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Drugging France (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by WJCU, KVSC, KHNS, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Drugging France (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
Drugging France (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by WRGY


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
Drugging France (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine. Sara Black says the...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: "Native Love Jams" by Tashia Hart
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Tashia Hart talks about her new book "Native Love Jams", a nominee for the Minnesota Book Award

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 09:30
2024-03-24 Margaret Cavendish
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What would it mean to believe in the radical equality of all things—humans, animals, trees, even rocks?

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


  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Author Danielle Evans: Dealing with History through Fiction
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Exploring complexities through short stories: a conversation with author and 2020 NEA Literature Fellow Danielle Evans

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


  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 7
Shelf Discovery: One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin joins the search for two missing young woman in Araminta Hall’s One of the Good Guys.

Bought by WUTC, WCNY, RADIOLEX, WRMU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
2024-01-07 Simone de Beauvoir
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The life and thought of the French feminist philosopher (born January 9, 1908).

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
2402: Simone de Beauvoir, 1/9/2024
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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The French feminist philosopher was born January 9, 1908.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
S08 Ep06: Words and Music, Part 5, 10/7/2023
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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This week we pair women's music with women's poetry. It's a chance to sit back and enjoy the artistry, without a lot of description or background....

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
The Write Question - Alicia Elliott
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Mohawk writer Alicia Elliott discusses her debut novel, "And Then She Fell."

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


  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Shelf Discovery: And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliot
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a young Indigenous mother as she tries to settle into a new life in And Then She Fell by Alicia Ell...

Bought by WRMU, RADIOLEX, WCNY, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUTC and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 6
829: Rethinking David Foster Wallace / 830: When Mountains Are Gods, 9/16/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Rethinking David Foster Wallace" - David Foster Wallace was one of the most brilliant writers of his generation. But 15 years after his ...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
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: 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
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
Independent Chitra
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni with Sandip at the Kolkata Literary Meet in 2023., Credit: Sandip Roy
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a beloved author now but when she started writing about her South Asian community in America in the 90s not everyone ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations: Chloé Cooper Jones
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with writer and philosophy professor Chloé Cooper Jones about her memoir Easy Beauty, which chronicles her quest to w...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 53:50
Shelf Discovery: The Women Who Built Hollywood by Susan Goldman Rubin
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin travels back to the early days of movies to meet 12 influential women in The Women Who Built Hollywood by S...

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


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Novelist Whitney Terrell
From: New Letters on the Air
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Novelist Whitney Terrell talks about his third novel, THE GOOD LIEUTENANT. Terrell was embedded with the military in Iraq, writing non-fiction for ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poet Ellen Bass: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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We continue National Poetry Month with part two of a conversation with poet Ellen Bass, the author of the 2020 book INDIGO. She discusses how, aft...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
US Poet Laureate Ada Limón
From: New Letters on the Air
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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
Episode 136: Michael Lewis on What Makes Some People Irreplaceable , 4/16/2023
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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What makes someone impossible to forget?

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:08
MN Reads: "Tumbled" by Heather Wilde
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Heather Wilde talks about her new memoir "Tumbled"

  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 09:45