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When she took office in January, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan had a laundry list of promises to make good on, and ideas to make reality. To talk about h...
- Added: Mar 16, 2011
- Length: 07:18
When Jean Quan began campaigning to be the mayor of Oakland, she promised to clean up Oakland’s neighborhoods and improve the city’s schools. Quan’...
- Added: Mar 16, 2011
- Length: 05:41
(this 58:30 program is the final version) Lublin, Poland, 1797: While they prepare for Passover, a family of Jewish women klezmer musicians struggl...
Bought by WRGY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Radio Catskill, KWMR and more
- Added: Mar 15, 2011
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 25
Anthropologist Margaret Willson witnessed harrowing violence and poverty while living in Brazil. She describes how violence and dance are often int...
- Added: Feb 25, 2011
- Length: 12:11
Do men think differently than women? Is moral reasoning inherently male? Is psychology biased against relationships and the women who value them? T...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 25, 2011
- Length: 52:57
- Purchases: 1
"Eat, Pray, Love" author Elizabeth Gilbert reads from her latest memoir, "Committed." In an interview with Virginia Prescott, she reveals what it i...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Feb 14, 2011
- Length: 53:24
- Purchases: 1
As a pole dancer, Pantera travels all over the world performing and giving workshops. She has won titles (who knew such things were awarded for pol...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 25:01
- Purchases: 1
When Nicole when 28 weeks pregnant, she discovered she had a cancerous mass in her neck, which was immediately removed. Further testing showed Stag...
- Added: Feb 04, 2011
- Length: 25:34
Anji is a private investigator with her own firm, She Spies Private Eye, Inc. She specializes in child custody and infidelity cases. She also handl...
- Added: Jan 31, 2011
- Length: 25:45
In 2003, Carolyn's 15-year-old daughter, Ortralla, was brutally stabbed by her boyfriend in the hallway of Reagan High School in Austin, TX. Caroly...
- Added: Jan 30, 2011
- Length: 24:45
This hour we sit with Lydia Davis as she reads her beautifully honed, firecracker prose. She writes in the company of Montaigne, Emerson, Proust, B...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Join us as we once again chat with our friend psychotherapist Dr. Glenn Berger. This time we discuss the world’s most popular topic: love. Yes, it ...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jan 11, 2011
- Length: 28:03
- Purchases: 1
The art of tattooing was not fully legalized in all fifty states until the second half of the twentieth century. One of the last states was Maine. ...
- Added: Jan 10, 2011
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 2
Libby St. Pierre knew since she was a young girl that she wanted only a few simple things in life: a career, which she has as a nurse in Auburn, Ma...
- Added: Jan 05, 2011
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 3
Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Carrie Rodriguez and Ben Kyle (Romantica) join together for a new EP of duets. Includes originals and cove...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 03, 2011
- Length: 14:05
- Purchases: 1
During this program, Janet Fox talks about and reads from FAITHFUL, her debut novel for teens and young adult readers. She also talks about the con...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 27, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Carmen Delzell tells about Michoacan and the Day of the Dead and the monarch butterflies. Like all Carmen's pieces, it's very personal, but reache...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 3
Carmen Delzell writes about her travels in Mexico and one of her favorite enchanted cheap hotels, the Hotel Isabel "on the edge of time." This pie...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 2
Carmen Delzell with another lovely meditation on the mysteries of travel and her semi-magical, melancholy life in Mexico. Like all these pieces it...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 2
In this essay, Carmen Delzell tells how she initially left Texas and moved down to Mexico with no ability to speak Spanish and $600 cash from used ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 3
Carmen Delzell tells about how her boyfriend left her Saltillo, the town where she's living in Mexico. She looks for him, but can't find him, even...
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 3
In this 1999 essay, Carmen Delzell talks about smuggling toys and gifts across the US border into Mexico to give to the people in the village where...
Bought by KUT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 3
While many of the most-told love stories are fairy tales, hers was real and it changed YOUR life.
- Added: Dec 08, 2010
- Length: 03:00
Director Debra Granik and star Jennifer Lawrence talk authenticity, stoicism, and getting the accent right.
- Added: Nov 30, 2010
- Length: 11:40
Carmen Delzell talks about what her life is like living in Mexico, how she's happier than ever, but in ways she never imagined. This essay was rec...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 2
