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Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Bible Babel Cover, Credit: Harper Collins
A conversation about the Bible's universality and relevance in pop culture, with the author who aims to give "people what they don't get in church ...

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Jun 09, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Hamburg Meets Chicago
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Caption: Motte Kinder radio
Children's Rights are sometimes completely overlooked in our society. But things are changing Children are slowly getting the respect they deserve ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 30:00
Talking With The Wind: The Mystery of Opal Whiteley
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Caption: Opal Whiteley, Credit: Cottage Grove Historical Society
"Talking With The Wind: The Mystery of Opal Whiteley," a half-hour documentary about Opal Whiteley who caused an international scandal in 1920 whe...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, XRAY.fm, Prairie Public, KSUT and more


  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: 28:21
  • Purchases: 10
Three Cups of Tea
From: War News Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From Ground Up (23 April 2010): War News Radio reports on the book Three Cups of Tea.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2010
  • Length: 07:35
John Irving Interview
From: Jane Lindholm
Caption: Jane Lindholm and John Irving, Credit: Sarah Ashworth
Vermont Public Radio's Jane Lindholm sits down for a wide-ranging interview with novelist John Irving at his home in Vermont. Short and long versio...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2010
  • Length: 46:43
  • Purchases: 1
Poetry in a Recession
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Book Cover
Award-winning poets reflect on creativity in crisis and read from their work.

Bought by KFCF FM and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
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
The Mikie Show #5 Glenn
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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We speak with psychotherapist Dr. Glenn Berger. An uplifting discussion about finding out how to live up to our full potential. This is a heavy cat...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 14, 2009
  • Length: 28:08
  • Purchases: 1
Poems and Pen Pals for Peace: Peace Talks Radio (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Ghanian Students Writing To Their Peace Pals in the U.S., Credit: Project Peace Pal
This time on Peace Talks Radio, two women who are finding inspiration for peacemaking in the written word - through poetry and an international pen...

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KXOT Public Radio, KVNF and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2009
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 6
Raymond Carver Reads What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: Tell Me A Story
Caption: Cover, Times Book Review 11/22/09, Credit: Ruth Gwili
The 2015 Best Picture has drawn from Raymond Carver's WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE, his most famous story; he reads it in his own voi...

Bought by WRGY, KRCB 104.9, KUER, PRX Remix, KUT and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2009
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 8
70th anniversary of "The Wizard of Oz"
From: Kaye McIntyre
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Celebrate the 1939 release of "The Wizard of Oz" with a look at author L. Frank Baum, the book behind the movie, and the making of this film classi...

Bought by KHNS


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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
Poet Robert Pinsky takes on another poet, King David of the Bible - and of the Psalms - in his "Life of David."
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible - the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer - in his "Life of David."

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:26
  • 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
Natalie Goldberg - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Natalie Goldberg, the writer, painter and writing teacher, speaks with ThoughtCast in Santa Fe, NM!

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WFIU


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
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
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
Whitman at War
From: With Good Reason
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On a trip to see his brother, Walt Whitman was so struck by the violence of the Civil War that he stayed to help heal wounded soldiers. He hoped hi...

Bought by KVNF, WHFR, WRKF, RadioFreePalmer, KVSC and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 13
Furious Flower
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Clifton on the cover of 'Wild Blessings'
Poet Lucille Clifton is widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, and spirituality.

Bought by WRNC-LP, KVSC, and CKMO


  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
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
The Wright Brothers' Sister
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Orville, Katharine and Wilbur Wright, Credit: Library of Congress
Why you've never heard of the Wright Brothers' sister, Katharine.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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
What were they thinking? And - what are they writing?
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Robert Silvers
What were they thinking?? A talk with MIT economist James Poterba about the motivations behind the economic crisis -- followed by an in-depth inter...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
What's the Word? Mystical Poets
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Celebrating National Poetry Month in April
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How do those who have experienced the direct presence of God capture this heightened state in words?

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


  • Added: Mar 04, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9

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