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Pulitzer Prize-winning Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Leadership: In Turbulent Times, is one of America’s best known and most award-winning biogra...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 09:20
Caption: Marion Coleman, Credit: Tom Pich
2018 National Heritage Fellow Marion Coleman tells stories through her quilts.

Bought by Bandon Community Radio and WJAB


  • Added: Oct 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:33
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Kelly Church, Credit: Richard Church, Pottawatomi and Ottawa
2018 National Heritage Fellow Kelly Church is an Anishanabe basketmaker who combines a traditional craft with a contemporary eye.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2018
  • Length: 28:56

  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Delia Owens, the co-author of several nonfiction books on African research and wildlife, has penned her debut novel, “Where the Crawdads Sing.” Thi...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2018
  • Length: 09:50
Caption: Don and Cindy Roy, Credit: Molly Haley
French-American music is thriving in Maine and Don and Cindy Roy have a lot to do with that!

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Christine Rodriguez celebrates with a student she is helping apply to college, Credit: Juliane Dressner
Personal Statement takes us into the lives of three public HS seniors who are determined to go to college and take their classmates with them.

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Pediatrician and public health advocate Dr Mona Hanna-Attisha, author of “What The Eyes Don’t See. A Story Of Crisis, Resistance, And Hope In An Am...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2018
  • Length: 09:55
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Poet Anne Waldman is the author of more than 40 books. Her newest title, "Trickster Feminism," inspired by the results of the 2016 election, is th...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 09:58
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Yale University ornithology professor Richard Prum’s newest book is "Evolution of Beauty. How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the ...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:53
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Filmmaker John Heminway, author of "In Full Flight. A Story of Africa and Atonement," describes both the good and the bad in the life of Dr. Anne S...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:58
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Brantley Hargrove is the author of "The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras.” It’s a true story of a Denveri...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:56
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Nature writer Craig Childs is the author of Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America. It’s a travelogue of places and people, just like us...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:56
Caption: A design for a puzzle room at MIA
A talk with the folks who are turning the Minneapolis Institute for Art into a Puzzle Room

  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 27:09
Caption: Lotus 2015, tUnE-yArDs, , Credit: Steve Cox
The Lotus World Music and Arts Festival may be global but it has deep roots in Bloomington, Indiana.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Todd Barkan, Credit: Shannon Finney
It's a jazzy show as impressario Todd Barkan remembers his life with the music and musicians.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 34:01
Caption: "A Quick Call Home", Credit: SFC Juan C. Munoz, 2018
The Army's Artist in Residence, SFC Juan Munoz explains his process of documenting the lives of soldiers through art.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Artemio Posadas, Credit:  Maria Virginia Prieto Solis
National Heritage Fellow Artemio Posadas has devoted his life to keeping the Mexican musical tradition of son huasteco vibrant. We learn about Pos...

Bought by WCPN and KRZA


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 21:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Georgia Hunter in her debut historical novel, “We Were the Lucky Ones” tells the true story of her family’s Holocaust survival during World War II....

  • Added: Jun 23, 2018
  • Length: 09:57
Caption: Kiran Singh Sirah
A conversation with Kiran Singh Sirah--head of the International Storytelling Center which builds community one story at a time.

Bought by KZUM and KVNF


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dria Brown in the title role of G.B. Shaw's St. Joan, Credit: Teresa Wood
Young actor Dria Brown talks with the National Endowment for the Arts about playing Joan of Arc at DC's Folger Theatre.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 25:10
Caption: HYBYCOZO, Credit: Photographer: Ron Blunt
Curator Nora Atkinson takes us behind the scenes of the wildly successful exhibit "No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man" in Washington DC.'s Renwi...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Georges Mourier describes Napoléon as “not just a masterpiece." The Cinémathèque Française restoration expert says the 1927 silent film "is also a ...

  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 43:30
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Jennifer Haigh's novel Heat and Light takes a hard look at fracking in an Appalchian town

  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:18
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Emily St John Mandel's post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven looks at what endures when civilization ends.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:28