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Novelist and Essayist Russell Banks
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: (Photo by Larry D. Moore CC BY-SA 3.0)
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
20221226: Best of 2022, 12/26/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This week on The Children's Hour, we explore the best musical releases for kids in 2022, including the five nominees for the Best Children's Grammy.

  • Added: Dec 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Best of 2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This week on The Children's Hour, we explore the best musical releases for kids in 2022, including the five nominees for the Best Children's Grammy.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KRSC, WUTC, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Fallen Heroes 2022
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thousands of social justice leaders in communities all over the world passed away this year. We're closing out the year, as we usually do, with in...

Bought by WXDU and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Grace Paley's Short Story "The Loudest Voice"
From: New Letters on the Air
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A holiday favorite, this highly anthologized short story is read by the late author Grace Paley. "The Loudest Voice" is an amusing tale about a lit...

Bought by WDCB, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, and KBBI Alaska


  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Past American Voice of Poet Michelle Boisseau
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet Michelle Boisseau died November 15, 2017 from cancer at age 62. In this interview conducted earlier this year at the Kansas City Public Libra...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Conversations: Shirlene Obuobi, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with physician, artist, and author, Shirlene Obuobi about fiction as escapism, and the stories behind her debut novel...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 38:22
2022-11-13 In Search of Proust's Philosophy
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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November 18 marks the centennial of the French writer's death.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KSKQ, KMUN, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Delaware State of the Arts - Poetry Out Loud 2023
From: Andrew Truscott
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Andy Truscott speaks with Dr. JoAnn Balingit and Dr. Traci Currie, the teaching artists and coaches of 2023's Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest in...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 22:28
Episode 3: Protecting data in wartime
From: Don Hill
Series: Research In Ukraine: Where has it gone?
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episode 3: The war in Ukraine is proving to be a real-time lab study of staying one step ahead of the hackers and finding ways to protect and prese...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 20:30
The Head Water Blues Opry
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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What is The Blues? Arts and Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack looks for the answer as he explores the Head Water Blues Opry, performed at th...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:25
2022-09-04 (End of) Summer Reading List: Banned Books Edition
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What thoughtful and controversial books do some people say other people shouldn’t read?

Bought by WLPR , KTSW 89.9, KMUN, WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Revolutionary Reader, Leading and Creating Change with Rohi’s Readery Founder Pranoo Kumar
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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The Revolutionary Reader, Leading and Creating Change with Rohi’s Readery Founder Pranoo Kumar. A social justice driven children’s bookstore and ...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 27:17
The Big Ponder #43: The Typewriter
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 1
Mississippi Poet Laureate (2016-2021) Beth Ann Fennelly
From: New Letters on the Air
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Beth Ann Fennelly, the Mississippi Poet Laureate 2016-21 discusses her roles as poet, teacher, mother and wife in creative partnership with novelis...

  • Added: May 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Conversations: Laura Kolbe, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with poet, physician, and medical ethicist Dr. Laura Kolbe about her poetry collection, Little Pharma, the languages ...

  • Added: May 09, 2022
  • Length: 45:12
Boom Town: A Garrison Keillor Special
From: On the Strip Radio Network
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Garrison Keillor Returns to Lake Wobegon in Boom Town A Free One-Hour Special With Garrison Keillor From On The Strip Radio In his latest novel, P...

Bought by KTXK, KICI Iowa City, KENW, Interlochen Public Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 6
UpFront Soul #2022.15-April 12-18, 2022
From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage
Caption: Gil Scott-Heron
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 WOMR, KAAD-LP, RADIOLEX, KCHW, KSTK and more


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 12
Conversations: Jenny Qi
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with cancer biologist and poet Jenny Qi, about her poetry collection Focal Point, which examines science, disease, lo...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 32:59
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations: Cindy Weinstein & Bruce Miller, MD
From: The Nocturnists
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Emily speaks with Professor Cindy Weinstein and Dr. Bruce Miller, authors of the book Finding the Right Words, which explores literature, grief, an...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 42:46
Conversations: Ross Douthat
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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Emily speaks with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat about his book The Deep Places, which chronicles his harrowing experience with chronic Lyme...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 50:44
Conversations: Emily Maloney
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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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
"Peace Be Still: Commemmorating The 50th Anniversary of Nikki Giovanni's Truth Is On Its Way"
From: KPVU
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"PEACE BE STILL: COMMEMORATING THE 50 ANNIVERSARY OF NIKKI GIOVANNI'S ALBUM TRUTH IS ON ITS WAY" IS AN AUDIO DOCUMENTARY THAT DELVES INTO HER POE...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2022
  • Length: 57:42
Fiction Writer Amina Gautier
From: New Letters on the Air
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Multi-award winning short story writer, Amina Gautier, shares excerpts from her 2018 PEN/Malamud Award-winning, THE LOSS OF ALL LOST THINGS, as par...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
How to Build an Aeolian Harp
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind
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Traveling the west with an Aeolian Harp: listening in dry lake beds, great sand dunes, and the world's largest living organism, Pando Aspen Grove /...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 31:07
  • Purchases: 1

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