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A four-part presentation of Herman Melville’s classic and problematic historical fiction “Benito Cereno” concludes. In the final episode, Captain A...
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 01:01:33
Near Grand Marais, Minn., in 2003, a small plane crashed in the forest, taking the lives of the pilot and his sister-in-law, but sparing the two li...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 24:22
- Purchases: 1
The second in a four-part program on Herman Melville’s novella “Benito Cereno,” based on the memoir of the real-life sea captain Amasa Delano. Melv...
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 58:35
"Killing Voltaire: An Observance for Charlie Hebdo" is a collaborative response by the Books Unbound community to the deadly attack on the offices ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 57:58
The protagonist of "The Massacre of Yangzhou" is the southern Chinese city of Yangzhou, a rich and beautiful center of the failing Ming Dynasty as ...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 59:38
- Purchases: 1
Tonight’s program is one half of a collaboration with WFHB’s Books Unbound centered around a memoir of a first-person eyewitness account written by...
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 53:05
“The Queen of Spades” is a mock fairy tale about debt, gambling, guilt and the supernatural—and the deadening effect of money on love. An aging, on...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 1
"Heaven's Café" is a seasonal episode of Books Unbound featuring poetry from China, Germany, Mexico, Palestine, Cuba and England, with a tribute to...
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 58:38
Poet and artist Mina Loy (1882–1966) was at the center of avant-garde movements of the early 20th century, but the difficulty of her poetry and her...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Nov 24, 2014
- Length: 59:39
- Purchases: 1
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was 18 when she and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, visited some literary friends and got involved in a challenge, t...
- Added: Sep 05, 2014
- Length: 58:01
James R. Hannibal is a novelist and a pilot.
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 19:09
WFHB correspondent Michael Glab speaks with juvenile fiction author Julia Carr about writing and adolescent issues for today’s WFHB feature report.
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 08:20
Host Doug Storm is joined by three professors of literature at Indiana University, Jennifer Fleissner, Jonathan Elmer, and Christoph Irmscher, to e...
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 56:38
Host Doug Storm ends our three-part series on Bloomington author Ross Lockridge, Jr. and his bestselling novel of 1948 with an interview with Ernes...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 01:01:01
The exhibit “Raintree County: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Ross Lockridge, Jr.” currently on display at Indiana University’s Lilly Library...
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 09:46
Host Doug Storm continues the three-part series on the bestselling 1948 novel Raintree County with excerpts from a conversation with Larry Lockridg...
- Added: May 13, 2014
- Length: 57:28
Host Doug Storm introduces the three-part series Taking the Measure of Raintree County.
- Added: May 06, 2014
- Length: 58:36
A spread of new books about food: from evil sugar to wonderful wine.
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 54:10
Noted Journalist and Florida native Bill DeYoung discusses his book SKYWAY: THE TRUE STORY OF TAMPA'S SIGNATURE BRIDGE AND THE MAN WHO BROUGHT IT DOWN
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jan 16, 2014
- Length: 24:17
- Purchases: 1
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring Nammy nominee Joseph Strider, Author Debra Borys, and Brown Dog by Jim Harrison ...
- Added: Jan 02, 2014
- Length: 58:00
Born in1885, David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, and painter. His collective works are classified as a refl...
- Added: Nov 22, 2013
- Length: 27:30
WE like to think of the old-fashioned American classics as children’s books. Just childishness, on our part. The old American art-speech contains a...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 30, 2013
- Length: 30:35
- Purchases: 1
Episode 12 – "The Purse Turned Inside Out: Engendering Personalities in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night"
From: WFHBSeries: The Custom House
On this episode of The Custom House we’ll investigate the erotic entanglements of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night to try to find out just who wears the...
- Added: Aug 27, 2013
- Length: 29:44
On this episode of The Custom House we'll try to justify the decision to "go all in" when facing the incomprehensible two inifinites of Blaise Pascal.
- Added: Aug 16, 2013
- Length: 31:11
On this episode of The Custom House we'll investigate the claims of Milton's Samson as he argues his holy dispensation as a divine right to be viol...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 31:34
