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689: How To Be An Ethical Traveler / 690: Traveling By Book, 5/14/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "How To Be An Ethical Traveler" - Uttakleiv, Norway, population 13, is inundated by 250,000 tourists every year. This hour, how can we tr...

  • Added: May 13, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
687: Writing As A Political Act / 688: Deep Tracks (Live In Studio), 5/7/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Writing As A Political Act" - In peaceful times, and in moments of violence, writers have used their art as protest, remembrance, and so...

  • Added: May 06, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
683: Poetry In A Troubled Time / 684: Books We Can't Forget, 4/23/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Poetry In A Troubled Time" - Why do people turn to poetry during troubled times? Poetry is often the one language we need. Join us for a...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
2021 Producer’s Choice Awards – Part 2: The Poetry Show
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – one who shows us we contain multitudes; one whose life and writing was always an...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Part Four: Shapeshifting
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Kinship With The More-Than-Human World
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Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the world. What are they trying...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WFAE, KUHF, KSPB Pebble Beach, WHRV and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Part Three: When Mountains Are Gods
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Kinship With The More-Than-Human World
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Science tells us mountains are giant piles of rock, formed millions of years ago. But that's not all they are. This hour, we'll remember a time whe...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF, KSPB Pebble Beach, WHRV and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Part Two: Plants As Persons
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Kinship With The More-Than-Human World
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If plants are intelligent beings, how should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral universe? Should they have rights?

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF, KSPB Pebble Beach, WHRV and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace
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Ghosts from the past stalk Europe again today in the wake of Russian tanks and missiles. To find a path forward, we might need to look back.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WHFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WLPR , KUNM and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
Where Are the Books for Boys? A Conversation With Teacher Misty Jobe and Writer Will Weaver
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
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Who is being represented in new books? We are celebrating and lifting diverse voices in new books, those that have long been silenced but in doing ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 14:21
669: The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace / 670: Jazz Migrations, 3/5/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace" - 1936 was an ominous year. A young George Orwell was headed to battle in Spain. But first, he plant...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
659: Our Time Of Mourning / 660: Hope: Where Does It Come From?, 1/29/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - Year three of the pandemic. Where should we go to mourn our losses? We'll look for answers from generations past...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
The Write Question - CAConrad
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet CAConrad discusses their latest collection: "AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration."

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


  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Arundhati Roy: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction and the Pandemic Portal
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Two years ago this month, the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in the United States. “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Jan 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
645: Reading While Young / 646: In Search Of Real Food, 12/11/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Reading While Young" - Having trouble reading? Maybe the answer is a younger read. We'll celebrate the new season of our "Bookmarks" mic...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:01
Amanda Jayatissa's Debut is a Dark Psychological Thriller
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Amanda Jayatissa grew up in Sri Lanka, attended college in California, and lived in the UK before moving back to Sri Lanka. She works as a corporat...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2021
  • Length: 12:53
Award-Winning Poet Martín Espada discusses advocacy in writing
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR celebrates the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, Martin Espada, whose new book FLOATERS tackles the social issue...

Bought by WCPN and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Vivisector Inside: On the Experimenting Animal
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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This Extended Version of “Captivating Animals” with Thalia Field includes a discussion of Émile Zola and his attempt to recreate in fiction the sci...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 16, 2021
  • Length: 01:23:38
  • Purchases: 1
Lana Harper Gets Witchy Revenge in Her New Novel Payback's a Witch
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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What do you get when you mix a revenge plot, but everyone is witches? And two of them fall for each other? You get Payback's a Witch, a sizzling, w...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2021
  • Length: 10:17
A Beautiful and Redemptive Novel: Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Anthony Doerr is the author of 6 books including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. His new novel is a masterpiece;...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2021
  • Length: 13:41
WorldCanvass: Dostoevsky, From Revolutionary Outcast to Man of God (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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This WorldCanvass explores the life, writings, and legacy of a giant in world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Two hundred years after his birth and...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 31:19
WorldCanvass: Dostoevsky, From Revolutionary Outcast to Man of God (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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This WorldCanvass explores the life, writings, and legacy of a giant in world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Two hundred years after his birth and...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:17
WorldCanvass: Dostoevsky, From Revolutionary Outcast to Man of God (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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This WorldCanvass explores the life, writings, and legacy of a giant in world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Two hundred years after his birth and...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 27:20
The Write Question - Caroline Patterson
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author Caroline Patterson talks about her brand new novel, "The Stone Sister."

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


  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
623: Finding Meaning In Desperate Times / 624: Pick Your Poison, 9/25/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Finding Meaning In Desperate Times" - The pandemic isn't just a health crisis, it's an x-ray into our psyches. This hour, how COVID-19 i...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
Conger Beasley Jr.: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features the Past American Voice of Conger Beasley Jr. whose last book, ON BECOMING APACHE, was published posthumously at th...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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