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Did you really want to eat that last piece of cake, or were you secretly thinking about your mother?

  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: 53:58
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John Steinbeck's masterpiece of hard times and hope in 1930's America.

Bought by KCHW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 37
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Do Shakespearean dramas have more in common with modern-day soap operas than we think?

  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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In Good Faith welcomes two guests to discuss "Rumi: Studying the Sun".

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 52:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Who decides what makes a language? In countries all over the world, there are official organizations with that job–in France, Croatia, India, Denma...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KECG, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Who decides what makes a language? In countries all over the world, there are official organizations with that job–in France, Croatia, India, Denma...

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Who decides what makes a language? In countries all over the world, there are official organizations with that job–in France, Croatia, India, Denma...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows three different women as they find safety in books in The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan.

Bought by WUTC, RADIOLEX, WCNY, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
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On this episode, we talked about the book "The Past is Always Present," which documents Orthodox chant practices among the monasteries of Mount Ath...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2024
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, not even Al Capone was more notorious than two well-educated and highly intelligent Jewi...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:28
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Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 22:02
  • Purchases: 1
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This Black History Month special episode features the 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, writer and poet Saeed Jones, and music from singer-so...

Bought by KUT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WLPR , WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
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Jack Kerouac’s influence on American literature cannot be overstated, particularly as a leader of the Beat movement and his connection to the post...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 10:26
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Herman Wouk, a literary giant renowned for his profound engagement with historical themes, is influential in World War II literature. His magnum op...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 08:38
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Author Sue Leaf talks about her new book "Impermanence"

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 08:20
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This is my reading of my own short story. It is a sort of horror story set in Victorian London.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 13:36
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HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time" - When you’re on the clock, the hours disappear. Time scarcity is making us and the planet sick. But the...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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Mark Jamilkowski is the new author of a historical fiction novel about surviving World War II and the Cold War, murder, earthquakes, and abuse. At...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2023
  • Length: 16:26
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On this episode, we talked about the new book by Rachel Beckles Willson, called "The Oud: An Illustrated History." This book might be the first in-...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Dec 23, 2023
  • Length: 27:42
  • Purchases: 1
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It’s almost impossible to look back on family road trips without thinking of Cracker Barrel.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
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It’s almost impossible to look back on family road trips without thinking of Cracker Barrel.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Royalton Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KHEN-LP


  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
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It’s almost impossible to look back on family road trips without thinking of Cracker Barrel.

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, and WUGA (part of GPB)


  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Poet and translator D.M. (Darby) Bradford discusses their sophomore collection "Bottom Rail on Top."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Despite being one of the most frequently banned authors, Toni Morrison’s work has inspired countless others to tell stories outside the mainstream....

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 23:18
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On this episode of PEACE TALKS RADIO, correspondent Priyanka Shankar talks to author J. Lawrence Graham...who's brought his own military experien...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1