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David George Ball: A Marked Heart
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview author and political activist David George Ball about his book, A Marked Heart, and the historic day he...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 27:30
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!: MoZo on writing songs inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
Caption: MoZo, Credit: Wade Trenbeath
Songwriters Moe Provencher and Aimee Zoe of MoZo discuss their song inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Written and...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!: Levi Fuller on writing songs inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
Caption: Levi Fuller, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Levi Fuller discusses his approach to writing songs inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Written and perf...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
ANONYMOUS -- Roland Emmerich
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Roland Emmerich, Berkeley, CA 9/29/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Roland Emmerich talks art, politics, and why we need a new word for conspiracy.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 13:16
In The Time of The Butterflies: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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A radio program featuring author Julia Alvarez along with Neko Case, Edwidge Danticat, and Junot Diaz, among others.

Bought by KMUN, Kansas Public Radio, KPIP-LP, KQED, and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:55
  • Purchases: 5
A Conversation with Kevin Young
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Poet Kevin Young talks about his book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 23:45
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Isabel Wilkerson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WSLR, WHFR, KUOW, KVNF and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 25:33
  • Purchases: 16
A Conversation with Azar Nafisi
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Author of two memoirs about her life in Iran, Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About, Azar Nafisi talks about her books, her li...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 25:05
  • Purchases: 1
Moral Maps and Geographies of Conflict - Melani McAlister & Téa Obreht
From: Open Source
Caption: Melani McAlister's book jacket for Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests, 1945-2000
How do war stories work, and where do we find them? Our guests this week are mapping out terrains of conflict and confusion in our lifetimes, from ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Poets of the Moment - Elliott Colla & Jaimy Gordon
From: Open Source
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Elliott Colla talks about the poetry of revolution and its role for transformation in Egypt. Then, we're with Jaimy Gordon, whose novel The Lord of...

Bought by WLPR , KWMR, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Voices of India - Namita Gokhale & Ashis Nandy
From: Open Source
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Open Source is in New Delhi with two stars of the writing class. Namita Gokhale is a novelist, publisher, and sparkplug of the Indian literary boom...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Death of the Liberal Class, Life of Our Inner Sky - Chris Hedges & Damion Searls
From: Open Source
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This hour brings politics with Chris Hedges and poetry with Damion Searls. Chris Hedges' new book recounts The Death of the Liberal Class. And the ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
A Few Reams of Freedom - Noam Chomsky & C.D. Wright
From: Open Source
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We're talking politics and poetry with Noam Chomsky and C.D. Wright. Noam Chomsky is on an upbeat about American views on war and imperialism, and ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 04, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
A Historian's Take on the Tea Party - Jill Lepore & V.S. Naipaul
From: Open Source
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Election day is closing in, and Jill Lepore has a hip historian's take on the question: What Would the Founding Fathers Do? Jill Lepore says there'...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
Moving Forward in Iraq
From: Woodrow Wilson Center
Series: Lee H. Hamilton Commentaries
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We arrived in Iraq carelessly; we should leave carefully. Former Congressman Lee Hamilton discusses America's goal in Iraq and how it might achieve...

Bought by WBFO


  • Added: May 21, 2009
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Poet
From: andy boyd
Series: I Am Not a Metaphor
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Andy attends a poetry reading on Mill Ave.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 20, 2009
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1937: The Flint, Michigan United Auto Workers Sit-In
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial air...

Bought by WVTF, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBYS 88.3 FM, KBGA 89.9 FM, KHNS and more


  • Added: May 19, 2009
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 12
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1949: Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' First Produced
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial air...

Bought by KREV-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRNC-LP, WRVO Public Media, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2009
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 5
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -3: Democracy's Denial: Revolutions in Wilmington (1898 --
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: Wilmington's black newspaper--after the "riot" and coup
In 1898, White Supremacist Democrats in North Carolina overthrew Wilmington's integrated administration. The plotters killed dozens of African Amer...

Bought by WCPN and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 2
The American Empire and the American Elite
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Niall Ferguson
This ThoughtCast hour discusses the American "empire" and the American elite, in two back-to-back interviews. The first is with Niall Ferguson, the...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 17, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 2
What were they thinking? And - what are they writing?
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Robert Silvers
What were they thinking?? A talk with MIT economist James Poterba about the motivations behind the economic crisis -- followed by an in-depth inter...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
The Mindful Path to Sustainability
From: Bill Baue
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Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:03
Confronting the Warpland: Black Poets of Chicago
From: Ed Herrmann
Caption: Gwendolyn Brooks
Hear some of the great African American poets who have lived and worked in Chicago.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KZYX, WRGY, WLPR , KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2009
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 23
Show 10: John Wesley Harding
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Released Dec. 1967
The JWH album traces Dylan's relationship with America and his spritual journey from outlaw to family man, from joker to thief.

Bought by KPIP-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WETS


  • Added: Aug 14, 2008
  • Length: 01:02:25
  • Purchases: 5
Interview with Irish Poet Eavan Boland
From: KUOW
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Irish poet Eavan Boland talks about why we cannot leave the past to the people who write the history books.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 12:43