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This episode focuses on the making of Whit Stillman's third film, The Last Days of Disco, the conclusion in what is often referred to as his Doomed...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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In this second episode of our series on the career, legacy, aspirations and regrets of Whit Stillman, we hear from the filmmaker — as well as actor...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 52:44
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National Poetry Month continues with this "Classic" program featuring our current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón (lee-moan). In this 2020 reading at ...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Tulsa musician, Brad James, came into the Folk Salad studio to play some songs from his new cd and to talk about the making of his record, Brad Ja...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
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Community Radio is one of the most personal forms of radio.  It exists world-wide and provides basic information in times of crises and normalcy.  ...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
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Ever wonder how it's done behind the scenes? Today we talk to a man who knows how to have some fun, Doug Stagner COO of the International Associati...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2017
  • Length: 14:49
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Rebecca Barry talks about her wonderful memoir "Recipes for a Beautiful Life"

  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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We look back on the life of novelist Kent Haruf (1943-2014). September 2017 marks the inaugural Kent Haruf Literary Celebration in Salida for this ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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When Sinead Morrissey won the 2013 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for her fifth book, PARALLAX, her work was then published in the U.S. pulling from all f...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Mairead Ní Mhaonaigh, singer, fiddle player and founding member of the legendary Irish group Altan visits with host John Floridis and reviews the g...

Bought by KGLT and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Tom Hiddleston takes on the role of the enigmatic country legend.

Bought by KPSQ-LP, KHNS, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: W. Kamau Bell, San Francisco, CA 12/16/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
W. Kamau Bell talks hidden gems, Bruce Lee’s genius, and how Berry Gordy's THE LAST DRAGON gave him his first meta-moment.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 22:08
Caption: Tonya Pinkins
In Forward Observer, Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins plays a harried Veterans Administration Hospital clerk. An elderly World War II veteran is giv...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Adam Wingard & Simon Barrett, San Francisco, CA 4/28/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett talk the allure of the psychopath, testing audience sympathy, and the strategic use of a key light.

  • Added: Sep 19, 2014
  • Length: 16:54
Caption: Gabriel Iglesias, San Francisco, CA 6/24/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Gabriel Iglesias talks bacon cakes, losing weight, and why comedy can do more than just make people laugh.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jul 21, 2014
  • Length: 11:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Nick Frost, San Francisco, CA 3/28/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Nick Frost talks sequins, alcohol, and why not every romantic comedy should end in a kiss.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 09:13
Caption: Jim Mickle, San Francisco, CA 9/30/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jim Mickle talks extreme reactions, the difference between a remake and a re-imagining, and why he wanted to make the prettiest cannibal movie ever.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2013
  • Length: 15:44
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Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost talk political dialectics, the definition of improvement, and alcohol as a magic time machine.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 11:58
Caption: Adam Wingard & Simon Barrett, San Francisco, CA 4/28/13, Credit: Andrea Chae
Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett talk the comfort of horror, art imitating life, and why violence isn’t the point.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 10:14
Caption: Samantha Martin And The Haggard, Credit: Press Photo
Americana music is not the sole purview of the United States, as Canadian, Samantha Martin, the chief songwriter for Samantha Martin & The Haggard,...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KKRN, WLPR , WSLR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
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A show about the fine folks who serve your food.

  • Added: Jul 18, 2013
  • Length: 58:19
Caption: Michael Cera & Sebastian Silva, San Francisco, CA  5/7/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Michael Cera and Sebastian Silva talk the creativity of improv, the excitement of failure, and being open to the moment.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 15:56
Caption: Paul Feig, San Francisco, CA 6/6/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Paul Feig talks sincerity, vanity, and his Hitchcock moment.

  • Added: Jun 27, 2013
  • Length: 16:03
Caption: Salon Saloon in Minneapolis, MN, Credit: http://www.salonsaloon.info
Producer Taylor Tower spoke with Andy Sturdevant, creative director and host of the Minneapolis-based live arts show, Salon Saloon. Featuring clips...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2013
  • Length: 16:16
Caption: Neil Gaiman waits backstage, Credit: David J. Murray, Clear Eyed Photo
Multimedia sensation reads from the new edition of "American Gods," and talks Twitter, Dr. Who, and the power of librarians with host Virginia Pres...

Bought by KSRQ, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 49:27
  • Purchases: 3