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The Triumph of Christianity: A Conversation with Bart Ehrman
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Bart Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity
Bart Ehrman asks how did a religion that began with a small group of illiterate day laborers become the dominant religion of the Roman Empire in ju...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KPIP-LP, and WETS


  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Golden Age of Flattery (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-A new book "Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy" investigates how we lose sight on how destructive that behavior can be. -Managers who...

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
235: Renunciation / 236: Owning The Future, 1/6/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Renunciation" - January is the season of diets and cleanses. Why do we feel compelled to give up our pleasures? HOUR TWO: "Owning The ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
231: Is Capitalism Broken? / 232: Why The Classics Matter, 12/23/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: More and more power is getting consolidated in the hands of a few. If capitalism is broken, what's next? HOUR TWO: Why does an empire c...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Encounters at the Heart of the World (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Elizabeth Fenn, author of Encounters at the Heart of the World, tells the story of the Plains Mandan tribe as they rose to a...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCWP, WTJU, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 24, 2017
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 9
Husband & Wife Writers Geoffrey Brock & Padma Viswanathan
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Padma Viswanathan
Novelist Padma Viswanathan, a 2017 recipient of the Porter Fund Literary Prize, and poet Geoffrey Brock, discuss how they balance their writing car...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
215: Even Stranger Things / 216: Story Worlds, 10/28/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Even Stranger Things" - Paranormal psychic spy hunters? It was a real U.S. Army project. Join us for an hour of even stranger things. ...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
The Write Question - Jamie Harrison - 295
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jamie Harrison discusses her new historical novel, The Widow Nash. She also reads passages from the book.

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KSJD


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
An Outrage: Reflections on Racism (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A new documentary sheds light on the ugly history of lynching - The work of author Ernest Gaines - Reflections from Charlottesville residents on th...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, KRZA, WLPR , KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
189: Empathy for Monsters / 190: Telling a Life, 7/29/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Empathy for Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Mark Hollabaugh talks about his new book, "The Spirit and the Sky: Lakota Visions of the Cosmos"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Caption: "The Spirit and the Sky" by Mark Hollabaugh
Mark Hollabugh has written a very interesting book about the role and significance of astronomy in Lakota culture, "The Spirit in the Sky: Lakota V...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2017
  • Length: 15:11
Show business veteran Dudley Riggs, founder of the Brave New Workshop, on The Roadhouse
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Dudley Riggs is a fifth-generation member of a distinguished show business family. He's worked in many areas of the biz, as everything from an aeri...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 18:32
Minnesota author Mark Neuzil discusses his latest book, "Canoes"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims have written a gorgeous, illustrated history of a very special watercraft: "Canoes: A Natural History in North America,...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 23:09
Cents & Sensibility (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How free-market capitalism influenced modern romance - Using vampires to teach irrational economics - The trials and tribulations of reading James ...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
Cents & Sensibility (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How free-market capitalism influenced modern romance - Using vampires to teach irrational economics - The trials and tribulations of reading James ...

Bought by WCNY, KWMR, WXDU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCWP and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 12
Cents & Sensibility (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How free-market capitalism influenced modern romance - Using vampires to study irrational economics

Bought by WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP, WCQS, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
Pride & Profit (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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We usually don’t think of the free market as a very… sentimental place. But a new book suggests that Adam Smith’s classical economics aren’t so hea...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: Having Fun Isn't Hard When You've Got A Library Card
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries you'll meet Jason Kucsma, the deputy director of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library. We'll talk about Tole...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
The Rape of Eve: Newly Discovered Texts of Resistance
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Celene Lillie
All the origin myths of Rome are rape narratives. Dr. Celene Lillie has found resistance to Rome's culture of rape and domination in Gnostic texts...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 57:57
  • Purchases: 2
New book offers letters of St. Paul woman who volunteered for service in WWI France
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Caption: "Alice in France" by Nancy O'Brien Wagner
"Alice in France" is a collection of letters home from Alice O'Brien, a young St. Paul woman who volunteered in France in various roles during Worl...

  • Added: May 29, 2017
  • Length: 14:52
Get Rhythm (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A conversation with poet Tim Seibels - Finding America's lost musical treasures - The life and afterlife of jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke - The might...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: :30
Get Rhythm (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A conversation with poet Tim Seibels - Finding America's lost musical treasures - The life and afterlife of jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke - The might...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, WTJU, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 11
Get Rhythm (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A conversation with poet Tim Seibels - Finding America's lost musical treasures

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, WVAS, WCQS, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
TPV04 My Throwback - Murder 1 At Latitude 82.91 Degrees North
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about fateful explorers in the Arctic.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
Ferdinand the Cultural Icon (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The unlikely story of a pacifist bull - Hidden messages scribbled in library books - Murder & poetry in Chaucer's London - A novel look at race rel...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1