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The town of Brunswick, Maine is set to remove 2/3 of the trees on Maine Street because it is too expensive to work around them as they install new ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 01:49
- Purchases: 1
Poetry Month and Einstein creating E=mc squared
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 05, 2024
- Length: :55
- Purchases: 1
Sarah Smarsh discusses her book Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth which is 2022-2023 NEA Big Read...
- Added: Jul 26, 2022
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 7
Thomas Edison and what his light did- understood through an American Sonnet.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 14, 2021
- Length: :55
- Purchases: 1
In the large, large universe, the mind's eye still sees what it will.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 14, 2021
- Length: :57
- Purchases: 1
We talk with Dr. Micah Johnson and Dr. Abdul El Sayed about their book, Medicare For All: A Citizen’s Guide.
Then, we remember Norton Juster, the ...
- Added: Mar 18, 2021
- Length: 59:01
An American Sonnet to those to whom we have said "Farewell".
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 01:42
We talk with Peter Heller about his terrific new novel, a thriller set on a river above the Arctic Circle. It’s called The River.
Then, we re-air ...
- Added: Mar 19, 2020
- Length: 58:58
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
Andy Piascik is a radical activist and author who’s written for many publications including Jacobin, Counterpunch, and ZMagazine. He is the author ...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 59:43
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
-With immigration rising, the U.S. will no longer have a white, Anglo ethnic profiles.
-A Cuban exile in America discovers the Andy Griffith show.
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 8
Twenty four hours or so have passed since a portrait of the older Atticus Finch as a bigot, complaining about the integration of “Negroes” into th...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 04:07
In this conversation, Edwidge explores the writing of her powerful memoir, Brother, I’m Dying.
- Added: Jun 09, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
The World War Z author Max Brooks isn't kidding when it comes to zombies.
- Added: Oct 30, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.
- Added: Oct 23, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Some stories are meant to be written, other stories are meant to be told.
Gary Springer’s story is emotionally uplifting, but heart wrenching to t...
- Added: Aug 20, 2013
- Length: 21:02
Are colleges and universities ready for the influx of veterans returning from military service?
- Added: Jan 31, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Award-winning poets reflect on creativity in crisis and read from their work.
- Added: Apr 15, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
This is an interview with the head of the English Dept. at Virginia Tech. Her book is the back story to the Seung -Hui Cho murders which occurred o...
- Added: Apr 13, 2010
- Length: 27:44
Novelist Laura Moriarty was a practicing social worker, when she began indulging in the "hobby" of writing. Then she sold her novel and she became...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 29:00
Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 29:03
Public intellectual Jack Beatty, theologist Harvey Cox and philosopher Simon Blackburn -- on ThoughtCast!
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WRNC-LP, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 07, 2008
- Length: 57:30
- Purchases: 3
a talk about spiritual teachers with author John Kain
- Added: Oct 06, 2006
- Length: 29:00