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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
Top of Mind - Locking Letters, The Tolkien Heir, Crabs and Coral Reefs
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Before we had encrypted emails and security envelopes, people would protect their correspondence with fancy folding. Topic 2: How have J.R...

Bought by KSTK, RADIOLEX, KOWS, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 51:39
  • Purchases: 5
Top of Mind - Electric Woman, Sensory History, Mycelium Coffins
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Electric Woman; Topic 2 - Sensory History; Topic 3 - Mycelium Coffins

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 51:46
  • Purchases: 3
Novelist Anthony Grooms
From: New Letters on the Air
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Anthony Grooms, author of the novel BOMBINGHAM, reads from his recent novel, THE VAIN CONVERSATION, based on a 1946 lynching of two black couples i...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist and Non-Fiction Author Stewart O'Nan: Part Two
From: New Letters on the Air
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Stewart O'Nan, the author of 20 plus books including EMILY, ALONE and LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER, reads from his later novel, CITY OF SECRETS, and d...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Virginia Brackett
From: New Letters on the Air
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Virginia Brackett, the author of 15 books, discusses her 2019 family memoir, IN THE COMPANY OF PATRIOTS. She reveals how she used family stories, s...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series revisits Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Isabel Wilkerson, whose 2020 book, CASTE, is now a bestseller. ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WDCB, and WRKF


  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Cheers to All the Years
From: New Letters on the Air
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After 43 years of broadcasting, 2020 budget cuts may bring us to an end. This compilation program features audio from four decades of our archives ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
The Past American Voice of Ernest Gaines
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GNU_Free_Documentation_License,_version_1.2, Credit: S L O W K I N G
Black History Month continues with a tribute to one of America's best fiction writers, Ernest Gaines (1933-2019.This Past American Voices episode f...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Feb 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Tyehimba Jess
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pulitzer Prize winner Tyehimba Jess reads from his multi-award winning poetry book, OLIO, delving into the voices of African American creatives in ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Novelist and Non-Fiction Author Stewart O'Nan: Part One
From: New Letters on the Air
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Stewart O'Nan has written over 20 books as varied as the best-selling novel, SNOW ANGELS (now a film) to the non-fiction book co-written with Steph...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Sean Prentiss — "Finding Abbey" — and the way back home (Part One)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with author Sean Prentiss.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Ben Montgomery - 395
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Journalist Ben Montgomery talks history and unconventional pedestrianism in his book, "The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search fo...

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Novelist Larry Watson
From: New Letters on the Air
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While at the Woodneath Library Center, novelist Larry Watson reads from his tenth book, AS GOOD AS GONE, now out in paperback. He reveals how cowbo...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
The Pledge of Allegiance
From: John Messmer
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A reading of the original and current version of the Pledge of Allegiance.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 01:12
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 9 - Live from Fall for the Book - Passenger on the Pearl
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: Kendall, Vibha, and Gareth with author Winifred Conkling
The largest attempted slave escape on U.S. soil happened in SouthWest Washington, DC. That's the tale in "Passenger on the Pearl." Young readers d...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 39:45
Author Bill Natale on His New Book and Race Relations in Chicago
From: Awesome Vegans with Elysabeth Alfano
Series: The Dinner Party with Elysabeth Alfano
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Author of "1968: A Story As Relevant Today As It Was Then", Bill Natale sits down to discuss race relations in Chicago and his new book with Elysab...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 47:02
Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Jane Smiley
From: New Letters on the Air
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Jane Smiley discusses her 2014 book, SOME LUCK, the first in a trilogy that follows an Iowa farm family for more than a century. Smiley talks about...

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


  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 2
Tim O' Brien on war stories: "There's something that endures."
From: Graham Shelby
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Memorial Day can be tough for veterans - especially those who've served in combat. For some, the tributes and ceremonies exacerbate their struggle ...

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: May 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 2
Leopold Samuel Marks, January 15, 2001
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Marks was a British code maker in World War II. While still in his early twenties, in charge of wireless communication codes to espionage agents an...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 04:00
The Art of Ashley Shelby, Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat, we continue our two part interview and lecture series of Minnesota author Ashley Shelby. Ashley's book "Red River Risi...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 35:32
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Actor Sam Elliott perfectly reads passages from Twain's tribute to American boyhood. The program also includes commentary by Ken Burns, P.J. O'Rour...

Bought by KMUN, KREV-LP, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:16
  • Purchases: 6
A Lesson Before Dying: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Ernest J. Gaines poses one of the most universal questions a novel can ask: Knowing we're going to die, how should we live? This program features G...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KMUN, KPIP-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KQED


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 5
To Kill A Mockingbird: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Featuring commentary by actor Robert Duvall, playwright Horton Foote, NEA Jazz Master David Baker, and Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, among ot...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 19
A Conversation with Sean Wilentz about Bob Dylan, Part Two
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Part two of our conversation with Sean Wilentz, author of Bob Dylan in America.

Bought by Prairie Public, KMUN, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:46
  • Purchases: 3