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National Writers Series: Anna Quindlen
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Anne-Marie Oomen talks with author Anna Quindlen

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 4
Nina Burleigh, VIRUS & Celia Jeffries, BLUE DESERT
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with journalist Nina Burleigh about Trump’s failure on Covid and what that says about our public health system—and capitalism. Her book is ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Eliot Peper, VEIL & Paul Greenberg, THE CLIMATE DIET
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Eliot Peper about his Cli-Fi novel, Veil. It’s about what happens when a tech CEO decides to geo-engineer the climate—in secret. Then...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:03
Storied States: James Scott's Against the Grain
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Epic of Gilgamesh, tablet 11, story of the Flood. , Credit: Courtesy of The British Museum.
In Storied States, we examine the shift in how humans lived, moving from hunter-gatherers to sedentary farmers. And contrary to official narrative ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 58:03
Storied Into Being: Martin Puchner On the Written World
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: The Preface of the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex - an ancient Mayan book containing astronomical data.
From Alexander the Great's "pillow book" (The Iliad) to the Mayan Popul Vuh; from Gilgamesh to Harry Potter by way of Goethe and the notion of “wor...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
GP007 - Q&A Crazy with Cheyenne
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio
Caption: Author and Publlisher Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Millennial-with-attitude and recent journalism graduate Cheyenne Cockrell challenges Gerald with a dozen questions from wannabes who wake up wantin...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 54:53
Constitutional Law Professor Kermit Roosevelt, author of “Allegiance”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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“It may well be that the Senate Republicans would be better off confirming some moderate Obama nominee to the Supreme Court now, rather than having...

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


  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 2
Historian Richard Rhodes, author of “John James Audubon: The Making of an American”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Audubon is best known for his 435 paintings of American birds. He came here as a young man in the early 1800s from France with a talent for self-ta...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 1
Imagining Yoko Ono (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beatles. But she was an accomplished and in...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCNY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WABE, WTJU and more


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Imagining Yoko Ono (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beatles. But she was an accomplished and in...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, KVSC, KENW, and WLIW


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Author Diana Gabaldon: The When & Why's of the World of the "Outlander"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Based on a time-traveling English nurse in the 20th century who is married to an 18th century Scotsman, Diana’s eight books in The Outlander series...

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


  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
Why did a 13-year-old become a soldier? Ishmael Beah explains...
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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He used to be one of the many thousands of child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in dozens of conflicts around the world. Ishmael...

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


  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 2
Women's History Month: Poems Of The Women's Movement
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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Feminist poet Honor Moore talks about the anthology she edited, Poems From The Women’s Movement.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 19:37
  • Purchases: 1
Women's History: Louisa May Alcott & American Bloomsbury
From: Francesca Rheannon
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Susan Cheever talks about her acclaimed 2010 biography, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT and about her 2007 book, AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Wa...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 59:07
Butterfly in the Typewriter
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A Confederacy of Dunces, by New Orleans-born John Kennedy Toole, is one of the great stories of American literature. A new biography of Toole tells...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, WABE, and WTJU


  • Added: May 10, 2013
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 4
1619: The Making of America
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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1619 was the year the first Africans arrived on the North American continent. There were at least 20 of them and they came as slaves from Angola. B...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
The Censorship of Dorian Gray
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A new edition restores Oscar Wilde's famous novel to its original form.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Bush & Cheney: Did They Cheat Justice?
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious speaks with Elizabeth Holtzman, a former congresswoman, former District Attorney of Brooklyn, New York and author of Cheating Justic...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
From Combat to College
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Are colleges and universities ready for the influx of veterans returning from military service?

  • Added: Jan 31, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
The Mindful Path to Sustainability
From: Bill Baue
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Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:03