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Africa in a Chinese Century, Firecracker Prose - Howard French & Lydia Davis

From: Open Source

This hour we sit with Lydia Davis as she reads her beautifully honed, firecracker prose. She writes in the company of Montaigne, Emerson, Proust, B...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: Jan 27, 2011
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 1

Pakistan Pulse-Takers - Daniyal Mueenuddin & Najam Sethi

From: Open Source

We're talking with the Pakistani journalist Najam Sethi and the fictionist Daniyal Mueenuddin. With both the underlying supposition is that it's Pa...

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

Added: Jan 20, 2011
Length: 58:56
Purchases: 2

Kabul to Paris with John Mearsheimer and Graham Robb

From: Open Source

This week the conversation moves from Kabul to Paris, as we talk with John Mearsheimer, the foreign policy "realist" from the University of Chicago...

Bought by WMNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUOW

Added: Oct 07, 2010
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 3

American Conversations with Andrew Bacevich & Vijay Iyer

From: Open Source

This week we're talking with the soldier-turned-author of Washington Rules, Andrew Bacevich. Then we sit down at the piano with the jazz improv sta...

Bought by KUOW

Added: Sep 23, 2010
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 1

Quilting through History

From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad

Caption: Quilt from London Quilters exhibition., Credit: Walter Murch

Quilting binds women together through history and in community.

Added: May 24, 2010
Length: 09:56

A Patchwork Election

From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad

Caption: Statue of Prime Minister Charles James Fox, Credit: Walter Murch

A view of the general election held in the United Kingdom on May 6 2010

Bought by KWMR

Added: May 08, 2010
Length: 09:55
Purchases: 1

International Guitar Night: Four virtuosos from Germany, Israel and America talk about a convergence of finger-style guitar

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

There are some guitarists for whom one insturment isan't enough. Brian Gore is one of them. For the past decade, he’s been realizing his ambition...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Apr 22, 2010
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

Mediaeval Baebes

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

The allure is undeniable. Six talented, attractive women breathe renewed life into the rich texts of medieval songs and poetry with their haunting...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Apr 15, 2010
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 2

Truth and Justice Day.

From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad

Caption: Crowds at the Plaza de Mayo, Credit: Walter Murch

March 24th is Truth and Justice Day, a national holiday in Argentina.

Bought by KWMR

Added: Apr 01, 2010
Length: 09:51
Purchases: 1

Jon Hopkins's Quaint Electronica

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

You may not know Jon Hopkins, but you’ve heard him on albums by Coldplay, Massive Attack, Imogen Heap and Brian Eno. On Coldplay’s Viva La Vida or...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Mar 25, 2010
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

English electronic duo plugs in with vintage synthesizers and heads into space

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Caption: Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve of Arc, Credit: Kimberly Haas

English electronic musicians Mark Shreeve and Ian Boddy perform in a pair of cockpits of keyboards and gear. They specialize in a sound that has r...

Added: Mar 09, 2010
Length: 03:30

Global Guru - Latin America Bas Reliefs

From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio

This week we go to Latin America where we learn what all bas reliefs have in common, and what that can tell us about our social order.

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix

Added: Mar 07, 2010
Length: 02:43
Purchases: 2

Ludovico Einaudi's Nightbook

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Pianist Ludovico Einaudi is a different kind of classical composer. He's a student of the avant-garde and the rich classical tradition of his nati...

Added: Feb 25, 2010
Length: 03:30

A Senegalese griot meets a German jazz trumpeter

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

An African griot meets a German jazz trumpeter when Ablaye Cissoko and Volker Goetze talk about their unlikely and serenely beautiful collaboration.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Jan 29, 2010
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

Stylish fingerstyle guitarist from Sweden

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Jimmy Wahlsteen turns a pop melody sensibility into fingerstyle instrumentals

Added: Jan 14, 2010
Length: 03:30

An Interview With Baaba Maal

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Senegalese singer Baaba Maal talks about the evolution of the African Griot and his own ethereal new CD, Television, recorded with The Brazilian Gi...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KTRL

Added: Dec 09, 2009
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 2

Cocteau Twins Guitarist Rides a Carousel of Drifting, Paisley-Dappled Tone Poems

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Robin Guthrie's shimmering, ringing guitars, layers of echo and darkly melancholy themes play over trancey rhythm machines

Bought by KTRL

Added: Nov 25, 2009
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

The East-West fusion of Urban Nature

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Urban Nature is the duo of guitarist Todd Boston and Indian percussionist Ramesh Kannan. They’re updating the East-West fusion of John McLaughlin'...

Bought by KTRL

Added: Nov 17, 2009
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

Carmen Rizzo and Huun Huur Tu: Tuvan throat singers meet an electronic mix-master

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Huun Huur Tu is a band from Tuva specializing in the ancient style of harmonic singing that comes from that region. Their music is combined with th...

Bought by KTRL

Added: Nov 10, 2009
Length: 03:30
Purchases: 1

Karda Estra: Gothic images in chamber rock music

From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music

Karda Estra is the recording persona of English composer Richard Wileman. He started out as a rocker but veered into composing classical works for ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio