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891: Deep Time: How Earth keeps time / 892: Hope: Where does it come from?, 4/20/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: How Earth keeps time" - No one understands time like a geologist. And with the climate convulsing and the future breathing do...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
831: Reframing The Portrait / 832: Writing As A Political Act, 9/23/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Reframing The Portrait" - Have you ever stood in front of a portrait at a museum and wondered what was that person thinking? Portraits h...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
757: The Hidden Geometry Of Everything / 758: African Cities Of The Future, 1/7/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
751: Writing As A Political Act / 752: Jazz Migrations, 12/17/2022
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: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
699: You're Not OK. That's OK. / 700: Difficult Summer Reading, 6/18/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "You're Not OK. That's OK." - One of our producers created a yard sign. It reads: "You're not OK. That's OK." 300 signs later, it's causi...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
How to Be Anti-Fascist: Muriel Rukeyser and The Life of Poetry
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A BAGGAGE TICKET FROM RUKEYSER’S TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGE FROM NEW YORK TO LONDON (1936)
Our show centers on the book The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser which can be seen as an anti-fascist manifesto pitting poetry - the poetic as a ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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
Dispatch 321: 44th Kolkata Book Fair
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: The police patrolling the Kolkata Book Fair, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip takes us to one of his favorite places, the Kolkata Book Fair, now in it’s 44th year!

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
PN 16-09 “Black Flowers” by Norma Cole
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Norma Cole, poet
Norma Cole meditates on the Syrian refugee crisis.

Bought by KVNO, PRX Remix, KALW, KENW, and KHSU


  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Year of the Woman (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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- In Virginia, an unprecedented number of women were elected to the House of Delegates last year. We hear from some of those women about what it wa...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, KXCV and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
Episode #5: "Law, Literature & Racism: Zeta Style"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
Caption: Stanford Literature Professor Ramon Saldívar, Credit: Marcos Nájera
In the end, we wrap up our series at the beginning. Host Marcos Nájera reports on what he’s learned about Oscar Zeta Acosta. And the contributions ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 17:24
Episode #4: "A Vandalized Voice"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
Caption: Rolling Stone book publisher Alan Rinzler at home in Berkeley., Credit: Marcos Nájera
The men in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers? You never know—some say Zeta was a constant chameleon in life, love, and the law. ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 16:59
The Golden Age of Flattery (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-A new book "Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy" investigates how we lose sight on how destructive that behavior can be. -Managers who...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMUN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 9
The Golden Age of Flattery (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-A new book "Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy" investigates how we lose sight on how destructive that behavior can be. -Managers who...

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Obligations of a Freeman
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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'Obligations of a freeman', a serious sermon by a humorous and anti-religious Mark Twain...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:35:32
Pulitzer 100: If You Like the Truth (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson on his career as journalist and historian.

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KFAI Minneapolis, KWMR, KVSC and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Long Shadow of Forrest Carter
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
Caption: Forrest Carter
Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 15:54
  • Purchases: 1
Poetic Port of Entry
From: Eve Abrams
Caption: Meena 3
Meena means "port of entry" in Arabic -- a fitting name for the journal of poetry, art, and literature produced in the ports of New Orleans, Louisi...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2010
  • Length: 05:34
An Angel-headed Hipster's Howl
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Fifty year's after the publication of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" and its subsequent obscenity trial, poets and friends look back at its origins, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, KRZA, KSFR, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
The Global Condition
From: Lydon McGrath Productions
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This is hour 1 from The Whole Wide World: a 7-part series on Globalization

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1