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A New Take on an Old Story: “Juliet” by Danish author Anne Fortier

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

Anne’s debut novel is an imaginative contemporary view of Italy's iconic star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet. Her newest book, "The Lost Sisterho...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KCMJ Community Radio

Science writer Mary Roach talks about "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”

From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk

Mary has developed a career specializing in popular science and doing it with respect and wit. Since the publication of her first book “Stiff,” she...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio

Stars for Freedom (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

The little-known story of how black actors and entertainers in Hollywood contributed their money, connections, and fame to aid the civil rights mov...

Bought by WCNY, WVAS, Vermont Public, WRPI, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more

Stars for Freedom (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

The little-known story of how black actors and entertainers in Hollywood contributed their money, connections, and fame to aid the civil rights mov...

Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WKCC, KRDP, KENW and more

Marking Stories of Slavery (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Plantations in America’s South are physical testaments to the great wealth accrued through slave labor. Yet, plantation museums often gloss over th...

Bought by WJCT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WFHB, WABE, WKCC and more

Marking Stories of Slavery (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Plantations in America’s South are physical testaments to the great wealth accrued through slave labor. Yet, plantation museums often gloss over th...

Bought by WCNY, WABE, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KPVL, WTJU and more

Imagining Yoko Ono (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beatles. But she was an accomplished and in...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCNY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WABE, WTJU and more

Imagining Yoko Ono (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beatles. But she was an accomplished and in...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, KVSC, KENW, and WLIW

Mr. Turner and the Industrial Revolution (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

The British Romanticist painter J.M.W. Turner was a painter of landscapes and light. He was also one of the first major artists to depict the smoke...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, KVSC, WXDU, KRDP and more

Mr. Turner and the Industrial Revolution (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

The British Romanticist painter J.M.W. Turner was a painter of landscapes and light. He was also one of the first major artists to depict the smoke...

Bought by WCNY, KPVL, WTJU, KPIP-LP, and KKRN

Secrecy in the Sunshine Era (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

In the 1970s, a series of laws ushered in a new “sunshine era” of unprecedented government transparency. A new book investigates how, despite these...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, KVSC, KENW, and WLIW

Secrecy in the Sunshine Era

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

In the 1970s, a series of laws ushered in a new “sunshine era” of unprecedented government transparency. A new book investigates how, despite these...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, KKRN, and KPVL

Women's History Month: Poems Of The Women's Movement

From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice

Feminist poet Honor Moore talks about the anthology she edited, Poems From The Women’s Movement.

Bought by WABE

Women's History Month: Women of the Civil War

From: Francesca Rheannon

Karen Abbott talks about her book Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy. It’s about four courageous women of the Civil War who made history. And later, we ...

Bought by KUHF, KWMU St. Louis, KUOW, KTSW 89.9, High Plains Public Radio and more

Women's History: Louisa May Alcott & American Bloomsbury

From: Francesca Rheannon

Susan Cheever talks about her acclaimed 2010 biography, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT and about her 2007 book, AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Wa...

Witches, Slaves, and Heroines (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Caption: The Baptism of Pocahontas, Credit: Wikipedia

The myths and truths behind the lives of two native women—Pocahontas and Tituba. And more...

Bought by WCNY, KKRN, KWMR, WTJU, Accessible Media Inc. and more

Witches, Slaves, and Heroines

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

The myths and truths behind the lives of two native women—Pocahontas and Tituba. And more...

Bought by WJCT, WLIW, KRDP, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Brigham Young: American Moses?

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Brigham Young was a rough-hewn transient from New York who was electrified by the Mormon faith. He married more than 50 women, and transformed a ba...

Bought by WJCT, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Delmarva Public Media, and WMNF

The River in the Atlantic Ocean

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

The Gulf Stream was essential to the early exploration of the New World and continues to influence our climate, weather, environment, and shipping ...

Bought by WJCT, XRAY.fm, KVSC, WEZU, WLIW and more

Evicted from the Mountains (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

When Shenandoah National Park was built, hundreds of families were forced off their land. New information has emerged suggesting that some of those...

Bought by WJCT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WFHB, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more

Evicted from the Mountains (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

When Shenandoah National Park was built, hundreds of families were forced off their land. New information has emerged suggesting that some of those...

Bought by WCNY and WTJU

Viva Voce and Civil War Selfies (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Today when we vote, we enter a private space, secretly make our choice, and go about our day. But early voting wasn’t just public; it was a raucous...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMNF, and WLIW

Viva Voce and Civil War Selfies (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Today when we vote, we enter a private space, secretly make our choice, and go about our day. But early voting wasn’t just public; it was a raucous...

Bought by WCNY

Not Just for the Birds

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

New research shows one key to curtailing West Nile disease may lie in increasing the diversity of birds.

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, Radio Newark, and WTJU

The Legacy of FDR

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

An entire generation of Americans grew up knowing no other president than Franklin D. Roosevelt, who served four terms and led them through the Dep...

Bought by WCNY, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCWP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, and WTJU

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