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Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, Troy Public Radio, KGOU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: Jan 04, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 10
The classic holiday tale by Oscar Wilde is interpreted along with sacred Christmas music.
Bought by Michigan Radio and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 58:28
- Purchases: 2
This week on World Ocean Radio we have a special seasonal reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson written in 188...
- Added: Dec 21, 2022
- Length: 04:02
Original retellings and adaptations of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.
- Added: Dec 14, 2022
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 7
We feature literature and commentary about the December holiday season from our rich archives. The late Rabbi Gerald Kane discusses the origins of ...
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
At each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite poem was chosen not o...
- Added: Dec 27, 2016
- Length: 04:51
- Added: Dec 17, 2016
- Length: 56:01
- Purchases: 1
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
Cultural anthropologist Margaret Visser about her book The Gift of Thanks.
Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KTXK, KWMR, and WRVO Public Media
- Added: Nov 06, 2009
- Length: 54:35
- Purchases: 4
A Southern retelling of James Joyce's classic story "The Dead." In early-20th-century Memphis, an insecure schoolteacher struggles to navigate the ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2009
- Length: 01:03:20
Thoughtful commentary about the symbolic role of lights at Christmas
- Added: Dec 19, 2007
- Length: 03:30
Profile of Trina Robbins, who literally wrote the book on women in comics.
Bought by WJAB, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 22, 2007
- Length: 06:04
- Purchases: 4
