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A Confrontation with History (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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As a Black literary scholar, Shermaine Jones was unsure of how to live and work through the Covid-19 pandemic and the George Floyd uprisings.

Bought by KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Celebrating Reproductive Choice: Felicia Kornbluh, A WOMAN’S LIFE IS A HUMAN LIFE & Dolen Perkins-Valdez, TAKE MY HAND
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with historian Felicia Kornbluh about her book, A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
A Personal History of Modern Ireland with Fintan O’Toole
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Fintan O’Toole about his scathing — and tender — personal history of modern Ireland, We Don’t Know Ourselves. Then we hear Seamus Hean...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
2309: Montaigne and the Art of the Essay, 2/28/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How did Michel de Montaigne (born February 28, 1533) invent a new way to do philosophy?

  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-02-26 Montaigne and the Art of the Essay
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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If philosophy is a way of life, what kind of writing best helps us live it?

Bought by KMUN, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
MN Reads: "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself" by David Mura
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author David Mura talks about his new book "The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself"

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 17:13
The Visitors' Center (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the summer of 1982, a group of six paraplegic men set out to climb the highest natural peak in Dallas, Texas.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, KCHW, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Visitors' Center (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the summer of 1982, a group of six paraplegic men set out to climb the highest natural peak in Dallas, Texas.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KUT, WXDU, CHSR-FM 97.9, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Visitors' Center (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the summer of 1982, a group of six paraplegic men set out to climb the highest natural peak in Dallas, Texas.

Bought by WTJU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KEDT, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Visitors' Center (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In the summer of 1982, a group of six paraplegic men set out to climb the highest natural peak in Dallas, Texas.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Novelist Geraldine Brooks
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer, Geraldine Brooks talks about her 2015 book, THE SECRET CHORD. This historical novel about the Biblical King...

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


  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Five Senses (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 19th century American cities, the smell of rapid industrial growth was overwhelming. This was particularly concerning, because at the time, peop...

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, KCHW, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Five Senses (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In 19th century American cities, the smell of rapid industrial growth was overwhelming. This was particularly concerning, because at the time, peop...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WJCU, WFHB, CHSR-FM 97.9 and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Five Senses (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 19th century American cities, the smell of rapid industrial growth was overwhelming. This was particularly concerning, because at the time, peop...

Bought by WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KEDT and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
The Five Senses (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In 19th century American cities, the smell of rapid industrial growth was overwhelming. This was particularly concerning, because at the time, peop...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Troy Public Radio, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
MN Reads: “The Sky Watched” by Linda LeGarde Grover
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Poet Linda LeGarde Grover talks about the book “The Sky Watched”

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 08:29
MN Reads: “Murder at Minnesota Point” by Jeffrey M. Sauve
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Jeffrey Sauve talks about his new book “Murder at Minnesota Point"

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 10:36
MN Reads: “Duluth’s Grand Old Architecture 1870-1940” by Tony Dierckins and Maryanne C. Norton
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Tony Dierckins talks about “Duluth’s Grand Old Architecture 1870-1940” his new book co-authored by Maryanne C. Norton

  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 12:21
2022-07-17 Walter Benjamin and the Re-Enchanted World
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can we find enchantment without sacrificing reason?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Past American Voice of novelist E.L. Doctorow
From: New Letters on the Air
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E.L. Doctorow passed away in July 2015, but left behind twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage drama, winning most of the major...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KAAD-LP, WNJR, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Books Unbanned
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Book bans and challenges have been on the rise in the past few years. When BPL launched a free eCard to give out-of-state teens access to our eBook...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2022
  • Length: 25:25
2022-06-12 Jean-Paul Sartre
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The father of Existentialism was born on June 21, 1905.

Bought by KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 13, 2022
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
Prize Winning Fiction Writer George Saunders
From: New Letters on the Air
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George Saunders, the renowned short story writer, talks about his debut novel, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, winner of Britain's 2017 Man Booker Prize for ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
The Grapes of Wrath
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A short book review

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
Newton's Annotator (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A lot of the day’s popular shows like Lovecraft Country and Watchmen have their roots in Black newspapers.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, WRGY and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 7