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'Renaissance Fables For The World' 4
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: 'Venus And Organist And Little Dog', Credit: Titian
This program series has 76 shows each of 5 minutes in length. Four great authors of the Renaissance are explored. This program, through the spoken ...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:01
Coming of Age
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Anton Disclafani discusses the writing process behind her acclaimed debut novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 13:33
A Life in Verse
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Poet Carl Phillips explores how life influences the creation of his poetry. Professor Timothy Moore then takes us back to ancient Greece and how an...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:05
Translating Dante
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Poet Mary Jo Bang explores the process of translating Dante Alighieri's Inferno, and professor Jessica Rosenfeld explains the origins of literature.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:23
Slippery Nonfiction
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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How well does any nonfiction writer capture "The Truth?" Essayist Edward McPherson explores truth and memory in nonfiction.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 14:17
Magical Realism
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Author Kelly Link discusses the archetypes of magical realism and William McKelvy explains the hallmarks and legacy of Gothic literature.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:52
John Updike on Rabbit Remembered
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Open Source in 2001 with John Updike, reflecting on and reading from his novella Rabbit Remembered, the last in a five-part series about an America...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 2
Jane Eyre and the Art of Translation
From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language
Caption: PROJECT GUTENBERG
Professor Lynne Tatlock shares her insights into the art of translation and reveals the many lives of Jane Eyre in Germany.

  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 11:40
Aldo Leopold and the Emerging Land Ethic (59:00 / 54:00 - Free Program)
From: Jack Loeffler
Caption: Aldo Leopold, Credit: Aldo Leopold Foundation
A celebration of the life Aldo Leopold, the man who wrote “A Sand County Almanac” in 1949, and introduced Ethics as the fundamental concept that sh...

Bought by KZYX, WRGY, KUPR low power FM, WMUU-LP, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
Author Molly Gloss and the Heroines of the American West
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Stage and Studio
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This show profiles novelist Molly Gloss, whose books have shed light on untold stories of women in the American West.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
The Peabody Sisters: an interview with biographer Megan Marshall on ThoughtCast
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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An interview with Megan Marshall, the biographer of The Peabody Sisters -- three women who helped found the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-1...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 35:58
  • Purchases: 1
Virgil's Georgics: ThoughtCast interviews the poet and translator David Ferry
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Virgil's Georgics: an interview with poet David Ferry, who recently translated Virgil's second great poem, The Georgics. We're joined by Virgil sch...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1949: Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' First Produced
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial air...

Bought by KREV-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRNC-LP, WRVO Public Media, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2009
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 5
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