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HOUR ONE: "The Spirit Of Jim Thorpe" - Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. A Native American hero who broke recor...
- Added: Jun 14, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
After this year's thrilling spell-off in the National Spelling Bee, we try to tease out the definitions of some of the words that won the contest.
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Author Cary J. Griffith talks about the 4th Sam Rivers novel "Dead Catch"
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 08:49
As a backlash against LGBTQ rights escalates into an authoritarian crusade, acclaimed author and queer activist Taylor Brorby asks how we can still...
- Added: Jun 12, 2024
- Length: 28:30
On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows the misadventures of a pair of screenwriters attempting to work together to write a rom-com in The ...
Bought by WCNY, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jun 10, 2024
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 4
This time on The Children's Hour, our summer interns Julia Wolfe and Sophie Anderson-Haynie have co-written and produced a program about Banned Boo...
- Added: Jun 10, 2024
- Length: 58:00
This summer, how about a philosophical take on popular culture?
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 10, 2024
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 3
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Dive into history with bestselling author Smithsonian Associate Philippa Gregory on The Not Old Better Show! 📜👑✨ Discover...
- Added: Jun 10, 2024
- Length: 31:57
On this episode, we talked about YouTube music influencer Andrew Huang's foray into the music book world, "Make Your Own Rules,' a book packed with...
- Added: Jun 08, 2024
- Length: 27:27
This week, we're talking about some of the very oldest words in the English language, and how little some of them have changed over thousands of ye...
- Added: Jun 06, 2024
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
Author Cheri Johnson talks about her new book "Annika Rose"
- Added: Jun 06, 2024
- Length: 06:51
On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin goes on a life-changing vacation with a couple of unlikely friends in The Golden Gals’ French Adventure by ...
Bought by WCNY, WUTC, RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, and GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Jun 03, 2024
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 5
Singing as an aspect of life and love.
- Added: Jun 03, 2024
- Length: 01:00:27
On this episode, we talked about "Earlier," the new memoir by music journalist and musician Sasha Frere-Jones. We listened to some of his music, too.
- Added: Jun 01, 2024
- Length: 29:26
HOUR ONE: "Avian obsessions" - It’s summer and the birds are singing. Building nests, eating worms. Watching them makes a lot of people happy – but...
- Added: May 31, 2024
- Length: 01:59:01
We're looking at words that were made by smooshing together other words, but it all happened so long ago that we completely forgot about it.
- Added: May 30, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Author Laura Purdie Salas talks about her book "Oskar's Voyage"
- Added: May 30, 2024
- Length: 08:07
On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a grieving teenage girl as she begins to question everything that happened before her best friend’s...
Bought by RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCNY, WUTC, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: May 27, 2024
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 5
On this episode, we talked about the new book "Lit-Rock," a collection of essays that explore the many ways that literature and pop/rock music have...
- Added: May 25, 2024
- Length: 27:28
IGF Book Club—we're reading the Bhagavad Gita, as translated by Laurie Patton.
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- Added: May 24, 2024
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 1
We're dipping back into common rhetorical devices today, and talking about how they can be used to win people to your side... or at least make them...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: May 23, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Author Staci Lola Druillard talks about her new book "A Family Tree"
- Added: May 23, 2024
- Length: 10:03
On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a girl with a gift in her ongoing battle against the man who killed her parents in Mind Games by No...
Bought by WUTC, WCNY, RADIOLEX, and GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: May 21, 2024
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 4
On this episode, we talked about the book "The Free Musics" by Jack Wright," one of America's foundational free improvisation artists who is still ...
- Added: May 18, 2024
- Length: 28:29
Author Lisa M. Bolt Simons gives readers a choice in her latest book "Boxed Out"
- Added: May 16, 2024
- Length: 09:07
