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'Renaissance Fables For The World' 24
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: 'Allegory On Gluttony And Lust', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This 5 minute program utilizes the spoken word embedded in renaissance music to explore more of the fables of Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
'Renaissance Fables For The World' 9
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: 'The Hermit Saints', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This series presents 76 separate programs of 5 minutes in length. Four great authors of fables from the renaissance are explored here through spoke...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
'Renaissance Fables For The World' 5
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: 'The Outcast', Credit: Botticelli
This program explores the fables of a great renaissance author, Bartolomeo Scala. It is a spoken word tribute of 5 minutes in length, and part of t...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Episode #4: "A Vandalized Voice"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
Caption: Rolling Stone book publisher Alan Rinzler at home in Berkeley., Credit: Marcos Nájera
The men in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers? You never know—some say Zeta was a constant chameleon in life, love, and the law. ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 16:59
Black History Special! "Hughes' Blues: The Langston Hughes Songbook"
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program featuring performances of songs with lyrics by author Langston Hughes, including recordings by Nina Simone, June Christy, Jame...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KVNF, WCPN, WMOT, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
3. Voluptuous Veils, Vigorous Voyage (Part IV)
From: tenali hrenak
Series: Muddy Boots (2017)
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Oh how fair these days flick'ring in lustrous bounty of poetry, st'ry, and song. Cometh hith'r and lift up thine ears of rapturous wond'r as thund'...

  • Added: May 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:47:33
Across The Sea (Los Buques Suicidantes)
From: Rachel Liu
Series: Anthology
Caption: Ghost Ship, Credit: Albert Pinkham Ryder
Jackie, a journalist in the 1920s, thought she'd seen it all when she boarded a ship headed where few ships dare sail.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 30:27
The Nightfly #2015.15 - Poetry Month Special - April 13-19, 2015
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul (formerly The Nightfly with Sanguine Fromage)
Caption: Nikki Giovanni
We'll hear poets- many from the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movements- reading their work, along with poetry set to music, and hip-hop. We'll...

Bought by KZUM, KZUM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WJAB, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 7
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
Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...

Bought by WORT, WJCT, WTJU, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WCSU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
Lean & Hungry Theater Presents: Romeo And Juliet
From: Lean & Hungry Theater
Caption: Original Broadcast Promotional Art, Credit: Aaron Hansen
A radio drama adaptation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," set in modern-day “Verona, California,” with live sound effects and some of the fines...

Bought by KUNM, WNMU-FM, KRPS, KREV-LP, KGOU and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
Candy Matson YUkon 2-8209 - "The Japanese Sandman"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN! THE NEW STORIES OF OLD-TIME RADIO
Caption: The first NEW Cnady Matson show since the 1950s!, Credit: Lorie Kellogg
Candy Matson YUkon 2-8209 - "The Japanese Sandman" by Jack French

  • Added: Jan 29, 2010
  • Length: 46:29
Jack's Last Call: Say Goodbye To Kerouac (EDITED language version w/ ID break)
From: Sue Zizza
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Takes place August 1964 as Keroauc is packing to move to Florida ( edited language version ) ----- for unedited explicit language version go to ---...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KAAD-LP, WCBE, KMXT, KUNM and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Jack's Last Call: Say Goodbye To Kerouac (EXPLICIT language version)
From: Sue Zizza
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Takes place August 1964 as Keroauc is packing to move to Florida (EXPLICIT language version) --- for edited language version and promos go to --- h...

Bought by WVPE


  • Added: Apr 01, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
What's the Word? Rock and Roll
From: Modern Language Association
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The evolution, influence, and energy of a genre

Bought by WFHB, Raven Radio, WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2006
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 11
Mean Streets USA: A Collection of Short Crime Fiction
From: KCRW
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Classic and contemporary noir detective stories, read by actors

Bought by KZYX, Indie3 Radio, WSLR, KUNM, KHNS and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 06:10:21
  • 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