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We've discovered some old gems in our radio archives and sprinkled them through a conversation with John Updike's biographer, Adam Begley, for our ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
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Featuring some totally pretty literature by Mike Young, Montreux Rotholtz, Ted Berrigan, Jeff Hipsher, Josephine Rowe, Eric Baus, and Elizabeth Bis...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 21:37
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Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...

Bought by WORT, WJCT, WTJU, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WCSU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
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Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...

Bought by WTJU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WUFT, KCMJ Community Radio, WEMU and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 10
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A radio drama adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'

  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 36:05
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Kristen Egan walks us through a creepy utopian novel from 1915, and explains why environmentalism and eugenics went hand in hand in the early 20th ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 4
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From Tolstoy to Lermontov, the program that’s putting the Russian classics to work—in a juvenile detention center.

Bought by WCNY, KPIP-LP, and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 53:50
  • Purchases: 3
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In his new novel, Kirk Kjeldsen tells the story of an ex-con who is trying to reinvent himself in a new place. The backdrop for the story is Shangh...

Bought by WCNY and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 2
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In his new novel, Kirk Kjeldsen tells the story of an ex-con who is trying to reinvent himself in a new place. The backdrop for the story is Shangh...

Bought by WJCT, WABE, and KVLU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
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A tornado that devastated Fayetteville, Tennessee the week author Clint McCown was born is the setting for his latest award-winning novel, Haints.

Bought by WJCT and KVLU


  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The say Sunday at 11am is the most segregated hour in America. But one of the nice things about this land of freedom to worship is that there seem...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:02
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First published in 1947, Goodnight Moon has become one of the most popular books for young children. Yet the book’s author, Margaret Wise Brown, al...

Bought by WJCT, XRAY.fm, WFHB, and KVLU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Comedian EUGENE MIRMAN. Documentarian D.A. PENNEBAKER. Musical guest STEVE POLTZ.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 28, 2012
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Comedian EUGENE MIRMAN. Documentarian D.A. PENNEBAKER. Musical guest STEVE POLTZ.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Oregon Public Broadcasting, 90.5 WESA, and WCPN


  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
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We debut this new series with a poet who was a charter member of "The Beat Poets," Gregory Corso.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
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The Icebox Radio Theater has been creating great stories about life in the Far-North since 2004. Award-winning, mind bending, spine chilling, laugh...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:01
  • Purchases: 1
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In this Cutting Edge Special, some of the work of late poet Louis Reyes is highlighted through live performances at WBAI and his show "Perspective"

  • Added: Apr 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:03
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The Icebox Radio Theater has been creating great stories about life in the Far-North since 2004. Award-winning, mind bending, spine chilling, laugh...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:02
  • Purchases: 1
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The Icebox Radio Theater has been creating great stories about life in the Far-North since 2004. Award-winning, mind bending, spine chilling, laugh...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:04
  • Purchases: 1
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The Icebox Radio Theater has been creating great stories about life in the Far-North since 2004. Award-winning, mind bending, spine chilling, laugh...

Bought by KRUA and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Robert Bly
Esteemed poet and translator, Robert Bly, is joined by sitarist David Whetstone in this public reading for the Midwest Poets Series. Bly reads a ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 28, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Anthony Burgess by David Levine, from The New York Review of Books
First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...

Bought by KRVS, KPIP-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
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This week on The Score with Edmund Stone: Shakespeare on the Silver Screen.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KPVL, WEKU, WNMU-FM, and WGDR


  • Added: Apr 21, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Why do we get so much pleasure from movies that frighten us out of their wits?

Bought by WLPR , WXXI Rochester, WXXI Rochester, KXOT Public Radio, and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Oct 24, 2008
  • Length: 29:44
  • Purchases: 5
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Look both ways before crossing into January. This week: how to greet the New Year.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2007
  • Length: 08:30