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On this episode, we talked about the new book by veteran music journalist John Robb, which features a selection of artist profiles from throughout ...
- Added: Oct 21, 2023
- Length: 28:35
On this episode, we talked about a new book that serves as a companion to the Bach cello suites. Cellist Steven Isserlis has created a great book t...
- Added: Oct 02, 2023
- Length: 27:09
Welcome to melodically challenged, where this week’s show is She’s a Maneater!—a collection of poems featuring history’s most dangerous and misunde...
- Added: Sep 26, 2023
- Length: 01:00:06
In her new book, "Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World”, award-winning journalist Naomi Klein describes being confused with Naomi Wolf, a con...
Bought by KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK, KWMR and more
- Added: Sep 20, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
From: KRCL
This is a 1 on 1 interview with Author Dan Levitt, and Radioactive's Nick Burns.
From Levitt's Website
"For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse ...
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 12:04
The presence of birds in our lives and birds as metaphors for life events.
- Added: Sep 16, 2023
- Length: 59:35
In this episode, Emily speaks with author Dolen Perkins-Valdez about her recent novel Take My Hand, based on the 1973 case of the Relf sisters who ...
- Added: Aug 28, 2023
- Length: 40:06
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about composer and multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill's new autobiography "Easily S...
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
- Length: 28:30
We are trying to help save the world! The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UNSDG) #4 is Quality Education. The goal is to ensure inclus...
Bought by KECG
- Added: Aug 25, 2023
- Length: 01:00:06
- Purchases: 1
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born August 27, 1770.
- Added: Aug 16, 2023
- Length: 53:59
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born August 27, 1770.
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KMUN, and KSKQ
- Added: Aug 16, 2023
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 4
On this episode, we talked about "Switched On," the great new biography of Bob Moog that documents his life and work. We would have a very differen...
- Added: Aug 12, 2023
- Length: 28:30
Freud may have laid the groundwork for a science of the unconscious, but didn’t he get most of it wrong?
Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WNYO, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMUN and more
- Added: Aug 07, 2023
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 10
On this episode, we talked about the music of Toby Driver, and his essay in the book Arcana Volume IV, which you can borrow from the library. Drive...
- Added: Jul 29, 2023
- Length: 28:19
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged whe...
- Added: Jul 27, 2023
- Length: 01:00:06
On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about the book "Recombo DNA," an in-depth biography of the band Devo that focuses on th...
- Added: Jul 15, 2023
- Length: 28:31
On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we discussed the book "Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco and the End of the Analog Age" b...
- Added: Jul 08, 2023
- Length: 28:23
On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about "Beautiful Dreamer," the first biography of guitarist and composer Bill Frisell, ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2023
- Length: 28:30
Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time. Ron Hall
Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged when we will ...
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 01:00:04
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about "The Mandorla Letters," the new book by flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell Gan...
- Added: Jun 24, 2023
- Length: 27:30
Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged, when we’ll hear an hour of poetry and music about husbands: Mr. Right, Mr. Wrong and everyone in-bet...
- Added: Jun 12, 2023
- Length: 01:00:02
Welcome to Melodically Challenged. Today, we continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number ...
- Added: May 30, 2023
- Length: 01:00:06
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, so you’ll have to keep checking your radio during this week’s melodically challenged when we bring you an hour o...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 01:00:01
Alfred, Lord Tennyson famously wrote “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” All of Cupid’s victims might beg to diff...
- Added: May 03, 2023
- Length: 01:00:06
Warmer weather brings us sunshine, flowers, trips to the beach, picnics, and BUGS, BUGS, BUGS!!!! And this week, we’ll have bugs: spiders, bees, f...
- Added: Apr 26, 2023
- Length: 01:00:06
