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Filmspotting 913 (03/24/23): Books That Should Be Adapted Into Movies
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Books That Should Be Adapted Into Movies
The new book from film writer Kristen Lopez asks, “But Have You Read The Book?” Kristen joins Adam and Josh for a conversation about books they hav...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMTNradio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTXK, KRSC and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
Award-Winning Poet Martín Espada discusses advocacy in writing
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR celebrates the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, Martin Espada, whose new book FLOATERS tackles the social issue...

Bought by WCPN and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
'Renaissance Fables For The World' 36
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: 'The Garden Of Earthly Delights' Triptych, Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This 5 minute program is a recitation of some of the living fables of Leon Battista Alberti. It is part of the 76 part series highlighting renaissa...

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
The Write Question - David Quammen & Humanities Montana - 423
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Samantha Dwyer from Humanities Montana interviews acclaimed science journalist David Quammen about his book, "Spillover: Animal Infections and the ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 23:00
Joy Harjo: Writing the Southwest
From: David Dunaway
Caption: Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate
The work and life of Joy Harjo, newly-named U.S. Poet Laureate, explores growing up between cultures, part Muskogee-Creek and Cherokee, part Irish ...

Bought by KGLP and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:23
  • Purchases: 2
A Change of World
From: The Poetry Foundation
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Meryl Streep narrates an hour-long documentary special about how the Women’s Movement changed poetry, and how women poets changed the culture.

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, WNMU-FM, KBIA, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 73
GP007 - Q&A Crazy with Cheyenne
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio
Caption: Author and Publlisher Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Millennial-with-attitude and recent journalism graduate Cheyenne Cockrell challenges Gerald with a dozen questions from wannabes who wake up wantin...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 54:53
The Punk Invasion - Please Kill Me: Voices from the Archives
From: Creative PR
Series: Please Kill Me : Voices from the Archives
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The music of the Velvet Underground, Iggy and the Stooges, and The New York Dolls and others the others were meeting fierce resistance in the US. W...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KDUR, Prairie Public, KMXT, KALH and more


  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 56:32
  • Purchases: 35
The Pioneers of Punk - Please Kill Me: Voices from the Archives
From: Creative PR
Series: Please Kill Me : Voices from the Archives
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How the Warhol 60s morphed into the Punk 70s and marginalized inhabitants of a near-bankrupt New York City changed 20th century culture and influen...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KDUR, Prairie Public, KMXT, KISU and more


  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:17
  • Purchases: 37
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
Mood Indigo - Boris Vian, Surrealist
From: Pod Academy
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The new film 'Mood Indigo' is based on a novel by Boris Vian - so who was Vian? One of France's most popular authors of the 20th Century, musician,...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
Megan Marshall reads from her Pulitzer-winner, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (5/13)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. An early activist profiled.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
First World War poetry with Dr Kate Macdonald
From: Alison Turner
Series: Armistice Day for Expats in Belgium
Caption: Dr Kate Macdonald, Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Gent, Belgium
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, talked to Dr Kate Macdonald ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
What's the Word? "Voices from the Ojibwe Nation"
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Honors National American Indian and Alaska-Native Heritage Month
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Three members of Ojibwe communities, which reach from Michigan to Montana in the United States and from Quebec to Saskatchewan in Canada, share the...

Bought by KZYX, KKWE Niijii Radio, WLIW, WNMU-FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 19
What's the Word? "American Indian and Alaska-Native Tribal Traditions"
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Honors National American Indian and Alaska-Native Heritage Month
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A celebration of American Indian and Alaska-Native tribal traditions

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WLIW, WNMU-FM, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2009
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 27
What's the Word? Shakespeare after 9/11
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Remembering 9/11
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A look at how the events of September 11th changed the way we read Shakespeare's plays about politics and leadership.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KFOK-LPFM, KSFR, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 6
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 11: Art/Artist/Audience in Dylan' Songs
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Bill King dusting his broom
Dylan's Relationship to His Art, to himself as Artist, and to his Audience

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


  • Added: Sep 27, 2008
  • Length: 59:13
  • Purchases: 4
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
What's the Word? Puerto Rican Literature on the Island and in the United States
From: Modern Language Association
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Explores issues of national and cultural identity central to Puerto Rican literature

Bought by KZYX, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., New England Public Media, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KHNS and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 7
What's the Word? Cosmopolitanism in Latin America
From: Modern Language Association
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During the early and mid-twentieth century, many Latin American writers engaged with international literary and cultural movements.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WRNC-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 6
What's the Word? Literary Roots of Opera
From: Modern Language Association
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Carmen, Eugene Onegin, Falstaff, and their literary predecessors

Bought by 'The Sea', WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 9
Walt Whitman: Song of Myself
From: WNYC
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WNYC presents "Walt Whitman: Song of Myself." Hour hosted by Carl Hancock Rux, the program peels back Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" and we disco...

Bought by WKMS, 'The Sea', WLPR , KUER, WRGY and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2006
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 53
What's the Word? Chinese Women's Poetry
From: Modern Language Association
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A celebration of Chinese women poets.

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCPN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2005
  • Length: 30:03
  • Purchases: 11