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Jerry Stahl discusses "Pain Killers"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Jerry Stahl is a novelist, essayist, and screenwriter living in Los Angeles.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2010
  • Length: 31:22
Deborah Schupack discusses "Sylvan Street"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Deborah Schupack is a novelist living New York.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2010
  • Length: 28:15
Hamburg Meets Chicago
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Caption: Motte Kinder radio
Children's Rights are sometimes completely overlooked in our society. But things are changing Children are slowly getting the respect they deserve ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 30:00
Arab Novels
From: War News Radio
Caption: An Iraqi official displays a recovered stolen artifact., Credit: Associated Press
From Guarding Heritage March 19, 2010. War News Radio speaks with writer Claudia Roth-Pierpont about her readings of Arabic novels.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2010
  • Length: 07:24
Sex, Evolution And Consumer Behaviour
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Why do you buy what you buy? What do you hope to gain from it and will it make you a happier, sexier and more successful person? In these days of e...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Novelist and Book club favorite Sarah Dunant
From: New Letters on the Air
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Historical novel writer Sarah Dunant talks about she applies her background writing thrillers to write more literary books. The author of the best...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
The Cutting Place
From: Lu Olkowski
Series: In Verse: Women of Troy
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A documentary poem about DJ Guerin, who’s 32, with 7 kids.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), New Hampshire Public Radio, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2009
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 5
Just a Girl
From: Lu Olkowski
Series: In Verse: Women of Troy
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A documentary poem about an afternoon spent with Billie Jean Hill at the Flag Day parade in Troy, New York. Billie Jean is a 25-year-old woman with...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), New Hampshire Public Radio, BBC Americana and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2009
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 6
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -3: Democracy's Denial: Revolutions in Wilmington (1898 --
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: Wilmington's black newspaper--after the "riot" and coup
In 1898, White Supremacist Democrats in North Carolina overthrew Wilmington's integrated administration. The plotters killed dozens of African Amer...

Bought by WCPN and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 2
George R.R. Martin
From: Tony Tellado
Series: Best Of Sci-Fi Talk
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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
The Mindful Path to Sustainability
From: Bill Baue
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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
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour Five
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour Four
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour Three
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour Two
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour One
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Show 11: Art/Artist/Audience in Dylan' Songs
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Bill King dusting his broom
Dylan's Relationship to His Art, to himself as Artist, and to his Audience

Bought by KPIP-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Sep 27, 2008
  • Length: 59:13
  • Purchases: 4
Show 12: Dylan and the Traditions
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
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Dylan & the Traditions: Literature, Popular Song, Folk Song

Bought by KPIP-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WETS


  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:00:13
  • Purchases: 5
Your Brain On Music
From: WHPC
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Studies show that many areas of your brain process music.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2008
  • Length: 03:04
What's the Word? Returning Veterans
From: Modern Language Association
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Three powerful films about American veterans returning home.

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Oct 30, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 4
What's the Word? On the Road, The American Road
From: Modern Language Association
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American road trips in literature and film

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 8
CamForum - The Planets
From: Cambridge Forum
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THE PLANETS is Dava Sobel's historic and scientific tour of our solar system.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2007
  • Length: 13:21
CamForum - Eco Imagination: David Abrams
From: Cambridge Forum
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

  • Added: Jun 28, 2007
  • Length: 28:59
Southwest Shootout Edition of the Spoken Word Hour
From: Don McIver
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Spoken Word Show with highlights recorded at a SW Region Poetry Slam.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 25, 2007
  • Length: 01:01:14
  • Purchases: 1
KERA Commentary: "Finn"
From: KERA
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A review of the Jon Clinch novel, "Finn".

  • Added: Apr 11, 2007
  • Length: 02:59

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