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Truth and Fiction (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A new online archive of Grimm’s fairy tales reveals the evolution of these iconic stories, whose earlier versions were often violent and sexually s...

Bought by WCNY, KKRN, KREV-LP, WTJU, and KUNV


  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 5
Story of an African childhood: Author Robyn Scott
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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The author of “Twenty Chickens for a Saddle” is a social entrepreneur who works in southern Africa. But back when she was 7 she moved from England ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2015
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 2
Women's History Month: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
From: Francesca Rheannon
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Katharine Weber discusses her historical novel TRIANGLE, about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 27:20
Women's History Month: Poems Of The Women's Movement
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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Feminist poet Honor Moore talks about the anthology she edited, Poems From The Women’s Movement.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 19:37
  • Purchases: 1
Women's History Month: Louisa May Alcott & her Marmee
From: Francesca Rheannon
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Historian and writer Eve LaPlante talks about her book, MARMEE AND LOUISA. It’s about the powerful relationship between Louisa May Alcott and her m...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:57
Women's History: Louisa May Alcott & American Bloomsbury
From: Francesca Rheannon
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Susan Cheever talks about her acclaimed 2010 biography, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT and about her 2007 book, AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Wa...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 59:07
Furious Flowers: Rita Dove and Sonia Sanchez (Special)
From: With Good Reason
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Conversations with celebrated American poets Rita Dove and Sonia Sanchez.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KQED, WVAS, WESM 91.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 10
Who Needs Health Insurance? (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Our healthcare system is in a state of transition, with both doctors and patients anxious about where we’re heading. Many doctors are exploring new...

Bought by WJCT, WCSU-FM, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMNF, WLIW and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Who Needs Health Insurance?
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Our healthcare system is in a state of transition, with both doctors and patients anxious about where we’re heading. Many doctors are exploring new...

Bought by WCNY, KVNF, WTJU, and KKRN


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 4
Novelist Debra Brenegan
From: New Letters on the Air
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For the holiday weekend, we look back in history at Sara Payson Willis, a novelist, journalist, and feminist who wrote under the pseudonym "Fanny F...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jul 09, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nerdette S02-E03 (06/23/14): Freakonomics' Stephen Dubner tells us how to Think Like a Freak
From: WBEZ
Caption: Freakonomics' Stephen J. Dubner
Freaks and nerds unite! Freakonomics' Stephen Dubner teaches Tricia and Greta how to think like a freak. Plus a portrait of astronaut Sally Ride on...

Bought by KUAC, WRIR, and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 24, 2014
  • Length: 26:59
  • Purchases: 3
A Burnable Book (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Murder, mystery, and poetry come together in medieval scholar Bruce Holsinger’s new novel set in Chaucer’s London.

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, and KKRN


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 3
Man Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Anne Enright
For Women's History Month with a nod to St.Patty's Day, we revisit Irish author Anne Enright, who discusses her dark but humorous approach to writi...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WJCU


  • Added: Mar 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...

Bought by WORT, WJCT, WTJU, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WCSU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
Renowned poet, playwright, and activist Sonia Sanchez
From: New Letters on the Air
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One of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, Sonia Sanchez recently completed her term as Philadelphia's first Poet Laureate. This...

Bought by KBIA, WVAS, and WJCU


  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
If You Could Be Mine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sara Farizan
A new novel by Sara Fraizan explores the issues of gender orientation. But, what sets this work apart from its predecessors is that it’s written fo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Alaska's State Writer Laureate, 2010-2012, Peggy Shumaker
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Peggy Shumaker
Peggy Shumaker, Alaska's State Writer Laureate, 2010-2012, is adept at capturing the beauty of landscapes, both internal and external. She reads fr...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with Alison Hawthorne Deming. Sunday, December 4, 2011
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
Caption: Alison Hawthorne Deming
Poet, essayist, and teacher, Alison Hawthorne Deming compares the northeast and southwest landscapes and their different impacts on her writing pro...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:02
Culturology: Caroline Fraser, editor of "Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House Books" talks to Heidi Holtan
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Caroline Fraser
Originally published from 1932 to 1943, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books are classics of children's literature, beloved by millions. Now T...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 14:51
  • Purchases: 2
WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES -- Kristy Guevera-Flanagan Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Kristy Guevera-Flanagan talks the terrors of truth, the progressive nature of soap operas, and why it took a woman writer to get Wonder Woman out o...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2012
  • Length: 21:10
ANNA KARENINA -- Joe Wright Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Joe Wright, San Francisco, CA 11/11/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Joe Wright talks dancing through class distinctions, the seduction of ego, and the magic of the intangible.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2012
  • Length: 12:04
WorldCanvass: IWP: Writing the Stories of the World
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 01:55:25
Mary Casanova on her new book, "Frozen," set in 1920s border country in northern MN
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Ann Possis chatted with author Mary Casanova recently about her newest book, "Frozen," from the U of MN Press. Set in the beautiful, wild ar...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 18:37
  • Purchases: 1
Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Nationally renowned writers, singers, and poets pay tribute to Toni Morrison, whose works have earned her the highest accolades in literature and e...

Bought by WJCT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and KWMR


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 5
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Harriet Reisen, the author of the Louisa May Alcott biography The Woman Behind Little Women, about the ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 28:03