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A Woman For Peace in a Book Called CHARLOTTE'S WAR by J. Lawrence Graham
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: J. Lawrence Graham
On this episode of PEACE TALKS RADIO, correspondent Priyanka Shankar talks to author J. Lawrence Graham...who's brought his own military experien...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Whitney Terrell
From: New Letters on the Air
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Novelist Whitney Terrell talks about his third novel, THE GOOD LIEUTENANT. Terrell was embedded with the military in Iraq, writing non-fiction for ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Untold Story of Kenneth Watson and the 12 Faces of Sober
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU and KVSC alumni Kenneth Watson. Watso...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 29:47
Past American Voice of novelist E.L. Doctorow
From: New Letters on the Air
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E.L. Doctorow passed away in July 2015, but left behind twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage drama, winning most of the major...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KAAD-LP, WNJR, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Poet, editor, and translator, Wayne Miller
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Wayne Miller
Poet and editor Wayne Miller reads from his book, THE CITY, OUR CITY, a 2012 finalist for the William Carlos Williams Poetry Award. He also discus...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Jai Chakrabarti, A PLAY FOR THE END OF THE WORLD & Caroline Lea, THE METAL HEART
From: Francesca Rheannon
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This week: two novels exploring love, trauma and the legacies of war. Both are based on true stories from World War II. First, Jai Chakrabarti tel...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 5
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A woman creates a radio broadcast of bedtime stories for children in war zones.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Novelist and Non-Fiction Author Stewart O'Nan: Part Two
From: New Letters on the Air
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Stewart O'Nan, the author of 20 plus books including EMILY, ALONE and LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER, reads from his later novel, CITY OF SECRETS, and d...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Virginia Brackett
From: New Letters on the Air
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Virginia Brackett, the author of 15 books, discusses her 2019 family memoir, IN THE COMPANY OF PATRIOTS. She reveals how she used family stories, s...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Benjamin Busch
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Author, actor and veteran Benjamin Busch talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2019
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Juliane Okot Bitek - 407
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet Juliane Okot Bitek discusses her award-winning collection of poems, "100 Days," written in response to the Rwandan genocide in 1994.

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Speeches From The 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
From: WYSO
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The 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize award ceremony was held on October 28, 2018 at the Schuster Center. In this special presentation of selection...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2019
  • Length: 52:45
The Broken Country
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Paisley Rekdal
On Trauma, Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Nov 11, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Poet John Balaban
From: New Letters on the Air
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Inspired by the documentary THE VIETNAM WAR, we return to an archive interview with the poet John Balaban, who served as a conscientious objector i...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
James Ellroy / Margaret Atwood
From: Colleen Nelson
Series: Overheard with Evan Smith
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On this episode of Overheard, two best-selling authors known for dark page-turners. First James Ellroy followed by Margaret Atwood.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
GPV17 Book Review - The Arsenal of Democracy
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 The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War by A. J. Baime

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:31
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
Iraqi Poet & Journalist Duyna Mikhail
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail reads from her three books: THE WAR WORKS HARD, DIARY OF A WAVE OUTSIDE THE SEA, and THE IRAQI NIGHTS. Pushed ou...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Kao Kalia Yang -- What is home? A refugee's challenge.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kao Kalia Yang
Kao Kalia Yang's book, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir is a personal story that speaks to the moment.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Saif Alsaegh - 220
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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An Iraqi Poet In Montana. Saif Alsaegh was a young boy living in Baghdad, Iraq, on September 11, 2001. At the time, he and the other members of his...

Bought by KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Whitman at War
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The best of American poets and the worst of American wars met head-on 150 years ago this summer in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his reflections on nur...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WABE


  • Added: Jun 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 5
Reader's Corner featuring author Jan Jarboe Russell
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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An untold story from World War II: Author and journalist Jan Jarboe Russell discusses her book, "The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner E...

  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 30:01
Six Chairs: Rowan Pope, Voice to Vision and the Holocaust Book Project
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
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
Edwidge Danticat
From: New Letters on the Air
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Edwidge Danticat, winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, returns fifteen years after her first interview with NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR to t...

Bought by WABE, XRAY.fm, and WJCU


  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3