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HOUR ONE: "Writing As A Political Act" - In peaceful times, and in moments of violence, writers have used their art as protest, remembrance, and so...
- Added: May 06, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: "Poetry In A Troubled Time" - Why do people turn to poetry during troubled times? Poetry is often the one language we need. Join us for a...
- Added: Apr 22, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – one who shows us we contain multitudes; one whose life and writing was always an...
- Added: Apr 05, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Our special guests for this fifth episode on Lone Star State identity are two authors with Texas-sized reputations: Lawrence Wright (The Looming To...
- Added: Mar 29, 2022
- Length: 32:31
Did postmodernism merely predict cynicism about the facts, or did it actually promote it?
Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KNVC Carson City Community Radio and more
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 6
A review of Why Food Matters by Paul Freedman.
- Added: Jan 18, 2022
- Length: 02:09
It’s that time of year when we all need resilience: elections, holidays, the change of seasons. Many of us need fortitude to get through. Reverend ...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, and WNYE
- Added: Dec 01, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
We talk with best-selling author Ken Follett about his new novel, Never. It’s a chilling look about how a small international incident could lead t...
- Added: Nov 12, 2021
- Length: 59:05
On today's programme: Assault on democracy: a brutal attack claims the life of a British parliamentarian. Food for thought: Frankfurt plays host to...
- Added: Oct 21, 2021
- Length: 59:00
David Hill is a writer from Hot Springs, Arkansas. His work has appeared regularly in Grantland and The Ringer, and has been featured in The New Yo...
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 14:16
This week on the show: Geopolitical realignment - AUKUS and the fallout from France’s nuclear snub-marine. Digging for trouble: we get to the botto...
- Added: Sep 23, 2021
- Length: 59:00
This week on the show: we often talk about all the greenhouse gas emissions people put into the atmosphere. But this week, we’re looking at ways ...
Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Jul 10, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "The Resilient Brain" - In 1848, an explosion drove an iron rod through the skull of a railroad foreman. Find out how it changed science ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2021
- Length: 01:59:00
Edward Said, a Palestinian American, born in Jerusalem, was one of the most influential literary scholars in the United States, transforming the ac...
- Added: May 04, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Alan Wald's Literary Left Trilogy investigates aspects of intellectual, literary, and cultural movements and figures associated with left-wing poli...
- Added: Mar 23, 2021
- Length: 59:03
We talk with Dr. Micah Johnson and Dr. Abdul El Sayed about their book, Medicare For All: A Citizen’s Guide.
Then, we remember Norton Juster, the ...
- Added: Mar 18, 2021
- Length: 59:01
What is your perspective on Democracy? This week we explore what democracy means.
- Added: Mar 03, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Eileen Hunt Botting's new book, Artificial Life after Frankenstein, asks what are the obligations of humanity to the artificial creatures we make, ...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Feb 16, 2021
- Length: 59:05
- Purchases: 1
Poets and curators Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel continue to discuss the anthology "We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics," a co...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 10, 2021
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Our show centers on the book The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser which can be seen as an anti-fascist manifesto pitting poetry - the poetic as a ...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Jan 26, 2021
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
Richard and his daughter Margaret investigate the bird insurrection, while humans attack the U.S. Capitol and President Trump is impeached for the ...
- Added: Jan 24, 2021
- Length: 11:47
Brad Taylor is a retired Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army. This is his fifteen Pike Logan thriller.
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 12:35
Today’s teens--Generation Z--are making headlines for their politics and their protests. The YA books that speak to them have followed suit.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM
- Added: Jan 07, 2021
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 3
“We have the right to hate Germany because we love it,” German writer Kurt Tucholsky wrote. Listening to positions from both sides of the Atlantic ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 17, 2020
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
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
