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National Writers Series: Ruth Ware
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Eric Hines talks with thriller writer Ruth Ware.

Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Aug 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Anne Helen Petersen
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author Anne Helen Petersen discusses her new book, "Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home," written with her partn...

Bought by WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Edith Widder, BELOW THE EDGE OF DARKNESS & Sy Montgomery, TAMED & UNTAMED
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with deep sea explorer Edith Widder about Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir Of Exploring Light And Life In The Deep Sea. Then, we revis...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:39
Jai Chakrabarti, A PLAY FOR THE END OF THE WORLD & Caroline Lea, THE METAL HEART
From: Francesca Rheannon
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This week: two novels exploring love, trauma and the legacies of war. Both are based on true stories from World War II. First, Jai Chakrabarti tel...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Writer’s Voice: Anna North OUTLAWED & Emily St. John Mandel, THE GLASS HOTEL
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with novelist Anna North about her acclaimed new novel, Outlawed. It’s about an alternate reality 1890s Hole in the Wall Gang—this one, run...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
2102: Lawrence Wright & Twin Peaks' Mark Frost, 1/14/2021
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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This week on On Story we’ll hear Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright on his book God Save Texas and the Hulu mini-series he adapted from ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
Five Days in Spain: Muriel Rukeyser and the Revolutionary Muse
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Barcelona - July 1936, Credit: Muriel Rukeyser, permission of William L. Rukeyser
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein describes Savage Coast as a young woman’s political and sexual awakening imbued with the anarchist spirit of the moment; it’...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
2031: AVENGERS: A Conversation with Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, 7/30/2020
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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On this week’s On Story we’ll hear from Avengers: Infinity War and End Game writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The two will discuss t...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
An Hour With WWII Spymaster Fiction Master Alan Furst
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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Today, we talk with spy fiction writer Alan Furst about his latest book, Under Occupation. Then we air excerpts from interviews we did with him abo...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Monsters in the Classroom! (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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"Hogzilla Chuck Norris Duck Ape" is the creation of a special ed class in St. Louis and winner of the Global Monster Project. And, Gothic Literatur...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WLPR , WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Oct 11, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Unexpected remixes (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Uncovering the epic musical crossover of the 19th century: a John Philip Sousa arrangement of Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore. -Stephen Vi...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU, KXCV, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 10
Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On Sept. 27 and 28, the most notable poets of our time will gather in the nation’s capital to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Furious Flower ...

Bought by WCNY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, KXCV, WRGY and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Poetic Justice (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller (Invisibilia) discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state-- ...

Bought by WSGE, KUHF, Troy Public Radio, WNMU-FM, and KXCV


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Poetic Justice (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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-When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller (Invisibilia) discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state--...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, KMUN, New Hampshire Public Radio, KLCC, KUHF and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 15
Poetic Justice (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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When writer and radio producer Lulu Miller (Invisibilia) discovered she’d have to leave Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state-- ...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WFHB, WTJU, Kansas Public Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Grief (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Marietta McCarty wrote a loving memoir about the daunting task of emptying her beloved family home in "Leaving 1203: Emptying a Home, Filling the H...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, KXCV, WRGY, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 10
Grief (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Marietta McCarty wrote a loving memoir about the daunting task of emptying her beloved family home in "Leaving 1203: Emptying a Home, Filling the ...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, WFHB, WUGA (part of GPB), Kansas Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
Poetry That Heals (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Irène Mathieu is a doctor and a poet who says both science and poetry use language that helps her understand deeper truths about the human conditi...

Bought by WCNY, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KALW, KUNM, KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 18
Poetry That Heals (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Irène Mathieu is a doctor and a poet who says both science and poetry use language that helps her understand deeper truths about the human condit...

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, WLPR and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Writers Voice: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, FRIDAY BLACK & Mark Russell Gelade, NAVIGATING BY STARS
From: Francesca Rheannon
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ana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah talks about his award-winning story collection Friday Black. Then, we talk about the art of the really really short story w...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Just a Spoonful of America: Prescribing American Studies to Fight Fascism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The idea that art, literature and music in particular, might work as a sort of “Marshall Plan of the Mind” is our topic tonight. At the end of Worl...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 59:02
Drawing History (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Around the country, historians and community organizations are commemorating the 400th anniversary of 1619. That’s the first year that African Amer...

Bought by WCNY, WJAB, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
The Year of the Woman (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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- In Virginia, an unprecedented number of women were elected to the House of Delegates last year. We hear from some of those women about what it wa...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, KXCV and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
Truth in Storytelling: The Reality of Teachers’ Lives
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Author Roxanna Elden discusses her new satirical novel Adequate Yearly Progress, which tells the story of the teachers’ lives across one year in th...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 45:49
Summer Reading Recs (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Erin Devine calls in from India to talk about mid-century women artists reclaiming the pin-up. -Sheikh Kamarah shares two poets who write on the ...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Indie3 Radio, WTJU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 13