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Malcolm is back!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Kolkata Lit. Fest. audience, Credit: Sandip Roy
For the last two years the Kolkata Literary Meet has been a Zoom affair, but this year the audience is back and reminds Sandip just how important t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Crafting Spaces: Josina Manu Maltzman on Carpentry and Writing
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Josina Manu Maltzman, Credit: Photo Courtesy of Josina Manu Maltzman
How can a profession in the building trades lend itself to the craft of writing? And what does building a house have to do with social justice orga...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 05:53
The Presence of Pessoa - Part Two with Richard Zenith
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In the aftermath of the death of his father (by tuberculosis) and in the face of losing his mother to another country and a second husband, Fernand...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Presenting Pessoa - 1915
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is Presenting Fernando Pessoa with translator and biographer Richard Zenith. This first of two episodes focuses on Pessoa’s “breakout” yea...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2021
  • Length: 58:35
Like Coming Home
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn
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In the middle of the 20th century, a ten square block area in North Gowanus was home to the largest Mohawk settlement outside of Canada. We hear ab...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:17
Dispatch 349 - Queeristan
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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It was just two years ago that India Supreme Court decriminalized homosexuality, but the real hope for change might not lie in politics.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Dreams for a Better Future
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Yann Martel at the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet in pre-COVID times, Credit: Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet
How can we possibly dream of a better future in the middle of a pandemic? One way is with the help of literature.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Primal Surprise
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Let’s go rambling with Ambrose Bierce on this new episode of Desert Oracle Radio. We shall get a few travel tips, too, in case we want to stop off ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Books Are Not Dead
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 16:48
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Lehua Taitano - 405
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet Lehua Taitano discusses her collection "Inside Me An Island." She also reads from the book.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Motionpoems: Films of Pure Poetry
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Todd Boss, Credit: Kyndell Harkness
Mike Olson is a Minneapolis based composer who loves creating and performing music with vintage analogue electronic instruments. His fragment-based...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 06, 2019
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 1
#19-26 Literary Inspirations
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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Michael Daugherty's Tales of Hemingway and works by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Bought by KPOV, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
WoodSongs 948E: John Oates
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Caption: John Oates on the WoodSongs Stage
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcome one half of the best-selling duo of all time John Oates.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WLIW, WOUB, WLPR , RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 8
A QUIET PASSION -- Terence Davies interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Terence Davies talks ecstasy, unfairness, and avoiding narrative cul-de-sacs,

  • Added: May 05, 2017
  • Length: 17:41
Maureen Corrigan, author of "So We Read On"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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NPR's Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan discusses her book about the enduring appeal of "The Great Gatsby"

  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 30:50
Chad Harbach, author of "The Art of Fielding"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bestselling novelist Chad Harbach talks about his book with host Bob Kustra.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2016
  • Length: 30:26
Sheer Good Fortune (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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An interview with, and tribute to, Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. Also: The Civil Rights Movement and television. Plus: the singer Odetta.

Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 7
Sheer Good Fortune (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-A and interview with and tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. And more...

Bought by WCNY, RadioFreePalmer, KWMR, and WLIW


  • Added: Feb 12, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Francine Sterle: What Thread?
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Heidi Holtan speaks with Francine Sterle about poetry and loss in her new book of poems, "What Thread?"

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 08:35
William Kent Krueger: Cork O'Connor series, Windigo Island, Ordinary Grace, and the journey of writing
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Heidi Holtan speaks with William Kent Krueger about his 2013 novel, Ordinary Grace, the Cork O'Connor series, and the journey of writing. His next ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 11:49
THE END OF THE TOUR -- Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Jason Segel & James Ponsoldt, San Francisco, CA 5/2/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt talk misconceptions, epiphanies of genius, and the musician’s ear.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2015
  • Length: 16:12
MR. HOLMES -- Jeffrey Hatcher Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Jeffrey Hatcher, San Francisco, CA 4/25/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jeffrey Hatcher talks leaving things out, earning pauses, and why Holmes is a man for all seasons.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 16:40
The Wright Brothers with Special Guest David McCullough
From: Alan Duncan
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What can America learn for today from the Wright brothers? Don’t miss this fascinating interview with David McCullough on The Public Square®.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 57:26
Whitman at War
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The best of American poets and the worst of American wars met head-on 150 years ago this summer in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his reflections on nur...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WABE


  • Added: Jun 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 5
The John Updike Radio Files
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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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