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Can't Look... Have To Look (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

How gratuitous violence is increasingly turning off viewers - Why German detectives are pacifists - Godzilla's hidden messages

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KKRN, WUGA (part of GPB), WNMU-FM and more

Added: Jan 06, 2017
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 7

Pulitzer100: Natasha Trethewey On Native Guard (promo)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo

A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...

Added: Dec 09, 2016
Length: :30

Pulitzer100: Natasha Trethewey On Native Guard (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WMUU-LP, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Dec 09, 2016
Length: 53:56
Purchases: 4

Pulitzer100: Natasha Tretheway On Native Guard (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

A conversation with former U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning Natasha Trethewey.

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, KRDP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

Added: Dec 09, 2016
Length: 28:58
Purchases: 10

Playwright & Performer Anna Deavere Smith

From: New Letters on the Air

Dramatist Anna Deavere Smith discusses her technique of interviewing real people to use their stories on stage. She talks about the School to Priso...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR

Added: Dec 01, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Bob Dylan: Listen To The Words

From: Paul Ingles

Another hour of Dylan's most literate work, hosted by Paul Ingles, to further mark his winning the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KAAD-LP, KMSU, KMUW, WRGY and more

Added: Oct 28, 2016
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 10

Bob Dylan: Writers' Favorites

From: Paul Ingles

Music writers, musicians and Bob Dylan fans were invited to write to music host Paul Ingles with a choice of a Dylan track since mid-1975 that they...

Bought by WNCW, KMSU, KRCU Public Radio, Radio Catskill, WRGY and more

Added: Oct 14, 2016
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 14

Part Two: Teaching a Tribal College

From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique

Previously on CC, we brought you Part One of “How Teaching at a Tribal College Changed My Life—Or at Least My Teaching” with Winona State Universit...

Added: Jul 20, 2016
Length: 27:05

Barry Lopez, Arctic Nature Writer

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

Fourth in a four-part series on authors who write about the ocean and the natural world.

Added: May 24, 2016
Length: 05:12

Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

Caption: "The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot", Credit: Robert Macfarlane

In the third of a four-part series on writers who have shaped his interest in the ocean and the natural world, host Peter Neill reads from essayist...

Bought by KRZA

Added: May 16, 2016
Length: 05:03
Purchases: 1

Translating Dante

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings

Poet Mary Jo Bang explores the process of translating Dante Alighieri's Inferno, and professor Jessica Rosenfeld explains the origins of literature.

Added: Mar 10, 2016
Length: 20:23

2016 Features Editor of THE NATION Kai Wright

From: New Letters on the Air

The 2016 Features Editor of THE NATION, Kai Wright, discusses his 2009 anthology, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE THROUG...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WNJR

Added: Feb 25, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Holiday Episode: At the Fishhouses

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

At the close of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen not only for its ...

Bought by Raven Radio

Added: Dec 29, 2015
Length: 04:57
Purchases: 1

O my Homunculus

From: Pop Up Archive
Series: Popcast

In this Popcast, hear about the surprising podcast-like feel of a 1972 radio documentary about Sylvia Plath.

Added: Sep 15, 2015
Length: 04:38

Moon and Ocean

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill recently witnessed a beautiful full moon rise from an island perch in Maine. The silent, stealthy way that it ro...

Added: Sep 14, 2015
Length: 05:11

Harper Lee' s American Mirror

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook

Twenty four hours or so have passed since a portrait of the older Atticus Finch as a bigot, complaining about the integration of “Negroes” into th...

Added: Jul 16, 2015
Length: 04:07

TSR15-08 The Trouble Notes & Blue Canvas Orchestra

From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio

Gypsy jazz from Berlin, Germany along with Big Top Chautauqua's very own Blue Canvas Orchestra.

Bought by KALH, KMSU, WDSE, KSRQ, WRNC-LP and more

Added: Feb 13, 2015
Length: 59:30
Purchases: 8

Mottainai

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

The Japanese word "Mottainai" refers to the essence of things, and suggests that objects do not exist in isolation, rather that they are intrinsica...

Added: Feb 02, 2015
Length: 05:31

Will Rogers

From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler

This show examines the life and times of Will Rogers who said, "I never met a man I didn't like"

Added: Jan 10, 2015
Length: 02:38:06

Episode One - Fan Mail

From: Binnie Klein
Series: The Thread: Conversations with Arts and Culture Makers

In the age of texts, twitter and email, do people still write fan letters? What compels us to do so?

Added: Dec 24, 2014
Length: 29:40

Pranking Emily Dickenson

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Writing from History

Poet Paul Legault shares how he challenged the norms of translation in his interpretations of Emily Dickinson's poetry.

Added: Oct 29, 2014
Length: 14:00

Untethered Histories

From: Hold That Thought
Series: Writing from History

Historical fiction is an ongoing balance between fact and fiction, but what if the story takes place outside of reality? Author Sarah Shun-Lien Byn...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI