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Talking Turkey
From: Liner Notes
Series: LINER NOTES
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Explores how and where people celebrate Thanksgiving, what they cook, with whom they dine, how the literature they love captures the essence of foo...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, WKSU, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Costume Party 54 minute version
From: Liner Notes
Series: LINER NOTES
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Halloween is not just kids and candy. It is about masks and identity, horror as well as grown-up fun.

Bought by WNJR, KXOT Public Radio, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 3
Costume Party
From: Liner Notes
Series: LINER NOTES
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Halloween is not just kids and candy. It is about masks and identity, horror as well as grown-up fun.

Bought by KALH, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KKWE Niijii Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 06, 2008
  • Length: 59:21
  • Purchases: 12
Here on Earth: Salman Rushdie (:20 Promo)
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
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"Here on Earth - Radio Without Borders" is Wisconsin Public Radio's live international talk program and podcast. (Promo for program "Salman Rushdie")

  • Added: Aug 11, 2008
  • Length: :20
Here on Earth: Salman Rushdie (Billboard)
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
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The billboard for the "Here on Earth" program "Salman Rushdie."

  • Added: Aug 11, 2008
  • Length: 01:00
Here on Earth: Salman Rushdie
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
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Preview "Here on Earth," Wisconsin Public Radio's international talk program and podcast. In this edition, host Jean Feraca talks to Salman Rushdie...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2008
  • Length: 52:35
Words From the Frontier: Poetry In Maine
From: Rob Rosenthal
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Words from the Frontier: Poetry in Maine is an hour-long program featuring fifteen contemporary Maine poets.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 02, 2008
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 1
War and Place 54 minute version
From: Liner Notes
Series: LINER NOTES
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Tom Brokaw and others discuss War Memorials, Veterans, Vietnam and Wars.

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WHRV, WBEZ, KUOW, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 20, 2008
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 7
War and Place
From: Liner Notes
Series: LINER NOTES
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Tom Brokaw and others discuss War Memorials, Veterans, Vietnam and Wars.

Bought by WJCT, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WVTF, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: May 08, 2008
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 55
Traveling the Earth Gently 54 minute version
From: Liner Notes
Series: LINER NOTES
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A special edition of Liner Notes focused on the environment and suitable as an Earth Day special.

Bought by AMERICAN-FM Internet Radio and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2008
  • Length: 55:30
  • Purchases: 2
Traveling the Earth Gently
From: Liner Notes
Series: LINER NOTES
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A special edition of Liner Notes focused on the environment and suitable as an Earth Day special.

Bought by KCNP, KTSW 89.9, KHNS, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WHFR and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2008
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 9
Through Emerald Eyes: Liner Notes Special on Ireland
From: Liner Notes
Series: LINER NOTES
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Irish and Irish-American authors and artists explore the magical isle.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KPVL, Troy Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUNC & The Colorado Sound and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Through Emerald Eyes/54-minute version
From: Liner Notes
Series: LINER NOTES
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Irish and Irish-American authors and artists explore the magical isle.

Bought by WCPN, Troy Public Radio, AMERICAN-FM Internet Radio, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 4
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED-audiobook review
From: AudioFile Magazine
Series: Audiopolis
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review of audiobook THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

  • Added: Jan 13, 2008
  • Length: 05:10
DUNE-audiobook review
From: AudioFile Magazine
Series: Audiopolis
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Review of audiobook DUNE

  • Added: Jan 13, 2008
  • Length: 04:41
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
The Face of Poetry
From: David Kates
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"The Face of Poetry" is an exhibit matching black and white photographs of some of the most important poets of the last 50 years with their poems.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 04:09
What's the Word? Women Public Intellectuals
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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While men of letters have traditionally achieved the influential position of public intellectual, in the twentieth century a number of important wo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WLIW, WNMU-FM, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 17
What's the Word? Elizabeth I and Victoria
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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Literary portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria

Bought by WLIW, WNMU-FM, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
What's the Word? Pride and Prejudice
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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Jane Austen's _Pride and Prejudice_ continues to be popular nearly two hundred years after it was first published.

Bought by WLIW, WNMU-FM, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2007
  • Length: 29:46
  • Purchases: 14
"The Woodpecker"
From: KCUR
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Muskogee Creek Indian story called "The Woodpecker."

Bought by PRX Remix, KZYX, and KSUT


  • Added: Oct 30, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 3
Slam: Literary Fad or Movement
From: Don McIver
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In the 80's Marc Smith invented the Poetry Slam, which has swept the country and created a spoken word revolution.

Bought by KRZA, Marfa Public Radio, KUT-HD, KUHB, WEKU and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2005
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 7
Border Voices
From: Dan Epstein
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Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads his work accompanied by saxophonist Charles McPherson at the Border Voices poetry fair in San Diego.

Bought by KZYX and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 29, 2005
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Whitman - The Good Gray Poet
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Poetry
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Explores the later life of Walt Whitman, considered by many to be the Father of Modern Poetry.

Bought by KMUN, KSJD, WHQR, and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:25
  • Purchases: 4
RN Documentary: Whitman - Songs of the Poet
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Poetry
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Explores the early life of Walt Whitman, considered by many to be the Father of Modern Poetry.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KUOW, and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Mar 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 3