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After 9/11
From: New Letters on the Air
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This Classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features a look back at the importance of poetry after 9/11 with readings by Arab-American Naomi Shihab Nye, no...

Bought by WGCU, WDCB, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Julia Fine, THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE & Lisa Scottoline, ETERNAL
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Julia Fine about her genre-bending novel The Upstairs House. It’s about a new mother’s postpartum depression—and her obsession with th...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Just in time for Halloween---Kiersten White's The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Author Kiersten White's retelling of the Mary Shelley's classic novel from the point of view of Mrs. Frankenstein.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:36
Frankenfest! Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
Caption: Jim Armstrong, Andrea Wood, Anne-Marie Dunbar
2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. On this episode of Don't Cha Know we discuss the importance of ...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2018
  • Length: 26:23
Giving Account: Thoreau at 200
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Thoreau's grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery , Credit: Doug Storm
On this occasion of the birth of Thoreau we are forced to confront the vexed nature of our reception of his genius. So many of us hate Thoreau, whi...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 58:05
Give War and Peace a Chance (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Next year marks the 150th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy’s great Russian tome, War and Peace. While the novel’s great length scares many readers away, ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Give War and Peace a Chance (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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January 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. A new book offers Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times...

Bought by WCNY, KPVL, CHSR-FM 97.9, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WFHB and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 8
Give War and Peace a Chance (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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January 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. A new book offers Tolstoyan wisdom for troubled times...

Bought by WJCT, WCPN, KRDP, and WLIW


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
MONTANA THEN AND NOW
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Hear fascinating facts about Montana's 150 years as a territory and a state during this interview with Aaron Parrett, author of MONTANA THEN AND NOW.

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


  • Added: Jul 11, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Culture Shock 1913
From: WNYC
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What a year was 1913! Many have called it the true beginning of 20th century culture. From New York, where the first large-scale show of modern ar...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KPIK-LP, WFMT Station Account, WGBH Radio Boston, KZYX and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 33
Lincoln through Poetry
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
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
A Conversation with Tim O'Brien
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Tim O'Brien, who served in Vietnam, talks his novel (and Big Read selection) The Things They Carried and how fiction can often tell a deeper trut...

Bought by KPIP-LP, RadioFreePalmer, and KBBI Alaska


  • Added: Nov 10, 2011
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 3
What's the Word? The African Novel
From: Modern Language Association
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An exploration of the African novel

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
What's the Word? Shakespeare after 9/11
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Remembering 9/11
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A look at how the events of September 11th changed the way we read Shakespeare's plays about politics and leadership.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KFOK-LPFM, KSFR, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 6
What's the Word? Returning Veterans
From: Modern Language Association
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Three powerful films about American veterans returning home.

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Oct 30, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 4
Finding My Kerouac: On the Road at Mid-Life
From: David Berner
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This documentary is about two men who, at mid-life, re-read Kerouac's book and get behind the wheel for a 4000 mile road trip of reflection and di...

Bought by WUSM, WGBH Radio Boston, WVPE, KZYX, WKSU and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2007
  • Length: 57:05
  • Purchases: 7