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Should Certain Books Ever Be Banned in School?
From: Open to Debate
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Are certain books beyond reproach? It’s a fundamental question making its way across America’s school boards. Those who argue “yes” say schools sho...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Captain and the Glory, by Dave Eggers
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Interview with author Dave Eggers.

  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 11:49
TPV06 My Throwback - Where Have All the Commies Gone?
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about Communism as a quasi-religious faith that might ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
GPV43 Book Review - Submission
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Submission by Michel Houellebecq.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:12
Jon Meacham / Doris Kearns Goodwin
From: Colleen Nelson
Series: Overheard with Evan Smith
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On this episode of Overheard, two Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historians. First Doris Kearns Goodwin on Teddy Roosevelt followed by Jon Me...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Election Day
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry about voting, candidates, and American politics/society.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2016
  • Length: 57:40
Ideas Books: Mike Gonzales - The Last Drop, The Politics of Water
From: Craig Barfoot
Caption: Ideas Books: Mike Gonzales
Interview with author Mike Gonzales about his book, The Last Drop. The one indispensable resource, water is increasingly controlled and even owned...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:04
2016 Features Editor of THE NATION Kai Wright
From: New Letters on the Air
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The 2016 Features Editor of THE NATION, Kai Wright, discusses his 2009 anthology, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE THROUG...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Putin, Crimea, and Our Failure to Read the Russians
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Thought experiment: given that many of our best insights into Russian character and temperament come to use from their literary geniuses, can we su...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
  • Purchases: 2
Voices of India - Namita Gokhale & Ashis Nandy
From: Open Source
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Open Source is in New Delhi with two stars of the writing class. Namita Gokhale is a novelist, publisher, and sparkplug of the Indian literary boom...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
A Few Reams of Freedom - Noam Chomsky & C.D. Wright
From: Open Source
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We're talking politics and poetry with Noam Chomsky and C.D. Wright. Noam Chomsky is on an upbeat about American views on war and imperialism, and ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 04, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
The American Empire and the American Elite
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Niall Ferguson
This ThoughtCast hour discusses the American "empire" and the American elite, in two back-to-back interviews. The first is with Niall Ferguson, the...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 17, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 2
Confronting the Warpland: Black Poets of Chicago
From: Ed Herrmann
Caption: Gwendolyn Brooks
Hear some of the great African American poets who have lived and worked in Chicago.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KZYX, WRGY, WLPR , KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2009
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 23
This I Believe - Azar Nafisi
From: This I Believe
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From Huck Finn, Iranian-born writer and teacher Azar Nafisi learns to believe in the power of empathy.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 04:39
Fire on the Prairie #19
From: Emily Udell
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Interviews with Marjane Satrapi & Howard Zinn; comments on Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley

  • Added: Aug 18, 2005
  • Length: 29:30