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The late novelist, retired Princeton professor, and mountain climber, Russell Banks is the author of the 2021 novel, FOREGONE. In this classic 201...

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Emily speaks with Emily Maloney about her new collection of essays, Cost of Living, which explores the American healthcare system and what it’s lik...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 33:59
  • Purchases: 1
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How do our identities and values shape the way we listen to others’ climate experience? Author Nathaniel Rich and journalist Meera Subramanian cove...

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 58:57
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Born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica, the poet Kwame Dawes is the editor of Nebraska's literary magazine, PRAIRIE SCHOONER, and the 2021 successor t...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Stewart O'Nan, the author of 20 plus books including EMILY, ALONE and LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER, reads from his later novel, CITY OF SECRETS, and d...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with the first Chicano U.S. Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera who served from 2015-17. With the recent...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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After 43 years of broadcasting, 2020 budget cuts may bring us to an end. This compilation program features audio from four decades of our archives ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Native Comedian Ron Kanutski is a very funny guy!

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 04:51
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Our celebration of State Poets Laureate continues with part two of a former Kansas Poets Laureate reading, sponsored by the Kansas Area Watershed C...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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In this presentation at the Kansas City Public Library, Scottish-born writer Margot Livesey talks about her evolution as a reader and writer, and s...

  • Added: May 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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While at the Woodneath Library Center, novelist Larry Watson reads from his tenth book, AS GOOD AS GONE, now out in paperback. He reveals how cowbo...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
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Black History Month concludes with the Past American Voice of essayist and fiction writer James Alan McPherson (1943-2016). In this archive recordi...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Middle school teacher Steven Simmons says he was a little overwhelmed in 2005 when he started his career at Estes Hills Elementary School in Chapel...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
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
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Episode Sixty-Two, Mary! Thank you for supporting all that episodic exposition! This episode we speak with romance novelist Mary Tate Engels. Autho...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
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The humorist and author talks about his novel, "Insane City," and the real-life insane city that inspired it...Miami. He then sits down with Virgin...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 56:30
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John Irving reads from and talks about his novel "In One Person," and sits down with Virginia Prescott about writing, sex, and why he'd never becom...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
Caption: Tennessee Williams
In this Views and Brews Remix on Becoming Tennessee Williams professor Charlotte Canning, joins director Norman Blumensaadt and actress Jennifer Un...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:52
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Well, well, here we are again. Another episode hits the airwaves or cyber-lanes, whichever you like, we’re there for you! We’re all the way up to e...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
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Episode thirty-two is just below, right behind that little arrow. It’s hiding there. If you don’t believe me, go ahead, click that little arrow and...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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Mother and son poets meet to talk about the courage of poetry, the pleasures of red rice and language. Funny, moving.

Bought by KFCF FM, 90.5 WSNC, KWMR, WJSU, KZYX and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2006
  • Length: 44:47
  • Purchases: 19
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The late, great monologist in retro-talkfest about his art, life, laughs, and hopes for the future.

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 50:05
  • Purchases: 1