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Show 6: Love Songs, Part I
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
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Discussion of Dylan's Love Songs

Bought by KPIP-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2008
  • Length: 59:40
  • Purchases: 6
Re-reading 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
From: With Good Reason
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Exploring why both the book and the film, "To Kill a Mockingbird," are still considered iconic and beloved, including an interview with Mary Badham...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KGOU


  • Added: Apr 17, 2008
  • Length: 29:57
  • Purchases: 3
Camp Lovewave's Tom Robbins Interview
From: Terran Lovewave
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Author Tom Robbins sits with Camp Lovewave host for a 56 minute conversation talking about his new book (a children's book about beer), the end of ...

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Mar 08, 2008
  • Length: 55:51
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with DIANE ACKERMAN, author of bestseller "The Zoo Keeper's Wife."
From: Out of Bounds
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Very personal conversation with author Diane ACKERMAN about The Zoo Keeper's Wife, now a major film.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
Chronicles of William Hone (week of December 30, 2007)
From: Vince Hancock
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Look both ways before crossing into January. This week: how to greet the New Year.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2007
  • Length: 08:30
Iraq in the Dark
From: War News Radio
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News and features from Iraq and Afghanistan

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KGOU


  • Added: Dec 14, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
WWOZ Street Talk-First Book
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
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At a recent event put on by first book hundreds of kids were given books as part of the 5 million books project.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2007
  • Length: 09:11
Author Stephen Poleskie in conversation about his life, art and his book "The Balloonist."
From: Tish Pearlman
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Stephen Poleskie in conversation about his life as an artist and writer

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 27:30
Interview with Award-winning poet and Novelist MARGE PIERCY
From: Tish Pearlman
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Feminist Icon and award-winning writer MARGE PIERCY in conversation about her life and work

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 27:30
Rafe Esquith and the Hobart Shakespeareans (lecture)
From: KUOW
Series: Speaker's Forum
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Rafe Esquith says America's public education system has failed kids, and that is why he can't. He teaches Shakespeare to fifth graders at one of th...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 54:00
CamForum - The Planets
From: Cambridge Forum
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THE PLANETS is Dava Sobel's historic and scientific tour of our solar system.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2007
  • Length: 13:21
CamForum - Eco Imagination: David Abrams
From: Cambridge Forum
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

  • Added: Jun 28, 2007
  • Length: 28:59
Interview with award-winning poet, ALICE FULTON
From: Out of Bounds
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Conversation with award-winning poet ALICE FULTON

  • Added: Apr 12, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
KidTales: Wind in the Willows Ch. 2
From: KTNA
Series: KidTales: The Wind in the Willows
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A creative reading from the children's classic, read by Jessica Stevens.

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
KidTales: Wind in the Willows Ch. 1
From: KTNA
Series: KidTales: The Wind in the Willows
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A creative reading from the children's classic, read by Jessica Stevens.

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Truth About Dracula
From: Hillary Frank
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Suzanne Muldowney explains why her interpretation of Dracula is the most authentic.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WRIR, KALW, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2007
  • Length: 05:44
  • Purchases: 11
"The Cairo Trilogy" by Naguib Mahfouz
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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An interview with Fouad Ajami about The Cairo Trilogy by Egyptian Nobel Laurete Naguib Mahfouz who died 30 Aug 2006.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 31, 2006
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 2
Evergreen interview w/ DANIEL SCHWARZ author of fascinating book "Imagining the Holocaust"
From: Out of Bounds
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Schwarz discusses his groundbreaking book "Imagining the Holocaust"

  • Added: Apr 12, 2006
  • Length: 29:29
Monticello's Jewish Hero
From: With Good Reason
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The story of one man who saved Jefferson's estate from ruin and one "being" that captured authors' fancies.

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Dec 15, 2005
  • Length: 29:55
  • Purchases: 1
Language is an Antibiotic
From: Michael Kraskin
Series: Catalogue of Ships
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Stories and poems about a personal relationship with words.

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Nov 20, 2005
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 1
How Mulien Saves His Mother from Hades
From: KCUR
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Taiwanese story that is the basis for Ghost Month in Buddhist Culture.

Bought by KZYX and PRX Administrator


  • Added: Oct 30, 2005
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2
Quilting the Black-eyed Pea
From: With Good Reason
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Poets Nikki Giovanni and Lucinda Roy discuss their roles as African American poets in contemporary America and share personal visions of the "Middl...

Bought by KPVL and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:51
  • Purchases: 2
Paternalism
From: Talking History
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Interview with David Leverenz on the transformation of the image of the role and image of the father. Raymond Geselbracht comments on the relations...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
Dr. Seuss
From: Talking History
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Philip Nel author of Dr. Seuss American Icon talks with host, Bryan Le Beau and shares some interesting information about the man, his life and more.

Bought by WHQR


  • Added: Dec 28, 2004
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Elsewhere
From: Hillary Frank
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Hillary Frank talks to Lois Lowry about her novel THE GIVER -- and finds out why the author's visit to Hillary's hometown makes a group of Russian ...

Bought by PRX Remix, The Story, Remix Radio, and WYSO


  • Added: Aug 18, 2004
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 4

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