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Caption: 'Duck In Watercolor', Credit: Pisanello
This program is a 5 minute spoken word tribute to a man who was prolific in writing renaissance fables...Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'St. John The Baptist', Credit: Leonardo da Vinci
This program is 5 minutes in length, and is part of the 76 episode series on PRX that explores renaissance fables.

  • Added: May 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Venus And Mars', Credit: Botticelli
This program is a spoken word rendition of renaissance fables with appropriate music. It is 5 minutes in length.

  • Added: May 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'St, Maurus Of Glanfeuil Walking On Water Saves St, Placidius From Drowning', Credit: Jean Fouquet
This program is 5 minutes in length, and explores some of the timeless renaissance fables of Bernadino Baldi...one of the four authors explored in ...

  • Added: May 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Portrait Of Clarissa Strozzi', Credit: Titian
This 5 minute spoken word program highlights some of the renaissance fables of the prolific Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Portrait Of A Man', Credit: Luca Signorelli
The apologues or fables of Leon Battista Alberti are numerous and entertaining. This program, for 5 minutes, explores one of the greatest authors o...

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Portrait Of A Man With A Medal Of Cosmo The Elder', Credit: Botticelli
This 5 minute program is a spoken word presentation of renaissance fables written by Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
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In this presentation at the Kansas City Public Library, Scottish-born writer Margot Livesey talks about her evolution as a reader and writer, and s...

  • Added: May 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Black History Month concludes with the Past American Voice of essayist and fiction writer James Alan McPherson (1943-2016). In this archive recordi...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sarah Vowell signing books after a lecture at Lamar Univ. in Beaumont, Texas
Sarah Vowell talks to reporter Brian Friedman and producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson about Louis Armstrong, voiceover work, Andrew Jackson, New Orleans...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2014
  • Length: 11:01
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The humorist and author talks about his novel, "Insane City," and the real-life insane city that inspired it...Miami. He then sits down with Virgin...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 56:30
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John Irving reads from and talks about his novel "In One Person," and sits down with Virginia Prescott about writing, sex, and why he'd never becom...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
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Profile of Trina Robbins, who literally wrote the book on women in comics.

Bought by WJAB, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2007
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 4
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The late, great monologist in retro-talkfest about his art, life, laughs, and hopes for the future.

Bought by WZBC


  • Added: Jun 03, 2004
  • Length: 50:05
  • Purchases: 1