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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
Inauguration: On a Wing and a Prayer
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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The word “inauguration" takes us all the way back to the politics of ancient Rome and the birds behind the words inauguration, inaugural, auspiciou...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 22:14
Bob Dylan, The Poet
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Bob Dylan has been singing more than 50 years. But have you ever really stopped to listen to the words?

Bought by Prairie Public, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 8
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
Thinking about escaping it all and moving to Canada? Humorist offers helpful guide
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Fed up with the election? Threatening to move to Canada? A new book, "How to Move to Canada: A Discontented American's Guide to Canadia Relocation,...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 14:50
Missouri Poets of the Midwest Poets Series
From: New Letters on the Air
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Discover the poetic variety of Missouri in this special program featuring readings from the Midwest Poets Series by three very different Missouri p...

Bought by WNJR and WJCU


  • Added: Sep 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pulitzer 100: The Wondrous Junot Diaz (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood.

Bought by WJCT, WJCU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WUGA (part of GPB), WLIW and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
They Don't Read Books: 100 Million U.S. Citizens
From: Teosson Wells
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Destroying Books Destroys Culture? This year, 100 million people in the U.S. did not read a book. The past is full of book burnings designed to cen...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 30:01
Obligations of a Freeman
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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'Obligations of a freeman', a serious sermon by a humorous and anti-religious Mark Twain...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:35:32
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending July 29, 2016
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Leaked Documents Reveal TTIP Free Trade Agreement Would Undermine Climate,...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Life and Freedom for Ashraf Fayadh
From: PEN America
Series: The Freedom to Write
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Natalie Diaz reads the poetry of Ashraf Fayadh, a Palestinian poet and art curator who was sentenced to life in prison for "apostasy" in Saudi Arabia.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 07:46
Pulitzer 100: If You Like the Truth (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson on his career as journalist and historian.

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer 100: If You Like the Truth (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Pulitzer Prize winner journalist and historian Rick Atkinson on his work and career. Also: A New York street photographer left behind more than 300...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 1
Shelf Discovery: The Candidates by Matthew S. Hiley
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On the latest Shelf Discovery, Kristin hits the campaign trail with author Matthew S. Hiely's outrageous political farce, The Candidates.

Bought by KKRN, Harford Community Radio, and WLPR


  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Ireland Rises Again!
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The history of the 1916 Easter Rising—and of the Irish republic that rose from it—is a mixed bag.

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


  • Added: May 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Eileen Myles's Moment
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Myles has spent the last forty years as a queer and feminist icon, who’d like to be known not as she or he, but as a complex they, “the gender of E...

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


  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 3
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
Ideas Books: Will Atkinson, Class
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
Caption: Ideas Books: Will Atkinson
Interview with author Will Atkinson about his book, Class. The topic of class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
Ramsey Kanaan, co-founder and publisher of PM Press
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Ramsey Kanaan, PM Press
Interview by Gary Kanter: Ramsey discusses publishing, PM Press, and that ideas matter. PM Press seeks to create radical and stimulating fiction a...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:06
Pulitzer 100: If You Like the Truth (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Pulitzer Prize winner journalist and historian Rick Atkinson on his work and career. -New York street photographer left behind more than 300,000 i...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, WXDU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 8
Pulitzer 100: If You Like the Truth (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson on his career as journalist and historian.

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KFAI Minneapolis, KWMR, KVSC and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Politician and the Poet
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Professors Derek Hirst and Steven Zwicker discuss the life and work of Andrew Marvell.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 16:04
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
Justice Scalia vacates the Court
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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America's formidable guardian of the Constitution, Justice Antonin Scalia, is dead...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2016
  • Length: 02:22:45

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