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The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part II): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish Studies (University of Notre Dame)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: From Episode 15: The Centennial of W.B. Yeats’ The Second Coming (Part 2): Things Fall Apart Today (Much Like A Century Ago). Featuring our discussion with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, Prize-winning documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish
Exactly one hundred years ago this month, at a time of political polarization and the Spanish Flu pandemic, William Butler Yeats published “The Sec...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 27:15
"The Creature in the Attic"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bev Shorts
Caption: Joe Bev reads "The Creature in the Attic", Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
A short fiction by Pedro Pablo Sacristan, read by Joe Bevilacqua. Great for Halloween, Christmas Day (Rod Serling's birthday), the anniversary of...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 07:36
Culture Shock 1913
From: WNYC
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What a year was 1913! Many have called it the true beginning of 20th century culture. From New York, where the first large-scale show of modern ar...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KPIK-LP, WFMT Station Account, WGBH Radio Boston, KZYX and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 33
The Amazing True Story of Paul Revere
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Caption: Paul Revere by Copley
On the 240th anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride, re-visiting the Longfellow poem. What did Longfellow get right or wrong? Who rode that night...

Bought by KUT and Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 2
Chronicles of William Hone (week of December 30, 2007)
From: Vince Hancock
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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
The Beat Goes On - part 5
From: 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
Series: The Beat Goes On - "On the Road" at 50
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part 5 of 5

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2007
  • Length: 09:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat Goes On - part 4
From: 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
Series: The Beat Goes On - "On the Road" at 50
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part 4 of 5

Bought by KZYX and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2007
  • Length: 08:40
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat Goes On - part 3
From: 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
Series: The Beat Goes On - "On the Road" at 50
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part 3 of 5

Bought by KZYX and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2007
  • Length: 09:21
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat Goes On - part 2
From: 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
Series: The Beat Goes On - "On the Road" at 50
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part 2 of 5

Bought by KZYX and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2007
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat Goes On - part 1
From: 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station
Series: The Beat Goes On - "On the Road" at 50
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Part 1 of 5

Bought by KZYX and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 26, 2007
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Imagination is the Instrument of Compassion
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Of the many books which have appeared in new genre which has been called “post-9/11 fiction” one of the most striking is Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Ex...

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: Sep 01, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
SubwayLand
From: WFUV
Series: Subculture Series
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New York Times columnist Randy Kennedy finds his writing muse underground

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 2