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


  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
CJL-806 The Bowie Project - Part 2
From: Steve Rashid
Series: Chicago Jazz Live
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome Part 2 of a unique two-part offering, The Bowie Project. Vocalist Paul Marinaro teamed up with Jim Gaillo...

Bought by WLPR , Northwest Public Broadcasting, and WDCB


  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 3
CJL-805 The Bowie Project - Part 1
From: Steve Rashid
Series: Chicago Jazz Live
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome Part 1 of a unique two-part offering, The Bowie Project. Vocalist Paul Marinaro teamed up with Jim Gaillo...

Bought by WLPR , Northwest Public Broadcasting, and WDCB


  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 3
Poet and Essayist Kathryn Nuernberger
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet and essayist Kathryn Nuernberger discusses how she once shied away from being a "woman writer" and why she now embraces it, as she reads from ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
These Films Keep People Out of Prison
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What if judges could know a person more completely before sentencing them to prison? An organization called Complete Picture uses the power of film...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KWMR, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Conger Beasley Jr.: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features the Past American Voice of Conger Beasley Jr. whose last book, ON BECOMING APACHE, was published posthumously at th...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 19, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
U.S. Poet Laureate (2015-2017) Juan Felipe Herrera
From: New Letters on the Air
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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
WoodSongs 996: Michael Martin Murphey and Mihoko Goto
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Accordion master Mihoko Goto on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes one of the most revered and accomplished singer songwriters of his genera...

Bought by KDLG, KTRL, WOUB, KDLG, KLCC and more


  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
The Parisota Hot Club Plays in a Speakeasy Atmosphere Next Sunday at Volstead’s in Minneapolis
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
The Parisota Hot Club Sets the mood every other Sunday at 7:30 at Volstead’s Emporium, 711 West Lake in Minneapolis, in the Calhoun Building. Catch...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
The Write Question - Sharma Shields - 390
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Sharma Shields discusses her novel, The Cassandra. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Poets and NEA Fellows Hadara Bar-Nadav & Kathryn Nuernberger
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poets Hadara Bar-Nadav and Kathryn Nuernberger, who were both chosen as 2017 NEA Literary Fellows, talk about their work in this interview at the K...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Karen Hoskin — A bottle of rum...and a better world (Part one)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness host Alan Wartes talks with entrepreneur Karen Hoskin.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
WoodSongs 948: Hiroya Tsukamoto and Youssra El Hawary
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Youssra El Hawary from Egypt on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes the Cinematic Guitar Poetry of Japan's Hiroya Tsukamoto plus Egyptian acc...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WETS, WVRU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WSLR and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 18
CJL-317 Double Monk
From: Steve Rashid
Series: Chicago Jazz Live
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome "Double Monk". The brilliant pianists, Jeremy Kahn and Steve Million present their dual-piano interpretat...

Bought by WLPR and WDCB


  • Added: Oct 07, 2018
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 2
More with Scottish Poet and Editor Robin Robertson
From: New Letters on the Air
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In 2006, Robin Robertson's collection, SWITHERING, won the prestigious Forward Poetry Prize for best book. Now selections from that and his other f...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
CJL-305 Al Day - Bob Long - Marc Smith
From: Steve Rashid
Series: Chicago Jazz Live
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we have an extraordinary group organized by pianist Bob Long and vocalist Al Day, with saxophonist Brian Gephart and...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 56:59
  • Purchases: 1
Giancarlo Guerrero
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Giancarlo Guerrero and host John Clare, Credit: Michael Daugherty
We’ll hear from a five time GRAMMY® award winner, conductor Giancarlo Guerrero on today’s What’s New.

Bought by KMUN, WETS, KMUN, KVNO, WETS and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
71: How To End Sexual Harassment-Whitney Bell, Feminist Activist
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Whitney Bell
Whitney Bell got tired of receiving unwanted sexually explicit photos from men, and decided to do something about it: She gathered 200 of these ima...

Bought by KWIT, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WMUU-LP, KWMR, and KSJD


  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
America's Melting Pot
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Cover of Theater Programme for Israel Zangwill's play "The Melting Pot", Credit: Wikipedia
We’ll speak to some talented conductors in America’s melting pot from Finland and Poland, plus the young composer Adam Schoenberg

Bought by KMUN, KWAX, WETS, KMUN, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Novelist Daniel Woodrell
From: New Letters on the Air
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Award-winning author Daniel Woodrell, discusses his 2013 novel THE MAID'S VERSION. Told around a mysterious and tragic explosion at a 1920s dance c...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Anne Waldman & The Beats
From: New Letters on the Air
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Prolific poet and winner of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship Award, Anne Waldman is younger than the Beat Generation, but she did know many of its pro...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Midwestern Poet Trish Reeves
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Trish Reeves
Poet Trish Reeves draws inspiration from family history, human resilience, and a series of glass negatives which are featured in NEW LETTERS magazi...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Nov 16, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Matt Paxton: The Secret Lives Of Hoarders
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Matt Paxton and Phaedra Hise on their book, The Secret Lives of Hoarders, and dispel the stereotypes of...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 55:57
Why We Eat Some Animals and Not Others
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious asks 'why in meat eating cultures around the world, do they find the meat of some animals disgusting and why do they eat meat at all?...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Systems of Law
From: War News Radio
Caption: Pakistani security officials escort Raymond Allen Davis at a local court, Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00