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191213: Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells, 12/13/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming," David-Wa...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
2019-12-13 Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming," David-Wa...

Bought by WJCT, MPR News Stations, WMUU-LP, KUNM, WFHB and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
191004: Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather, 10/4/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer wri...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
19-10-04 Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer wri...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WMUU-LP, KBBI Alaska, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Living Deliberately: Laura Dassow Walls On The Whole Human Life of Thoreau
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life, Laura Walls shows us a man deeply engaged with friends, relatives and neighbors, a man thoroughly of...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:55
The Persistence of Patriarchy: An Interview with Carol Gilligan
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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For today’s show we focus on Gilligan’s two recent books, both out from Polity Press. These are Joining the Resistance and Why Does Patriarchy Pers...

  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 59:02
Radicals and Reactionaries: Tony McKenna’s Political Angels and Demons
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Jeremy Corbyn and Hugo Chávez
Today’s show, “Radicals and Reactionaries,” is a 90-minute special with journalist and novelist Tony McKenna, whose new book is Angels and Demons: ...

  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 01:29:31
#1581 - Andy Mientu, 11/06/18
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
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Broadway actor, musician and writer Andy Mientus has just written his debut novel, “The Backstagers and the Ghost Light,” the first book in a middl...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 25:00
National Writers Series: Margaret Atwood
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
Caption: Margaret Atwood with Doug Stanton
A conversation with bestselling author Margaret Atwood.

Bought by Michigan Radio, KWMR, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 4
Summer Reading List
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What books should thoughtful people read this summer?

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSKQ, WLPR , KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
The Write Question - Anne Helen Petersen - 319
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Anne Helen Petersen discusses her book, Too Fat, Too Slutty, To Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Scribe Called Quess
From: Sarah Holtz
Series: The Poetic City
Caption: Michael Quess? Moore, Credit: Fernando Lopez
Michael Quess Moore, or, A Scribe Called Quess, describes himself as a poet, an educator, an actor, and an activist. When we met him before his per...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 07:02
Giving Account: Thoreau at 200
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Thoreau's grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery , Credit: Doug Storm
On this occasion of the birth of Thoreau we are forced to confront the vexed nature of our reception of his genius. So many of us hate Thoreau, whi...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 58:05
It Has Happened Here: The Handmaid’s Tale
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Margaret Atwood’s response to those who might object to the assertion that the dystopian catastrophe of The Handmaid’s Tale cannot happen here. “Wa...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 57:38
TPV03 My Throwback - Khartoum Goes Boom!
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 the British army in Africa.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
GPV29 Book Review - A Delicate Truth
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of A Delicate Truth by John Le Carré.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:08
Poetry Says It Best
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: “Polychrome Vase in the Form of a Fish” British Museum Postcard El-Amarma, XVIIIth Dynasty, (c. 1365 BC) Glass. 1.2 3/4? , Credit: The British Museum, London
In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill reads “The Fish,” a poem by Marianne Moore from a collection entitled "American Sea W...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 04:11
GPV22 Book Review - The Long Lavender Look
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Long Lavender Look by John D. MacDonald.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:16
GPV13 Book Review - Adultery
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Adultery by Paulo Coelho.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2017
  • Length: 02:54
The Write Question - Carmen Giménez Smith - 268
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Carmen Giménez Smith talks poetry, politics, and feminism, and reads from 'Milk and Filth.'

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KSJD and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
JK Rowling on Donald Trump and the Right to Offend
From: PEN America
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In an address at the 2016 PEN Literary Gala, JK Rowling reflects on the state of free speech around the world. "I find almost everything that Mr. T...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 07:19
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending July 29, 2016
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Leaked Documents Reveal TTIP Free Trade Agreement Would Undermine Climate,...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
2021-02-07 W.E.B. DuBois
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The life and thought of sociologist, historian, philosopher, editor, writer, and activist W.E.B. DuBois.

Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KUAT, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 17