finalist Sheila Packa talks about her book of poetry "Surface Displacements"
- Added: Mar 02, 2023
- Length: 09:42
Our annual gift to World Ocean Radio listeners. In this episode, host Peter Neill reads "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop, a poem from 1955 t...
- Added: Dec 29, 2022
- Length: 04:40
In this special anthology program novelist Meg Wolitzer and poet Molly Peacock both discuss the importance of writing about the lives and work of w...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Poet Mark Gibbons discusses his collection, Mostly Cloudy. He also reads a few selections.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jun 03, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
After watching “Tales of the City” on Netflix, Sandip reflects on his own tale of the city.
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Each year during the holidays, longtime World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses", a poem by Elizabeth Bishop. This is a perenni...
- Added: Dec 30, 2019
- Length: 04:38
This week on World Ocean Radio we have a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson written in 1883. Steven...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 24, 2019
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy remembers on of India’s most beloved writers.
Nabaneeta dev Sen
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 11, 2019
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Norma Cole meditates on the Syrian refugee crisis.
- Added: Apr 01, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
Sandip Roy remembers his boyhood fascination with Hergé's famous comic, Tintin
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Whether it's with a father, a grandfather, or a father-figure, celebrating this Father's Day connects us the same way music connects the listener w...
Bought by 'The Sea', GCR (Global Community Radio), KAAD-LP, and KMFA
- Added: Jun 15, 2018
- Length: 58:29
- Purchases: 4
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb describes how her grandfather rewrote verses of the Qur’an using only the @ sign on his typewriter.
- Added: May 07, 2018
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 5
Randall Horton thinks about the ways we trap ourselves and others in boxes.
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Vi Khi Nao’s poem inhabits the scene of a painting composed in 1998.
- Added: Mar 02, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Emily Skillings writes a tribute to poet John Ashbery who died in September of 2017.
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
This episode features a conversation with Peter Heller about his sophomore novel, Celine. He also reads short selections from the book.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Feb 15, 2018
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 3
This week Colloquial explores Harley Warrick's Mail Pouch Tobacco, The Night Sky this Week, This Week's History Lesson and a reading from John Bur...
- Added: Jan 11, 2018
- Length: 11:14
Sueyeun Juliette Lee mediates on loss and its aftermath.
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Hoa Nguyen considers the objects of jokes and humor.
- Added: Oct 30, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
