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Reza Aslan on Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth; Katy Scrogin on Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 46:35
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Making sense of the most talked about book of all time.

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WTJU, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
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Making sense of the most talked about book of all time.

Bought by WCNY and KPVL


  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 53:51
  • Purchases: 2
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During the 1910s and 1920s, the question of whether one was “highbrow” or “lowbrow” became a concern in the minds of modernist Americans. Brooks He...

Bought by WCNY and WTJU


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 2
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During the 1910s and 1920s, the question of whether one was “highbrow” or “lowbrow” became a concern in the minds of modernist Americans. Brooks He...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
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You've heard of Robin Hood, King Arthur, and even Beowulf. But Bevis of Hampton?

Bought by WJCT and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
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You've heard of Robin Hood, King Arthur, and even Beowulf. But Bevis of Hampton?

Bought by WCNY, KWMR, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 53:50
  • Purchases: 4
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A Confederacy of Dunces, by New Orleans-born John Kennedy Toole, is one of the great stories of American literature. A new biography of Toole tells...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, WABE, and WTJU


  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Kate Rosenberger@Dog Eared Books, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
Be it a curmudgeonly Galwegian on the West coast of Ireland, an erudite scholar in Dublin or a literary motorcyclist 'flower child' of San Francisc...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 56:24
  • Purchases: 1
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1619 was the year the first Africans arrived on the North American continent. There were at least 20 of them and they came as slaves from Angola. B...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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A new edition restores Oscar Wilde's famous novel to its original form.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Dmae Roberts features an in-depth and lively interview with Northwest Writer Ivan Doig.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 28:02
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
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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
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
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Very personal conversation with author Diane ACKERMAN about The Zoo Keeper's Wife, now a major film.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
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"The Face of Poetry" is an exhibit matching black and white photographs of some of the most important poets of the last 50 years with their poems.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 04:09
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The story of one man who saved Jefferson's estate from ruin and one "being" that captured authors' fancies.

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Dec 15, 2005
  • Length: 29:55
  • Purchases: 1