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Caption: 'Madonna Benois', Credit: Leonardo da Vinci
This 5 minute spoken word program presents some of the fables written by Leonardo da Vinci. It is part of the 76 episode series available on Public...

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Portrait Of A Young Woman', Credit: Botticelli
This 5 minute spoken word program pays tribute to the apologues of Bartolomeo Scala, a very prolific writer of great fables.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Portrait Of A Man', Credit: Dieric Bouts The Elder
This 5 minute spoken word program explores and celebrates the work of Bernadino Baldi. One of the four great authors of renaissance fables.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Allegory On Gluttony And Lust', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This 5 minute program utilizes the spoken word embedded in renaissance music to explore more of the fables of Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'The Garden Of Earthly Delights', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This program explores the fables of Bartolomeo Scala. He is one of the four great authors of renaissance fables explored in this series in 5 minute...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
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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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Episode Sixty-Two, Mary! Thank you for supporting all that episodic exposition! This episode we speak with romance novelist Mary Tate Engels. Autho...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:02