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From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix

Happy Halloween! Jess talks with UCLA librarian Megan Rosenbloom about the spooky science of uncovering what makes some old books extra rare.

Bought by WORT

2023-09-01 Fairytales and Fear: Stories Of Our Future

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One

Stories are the way we remember, the way we share knowledge, the way we play out possible outcomes. Climate fiction imagines dark or bright futures...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WVTF and more

230901: Fairytales and Fear: Stories Of Our Future , 9/1/2023

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed

Stories are the way we remember, the way we share knowledge, the way we play out possible outcomes. Climate fiction imagines dark or bright futures...

International Latino Book Award-winning Poet Xánath Caraza: Part 2

From: New Letters on the Air

We celebrate National Hispanic Heritage month with the second part of our interview with poet Xanath (shaw-nath) Caraza, who is a finalist for the ...

'Renaissance Fables For The World' 54

From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World

Caption: 'The Middle King', Credit: Benozzo Gozzoli

This spoken word program is 5 minutes in length, and is one of the episodes of the 76 part series that explores the renaissance fables of Bernadino...

Brahms

From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music

A celebration of Johannes Brahms with poetry and his music. (In celebration of his birthday, May 7)

Bought by Royalton Community Radio

The Storytelling Showcase

From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat

On Friday, June 9, the Great River Shakespeare Festival and the Winona Public Library held a Storytelling Showcase. To prep for the showcase, Great...

Black History Special! "Hughes' Blues: The Langston Hughes Songbook"

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES The Adventure of the Speckled Band pt 2

From: Rachel Liu
Series: Anthology

Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes travel to Stoke Moran to investigate the death of Helen Stoner’s sister… and to try and prevent history from repeati...

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.

Studs Terkel in Conversation with Oliver Sacks

From: The WFMT Radio Network

On December 4, 1985 Studs sat down with famed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. Although the interview was supposed to center on his newest publ...

Bought by Radio Catskill, KCMJ Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KPIP-LP, KVNF and more

Letters of Note

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words

In 2009 Shaun Usher began a blog to showcase correspondence that he felt deserved a wider audience. The blog quickly became popular and widely shar...

Bellwether prize-winning author Naomi Benaron

From: New Letters on the Air

NAOMI BENARON is a trained scientist, marathon runner, and massage therapist. She is also the author of two award-winning fiction books, LOVE LETTE...

Bought by WJCU

KUT's Views and Brews: Creativity and Depression

From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix

Join us for a discussion on the topic of depression and creativity, and how to look at both concepts from various perspectives. KUT's Rebecca McInr...

The Beat : LouAnn Shepard Muhm - "Shoveling Out"

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat

LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...

The Art Forger

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words

The New York Times estimates that nearly forty percent of museum and gallery art is forged. Keep that in mind as you read the new book by B.A. Sha...

Tom Perrotta on Flannery O'Connor -- a literary affinity

From: Jenny Attiyeh

Caption: Flannery O'Connor in 1962, Credit: Joe McTyre/Atlanta Constitution

Tom Perrotta, the author of "Little Children", "Election" and the upcoming novel "The Leftovers", speaks with ThoughtCast about a writer who fascin...

Show 3: The Joker and the Thief

From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics

Joker and Thief: Two Masks of Bob Dylan

Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KZYX, WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more

THE SPECKLED BAND - An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

From: Craig Wichman

The Great Detective and The Good Doctor are pitted against a psychotic villian in a race against time to stop the bizarre murders in an eerie count...

Bought by WRGY and WMPG