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We spend the hour with science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist, Cory Doctorow. First, we talk with him about his terrific new boo...
- Added: Sep 06, 2019
- Length: 59:01
HOUR ONE: "Guilt Tripping" - From our diets to our accomplishments, none of us are perfect. So why do we feel so guilty? HOUR TWO: "Burnout" - Ev...
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 01:58:57
HOUR ONE: "When Women Rule" - From Homer to Harvey Weinstein, women are reclaiming the classics in the age of #MeToo. HOUR TWO: "Locked Up" - Ima...
- Added: Jan 18, 2019
- Length: 01:58:58
In the end, we wrap up our series at the beginning. Host Marcos Nájera reports on what he’s learned about Oscar Zeta Acosta. And the contributions ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 17:24
José Martí, who would die in the Cuban Revolution against Spain at the age of 42, believed that knowledge and understanding was a collective constr...
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 58:00
Kate Millett’s 1970 book, Sexual Politics, is a classic text of Second Wave Feminism, finding sexism and subjection inherent in the institutions of...
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 58:00
Progressive events in California and America threaten liberty, sovereignty and the Constitution...
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 02:50:47
A tribute to Eduardo Galeano , he passed on April 13, 2015, this interview originally aired Sep 2009 but still relevant today.
Eduardo Hughes Gale...
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 27:57
Two short plays about political operatives by Pulitzer Prize Winner David Auburn. In the comic DAMAGE CONTROL, a political aide has a public relati...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KZYX, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUNM and more
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 6
Kevin Cook is a journalist living in New York City.
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 23:31
In this compilation of archive interviews from 1988 and 1996 along with part of a previously unaired 2004 recording, we look back at the life of Am...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
As part of the 10th anniversary of one of CBC's premier current affairs programs, The Current, an interview from 2006 with the author Kurt Vonnegut...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 22:59
Election day is closing in, and Jill Lepore has a hip historian's take on the question: What Would the Founding Fathers Do? Jill Lepore says there'...
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 58:59
A conversation with author George R. R. Martin. Mr Martin joined co-host Ernest Lilly and myself to discuss his first novel of a series, A Game Of ...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Apr 03, 2009
- Length: 18:52
- Purchases: 1
Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 29:03
- Added: Jun 25, 2007
- Length: 01:01:14
- Purchases: 1
Poets from across the country offer up their words on the subject of "peace" at a special reading held at the 2005 National Poetry Slam Chapionship...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Jan 18, 2006
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 02, 2005
- Length: 43:30
- Added: Jun 10, 2005
- Length: 27:50
- Purchases: 3
Waldman in a strong political performance of her poetry
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Mar 23, 2005
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 1
A powerful 1985 reading of an anti slavery poem by the late Amiri Baraka. In this piece, Baraka treats the issue of voice - and what happens when a...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Mar 23, 2005
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
Ted Berrigan Reads his poem "Heroin"
- Added: Mar 23, 2005
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 2
Novelist Norman Mailer talks politics on the eve of the Republican Convention
Bought by PRX, WUAL, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 23, 2004
- Length: 20:00
- Purchases: 3
