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Nathaniel Philbrick winner of the 2000 National Book Award for his history In the Heart of the Sea talks about the glories of Moby-Dick

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

In his slim, lucid and compulsively readable book Why Read Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville...

Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WNJR

Added: Nov 21, 2014
Length: 28:30
Purchases: 4

American Sanctuaries

From: New Letters on the Air

NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR celebrates libraries with this audio anthology of poets, novelists, and memoirists who talk about how they found inspiration...

Bought by WNJR

Added: Oct 13, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

A Burnable Book (Half Hour Version)

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

Murder, mystery, and poetry come together in medieval scholar Bruce Holsinger’s new novel set in Chaucer’s London.

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMNF, WLIW and more

Added: May 30, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 6

“You sound like you’re not from around here.” (Half Hour Version)

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

Within seconds of hearing someone speak, we make judgments about that person and their background, just based on their accent.

Bought by WJCT and KVSC

Added: Sep 20, 2013
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

“You sound like you’re not from around here.” (Hour Long Version)

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

Within seconds of hearing someone speak, we make judgments about that person and their background, just based on their accent.

Bought by WCNY, KTSW 89.9, KREV-LP, WNJR, and WTJU

Added: Sep 20, 2013
Length: 53:51
Purchases: 5

The Beat: Joyce Sutphen - "Berryman's Hands"

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat

Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Berryman's Hands." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesot...

Added: Sep 09, 2013
Length: 02:03

From Combat to College (half hour)

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

With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. But the transition to aca...

Bought by WJCT and KCPW Salt Lake City

Added: Jun 28, 2013
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 2

Independent Book Stores Speak Up for the Written Word - on ThoughtCast!

From: Jenny Attiyeh

Caption: Kate Rosenberger@Dog Eared Books, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh

Be it a curmudgeonly Galwegian on the West coast of Ireland, an erudite scholar in Dublin or a literary motorcyclist 'flower child' of San Francisc...

Bought by KUT

Added: Dec 20, 2012
Length: 56:24
Purchases: 1

Culturology: "First Year" by J. O. Salls

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology

“First Year” is a 2011 novel by retired teacher, J.O. Salls. It’s the story of 23 year old English teacher, Robert Baker. The story takes us throug...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ

Added: Sep 10, 2012
Length: 11:23
Purchases: 2

Lincoln through Poetry

From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity

Quiddity explores Lincoln through poetry with guest - professor & poet, Dan Guillory, whose works include Living with Lincoln and The Lincoln Poems.

Added: Mar 15, 2012
Length: 29:00

Veterans in the College Classroom

From: With Good Reason

With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. Two writing professors ha...

Bought by KUOW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Jan 31, 2012
Length: 02:30
Purchases: 3

The Joy Luck Club: A Big Read Documentary

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read

A half-hour audio program that explores Amy Tan's gripping, The Joy Luck Club. It features Amy Tan and readings by actress Ming-Na from the film ad...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KZYX, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED and more

Added: Aug 12, 2011
Length: 28:55
Purchases: 6

Design Thinking, Collective Action and Peter Drucker

From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial

Caption: Roger Martin, Credit: rogerlmartin.com

Host Phalana Tiller interviews authors Roger Martin and James Quigley. And Bloomberg Businessweek online columnist Rick Wartzman delivers a piece ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM

Added: May 12, 2011
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 1

Hamburg Meets Chicago

From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network

Children's Rights are sometimes completely overlooked in our society. But things are changing Children are slowly getting the respect they deserve ...

Added: Jun 04, 2010
Length: 30:00

Faith Hickman Brynie, award-winning science and health writer

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

Brynie's latest book is the focus of this program: BRAIN SENSE: THE SCIENCE OF THE SENSES AND HOW WE PROCESS THE WORLD AROUND US.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WFIU, and Yellowstone Public Radio

Added: Apr 29, 2010
Length: 29:01
Purchases: 3

Portrait of an Artist: a semi-regular series

From: KUT
Series: Portrait of an Artist-a semi-regular series

Poet, Scholar and Artist Tomas Q. Morin talks about his life and career, and reads a few of his own works.

Added: Mar 17, 2010
Length: 10:59

I Write Because . . .

From: Jeff Deitchman

Ask people why they write and you'll hear many reasons. Here are some I hadn't expected.

Added: Feb 03, 2010
Length: 03:00

A Celebration of Southwest Storytellers - Part 2: Ortiz, Chavez and McGarrity

From: Paul Ingles

Writers associated with the Southwest United States - Denise Chavez, Michael McGarrity, and Simon Ortiz - talk about the major themes in their work...

Bought by KRZA