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We explore science fiction with excerpts from classics scored by MeriDean, and original kids' Sci Fi radio stories. Mixed with excellent music by i...
Bought by KCHU, KQRU FM LP, WCNY, RadioFreePalmer, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more
- Added: Nov 16, 2020
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 10
We explore science fiction with excerpts from classics scored by MeriDean, and original kids' Sci Fi radio stories. Mixed with excellent music.
- Added: Nov 13, 2020
- Length: 58:00
Kim Hines’ Young Adult Novella Wingo Fly (2020) revolves around Christy Wingo, a 10 year old Black girl in 1965 Minneapolis, Minnesota. The book is...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 21, 2020
- Length: 05:31
- Purchases: 1
Writer and actor Rupert Everett spoke recently with Sandip Roy for the Jaipur Lit. Festival about pandemics and sainthood.
- Added: Oct 13, 2020
- Length: 06:00
In 1989, "The Pillars of the Earth", book 1 of the Kingsbridge series was published and has since become Follett's most popular novel. The Kingsbri...
- Added: Oct 06, 2020
- Length: 12:13
Part 2 - The Homeless - WORD for WORDcast continues E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops." Written in 1909, this is a dystopian look at the future, wh...
- Added: Oct 01, 2020
- Length: 59:01
"Atomic Love" is Jennie Fields' new book. It’s a work of historical fiction set against the backdrop of Chicago after WW2, where we meet Rosalind P...
- Added: Sep 26, 2020
- Length: 09:30
In Part 2 - The Mending Apparatus - WORD for WORDcast continues E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops." Written in 1909, this is a dystopian look at th...
- Added: Sep 25, 2020
- Length: 58:58
The premier episode of the WORD for WORDcast! Written in 1909, this is E.M. Forster's dystopian look at the future, where everyone lives undergroun...
- Added: Sep 21, 2020
- Length: 59:01
San Francisco’s Word for Word Theater Company brings works of literature to the stage, performed verbatim by the multiple characters of the story. ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2020
- Length: 04:59
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes one of America's best songwriters Iris DeMent plus New Orleans folksinger...
Bought by KENW, KFCF FM, WRGY, High Plains Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more
- Added: Sep 03, 2020
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 26
Centuries after Cinderella meets Prince Charming, girls team up to overthrow the kingdom in this dark and imaginative retelling of the classic fair...
- Added: Sep 02, 2020
- Length: 13:31
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
Staff Librarian and What We're Reading producer Tammy Bobrowsky talks with writer Fiona Davis. Her new book is called The Lions of Fifth Avenue. It...
- Added: Aug 24, 2020
- Length: 11:12
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes multi-platinum singer-songwriter, poet and actress Jewel.
Bought by WVRU, WVTF, Angelica Community Radio, KKRN, KUAR and more
- Added: Aug 06, 2020
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 41
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
We hear from authors Kristin Higgins, Anne Enright, and David Pepper--they all have new novels to tell us about, and later in the show we’ll hear f...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 59:54
We hear from writer Brooke Fossey on her debut novel about seniors in an assisted living facility coming together to help a troubled young woman, i...
- Added: Jun 10, 2020
- Length: 59:52
We’ll hear from author Rachel Harrison--she’s written a female-centric horror story called The Return; Stephanie Wrobel explores a complicated moth...
- Added: Jun 10, 2020
- Length: 01:00:02
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
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
This program presents the living fables of renaissance writer Bartolomeo Scala. His emphasis on the exploration of human nature is refreshing.
- Added: May 15, 2020
- Length: 05:00
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
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
This program is a 5 minute spoken word exploration of renaissance fables. Leon Battista Alberti is one of the four great authors presented in this ...
- Added: May 14, 2020
- Length: 05:00
