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What does it mean when people can get rich without political freedom? New Yorker writer Evan Osnos spent eight years in China covering the nation's...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, Radio Newark, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 08, 2014
- Length: 08:57
- Purchases: 5
Join us as we talk with author Elizabeth Dorsey Hatle about her book, "The Ku Klux Klan in Minnesota," where she explores the history of the Klan i...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 09:07
- Purchases: 1
David Bromwich introduces us to the conservative hero Edmund Burke, the 18th-century British statesman who befriended the American Revolution, hate...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 58:36
- Purchases: 1
A journalist, turned political aide, who found fame as a novelist.
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 3
Kevin Cook is a journalist living in New York City.
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 23:31
Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 15:54
- Purchases: 1
Douglas Clouatre reads from Presidential Upsets: Dark Horses, Underdogs, and Corrupt Bargains (5/30)
From: Peter JohnsonSeries: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Focusing here on a certain colorful Democratic president.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Before becoming the first African American on The Supreme Court, Marshall risked his life in ...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
With a trunk full of her mother’s saris, Kenyan author and performer Shaija Patel reclaims a lost history.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 29:28
- Purchases: 1
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
George’s “The Tenth of December” has already appeared on many a best-book and award-finalist list. As we readers know, it's not every day that you ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 09:59
- Purchases: 1
In this compilation of archive interviews from 1988 and 1996 along with part of a previously unaired 2004 recording, we look back at the life of Am...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Producer Dred-Scott Keyes looks back at the life of poet/writer Amiri Baraka, who died on January 9th in Newark, New Jersey
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 28:04
Episode 16 features an interview from 2009 with the noted writer Sarah Schulman, the author of After Dolores, Shimmer, People in Trouble, Rat Bohem...
- Added: Jan 08, 2014
- Length: 35:31
This extended cut includes a review of the plot of the novel, The Handmaid's Tale, as well as a discussion of the cultural milieu in which Atwood c...
- Added: Jun 24, 2013
- Length: 32:36
David writes both histories and biographies and has narrated many a broadcast program. His latest book is "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris....
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jun 12, 2013
- Length: 10:02
- Purchases: 1
A look at community motivated selfishness in "Buy Local" movements.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 04:47
"We Are Poets" is a team piece that explores different parts of a march. Poets march in protest of a law passed in 2023 forbidding free speech. Per...
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:54
Rhoda Gilman is a well known historian and author. In 2012 the Minnesota Historical Society published her book, "Stand Up! The Story of Minnesota's...
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 04:57
Monica Haller served as a nurse at Abu Ghraib prision in Iraq. A Minnesota artist, she also designed software for servicemen and women to share the...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 05:10
Bobby speaks with Dina Rae, a loving wife and mother who resides in the Chicago suburbs and writes novels of fiction about what we both agree to be...
- Added: Jan 03, 2013
- Length: 39:48
As part of the 10th anniversary of one of CBC's premier current affairs programs, The Current, an interview from 2006 with the author Kurt Vonnegut...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 22:59
Aaron Brown on books.
- Added: Sep 06, 2012
- Length: 03:36
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview author and political activist David George Ball about his book, A Marked Heart, and the historic day he...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 27:30
Radio Curious speaks with Elizabeth Holtzman, a former congresswoman, former District Attorney of Brooklyn, New York and author of Cheating Justic...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 29:02
