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History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. From the historic Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to the fossil fuel fights througho...
- Added: Feb 23, 2022
- Length: 28:30
Some college students are using the word loyalty as a synonym for monogamy. Are the meanings of these words now shifting? Plus, a biologist discove...
Bought by KUAT, KTXK, KTSW 89.9, WYAP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more
- Added: Feb 21, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
In Cockney rhyming slang, apples and pears is a synonym for "stairs," and dustbin lids means kids. Plus, sniglets are clever coinages for things we...
- Added: Feb 14, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 19
Need a slang term that can replace just about any noun? Try chumpie. If you're from Philadelphia, you may already know this handy placeholder word....
Bought by KUAT, KTXK, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KTSW 89.9, WYAP and more
- Added: Feb 07, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 20
National Book Award winner Barry Lopez had wise advice for young writers. First, read widely and follow your curiosity. Second, travel or learn a f...
- Added: Jan 31, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
What kind of book do people ask for most often in prison? Romance Novels? No. The Bible? No. The most requested books by far are . . . dictionarie...
- Added: Jan 24, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
Twice a day the River Thames recedes, revealing a muddy shoreline. Hobbyists known as mudlarks stroll the surface searching for objects that have f...
- Added: Jan 17, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
Diamond dust, tapioca snow, and sugar icebergs -- a 1955 glossary of arctic and subarctic terms describes the environment in ways that sound poetic...
- Added: Jan 10, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
It was a dark and stormy night. So begins the long and increasingly convoluted prose of Edwards Bulwer-Lytton's best-known novel. Today the annual ...
- Added: Jan 04, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 16
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem "Beowulf" in high school. But what if you could actually hear "Beowulf" in the English of today? The...
- Added: Dec 27, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
What's it like to hike the Pacific Crest Trail all the way from Mexico to Canada? You'll end up with sore muscles and blisters, and great stories t...
Bought by KUAT, WYAP, WSLR, WPCA-LP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more
- Added: Dec 20, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 16
Astronauts returning from space say they experience what's called the overview effect, a new understanding of the fragility of our planet and our n...
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
Enthusiastic book recommendations! Martha's savoring the biography of Alexander von Humboldt, the 19th-century explorer, polymath, and naturalist w...
- Added: Dec 06, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
Some TV commercials launch catchphrases that stick around long after the original ads. The exclamation Good stuff, Maynard! is still a compliment a...
- Added: Nov 29, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
Asthenosphere, a geologist's term for the molten layer beneath the earth's crust, sparks a journey that stretches all the way from ancient Greece t...
- Added: Nov 22, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
A documentary film called My Beautiful Stutter" follows youngsters at a summer camp specifically for stutterers. It's a place for finding acceptanc...
- Added: Nov 16, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 19
Amid court-ordered busing in the 1970s, a middle-school teacher tried to distract her nervous students on the first day of class with this strange ...
- Added: Nov 08, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
We use the term Milky Way for that glowing arc across the sky. But how people picture it varies from culture to culture. In Sweden, that starry ban...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
In the 15th century, the word respair meant "to have hope again." Although this word fell out of use, it's among dozens collected in a new book of...
- Added: Oct 25, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
The words tough, through, and dough all end in O-U-G-H. So why don't they rhyme? A lively new book addresses the many quirks of English by explaini...
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
What happens in a classroom of refugee and immigrant youngsters learning English? Their fresh approach to language can result in remarkable poetry ...
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
In September of 1896, the town of Crush was created for the sole purpose of crashing two steam trains together. Things did not go according to plan.
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on "A Way with Words": When there's no evening meal planned at home, what do you call that scramble to cobble together your own dinner? S...
- Added: Oct 04, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
An ornithologist says there's a growing movement to change the name of a pink-footed bird currently called the flesh-footed shearwater. The movemen...
- Added: Sep 27, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 18
In 1971, when a new public library opened in Troy, Michigan, famous authors and artists were invited to write letters to the city's youngest reader...
- Added: Sep 20, 2021
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 17
