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Commedia dell'Arte & the Tragicomedy: Shakespeare's Italian Influences
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Robert Henke tracks Shakespeare back to his Italian inspirations and uncovers sources for his early comedies.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 12:26
Battle of the Sexes: The Women of Shakespeare
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Jami Ake questions the role of marriage in Shakespeare's plays and whether the famous playwright qualifies as a feminist.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 15:11
  • Purchases: 1
"The Quality of Mercy": A Shakespearean theme
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Robert Wiltenbug surveys the great moments of mercy, both granted and withheld, in Shakespeare's many plays.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 15:07
The Birth of Theater As We Know It
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Musa Gurnis describes the characteristics and lasting influence of theater in Shakespeare's time.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 13:50
Islam, Immigration, and What It Means to Be French
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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Anthropologist John Bowen shares a brief history of Islam in France and offers commentary on the ongoing European migrant crisis.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 09:30
  • Purchases: 2
Pilgrim Fathers: How the Thanksgiving We Know and Love was Manufactured
From: Hold That Thought
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Historian Mark Valeri examines the truths about the first Thanksgiving and the myths of American identity we have created around the event.

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 14:52
  • Purchases: 1
Why Schools Were Never About Knowledge
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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Schools were not created with the intention of making geniuses and filling its pupils with knowledge. Hear three historians explain the surprising ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 27, 2015
  • Length: 11:41
  • Purchases: 2
Anarchism and Dissent in Medieval Islam
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
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Professor Hayrettin Yucesoy explores the turbulent political and religious climate of the medieval Islamic world.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
African American Voices
From: Daniel Gilliam
Caption: Leontyne Price, Credit: Carl Van Vechten
Fifteen, 3-minute vignettes celebrating the contributions of African Americans in classical music.

Bought by Texas Public Radio, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM, Texas Public Radio, Vermont Public, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 45:00
  • Purchases: 10
Long Version - Colin Woodard Interview Parts 1 & 2
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Author Colin Woodard interview on Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:24
Saving Crystal Cove
From: KRCB 104.9
Series: Stories of the Coast - How the California Coast was Saved
Caption: Crystal Cove in the good old days
Saving Crystal Cove - The story of Laura Davick, an accidental activist, who used the California Coastal Act to save the historic 1930's cottages i...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 21:58
1965 Griswold v. Connecticut
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!

Bought by KZYX, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
VoiceBox: Singing All The Way To The Polls
From: VoiceBox
Caption: singing canditates
VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman and composer & arts blogger Brian Rosen explore election season songs and the history of presidential candidates’ singi...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 58:00
Remember the Bird! (The Music of Charlie Parker)
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: 1995 32 cents Commemorative stamp, Credit: U.S. Postal Stamps
CHARLIE PARKER was one of the most influential improvising soloists in JAZZ, and a central figure in the development of BOP in the 1940s. A legenda...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2012
  • Length: 50:43
  • Purchases: 1
COINTELPRO 101 (Part 1)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Return to Camelot PT. 2
From: Boyce Lancaster
Series: Return to Camelot: Music in the Kennedy White House
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As the Kennedy presidency begins, a veritable Who's Who of artists, writers, and composers visit the White House.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1933: The Creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps
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 a...

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WRPI, KWIT, WRNC-LP, WPTC and more


  • Added: May 04, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
WWOZ Jazzfest Feature-Mr Ike
From: David Weinberg
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A visit to the home of Mardi Gras Indian Chief Mr. Ike

  • Added: Jun 06, 2008
  • Length: 04:46
Debate: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky v. John Yoo "Law & the Courts during the Bush Administration." Program 2 of 2.
From: Mansoor Sabbagh
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This is a debate between Dean Chemerinsky and Prof. Yoo on how laws and courts have have function during the Bush Admin.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2008
  • Length: 57:41
Debate: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky v. John Yoo "Law & the Courts during the Bush Administration." Program 1 of 2.
From: Mansoor Sabbagh
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This is a debate between Dean Chemerinsky and Prof. Yoo on how laws and courts have have function during the Bush Admin.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2008
  • Length: 56:07
Episode 4. Almost Free
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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Sussana Anthony Roberts, Solomon Pieters, and the Push for Personal and Economic Freedom (1664-1712)

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 3. Survival
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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Eleven Africans and the Survival of the New Netherlands Colony (1624-1664)

  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
Episode 1. "Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home"
From: ERIC V. TAIT, JR.
Series: Then I'll Be Free To Travel Home-the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground
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Preview/Overview: (1624-1863)

Bought by WCPN, WDSE, and WNYC


  • Added: Jan 25, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Holiday Series: Memorial Day
From: Talking History
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Guest Matthew Dennis and Talking History's host Bryan Le Beau delve into the history and meaning of Memorial Day.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2006
  • Length: 11:50
  • Purchases: 1
Skywalkers of Akwesane
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How the dangerous skill of high steel became a rite of passage for a Mohawk tribe.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WFHB, KMXT, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 26