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Nerdette's Summer Homework Special
From: WBEZ
Series: Nerdette
Caption: Actor Tom Hanks on Nerdette
Guests on Nerdette always assign listeners homework, and we’ve compiled the BEST OF THE BEST into this hour-long Nerdette summer homework special. ...

Bought by KUNM, KZYX, WCNY, KOSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 30
Dee Dee Bridgewater on the weekly podcast from the National Endowment for the Arts.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dee Dee Bridgewater, Credit: Mark Higashino
Singer and 2017 NEA Jazz Master continues to go her own way.

Bought by WILL, WNJR, WTJU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 05, 2017
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 4
A Conversation with MN State Supreme Court Justice Anne McKeig
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Anne McKeig & Katie Carter, Credit: Anne McKeig
Area Voices tells the arts, culture and history stories of northern Minnesota. In this segment of Area Voices, we learn about a native northern Mi...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 12:15
  • Purchases: 1
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
Actress Marsha Mason on life on and off the stage
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Marsha Mason
Actress Marsha Mason living a full life on and off the stage

Bought by WMUU-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Wesley Lowery, THEY CAN'T KILL US ALL & Frederick Clarkson on Trump's Theocratic Vision for America
From: Francesca Rheannon
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Journalist Wesley Lowery talks about his acclaimed book, They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Mov...

Bought by WRGY


  • Added: Feb 01, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Award-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario and the images of war
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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With her memoir, It’s What I Do, Lynsey Addario explains how and why she covers war.

Bought by KUNM, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 4
Dr. Jenn Mann author The Relationship Fix interview
From: Doug Miles
Series: Book Talk with Doug Miles
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Doug Miles talks with Dr. Jenn Mann author "The Relationship Fix"

  • Added: Dec 13, 2016
  • Length: 08:21
50: Starting A Fashion Company in Liberia; Investing With Impact
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Archel Bernard, The Bombchel Factory, Credit: James K Holder
In the midst of the Ebola crisis in 2015, Archel Bernard moved from Atlanta, Georgia to Monrovia, Liberia and started a fashion company--that emplo...

Bought by KSJD, WRIR, KWMR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
No One Here But Us Creeps: On Nonconsensual Sex, Sleeping Beauty, and Hunting Girls
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Henry Meynell Rheam, "Sleeping Beauty" - December 1898
Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games, Bella Swan of Twilight, Tris Prior of Divergent, and other strong and resourceful characters subvert the fair...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:55:58
49: Bridesmaid For Hire-Jen Glantz & Renewable Energy Startup Program-Dawn Lippert
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Jen Glantz
Jen Glantz attended so many weddings, she went into debt, then wrote a book about it called 'All My Friends are Engaged.' On a whim, Jen thought sh...

Bought by WRIR, KSJD, KWMR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 52:59
  • Purchases: 4
48:Nancy Santiago Negrón, Lending To The Poor & Simine Vazire, Changing Research Approaches
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Nancy Santiago Negrón
Nancy Santiago Negrón of the Opportunity Finance Network shares why it took three calls from the White House for her to join the Women's Bureau at ...

Bought by KKRN, KSJD, KWMR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
47: Nancy Duarte & Patti Sanchez on Transformational Leadership; Maria Molland Selby on Sharing Spaces
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Patti Sanchez and Nancy Duarte
Leaders are leaders right? How much should they care what other people think? It turns out it's not enough to just have a great idea and people wil...

Bought by KSJD, KWMR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
Focus on Apartheid: The Photojournalism of Margaret Bourke-White
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechosl...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 56:31
Gemma Bulos: Turning A Drop Into A Wave
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Gemma Bulos
If you’re listening to this broadcast, the chances are you can get clean drinking water right from your kitchen sink. But much of the world’s popul...

Bought by WMUU-LP and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Documentary Filmmaker Frances McElroy turns her lens on Black Ballerinas
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Black Ballerina looks at different generations of dancers, but is it the same story?

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, Public Radio for All, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 4
#34 Lauren Mayberry
From: How To Be Amazing
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The lead singer, co-producer and co-writer of the Scottish pop band Chvrches talks to Michael about her journey from being a law school student and...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 56:40
Eliding History: Jill Lepore On Telling Stories
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Jill Lepore joins us to talk about three books: The Story of America; The Secret History of Wonder Woman; and Joe Gould's Teeth.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:03:04
Dr. Johnnetta Cole, Director of the Museum of African Art, is a force to be reckoned with
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dr. Johnnetta Cole, Credit: Jessica Suworoff, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
Johnnetta Cole remembers when she wasn't allowed in museums because of segregation, and that informs her determination to inspire a love of art mu...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 24, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Meet the brilliant and pioneering soprano Martina Arroyo
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Martina Arroyo, Credit: Marty Umans
To celebrate Women’s History Month, Art Works presents a 2010 interview with the great Martina Arroyo. We salute Martina Arroyo for her brilliant v...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNJR, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Men Who Inspired Songs By Women
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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You know how guys write songs about women, but do you know that a lot of women have wrote music about men? We are gonna talk about a few of them an...

Bought by 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, WOUB, KSKQ, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Playwright Kirsten Greenidge keeps it real
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Playwright Kirsten Greenidge
In her new work Baltimore, playwright Kirsten Greenidge grapples with the issue of race on college campuses.

Bought by WABE, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
31: Laura Walker, NY Public Radio and Noa Meyer, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Laura Walker, Credit: Janice Yi
What does it mean to be an 'agent of change'? Lauren talks with Laura Walker, the President and CEO of New York Public Radio about their expansion...

Bought by KSJD, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
30: Nicky Jackson Colaco of Instagram & Parisa Rouhani of The Center for Individual Opportunity
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Nicky Jackson Colaco
There's an old saying, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. But if your company is also in Paris, Shanghai and Peoria, you need someone to balance th...

Bought by KSJD, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
A New Take on an Old Story: “Juliet” by Danish author Anne Fortier
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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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


  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 2