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We're celebrating National Poetry Month with a nod to what Missouri-born poet T.S. Eliot called THE CRUELEST MONTH. Listen to ten poets, reflectin...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNMU-FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series continues with "Back to the Writing Well." This time we'll hear about the influence of place and family fro...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, WNJR, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: 'Lady With An Ermine', Credit: Leonardo da Vinci
This 5 minute program brings to your audience the fables of Leonardo da Vinci. Part of the spoken word series of 76 programs, we explore some of th...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Self Portrait', Credit: Jean Fouquet
This 5 minute program is a spoken word account of some of the incredible fables written by Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'The Annunciation', Credit: Fra Angelico
This 5 minute spoken word program presents some of the fables of Bernadino Baldi...one of the four authors explored in this series. His work is tim...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Death And The Miser', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This 5 minute program is on of 76 in this series. We explore more of the fables of a great renaissance man...Bartolomeo Scala through spoken word a...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Saint Christopher, Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This 5 minute spoken word program explores the renaissance fables of Bartolomeo Scala, and is accompanied by appropriate musci.

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Self Portrait, Credit: Leonardo da Vinci
This program is 5 minutes in length, and celebrates some of the renaissance fables of Leonardo da Vinci.

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
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
Caption: 'The Wayfarer', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This series of 76 programs explores the renaissance fables of four great authors. This program presents some of the work of Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Statue Of Leonardo da Vinci', Credit: Luigi Pampaloni
This program explores some of the renaissance fables of Leonardo da Vinci. It is part of a series that celebrates three other great renaissance wri...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'A Man With A Quilted Sleeve', Credit: Titian
Spoken Word readings of some of the renaissance fables of Bartolomeo Scala. This program is exactly 5 minutes in length, and is part of a series th...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
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Native Comedian Ron Kanutski is a very funny guy!

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 04:51
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SHORT DESCRIPTION: National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet Laura Kasischke explores topics from motherhood to beauty queens in her 2017 boo...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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It’s Season 7 of the Granite City Radio Theater! SEASON 7! Seriously! What the what?!?!? We’re still the same, AND we’re different, all at the...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 01:46:52
Caption: John Grisham & James McBride, Credit: JMU Creative Media
Recorded in front of a live audience, WMRA and James Madison University present The John Grisham Writers Hour with special guest James McBride, a N...

Bought by WCVE


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Georgia State Poet Laureate Judson Mitcham, whose work will appear in THE BEST AMERICAN POETRTY 2017, is also a gifted fiction writer. In this sho...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Jul 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Wine Fellers
Meet the Founder of Shower Beer, Beer Specifically Created for the Shower.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 59:59
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Will Rogers remarks on the meeting of pilgrims and indians... Mark Twain's later years...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:44:16
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In Part 2 of Michael’s interview with Best-selling Author David Sedaris, they talk about growing up Sedaris and how his relationship with his fathe...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 34:48
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NPR Humorist and Best-selling Author of “Me Talk Pretty One Day” and “When You Are Engulfed in Flames” talks to Michael about his rise to success

  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 43:00
Caption: Sherman Alexie (left) with Katy Sewall and Steve Scher, Credit: Joshua Diltz
Native American author, Sherman Alexie, joins Katy Sewall and Steve Scher live on stage to talk about urban animal encounters. The result is a hila...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:41:12
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When and where were you happiest? Novelist Helen Oyeyemi answers a modified version of the Proust Questionnaire, a set of questions made famous by ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sarah Vowell signing books after a lecture at Lamar Univ. in Beaumont, Texas
Sarah Vowell talks to reporter Brian Friedman and producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson about Louis Armstrong, voiceover work, Andrew Jackson, New Orleans...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2014
  • Length: 11:01
Caption: Joe Bev & Lorie Kellogg read "My Brunch with A", Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
A short fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bev and Lorie Kellogg. Great for Wallace Shawn's birthday, the anniversary of "My Dinner with Andre", ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 09:31