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MN Author Duane Schwartz and "Calumet"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Local author Dwane Schwartz and his latest called "Calumet," a mystery set in Calumet that involves the Klan.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2010
  • Length: 08:42
Novelist and Book club favorite Sarah Dunant
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
Master Zacharius
From: Chatterbox Audio Theater
Caption: Master Zacharius #1, 2008, Credit: Erica McCarrens
As his creations inexplicably malfunction, an aging clockmaker feels his heart winding down toward death. How far will he go to restore his clocks'...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2009
  • Length: 53:40
Dead and Gone
From: Chatterbox Audio Theater
Caption: Dead and Gone, 2009 - Ink on paper, Credit: Samantha Sherry
A Southern retelling of James Joyce's classic story "The Dead." In early-20th-century Memphis, an insecure schoolteacher struggles to navigate the ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2009
  • Length: 01:03:20
Hark! - the acoustic world of Elizabethan England
From: Battery Radio
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Four centuries ago... did people listen in a different way than we do now? How different were the sounds they heard? And can we tune into their aud...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, HowSound, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 52:24
  • Purchases: 8
Poet Robert Pinsky takes on another poet, King David of the Bible - and of the Psalms - in his "Life of David."
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible - the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer - in his "Life of David."

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Peabody Sisters: an interview with biographer Megan Marshall on ThoughtCast
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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An interview with Megan Marshall, the biographer of The Peabody Sisters -- three women who helped found the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-1...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 35:58
  • Purchases: 1
Virgil's Georgics: ThoughtCast interviews the poet and translator David Ferry
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Virgil's Georgics: an interview with poet David Ferry, who recently translated Virgil's second great poem, The Georgics. We're joined by Virgil sch...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Whitman at War
From: With Good Reason
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On a trip to see his brother, Walt Whitman was so struck by the violence of the Civil War that he stayed to help heal wounded soldiers. He hoped hi...

Bought by KVNF, WHFR, WRKF, RadioFreePalmer, KVSC and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 13
On Elmer Gantry and President Clinton
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Having an affair wasn’t bad. Getting caught was bad.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2009
  • Length: 01:09
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1937: The Flint, Michigan United Auto Workers Sit-In
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial air...

Bought by WVTF, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBYS 88.3 FM, KBGA 89.9 FM, KHNS and more


  • Added: May 19, 2009
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 12
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1949: Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' First Produced
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial air...

Bought by KREV-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRNC-LP, WRVO Public Media, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2009
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 5
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
A Well Read Book Fair
From: Emma Jacobs
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Dealers of Americana talk about the allure of old books.

Bought by Remix Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WBHM


  • Added: Apr 20, 2009
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 4
The Wright Brothers' Sister
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Orville, Katharine and Wilbur Wright, Credit: Library of Congress
Why you've never heard of the Wright Brothers' sister, Katharine.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Beer
From: Dictionary.com Word Explorer
Series: Dictionary.com Word Explorer
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This week we raise our glasses to the word BEER.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:52
WTW Texts of Resistance
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Two half-hour programs celebrating Black History Month
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How did slaves resist their oppression? Three works explore what it means to resist and to survive.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, KUOW, KVNF, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 24
Girl with a Red Hat: The Secret Genius of the Vermeer Family
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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The groundbreaking discovery of an unknown master painter and perhaps one of the greatest women in art.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2008
  • Length: 29:31
Unquiet History 9
From: Matthew Battles
Series: Unquiet History
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The enigma of the death of Socrates

Bought by Remix Radio and WMUB


  • Added: Nov 10, 2008
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 2
Unquiet History 3
From: Matthew Battles
Series: Unquiet History
Caption: PRX default Piece image
October 22, this day in history.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2008
  • Length: 02:52
IN NIXON'S WEB-audiobook review
From: AudioFile Magazine
Series: Earshot!
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IN NIXON'S WEB-audiobook review

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
The Meaning of 'Drash'
From: KUOW
Series: Sound Focus
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Author Wendy Marcus reflects on a storytelling tradition that goes back to Wendy's childhood. KRAK

  • Added: Jul 30, 2008
  • Length: 09:00
the River Witch
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A rural-legend from the Colorado River.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 2
Revisiting Literary Lives: William Faulkner and Zelda Fitzgerald
From: With Good Reason
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Exploring the lives of William FAulker and Zelda Fitzgerald

  • Added: May 15, 2008
  • Length: 29:37
Vietnam Visits Uncle Bill
From: Vose Productions
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"Vietnam Visits Uncle Bill" is a story in which a Vietnam veteran confronts his past through a dialogue with the ghost of the My Lai massacre.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: May 11, 2008
  • Length: 19:31
  • Purchases: 1

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