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Ghosts from the past stalk Europe again today in the wake of Russian tanks and missiles. To find a path forward, we might need to look back.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WHFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WLPR , KUNM and more
- Added: Mar 08, 2022
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 8
HOUR ONE: "The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace" - 1936 was an ominous year. A young George Orwell was headed to battle in Spain. But first, he plant...
- Added: Mar 04, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
Virginia Brackett, the author of 15 books, discusses her 2019 family memoir, IN THE COMPANY OF PATRIOTS. She reveals how she used family stories, s...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Dec 31, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We mark Veteran's Day with two interviews featuring Alan Proctor. His book, THE SWEDEN FILE: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN EX-PATRIATE, was named one of th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
HOUR ONE: "Empathy for Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...
- Added: Jul 27, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
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...
- Added: Jul 08, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In this archive program, Ben Lerner, who was recently named a 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, discusses his first two books, THE LICHTENBERG FIGURE...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Edwidge Danticat, winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, returns fifteen years after her first interview with NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR to t...
- Added: Feb 06, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Tim O'Brien, who served in Vietnam, talks his novel (and Big Read selection) The Things They Carried and how fiction can often tell a deeper trut...
Bought by KPIP-LP, RadioFreePalmer, and KBBI Alaska
- Added: Nov 10, 2011
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 3
Part 1 of two programs funded by the upcoming 5-part PBS series "Women, War & Peace," which will air on consecutive Tuesday evenings beginning on O...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 30:02
- Purchases: 1
Very personal conversation with author Diane ACKERMAN about The Zoo Keeper's Wife, now a major film.
- Added: Jan 16, 2008
- Length: 29:30
- Added: Apr 12, 2006
- Length: 29:29
