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Author Sister Madonna Buder a.k.a. the Iron Nun
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A Roman Catholic Sister in her 80s who wrote “The Grace to Race, “ she’s the oldest person ever (man or woman) to finish an Ironman Triathlon. This...

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


  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 09:40
  • Purchases: 2
Author Jenny Bowen, “Wish You Happy Forever"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Though she identifies herself as just an ordinary person with a dream, au contraire, Jenny’s accomplishments are stunning. She is an American who...

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


  • Added: Apr 12, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2
Behavioral biologist Karen Pryor, the scientist who brings out the best in dogs
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Karen's latest book is “Reaching the Animal Mind.” Having started out as the world’s foremost dolphin trainer, Pryor is responsible for developing ...

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


  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Author George Saunders, Master of the Short Story
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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George’s “The Tenth of December” has already appeared on many a best-book and award-finalist list. As we readers know, it's not every day that you ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
Author Doris Kearns Goodwin, a biographer of presidents
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “Bully Pulpit” Doris focuses on the friendship and eventual falling out of Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft while describing t...

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


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 2
Author Garrison Keillor, citizen of Lake Wobegon
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Maybe you know this place. Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above-average. Perhaps best know...

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


  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 10:03
  • Purchases: 2
Author Michael Benanav who crossed the Sahara on a camel
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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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
Beach-read favorite Dorothea Benton Frank and “The Last Original Wife”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Leslie Anne Greene Carter is the only first wife remaining among her husband’s tight-knit group of friends in Atlanta. The author talks about Lesli...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 06, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
Author Michael Korda and "Ike: An American Hero"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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An author many times over and former editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster, a major publishing company, Michael wrote this biography, “Ike: An Americ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 1
Author Michael Pollan and "Cooked"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Food guy Michael Pollan’s new book is “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation.” He is a personable, well-spoken walking encyclopedia of Ameri...

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


  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Author David McCullough and "1776"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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David writes both histories and biographies and has narrated many a broadcast program. His latest book is "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris....

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
Cosmologist Roger Penrose and "The Road to Reality"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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A British mathematical physicist, Roger is one of the world’s leading scientists. He speaks of black holes, religion and twistor theory. Our conver...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
Author Michael Moss and "Salt Sugar Fat"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Moss describes “bliss point” and “mouth feel,” two of the terms common in the trillion-dollar processed food industr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 3
Author Anthony Brandt and "The Man Who Ate His Boots"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Anthony, no stranger to faraway places himself, tells the harrowing history of the search for the Northwest Passage in "The Man Who Ate His Boots."...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:11
  • Purchases: 1
Author Anthony Swofford and Getting Past Fame and Fortune
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Anthony’s latest book, “Hotels, Hospitals and Jails” describes his life after the pluses and minuses of the fame of "Jarhead." In that book he chro...

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


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 2
THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR -- Filmmaker Vikram Jayanti on the interview 50 years in the making
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Vikram Jayanti, September 10, 2010, San Francisco, CA, Credit: Andrea Chase
Filmmaker Vikram Jayanti on lies, truth, and Hollywood Babylon in his doc, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR

  • Added: Sep 13, 2010
  • Length: 21:01
WINNEBAGO MAN -- Cult icon Jack Rebney and director Ben Steinbauer talk about their documentary.
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Ben Steinbauer and Jack Rebney, San Francisco, July 30, 2010, Credit: Andrea Chase
WINNEBAGO MAN subject Jack Rebney and its director Ben Steinbauer talk logic, politics, and the pleasures and perils of making a film about a cultu...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2010
  • Length: 22:43
SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD -- George A. Romero talks about his latest zombie flick.
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: George A. Romero, May 13, 2010, San Francisco, CA, Credit: Andrea Chase
George A. Romero on SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD

  • Added: May 15, 2010
  • Length: 09:33
THE ART OF THE STEAL -- Filmmakers Don Argott, Sheena Joyce, and Lenny Feinberg interviewed by Andrea Chase
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
THE ART OF THE STEAL's filmmakers Don Argott, Sheena Joyce, and Lenny Feinberg talk about the history of the Barnes Foundation, and the politics an...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2010
  • Length: 19:57
From Thoreau's rural journal to the future of farming - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Lovejoy Brook Farm, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
From Thoreau's rural journal to the science of the mind to 36 arguments for the existence of God to classical music to the future of farming (whew!...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 1
UP IN THE AIR -- Anna Kendrick interviewed by Andrea Chase
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
UP IN THE AIR co-star Anna Kendrick talks to Andrea Chase about suiting up, being prepared, and why we won't be seeing George Clooney in a space suit.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2010
  • Length: 11:27
THE LAST STATION -- Writer/director Michael Hoffman talks with Andrea Chase about his film.
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
THE LAST STATION -- Writer/director Michael Hoffman talks with Andrea Chase about using Chekhov to get to Tolstoy, why love is as wondrous and infu...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2010
  • Length: 16:04
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG: Disney animators Mark Henn and Mike Surrey talk to Andrea Chase
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG: Animators Mark Henn and Mike Surrey talk to Andrea Chase about the pleasures and perils of returning to hand-drawn anima...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2009
  • Length: 15:03
(UNTITLED): Jonathan Parker and Catherine DiNapoli on thier comedy about art, artists, and commerce.
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Jonathan Parker and Catherine DiNapoli talk to Andrea Chase about (UNTITLED), their comedy that examines the world of contemporary avant garde art.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2009
  • Length: 19:42
Spy Princess: Noor Inayat Khan
From: Kamla Bhatt
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Intriguing story of an India-American woman spy from World War-II

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 04, 2008
  • Length: 18:36
  • Purchases: 1