PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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We talk with Fintan O’Toole about his scathing — and tender — personal history of modern Ireland, We Don’t Know Ourselves. Then we hear Seamus Hean...
- Added: Mar 15, 2023
- Length: 59:01
Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – one who shows us we contain multitudes; one whose life and writing was always an...
- Added: Apr 05, 2022
- Length: 59:00
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
Life gives us plenty of reasons for cynicism but best-selling author Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists) summons a wealth of evidence that humanki...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR
- Added: Feb 24, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
We talk with Peter Heller about his terrific new novel, a thriller set on a river above the Arctic Circle. It’s called The River.
Then, we re-air ...
- Added: Mar 19, 2020
- Length: 58:58
Wildlife biologist and author, Jim Williams, discusses his book, "Path of the Puma: The Remarkable Resilience of the Mountain Lion." He also reads ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KRZA
- Added: Dec 19, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Diana Gabaldon talks about her "Outlander" series of books with Deb Leonard.
Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR
- Added: Dec 09, 2018
- Length: 54:29
- Purchases: 2
Minneapolis performance artist Patrick Scully has created a one-man show about the life and times of Walt Whitman. It's called "Leaves of Grass--Il...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 31:02
- Purchases: 1
"I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.”
- Hunter S. Thompson, as told to Studs Terkel in 1967.
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jul 29, 2015
- Length: 17:15
- Purchases: 1
How magic and law shaped the witch trials of early modern Europe
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 29:33
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
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Oct 03, 2012
- Length: 01:55:41
Election day is closing in, and Jill Lepore has a hip historian's take on the question: What Would the Founding Fathers Do? Jill Lepore says there'...
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 58:59
Historical novel writer Sarah Dunant talks about she applies her background writing thrillers to write more literary books. The author of the best...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 29:00
An interview with Joni Cole, author, "This Day: Diaries from Women Across America"
- Added: Apr 23, 2006
- Length: 30:03
Fiction and a memoir by child survivors.
Bought by WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KBYS 88.3 FM, WXDU and more
- Added: Mar 24, 2005
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 8
