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This is the first of five episode charting the life, career and influence of filmmaker Whit Stillman during the rise of a new American auteur movem...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 54:00
'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 09:06
Andy Truscott speaks with Greg Hammond, an author from Wilmington, Delaware – and one of the Delaware Division of the Arts’ 2022 Emerging Individua...
- Added: Oct 12, 2022
- Length: 22:13
Have you ever thought about dropping everything to pursue your passion? Susanne Papawassiliu profiles Mike Powers who left his life in Florida behi...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 28:48
- Purchases: 1
The final episode of this series. Spoon and Matthew perform an excerpt from a play by Spoon. Spoon and his brother Abe talk about their dad, Matthe...
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
Spoon talks about his love for Star Trek and the day his TV was taken from him. Matthew visits a Star Trek fan club.
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
First episode. Spoon talks about growing up in the desert, reads a poem about maggots and a pig, and Matthew visits his parents.
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
This program explores the collaboration between author, teacher and activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician, songwriter and singer Gregory Hoskins....
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Nov 03, 2019
- Length: 29:34
- Purchases: 1
This program explores the collaboration between author, teacher and activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician, songwriter and singer Gregory Hoskins....
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Nov 03, 2019
- Length: 29:34
- Purchases: 1
This episode, two stories from the U.S. borders. The first, from Javier Zamora, who crossed into the U.S. without his parents when he was nine year...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 36:40
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Great River Regional L...
- Added: Jul 12, 2018
- Length: 29:02
Ray Bradbury's best work... the movie's opening credits were done with audio voiceover while antennas (and no words) grace the opening screen...
- Added: Feb 18, 2017
- Length: 02:12:23
In the 100th episode of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack enjoys a pleasant Saturday afternoo...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Sep 29, 2016
- Length: 29:43
- Purchases: 1
Pirates love the water. It’s their sustenance, it’s their highway, it’s their haven. Lester Blackiston loved the water. As a matter of fact, I didn...
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 27:08
Blackbeard the pirate may have had as many as 14 wives, the last one being a 16 year old girl who he gave to his crew after he deflowered her. It w...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 25:45
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 26:15
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 24:46
This is the story of a dead man. He gave up the ghost a few years ago. And some who knew him might say he never had a ghost to give up in the first...
- Added: Jul 22, 2016
- Length: 26:09
Philip Armand misses an opportunity to share cake with Sir Terence Conran because he has his head up his A@%.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 06:13
For many, Cape Cod means sunshine and sandy beaches. But to one West Barnstable writer and producer, the Cape means foggy cemeteries at night, dang...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 04:36
“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture” is a problematic statement: not just because nobody can agree on who came up with it, but ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 27:04
- Purchases: 3
Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of rare books have been disappearing across America since the late 90s, and haven’t resurfaced in the marke...
- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 21:34
- Purchases: 2
Melvin McCosh was a poet, musician and bookstore owner who sold out of his home, and later in Dinkytown and the West Bank. KFAI producer Britt Aamo...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 06:02
- Purchases: 1
Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack continues with Part 2 of KVSC’s 36th Annual Trivia Weekend, Game of Trivia: A Quest for Futile Fac...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 32:03
- Purchases: 1
Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack takes us on a two part journey through KVSC’s 36th Annual Trivia Weekend, Game of Trivia: A Quest ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 29:42
- Purchases: 1
