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How the Bard Meant It (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

-How did Shakespeare's plays sound 400 years ago? Plus: A novelist mentored by John Grisham. And more….

Bought by WCNY, WFAE, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more

Added: Dec 22, 2015
Length: 53:54
Purchases: 6

How The Bard Meant It (half hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

-How did Shakespeare's plays really sound 400 years ago. Plus: The big ideas in the plays of Shakespeare. And more….

Bought by WJCT, KVSC, Troy Public Radio, KRDP, WLIW and more

Added: Dec 22, 2015
Length: 28:58
Purchases: 6

Allusionist 26: Xmas Man

From: The Allusionist
Series: Allusionist festive episodes

CONTENT WARNING: Be wary of listening to this episode around young children, as there may be life spoilers. Historian Greg Jenner traces the origin...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Dec 14, 2015
Length: 25:35
Purchases: 1

Historian Richard Rhodes, author of “John James Audubon: The Making of an American”

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

Audubon is best known for his 435 paintings of American birds. He came here as a young man in the early 1800s from France with a talent for self-ta...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida

Added: Dec 04, 2015
Length: 09:47
Purchases: 1

BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (Hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

As the British Empire expanded, the fabric of society depended upon women’s friendships. One letter from a “BFF” back home could save a colonist fr...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, WTJU and more

Added: Oct 30, 2015
Length: 53:56
Purchases: 6

Meet the new Poet Laureate of the United States, Juan Felipe Herrera

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

Caption: Juan Felipe Herrera Unity Poem Fiesta. , Credit: Courtesy University of California-Riverside

The new poet laureate of the United States and two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow calls for everyone’s heart to speak out.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KFCF FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WLPR , KPVL and more

Added: Sep 21, 2015
Length: 28:29
Purchases: 7

Imagining Yoko Ono (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beatles. But she was an accomplished and in...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCNY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WABE, WTJU and more

Added: May 08, 2015
Length: 53:59
Purchases: 6

Imagining Yoko Ono (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beatles. But she was an accomplished and in...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, KVSC, KENW, and WLIW

Added: May 08, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 5

Author Diana Gabaldon: The When & Why's of the World of the "Outlander"

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

Based on a time-traveling English nurse in the 20th century who is married to an 18th century Scotsman, Diana’s eight books in The Outlander series...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Added: May 01, 2015
Length: 09:58
Purchases: 2

Joseph Kanon and "Leaving Berlin"

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

Author of seven post-World War II novels, Joe Kanon takes us back to Berlin, a once grand city now 80% destroyed in the late 1940s. In this book e...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio

Added: Apr 02, 2015
Length: 09:58
Purchases: 2

Truth and Fiction (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

A new online archive of Grimm’s fairy tales reveals the evolution of these iconic stories, whose earlier versions were often violent and sexually s...

Bought by WCNY, KKRN, KREV-LP, WTJU, and KUNV

Added: Feb 27, 2015
Length: 53:55
Purchases: 5

Women's History Month: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

From: Francesca Rheannon

Katharine Weber discusses her historical novel TRIANGLE, about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.

Added: Jan 29, 2015
Length: 27:20

Women's History Month: Poems Of The Women's Movement

From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice

Feminist poet Honor Moore talks about the anthology she edited, Poems From The Women’s Movement.

Bought by WABE

Added: Jan 29, 2015
Length: 19:37
Purchases: 1

Women's History Month: Louisa May Alcott & her Marmee

From: Francesca Rheannon

Historian and writer Eve LaPlante talks about her book, MARMEE AND LOUISA. It’s about the powerful relationship between Louisa May Alcott and her m...

Added: Jan 29, 2015
Length: 28:57

Women's History: Louisa May Alcott & American Bloomsbury

From: Francesca Rheannon

Susan Cheever talks about her acclaimed 2010 biography, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT and about her 2007 book, AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Wa...

Added: Jan 29, 2015
Length: 59:07

Mary had a little lamb

From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions

XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM

Added: Jan 19, 2015
Length: 01:44
Purchases: 1

Give War and Peace a Chance (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

January 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. A new book offers Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times...

Bought by WJCT, WCPN, KRDP, and WLIW

Added: Dec 12, 2014
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 4

Nathaniel Philbrick winner of the 2000 National Book Award for his history In the Heart of the Sea talks about the glories of Moby-Dick

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

In his slim, lucid and compulsively readable book Why Read Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville...

Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WNJR

Added: Nov 21, 2014
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 4

#1409: Lillian Daniel, Part 2

From: Sandburg Media

Lillian Daniel on the problems of being spiritual but not religious; Katy Scrogin on The Still Point of the Turning World.

Added: Oct 06, 2014
Length: 32:00

#1408: Lillian Daniel, Part 1

From: Sandburg Media

Lillian Daniel on spirituality vs. religiosity; Katy Scrogin on A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses.

Added: Oct 06, 2014
Length: 31:18

#1412 - Religious Objects: S. Brent Plate, Part 1

From: Sandburg Media

S. Brent Plate on experience, materiality, and physical objects. Excerpt from TV documentary, Divided Families: Responding with Faith.

Added: Oct 06, 2014
Length: 39:21

#1416 - A Zeal for History: Looking for Jesus with Reza Aslan, Part 1

From: Sandburg Media

Reza Aslan on Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth; Katy Scrogin on Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

Added: Oct 06, 2014
Length: 46:35

WWI: The Shock of the New

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Out of the mire and death of World War One, even before the shooting stops, comes the strangest thing: the novel of the century.

Bought by WABE and WRPI

Added: Sep 04, 2014
Length: 58:27
Purchases: 2

John Updike on Rabbit Remembered

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts

Open Source in 2001 with John Updike, reflecting on and reading from his novella Rabbit Remembered, the last in a five-part series about an America...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and PRX Remix