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In Japan, insects (or "mushi") are pets, medicine, and even vehicles for spirits. Plus: A robot that kills ticks. And: A poem about the insect know...

Bought by WJCT, WDBM, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WLIW, WMNF and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Irene Hofmann, Director, SITE Santa Fe
On Skype, Cathy Byrd speaks with Irene Hofmann, Director and Chief Curator of SITE Santa Fe, about radical changes in the way the contemporary art ...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 26:16
Caption: Dinaw Mengestu, Credit: Michael Lionstar
The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Shailja Patel, Credit: D. Ross Cameron
With a trunk full of her mother’s saris, Kenyan author and performer Shaija Patel reclaims a lost history.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode of Fresh Talk features Cathy Byrd in conversation with Janet Biggs, a video artist whose work takes her to the ends of the earth.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 30:14
Caption: Jeff Orlowski, Credit: courtesy of Chasing Ice
Jeff Orlowski goes to the Arctic to film James Balog’s documentation of the rapidly disappearing glaciers. We hear all about it.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 30:20
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Nobody knows their exact price tag, but the Sochi Olympics were widely hailed as the most expensive Olympic games ever. Is it worth the cost? Plus,...

Bought by WJCT, WTJU, KVSC, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Nobody knows their exact price tag, but the Sochi Olympics were widely hailed as the most expensive Olympic games ever. Is it worth the cost? Plus,...

Bought by WCNY and WRGY


  • Added: Feb 28, 2014
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 2
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Arkady Renko, a senior investigator in the Moscow prosecutor's office, is back. Smith’s first book in this 8-book series was “Gorky Park” published...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
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During and despite the Great Depression, the entertainment industry produced what some consider the greatest era of popular music. We look at the s...

Bought by WCNY and WTJU


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Antonia Wright, Suddenly We Jumped, 2013
Recorded in situ at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, this Fresh Talk episode features 3 of 8 projects presented at A Futurist Evening during Art ...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:36
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Eight out of 10 children born in America today will never know a night sky dark enough to see the Milky Way. Are we experiencing the end of night?

Bought by WJCT, WTJU, and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
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In “Men of Salt” this adventurer and outdoorsman travels from Timbuktu to the salt mines deep in the Mali desert. He traveled eighteen hours daily ...

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


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Shadow Healer, #1, Credit: courtesy Morgan Coy
Cathy Byrd meets authors Morgan Coy and Karen Davidson to talk about Shadow Healer, the new age noir comic book they created with artist Chris Chalik.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 09:11
Caption: Louis Grachos
Cathy Byrd speaks with Louis Grachos, new Director of Austin Museum of Art-Arthouse about how he landed in Austin, Texas, and what he hopes to do t...

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 09:12
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Matteo Garrone talks materialism, capitalism, and why he cast someone serving a life sentence as his star.

  • Added: Apr 07, 2013
  • Length: 11:33
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First published in 1947, Goodnight Moon has become one of the most popular books for young children. Yet the book’s author, Margaret Wise Brown, al...

Bought by WJCT, XRAY.fm, WFHB, and KVLU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
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The impact of President Chavez's absenteeism over Venezuela politics. El impacto del ausentismo del Presidente Chávez sobre la política interna ...

Bought by KDNA Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Analizamos como Bolivia integra aspectos etnio-culturales a su sistema judicial. We examine how Bolivia is cultural ethnic aspects to the judici...

Bought by KDNA Radio


  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Today on Voices of Our World we speak with two women who may provide some insight into whether or not the effects of the so-called “year of the wom...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVSC, and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Jason Forrest
Cathy Byrd connects by Skype with Jason Forrest, an American laptop musician based in Berlin, about why he loves the performance spotlight.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 18:57
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Despidiendo el año con la buena música de Banda Alternativa. Closing the year with the good music of Banda Alternativa.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:05
Caption: Kate Moore
In the Netherlands, Cathy Byrd meets Australian musician and composer Kate Moore in The Hague to talk about the new music she invents and performs.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 26:30
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More than 20 years after Germans tore down the Berlin Wall, they are still dealing with the stigmas of a formerly divided country.

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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El impato de la cultura indígena en el sistema judicial. (The impact Bolivia's indigenous culture on the justice system)

Bought by KDNA Radio


  • Added: May 17, 2012
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 1