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This week, we're talking about some of the very oldest words in the English language, and how little some of them have changed over thousands of ye...
- Added: Jun 06, 2024
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
On this episode, we talked about the new book "Living Space" by Michael E. Veal, which is a thorough and creative examination of John Coltrane's fr...
- Added: May 05, 2024
- Length: 28:27
HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time" - When you’re on the clock, the hours disappear. Time scarcity is making us and the planet sick. But the...
- Added: Jan 05, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the...
- Added: Nov 24, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Against Capitalism" - Congress has passed a Republican resolution "denouncing socialism." But what does that even mean? This hour, a soc...
- Added: Nov 03, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
Happy Halloween! Jess talks with UCLA librarian Megan Rosenbloom about the spooky science of uncovering what makes some old books extra rare.
Bought by WORT
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Author Michael Schumacher talks about his new book "Too Much Sea For Their Decks: Shipwrecks of Minnesota's North Shore and Isle Royale"
- Added: Aug 10, 2023
- Length: 09:29
HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time" - When you’re on the clock, the hours disappear. Time scarcity is making us and the planet sick. But the...
- Added: Jun 02, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
Author Timothy Cochrane talks about his new book "Making the Carry"
- Added: Mar 09, 2023
- Length: 13:57
HOUR ONE: "How Should We Tell Our History?" - Debates over history are front-page news, from critical race theory to AP history classes. How should...
- Added: Feb 24, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...
- Added: Jan 06, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
Christmas wouldn't be the same without Dickens. And, the railroads changed Christmas forever.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 1
Author Jeffrey Sauve talks about his new book “Murder at Minnesota Point"
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 10:36
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
HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...
- Added: Jul 08, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
Ghosts from the past stalk Europe again today in the wake of Russian tanks and missiles. To find a path forward, we might need to look back.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WHFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WLPR , KUNM and more
- Added: Mar 08, 2022
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 8
HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - Year three of the pandemic. Where should we go to mourn our losses? We'll look for answers from generations past...
- Added: Jan 28, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
Two years ago this month, the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in the United States. “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE
- Added: Jan 12, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
HOUR ONE: "Finding Meaning In Desperate Times" - The pandemic isn't just a health crisis, it's an x-ray into our psyches. This hour, how COVID-19 i...
- Added: Sep 24, 2021
- Length: 01:58:59
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
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...
- Added: May 25, 2021
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 3
Jean Belangie-Nye, Aaron Teasdale, and Ben Ferencz discuss their book, "A Corner of Space and Time: Lee Nye's Eddie's Club Portraits."
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 17, 2021
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 3
HOUR ONE: "Rituals Of Fear" - The dread, the fear, the horror of it all. Maybe it's good for you? This hour, why we need Halloween. HOUR TWO: "Ev...
- Added: Oct 30, 2020
- Length: 01:58:58
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
Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess reads from his multi-award winning poetry book, OLIO, delving into the voices of African American creatives in ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2020
- Length: 29:00
