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2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. On this episode of Don't Cha Know we discuss the importance of ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2018
- Length: 26:23
Karen Turman, Assistant Professor of French at Winona State University, compares Prince to a 19th Century French Dandy.
- Added: Oct 04, 2017
- Length: 50:38
Jim Robbins discusses his new nonfiction book, "The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, The World, And A Better Future." He also re...
Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KSJD
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Historical Jesus scholar makes the case for Christians to retire the argument that Jesus was a fulfillment of prophecy.
- Added: Aug 25, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
Roshan Abraham, assistant professor of classics and religious studies, traces the many ways religion influences, shapes, and appears in comics.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KVSC
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 13:34
- Purchases: 2
The Fifth Symphony opens very famously with four memorable notes. Beethoven was asked what he meant by this opening and he’s said to have replied, ...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 59:18
- Added: Apr 04, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
The world's largest bus station, and a bus driver who wanted to be God.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 54:12
- Purchases: 1
The best of Stephen Sondheim from "West Side Story" to "Into The Woods"
Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WVTF, and WRR
- Added: Mar 26, 2016
- Length: 58:09
- Purchases: 3
Professors Derek Hirst and Steven Zwicker discuss the life and work of Andrew Marvell.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 16:04
Have YOU heard about the bird and how it changed Minnesota music forever? Well, in today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota,...
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 30:44
A 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Ellen Bryant Voigt talks with fellow poet and professor, Michelle Boisseau, about her collection HEADWATERS. Voigt...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 30:30
- Purchases: 1
Nathan Ward, who was an editor with American Heritage, has written for The New York Times and other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, n...
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 12:44
Joe Loewenstein describes the small and highly competitive theater scene in which Early Modern playwrights like William Shakespeare flourished.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 14:06
Robert Henke tracks Shakespeare back to his Italian inspirations and uncovers sources for his early comedies.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 12:26
Musa Gurnis describes the characteristics and lasting influence of theater in Shakespeare's time.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 13:50
A shelterbelt is a line of trees, meant to protect from the wind and snow. Farmers plant them to keep fields from eroding or topsoil from blowing a...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 15:07
- Purchases: 1
According to or my guest, Alan Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” We track three “subversives” in our progra...
- Added: Nov 03, 2015
- Length: 57:14
TJ English is an award winning journalist and screenwriter.
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 16:14
It’s the rare writer who can pick up where Albert Camus — master of midcentury philosophy and fiction — left off in the modern classic, The Outside...
- Added: Jun 26, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
Poems and music reflecting the poetry of baseball and golf.
- Added: May 16, 2015
- Length: 01:01:13
The mystery over what the falcon really is, whether it even existed, and why it has any value has remained so compelling, in fact, that over the ye...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 05, 2015
- Length: 09:15
- Purchases: 1
We take you to Lanesboro MN's Ibsen Fest 2014 with a talk by Proessor Mark Sandberg. Sandberg is the current president of The Ibsen Society of Amer...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Sep 05, 2014
- Length: 29:05
- Purchases: 1
David Bromwich introduces us to the conservative hero Edmund Burke, the 18th-century British statesman who befriended the American Revolution, hate...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 58:36
- Purchases: 1
Morgan Douglas is a seventh grader at Schoolcraft. She's an avid reader whenever she has a spare moment between assignments she's reading. She like...
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 01:24
