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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
We get back to one of our favorite topics: words that sound a lot like other words but that mean totally different things.
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Some of us like to be rule breakers, but here are a few rules of the English language we can’t help but follow. And we probably don’t even know the...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
The writer John Nichols first achieved national fame at age 24 with 'The Sterile Cuckoo', but went on to a second act when he moved to Taos, New Me...
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 27:14
William Shakespeare famously said “ all the worlds a stage” and Jonathan Crocker has taken those words to heart. For the past 26 seasons, this Yell...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
Most people who visit Calistoga -- a town in the Napa Valley -- come for the wine and the spa treatments; few come for the literary history. But th...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 10:19
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
- Added: Feb 16, 2015
- Length: 01:46
In this public reading entitled "Love Letters to Generations," Angela Jackson shares some of her work, including a reading from her first novel, th...
Bought by WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WNJR
- Added: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In late 2014, China announced it was to ban puns. Helen Zaltzman wishes she could ban puns in her own family.
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 16:21
From the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown. Special guest Flash Wiley. Musical performers Johnny Hoy and The Bluefish Trio.
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Well, well, here we are again. Another episode hits the airwaves or cyber-lanes, whichever you like, we’re there for you!
We’re all the way up to e...
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 28:02
This episode we speak with scholar, Lisa Castillo, PhD. Her interest is Afro-Brazilian culture. More specifically, the African diaspora of Brazil. ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2012
- Length: 28:01
In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack sits down with SCSU Theater and Film Studies Department Chair Jeffrey Bleam to...
- Added: Feb 03, 2011
- Length: 21:14
Guests include: Author Steve Almond. Television writer Bill Oakley. Musical guest Damien Jurado.
- Added: Jul 06, 2010
- Length: 59:22
Guests include: Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Richard Russo. Farm to Table organization Plate & Pitchfork. Musical guest John Roderick.
- Added: Jul 06, 2010
- Length: 59:38
Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt and Amsterdam writer Rodney Bolt face off in a discussion on the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays moderated b...
- Added: Feb 22, 2005
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 4