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Madeline Miller talks about her novel Circe
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Madeline Miller, Credit: Nina Subin
The ever-compelling Greek myths fuel Madeline Miller's imagination. Circe is the second novel she sets among the god and goddesses and she puts the...

Bought by WKMS, Harford Community Radio, WMPG, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Stories to Tell in the Dark (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Haunted Forest
Bengali stories of ghostly women who wield supernatural powers after death. Plus we're in a new era of horror films like "Get Out" and "It." And: b...

Bought by WCNY, WCMU Michigan, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 9
Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half 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 WJCT, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KXCV, WCMU Michigan, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 12
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
The Write Question - CMarie Fuhrman - 402
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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A conversation with CMarie Fuhrman about her nonfiction and work as co-editor of the anthology, Native Voices. She also reads two short passages.

Bought by Prairie Public, KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
R2AC Artist Fellow: Carol Ann Russell
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Carol Ann Russell recently received an Artist Fellowship from the Region 2 Arts Council

  • Added: Nov 28, 2018
  • Length: 19:59
Just in time for Halloween---Kiersten White's The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Author Kiersten White's retelling of the Mary Shelley's classic novel from the point of view of Mrs. Frankenstein.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:36
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
Puposky Playwright's Original Work NYC Bound
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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All it takes is a spark. Several years ago, Cate Belleveau agreed to portray Mary Welsh Hemingway in a Beltrami County Historical Society fundrais...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 13:34
Revisiting Deliverance (promo)
From: With Good Reason
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How sewing connects generations of women artists and workers -- The lesser known works of James Dickey -- The husband-and-wife team of celebrated a...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: :30
Revisiting Deliverance (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How sewing connects generations of women artists and workers -- The lesser known works of James Dickey -- The husband-and-wife team of celebrated a...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRGY, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 7
Revisiting Deliverance (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How sewing connects generations of women artists and workers -- The lesser known work of James Dickey -- The husband-and-wife team of celebrated au...

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Chekhov’s Three Sisters: Where There’s a Will…
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Olga Knipper and Anton Chekhov
Three Sisters is being performed by the Indiana University Theatre Department at the Wells-Metz Theatre on campus beginning this Friday, October 13...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 34:55
A Woman's Genius Valued For Its Own Sake: Edna St. Vincent Millay and A Slice of Blueberry Pie
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In Rockland, Maine celebrants of the 129th birthday of Edna St. Vincent Millay gathered zoomlike to honor her poetry. A woman's genius valued for i...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2017
  • Length: 05:32
Facing It (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusuf Komunyakaa -- The stories behind John Sargent’s portraits -- How rock became a white genre -- Racial paradoxes in...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Facing It (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusuf Komunyakaa -- The stories behind John Sargent’s portraits -- How rock became a white genre -- Racial paradoxes in...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 8
Facing It (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Yusuf Komunyakaa -- A new book explores the stories behind Sargent's portraits

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, WCQS, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #45-Krista Tippett
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Krista Tippett is probably best known as the host & creator of the public radio program On Being. But she's also the author of three books that pul...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 07:36
10-Minute Writer's Workshop #48 - Roxane Gay
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This episode, we speak to Roxane Gay, author, essayist, teacher, and all around-superwoman. The author of New York Times bestsellers Bad Feminist a...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 07:49
BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How women's friendships sustained the British Empire - Getting aggressive in the job market in the digital age - How memoirs tackle motherhood and ...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
BFFs, Girlfriends, and Besties (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How women's friendships sustained the British Empire - Getting aggressive in the job market in the digital age - How memoirs tackle motherhood and ...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 8
Dissecting Male Supremacy: Kate Millett's Sexual Politics
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Kate Millett’s 1970 book, Sexual Politics, is a classic text of Second Wave Feminism, finding sexism and subjection inherent in the institutions of...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
It Has Happened Here: The Handmaid’s Tale
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Margaret Atwood’s response to those who might object to the assertion that the dystopian catastrophe of The Handmaid’s Tale cannot happen here. “Wa...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 57:38
Authro Rachel Howzell Hall brings a new detective into crime fiction.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Rachel Howzell Hall
With her character Lou Norton, Hall creates one of the few African American female detectives.

Bought by KISA Digital Studios, KPIP-LP, WTJU, WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 5
Pulitzer 100: Natasha Trethewey on Native Guard (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 53:56