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Math unfairly gets a bad rep in popular culture, but what's so scary about it? Mathematics professor John. E. McCarthy attempts to demystify mathem...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 13:51
Caption: Goodnight Tender, Credit: album cover
Amy Ray of The Indigo Girls usually makes punk-leaning solo records, but her new album, Goodnight Tender, is an homage to her bluegrass, country, a...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KFOK-LPFM, KHNS, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Collection 6 - The New Hollywood, Credit: Masaki Koike
Howard Smith's interview with Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda-their first since arriving back in the US following Easy Rider's premiere at Cannes.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 1
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We explore both the lyrical and ethical heart of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring as we ask what are the ecological and moral effects of the banal and...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:05
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We enlist the aid of noted scholar of autobiography, John Eakin, as we seek to answer Andrew Bird's question: where exactly does the self reside, i...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:26
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"I still think the same way I thought as a child. I still worry. I'm still frightened... Nothing changes." - Maurice Sendak In 2009 Newsweek's And...

Bought by WABE, KALW, KJZZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Part Two - Generational discussion with author Colin Woodard

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Rashid Novaire
In Amsterdam, Cathy Byrd meets Dutch novelist Rashid Novaire, of Moroccan and Dutch descent. The writer's heritage is embedded in his imagination.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2013
  • Length: 16:15
Caption: Yane Calovski
In Istanbul, Cathy Byrd meets Yane Calovski, a transmedia artist and curator based in Skopje, Macedonia to talk about his research-based projects.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 21:36
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On a Spring 2012 road trip in the American Southwest, Cathy Byrd meets members of Ballroom Marfa’s creative team to talk about their vision for a D...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2013
  • Length: 16:09
Caption: Khadijah Queen
On Skype, Cathy Byrd talks to poet Khadijah Queen about her creative practice and shares poems from her latest book, "Black Peculiar."

  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 15:03
Caption: Charles Guice
Cathy Byrd telephones Charles Guice, owner/director of Charles Guice Contemporary, to talk about his passion for contemporary photography and his c...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 12:56
Caption: Roswell Artists in Residence participants, Spring 2012
Traveling to Roswell, NM, Cathy Byrd meets artists Sarah Bostwick, Jon-Paul Villegas, Brian Kluge, Corwin Levi (aka RadioSebastian), and Siobhan Mc...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 13:25
Caption: Aritst Joan Jonas, Sao Paolo Biennial
In Austin, Texas, Cathy Byrd meets seminal video and performance artist Joan Jonas to talk about Joan's transmedia process.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 10:46
Caption: Sarah Lewis, Credit: Frank Stewart
In this episode, Cathy Byrd meets Sarah Lewis, a scholar, writer and curator. Sarah talks about the artists she selected for the 12.2 International...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 14:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Venerable Aileen Barry, Buddhist nun, Credit: Liberation Prison Project
Venerable Aileen Barry, a Buddhist nun from Ireland and for­merly of the Liberation Prison Project in Australia, talks about spir­i­tu­al­ity behin...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 03, 2012
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jonathan Skurnik and Randy Vasquez
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmakers Randy Vasquez and Jonathan Skurnik.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2012
  • Length: 17:55
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Generational discussion on Comfort Foods

  • Added: Jan 15, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: John Lennon, Credit: Pedro Netto via Flickr
A long form interview with The Beatles scholar and NPR music critic Tim Riley about the revelations in his book, "Lennon."

Bought by KPIK-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 24:45
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
Husband and Wife preach the Gospel at different churches, whose members get to heaven sooner?

  • Added: Nov 20, 2011
  • Length: 28:31
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MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE -- Writer/director Sean Durkin and actor Elizabeth Olsen on identity, family, and honesty.

  • Added: Oct 22, 2011
  • Length: 14:02
Caption: Vera Farmiga, San Francisco, CA 7/19/11 , Credit: Andrea Chase
HIGHER GROUND -- Vera Farmiga talks directing for the first time, adapting someone else's life, and why faith matters.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 06:59
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This new ThoughtCast series explores the impact of the written word. It examines a specific piece of writing — be it a poem, play, novel, short sto...

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


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2
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Picking up a paint brush or decorating a mask is something we often associate with child’s play. But it turns out that art-making has the power to...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 08:58
Caption: Sgt Brandon Benton sent this to his wife Emily Benton, who waited for him at home near Fort Hood, Texas, when he got word of a return date., Credit: graffitiofwar.com
War News Radio talks with the founder of the Graffiti of War Project, which collects service members’ art left on the walls and buildings in the ba...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 06:38
  • Purchases: 1