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8 Jul: Shelley: Goth, Genius, Infidel
From: Matt Hill
Series: Today In History - with The Retrospectors
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Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned off the coast of Tuscany on 8th July, 1822. His wife, Mary Shelley, waited an agonizing ten days to disc...

  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 10:08
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
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part II): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish Studies (University of Notre Dame)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: From Episode 15: The Centennial of W.B. Yeats’ The Second Coming (Part 2): Things Fall Apart Today (Much Like A Century Ago). Featuring our discussion with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, Prize-winning documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish
Exactly one hundred years ago this month, at a time of political polarization and the Spanish Flu pandemic, William Butler Yeats published “The Sec...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 27:15
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Peter Balakian
From: New Letters on the Air
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Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Peter Balakian talks about his 2010 book, ZIGGURAT-- a contemplation on architecture, visual arts, his personal experi...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Perfect World
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Victor Considerant, with tail, Credit: Eric Molinsky
A French philosopher was certain his ideas would help human beings evolve -- not just emotionally or psychologically. We would grow tails. In this ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 17:22
  • Purchases: 3
The Untold Story of International Holocaust Remembrance Day with Michael Berenbauym
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Michael Berenbaum as he comes to the St. Cl...

Bought by KWIT


  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Happy 90th Birthday Tintin!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy remembers his boyhood fascination with Hergé's famous comic, Tintin

  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
#1582 - Jill Lepore, 11/13/2018
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
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A new, single volume of history sets out to explore the experiment in government that is the United States. Award-winning Harvard historian Jill Le...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2018
  • Length: 25:00
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
Poet Takes the Pole: The Reemergence of an Official Poet at the Indy 500
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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When you think of the Indianapolis 500, poetry probably isn’t the first thing to come to mind. The race hasn’t had an official poet since 1920, whe...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2016
  • Length: 09:48
Rabin is a Cat
From: Israel Story
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Etgar Keret, an author and a regular contributor to our show, lives less than a ten minute walk from Kikar Malchey Israel, the square where Rabin w...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 20:08
WorldCanvass: Don Quixote's Four Century Saga (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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The four century saga of knight-errant Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza kicks off the new season of WorldCanvass. Host Joan Kjaer and Worl...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 23:53
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Don Quixote's Four Century Saga (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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The four century saga of knight-errant Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza kicks off the new season of WorldCanvass. Host Joan Kjaer and World...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 26:02
  • Purchases: 1
"The stuff dreams are made of" - the search for the Maltese Falcon
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - The Litography Project
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The mystery over what the falcon really is, whether it even existed, and why it has any value has remained so compelling, in fact, that over the ye...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 1
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
Holocaust survivor and literary translator Dora Zaidenweber shares her story
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Dora Zaidenweber
Dora Zaidenweber is a survivor. She and her family survived a Nazi death camp in Auschwitz during World War II. Decades later she set to work on tr...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, KKWE Niijii Radio, KVSC, and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 27:19
  • Purchases: 5
The Federal Writers Project in Minnesota
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
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As part of the New Deal, the Works Progress Administration, or They were scared, poor, on the dole, and desperate for work. From 1935-1943, 250 Min...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KVSC, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 30, 2014
  • Length: 27:57
  • Purchases: 3
The Legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul in 1896, and lived at multiple addresses near Summit Avenue during his time in Minnesota. After the birth ...

Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 06:54
  • Purchases: 2
"The Creature in the Attic"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bev Shorts
Caption: Joe Bev reads "The Creature in the Attic", Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
A short fiction by Pedro Pablo Sacristan, read by Joe Bevilacqua. Great for Halloween, Christmas Day (Rod Serling's birthday), the anniversary of...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 07:36