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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
This series of 76 programs explores the renaissance fables of four great authors. This program presents some of the work of Bartolomeo Scala.
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 05:00
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
Painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and poet - how can one man be so many things? And what did he keep in his basement?
- Added: Jun 01, 2016
- Length: 16:09
- Purchases: 2
Robert Wiltenbug surveys the great moments of mercy, both granted and withheld, in Shakespeare's many plays.
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 15:07
Zeb's just found a trailer which is lucky because crocobass tend to enjoy their prey while it's still alive.
- Added: Dec 27, 2015
- Length: 04:09
When Miss Havisham, a strange but wealthy old woman asks for Pip to come play, he has no choice but to go. What he experiences changes his life and...
- Added: Oct 14, 2015
- Length: 20:04
Finding Place in the Placelessness: Justin Hamm and Christina Olson talk with assistant editor John McCarthy about their experiences as editors for...
- Added: Mar 05, 2014
- Length: 15:53
John Lomax and his son Alan toured the South in the 1930s gathering music for the Library of Congress. Life then, and now, can be pretty tough in ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WWNO, Troy Public Radio, and KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 54:18
- Purchases: 4
Writer and Latino activist Luis J. Rodriguez was born in El Paso and grew up in East L.A. We went to talk Luis Rodriguez simply because he, and hi...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 22, 2014
- Length: 11:03
- Purchases: 1
We enlist the aid of noted scholar of autobiography, John Eakin, as we seek to answer Andrew Bird's question: where exactly does the self reside, i...
- Added: Jul 10, 2013
- Length: 28:26
KAXE contributor, Robert Jevne, shares "Cherries." A piece about a young woman's artistic venture with an intriguing direction.
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 01:26
Perhaps Rick Benjamin was nominated to host the show because he has just has this unmistakable GLOW...perhaps it's because of the way this energy i...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 44:14
Episode 1 features poet laureates Mark Strand, Gwendolyn Brooks and Ted Kooser discussing the art and craft of writing poetry and reading some of t...
Bought by WETS, WCPN, WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Kansas Public Radio and more
- Added: Mar 02, 2006
- Length: 01:04:02
- Purchases: 13
Kevin Matthews' short social commentary, a tongue-in-cheek take on Dr. Seuss
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Feb 19, 2006
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
Ritallin performs live: A passionate and erotic piece from one of Canada's best spoken word artists
- Added: Feb 19, 2006
- Length: :53
