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Irish Poet Anne-Marie Fyfe
From: New Letters on the Air
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Irish poet Anne Marie Fyfe explores parallels in her poetry with work of the renowned William Butler Yeats for the "Mapping Yeats Symposium" at the...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Polish Poet Adam Zagajewski
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet Adam Zagajewski (zah-gah-yev-ski), the 2016 recipient of the Griffin Lifetime Achievement Prize for Excellence in Poetry, was born in Lwow, Po...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 26, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shelf Discovery: The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin moves into an eerie apartment with the Japanese thriller The Graveyard Apartment by author Mariko Koike.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WLPR


  • Added: Oct 18, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
PEN/Faulkner Award-Winning Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz
From: New Letters on the Air
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For National Hispanic Heritage Month, we revisit Benjamin Alire Saenz, who is known for his award-winning fiction, young adult novels, and poetry....

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pulitzer 100: The Wondrous Junot Diaz (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood. -Jon Pineda's memoir "Sleep in Me" chronicles his s...

Bought by WCNY, KRDP, WMUU-LP, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 5
Essayist and Fiction Writer Thomas E. Kennedy
From: New Letters on the Air
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National Magazine Award winning essayist Thomas E. Kennedy discusses his approach to essay writing, particularly in his collection RIDING THE DOG: ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Iraqi Poet & Journalist Duyna Mikhail
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail reads from her three books: THE WAR WORKS HARD, DIARY OF A WAVE OUTSIDE THE SEA, and THE IRAQI NIGHTS. Pushed ou...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Meaningful Man
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Viktor Frankl’s book 'Man’s Search for Meaning' is part memoir, part manifesto and part discourse on human psychology. Written in 1946, after Vikto...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 50:26
Pulitzer 100: Shifting the Spotlight (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel has tackled traditionally taboo subjects. In a different role, Vogel has also distinguished herself a...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
Pulitzer 100: Shifting the Spotlight (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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-Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel has tackled traditionally taboo subjects. Vogel has also distinguished herself as an exceptional tea...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
Poet and Chinese Translator Jonathan Stalling
From: New Letters on the Air
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As part of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, we hear from Jonathan Stalling, the first westerner chosen as Beijing University's Poet-in-Reside...

Bought by KQED and XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Year of Runaways
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Sunjeev Sahota
The book “The year of the Runaways” was shortlisted for a Man Booker. But Sunjeev Sahota is an unlikely storyteller, he’d never read a novel until ...

  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Pulitzer 100: Shifting the Spotlight (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel has tackled traditionally taboo subjects. Vogel has also distinguished herself as an exceptional tea...

Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 13, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
Ireland Rises Again!
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The history of the 1916 Easter Rising—and of the Irish republic that rose from it—is a mixed bag.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Remembering Baghdad
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
Caption: Baghdad Radio Orchestra 1938, Credit: Shlomo Elkivity
Professor Nancy Berg examines the legacy of Iraqi-Jewish writers, along with questions of home and identity.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 1
Nation of Nations (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Tom Gjelton NPR Correspondent and author of "A Nation of Nations" speaks about the changing demographics of America. -A Cuban exile feels at home ...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Downton Abbey, kick yourself...
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO: JANUARY 2016
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...for not having produced this scene. Author Eloisa James reads from her new novel, My American Duchess, who here is the picture of... a pineapple...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 01:40
Friends and Rivals: Shakespeare and the Competition
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Joe Loewenstein describes the small and highly competitive theater scene in which Early Modern playwrights like William Shakespeare flourished.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 14:06
Commedia dell'Arte & the Tragicomedy: Shakespeare's Italian Influences
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Robert Henke tracks Shakespeare back to his Italian inspirations and uncovers sources for his early comedies.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 12:26
Dhaka Facebook Fest.?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip Roy gets virtually stranded in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Lit. Fest.

  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
How Do You Say Anne Frank in Tigrinya?
From: Israel Story
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In a makeshift library in Ethiopia, Yikealo Beyene – an Eritrean refugee – made an unlikely friend. Her harrowing tale stayed with him as he fled h...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 13:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Saif Alsaegh - 220
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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An Iraqi Poet In Montana. Saif Alsaegh was a young boy living in Baghdad, Iraq, on September 11, 2001. At the time, he and the other members of his...

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


  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
WorldCanvass:Don Quixote's Four Century Saga (Part 1)
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: 23:05
  • Purchases: 1

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