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The National Endowment for the Arts presents Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Speak the Speech, Credit: Kate Saylor
Artistic Director of Alabama Shakespeare Festival Rick Dildine brings theater outdoors and has the audience "Speak the Speech."

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 26:46
  • Purchases: 1
Lights, Camera, Author! - Rupert Alistair
From: Jim Junot
Series: Lights, Camera, Author!
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An interview with Rupert Alistair, author of the series "The Name Below the Title."

  • Added: Feb 05, 2021
  • Length: 18:35
Lights, Camera, Author! - Sandra Niemi
From: Jim Junot
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An interview with Sandra Niemi, author of "Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira, Maila Nurmi." Niemi is Nurmi's niece and she ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:08
Remembering We Have Already Said Farewell: "Epilogue: To a Fire Gone" from "Breathing: American Sonnets"
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets" Bookshop.org, Credit: Susan Cook
An American Sonnet to those to whom we have said "Farewell".

  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 01:42
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
Episode 16: We Gotta Get Outta This Place with Doug Bradley
From: Justin Hudnall
Series: Incoming
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On this episode of Incoming we talk with Doug Bradley, Army veteran and author of We Gotta Get Outta This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War....

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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
WoodSongs 822: Jewel
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Jewel for the full hour.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes multi-platinum singer-songwriter, poet and actress Jewel.

Bought by WVRU, WVTF, Angelica Community Radio, KKRN, KUAR and more


  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 41
Author Janet Cheatham Bell on Literature, American History and Travel
From: World Footprints LLC
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Having lived through America’s Civil Rights Movement, author Janet Cheatham Bell joins World Footprints to reflect on her life journey from a segre...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2020
  • Length: 31:16
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
From the National Endowment for the Arts--Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Poet Adrian Mateka talks about The Big Smoke a collection of 52 poems about Jack Johnson--the first African-American heavyweight world champion.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KMUN, KGNU Community Radio, KZUM, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:27
  • Purchases: 5
From the National Endowment for the Arts--Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jesmyn Ward, Credit: Tony Cook
A conversation with two-time National Book Award winner, Jesmyn Ward.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and KMUN


  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 2
Of Her Kind: Radcliffe’s Messy Experiment in Women’s Liberation
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her book, The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s, published by Knopf, Maggie Doherty, tells the story o...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Joy Harjo, Credit: Karen Kuehn
The Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo talks about poetry and music

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 1
Peter Heller, THE RIVER & Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Peter Heller about his terrific new novel, a thriller set on a river above the Arctic Circle. It’s called The River. Then, we re-air ...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
An Hour With WWII Spymaster Fiction Master Alan Furst
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
Author R.O. Kwon's novel The Incendiaries has everyone talking and for good reason
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: R.O. Kwon, Credit: Smeeta Mahanti
Author R.O. Kwon's book The Incendiaries has been named a best book of the year by over forty publications. Not bad for a first book! But it's als...

Bought by KZUM and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 2
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
Musician's Spotlight -Bruce Cockburn 2019 Mspot Part One- 726
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Considered by his native Canada to be nothing less than a national treasure, multiple Juno Award winning songwriter, guitarist and social and spiri...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMXT, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2019
  • Length: 29:04
  • 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
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
Dispatch #306 - Gun Island
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Amitav Ghosh’s newest novel Gun Island is a story about both two of his great themes - migration and climate.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
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