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Funeral services for New Jersey’s last poet laureate, Amiri Baraka, was held at Newarks’ Symphony Hall earlier this week with several thousand peop...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 01:00:02
When he was 18 years old, Joe McCrossen up and left Cape Cod. Now, at 23, he’s back home and saving up money for his next big adventure. But instea...
Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 07:54
- Purchases: 2
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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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
If you think you want to launch a new poetry slam, first take a walk through the Bay Area. Your cutting edge idea may have already been done. In Sa...
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 10:24
From Tolstoy to Lermontov, the program that’s putting the Russian classics to work—in a juvenile detention center.
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 53:50
- Purchases: 3
"The Fall Of The House Of Usher" starring Kevin Sorbo, John Billingsley, Bonita Friedericy and Jim O'Rear. An Audio Drama adaptation of the classic...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Aug 07, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
China is everywhere in American news, but we seem to hear the same stories over and over. A new book set in Shanghai seeks to tell a less familiar ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 02:32
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 01:05
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 01:36
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 01:25
Poet Elise Rosen reads five original poems, a mix of words, sounds and music.
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 05:00
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...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 2
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...
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 3
A tornado that devastated Fayetteville, Tennessee the week author Clint McCown was born is the setting for his latest award-winning novel, Haints.
- Added: Jul 12, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
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
In 1964, Southern man-of-letters Robert Penn Warren traveled the country with an old reel-to-reel tape recorder and spoke with dozens of men and wo...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 08:50
- Purchases: 1
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...
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
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
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
- Added: Mar 02, 2013
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 1
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
A man wakes up in the middle of the night after a dream about a girl with short brown hair named Sloan Fisher. He gets out a phonebook and a bottle...
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 17:50
The Cactus Cafe was packed for this magical evening. We hope you enjoy this Views and Brews Remix highlighting four of Cohen’s tunes along with the...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Nov 26, 2012
- Length: 01:24:21
- Purchases: 1
Well, well, here we are again. Another episode hits the airwaves or cyber-lanes, whichever you like, we’re there for you!
We’re all the way up to e...
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 28:02
- Added: Sep 28, 2012
- Length: 55:02
- Purchases: 1
