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Byzantine Chant
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the book "The Past is Always Present," which documents Orthodox chant practices among the monasteries of Mount Ath...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2024
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 1
2335: Hegel, 8/29/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born August 27, 1770.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
2023-08-27 Hegel
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born August 27, 1770.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KMUN, and KSKQ


  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
2309: Montaigne and the Art of the Essay, 2/28/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How did Michel de Montaigne (born February 28, 1533) invent a new way to do philosophy?

  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-02-26 Montaigne and the Art of the Essay
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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If philosophy is a way of life, what kind of writing best helps us live it?

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


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
2022-07-17 Walter Benjamin and the Re-Enchanted World
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can we find enchantment without sacrificing reason?

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


  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Past American Voice of novelist E.L. Doctorow
From: New Letters on the Air
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E.L. Doctorow passed away in July 2015, but left behind twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage drama, winning most of the major...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KAAD-LP, WNJR, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
2022-06-12 Jean-Paul Sartre
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The father of Existentialism was born on June 21, 1905.

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


  • Added: Jun 13, 2022
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
Poet, editor, and translator, Wayne Miller
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Wayne Miller
Poet and editor Wayne Miller reads from his book, THE CITY, OUR CITY, a 2012 finalist for the William Carlos Williams Poetry Award. He also discus...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
National Book Award-winning Poet Nikky Finney: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Affrilachian and Cave Canem poet Nikky Finney talks about her father, the first African American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court,...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Broken Country
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Paisley Rekdal
On Trauma, Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Nov 11, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Translating Dante
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Poet Mary Jo Bang explores the process of translating Dante Alighieri's Inferno, and professor Jessica Rosenfeld explains the origins of literature.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:23
Author Mary Relindes Ellis on her new novel, "The Bohemian Flats"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis chatted recently with Mary Relindes Ellis, author of "The Bohemian Flats," a novel set in a vibrant immigrant enclave in Minneapo...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2014
  • Length: 36:58
The Transcendentalists Are Coming!
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're revisiting the birthplace of the American mind. Five houses on three streets within a period of five years in Concord, Massachusetts launche...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WRPI, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 3
Poet John Ciardi
From: New Letters on the Air
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This month's Save America's Treasures Archive selection features the perfect poet to hear around Memorial Day--the late John Ciardi, who was a gunn...

Bought by KMUN and WJCU


  • Added: May 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Acoustic Stories : Steve Downing - "Cherries"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:23
Poet Michelle Boisseau
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Michelle Boisseau
Poet Michelle Boisseau talks about her collection A SUNDAY IN GOD-YEARS, which examines borders between black and white, free and slave, living and...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Literary Brooklyn
From: Shannon Geis
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A conversation with the author of a new book about the literary history of Brooklyn.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
ThoughtCast: The Impact of the Written Word
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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This new ThoughtCast series explores the impact of the written word. It examines a specific piece of writing — be it a poem, play, novel, short sto...

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


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2
Aldo Leopold and the Emerging Land Ethic (59:00 / 54:00 - Free Program)
From: Jack Loeffler
Caption: Aldo Leopold, Credit: Aldo Leopold Foundation
A celebration of the life Aldo Leopold, the man who wrote “A Sand County Almanac” in 1949, and introduced Ethics as the fundamental concept that sh...

Bought by KZYX, WRGY, KUPR low power FM, WMUU-LP, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
Author Molly Gloss and the Heroines of the American West
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Stage and Studio
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This show profiles novelist Molly Gloss, whose books have shed light on untold stories of women in the American West.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
Dead and Gone
From: Chatterbox Audio Theater
Caption: Dead and Gone, 2009 - Ink on paper, Credit: Samantha Sherry
A Southern retelling of James Joyce's classic story "The Dead." In early-20th-century Memphis, an insecure schoolteacher struggles to navigate the ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2009
  • Length: 01:03:20
Hark! - the acoustic world of Elizabethan England
From: Battery Radio
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Four centuries ago... did people listen in a different way than we do now? How different were the sounds they heard? And can we tune into their aud...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, HowSound, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 52:24
  • Purchases: 8
Virgil's Georgics: ThoughtCast interviews the poet and translator David Ferry
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Virgil's Georgics: an interview with poet David Ferry, who recently translated Virgil's second great poem, The Georgics. We're joined by Virgil sch...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1