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Maxine Klein's illustrious and provocative career
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Maxine Klein is an Obie Award-winning director known for her provocative political theater. She received a PhD from Cornell University, and began h...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 25, 2014
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
Book Talk: Adapted for the screen
From: WTIP
Series: Engaging Youth Through Radio Project
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After a hiatus, WTIP's Youth Radio Project's "Book Talk" feature is back on the air. This time, youth producers Haylie Anderson and Joceline Denewe...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 1
PALO ALTO -- Gia Coppola Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Gia Coppola, San Francisco, CA 5/2/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Gia Coppola talks collaboration, going with her gut, and using dreams as tools.

  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 08:56
Tova Mirvis reads from Visible City (5/29)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our readings for May. The setting may remind you of Hitchcock's Rear Window.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Susan Weinstein reads from Paradise Gardens (5/23)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. A dystopian novel.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Nancy Hightower reads from Elementari Rising (5/15)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Science fiction drama.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Daniel Levine reads from Hyde (5/12)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Revisiting a classic.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Julia Dahl reads from Invisible City: A Novel (5/9)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May; a daughter observes.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Sara Davidson reads from The December Project (5/1)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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Exploring life's grand mystery, part of our 100-second readings for MAY.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Saving Paradise (pledge drive edition)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Saving Paradise , Credit: Book cover
IdeaSphere … Saving Paradise: Author and environmental activist Mike Bond uses fiction to tell the real story of Hawaii’s fight against corporation...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 20:41
  • Purchases: 2
Jenifer Ringer: Dancing Through It -- My Journey In the Ballet
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: March 2014
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This is one example of our 21 weekday 100-second modules for March, 2014.... -- A new author each day reading a compelling passage from their new ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
Nothing Personal: A Novel of Wall Street
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Mike Offit
Set in the luxurious homes and clubs of New York, Hobe Sound, Dark Harbor, the Hamptons and Europe, Mike Offit’s debut novel is a story about comin...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 22:34
Snap 504: Pariah, 2/20/2014
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
Caption: Snap Judgment
When we are disparaged, ridiculed, attacked our natural response is a flight to safety to family, to friends, to tribe. But what if there's nowhere...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
A Conversation with John Collins, Founder, Elevator Repair Service
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Backstage with the director of Gatz, a play that takes as its text F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic of and about the Jazz Age. [36:04]

Bought by Harford Community Radio and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 36:05
  • Purchases: 2
47: The Heartbeat
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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A radio drama adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'

  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 36:05
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part I : Linda Hogan
From: Stanzi Vaubel
Series: The Gift
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This interview with Chickasaw poet Linda Hogan was one of the first that was done for The Gift poetry series. It dropped producer Stanzi Vaubel and...

Bought by PRX Remix and WSLR


  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 05:38
  • Purchases: 2
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part I : Chalotte Malin
From: Stanzi Vaubel
Series: The Gift
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At the beginning of The Gift series, Rachel Jamison Webster sent this email to series producer Stanzi Vaubel: "Stanzi, I would like you to contac...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 1
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part I : Jay Ponteri
From: Stanzi Vaubel
Series: The Gift
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If we are always changing, how do we enter into relation with another person? How do we evolve with someone else, instead of away from them? Jay P...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 05:41
  • Purchases: 1
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part I : Rachel Webster
From: Stanzi Vaubel
Series: The Gift
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“I Know Why I Make the Past a Destination,” Rachel begins, reminding us of the mystery of time – how sometimes we can “almost, but not quite, remem...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part I : Kwame Dawes
From: Stanzi Vaubel
Series: The Gift
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Imagination is the seed of empathy – a centrally important function – and both the gift and burden of the writer. Here The Gift series producer St...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part I : Stuart Dybek
From: Stanzi Vaubel
Series: The Gift
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Do we really understand metaphor? How much do we really engage with our world metaphorically? We all have days when a cup is just a cup, a tree is ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part I : Lois Lowery
From: Stanzi Vaubel
Series: The Gift
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In an interview with The Gift series producer Stanzi Vaubel, writer Lois Lowry talked about memory. In her novel, The Giver, one person holds the m...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 06:13
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part I : Jennifer Steele
From: Stanzi Vaubel
Series: The Gift
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Chicago is home to many organizations that help young people to express themsleves, including Young Chicago Authors, After School Matters, Street-L...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 03:33
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part I : Joy Harjo
From: Stanzi Vaubel
Series: The Gift
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“When I first read Joy Harjo's poetry it was like stepping outside of my own story, my own life which narrates and puts me at the center of every e...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 2
Chicago Public Radio's The Gift Part II : FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER
From: Stanzi Vaubel
Series: The Gift
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When you mention T.S. Eliot and then refer to texts like The Waste Land or his magnum opus The Four Quartets you generally elicit discomfort, anger...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 31:33

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