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Jay-Z at the Library
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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Over 14,000 patrons have signed up for their first library card since Jay-Z's exhibit came to Central Library in mid-July. We talk to Brooklynites ...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 07:49
The Big Ponder #43: The Typewriter
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations: Emily Maloney
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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Emily speaks with Emily Maloney about her new collection of essays, Cost of Living, which explores the American healthcare system and what it’s lik...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 33:59
  • Purchases: 1
Juneau, Alaska
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from Juneau, Alaska

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tongue, Scotland
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from Tongue, Scotland

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Montevideo, Uruguay
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from Montevideo, Uruguay

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Invisible Ink
From: Black Mountain Radio
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Fifteen years ago this month, on April 6, 2006, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison spoke to a crowded lecture hall on the campus of the University of...

  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 21:01
Best of the Best 2020: Letters to a Young Poet
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: Best of the Best: The 2020 Third Coast Broadcast
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In this episode, two young Black artists revisit memories to grapple with how they are seen by others, and how they see themselves.

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WBEZ, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 37
The Art of Mistakes: Writing Wrongs
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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If you’ve ever tried to work creatively, this one is for you – in this episode of the FEHLER podcast, our producer Bilal Qureshi sits down with fou...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 25:09
  • Purchases: 1
Music When Soft Voices Die
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry inspired by music and musicians.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:15
Uncle Lolo, Who Goes to Hell
From: Donald Whalen
Caption: Basswood Shoes (digital painting), Credit: Donald Whalen
A group of children worry about their Hispanic grandmother after the death of her only sibling, Uncle Lolo. Written by Michael Fidel Marquez, Narr...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 25:31
Taking the fear out of Shakespeare
From: Pod Academy
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Andrie Morris talks to playwright and Shakespeare expert, Jennie Buckman and Jatinder Verma, Artistic Director of Tara Arts about working with Shak...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 16:14
Carmignano - by Allen S Weiss
From: Radio Papesse
Series: Nuovi Paesaggi_ new landscapes. sound stories from Tuscany
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Carmignano is an invitation to pause and reflect on the limits of our taste, and learn to surpass them. It explores how taste is simultaneously th...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2013
  • Length: 45:00
The Beat : Francine Sterle - "Two Fox Running"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Francine Sterle is the author of 2006 book "Nude In Winter," which was a finalist for the LA Times Book of the Year. She has also published two oth...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:40
The Beat : Yaya Fredrickson - "Spawn"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Yahya Fredrickson got his undergraduate degree from Moorehead State University, his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana, and his...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:44
The Encounter: Recordings from the Schwarzwald, Germany 2010
From: Soundwalk Collective
Series: Soundwalk Collective 10 Year Anniversary
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Originally commissioned by Radio France Culture, this soundscape radio essay by Jean-Luc Nancy explores the 1967 meeting of Paul Celan and Martin H...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Remembrance: On Time And Distance
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Caption: Chu-Yin Lo Roberts
Dmae Roberts produced a special half-hour radio memorial on the 10th anniversary of her mom’s death. Remembrance: On Time And Distance is part memo...

Bought by KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Prairie Public, KVSC, and WBEZ


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
Heroes Come in Many Colors - Phillis Wheatley
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Heroes Come in Many Colors
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The contributions of the Black Man—celebrating Black History Month. Recounted in this installment is the life, times, and legacy of Phillis Wheatle...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 47:29
Show 1: Dylan as Poet
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Dr. Bill King
Introduction to this series on Bob Dylan's Poetics with focus on "To Ramona"

Bought by WCNY, Prairie Public, RadioFreePalmer, KPIP-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2009
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 12
Show 12: Dylan and the Traditions
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
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Dylan & the Traditions: Literature, Popular Song, Folk Song

Bought by KPIP-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WETS


  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:00:13
  • Purchases: 5
Show 3: The Joker and the Thief
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Folksong Night in Gunnison
Joker and Thief: Two Masks of Bob Dylan

Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KZYX, WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2008
  • Length: 59:23
  • Purchases: 9
RN Documentary: Song of a Troubled Heart
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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The story behind Viennese composer Gustav Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” and his subsequent meeting with Sigmund Freud in Holland.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXDU, Yellowstone Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WHQR


  • Added: May 17, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 5
Reclaiming Islam: A Woman's Perspective
From: Laura Jackson
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Muslim scholar Leila Ahmed argues for an alternative to fundamentalist Islam, for an oral, ethical tradition, passed down from mothers and grandmot...

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


  • Added: Jun 30, 2004
  • Length: 17:40
  • Purchases: 4
Spalding Gray and Sedge Thomson radio conversations: "I'm Beginning to Doubt My Doubt"
From: Sedge Thomson
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The late, great monologist in retro-talkfest about his art, life, laughs, and hopes for the future.

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 50:05
  • Purchases: 1