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Aaron Mahnke is creator of the spooky folktale podcast Lore which quickly shot up the iTunes charts and landed him a television deal. He's also a n...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 11:36
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Richard Russo is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Empire Falls and Nobody’s Fool - both adapted into films starring Paul Newman. He returns to ...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 07:41
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Alexander Chee is a careful craftsman of language. As we came to find out, when we talked to him from Argot Studios in NYC, he is as measured, unas...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 10:05
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Marianne Williamson has written six New York Times best sellers, including The Age Of Miracles and A Return To Love. Known in some circles as Holly...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 07:56
Caption: Virginia sits on the floor to interview Tom Perrotta at Harvard Book Store., Credit: Sara Plourde
Tom Perrotta is the author behind, among others, Little Children, The Abstinence Teacher, and The Leftovers, now a hit HBO drama which he co-writes...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 12:45
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Megan Abbott has been called "David Lynch for teenagers". Her 2014 novel "The Fever" landed on best books of the year lists from The School Library...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:38
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Satirist Christopher Buckley, author of "Thank You For Smoking", "The White House Mess", and "The Relic Master", takes us into his writing process.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 08:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Virginia Prescott chats with Alexander McCall Smith backstage at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, Credit: Sara Plourde
The prolific author of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series talks about his writing process.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 09:57
Caption: Mickela at the Asrlar Sadosi Festival in Navoi, Uzbekistan -, Credit: Madina Khusanova
As host of the Emmy Award-winning series Barefeet, Mickela Mallozzi travels the world learning the traditional dances and music of each place she v...

Bought by KZUM, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Patti Smith chatting with Virginia Prescott backstage at The Music Hall in Portsmouth
National Book Award winner Patti Smith, also known as "the godmother of punk", dishes on what inspires her writing, what her editing process entail...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:47
Caption: Salman Rushdie and Virginia Prescott backstage at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, Credit: Sara Plourde
Salman Rushdie is a Booker-Award-winning novelist and the prolific author of a number of non-fiction works, children's books, and essays. He joined...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:08
Caption: Shannon O’Neill, an audience member, Brandon Scott Jones, Connor Ratliff, and Molly Thomas , Credit: : Photo by Teresa Castracane. Courtesy of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
Improvisers Shannon O'Neill and Brandon Scott Jones from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater explain how they do what they do.

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Story District, Credit: Alexander Morozov
Everyone has a story; Story District helps tell it.

Bought by WRIR, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Maria Alyokhina, Credit: Belarus Free Theater
Maria Alyokhina talks about political art, Pussy Riot, Hannah Arendt, and working with Belarus Free Theatre.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 06:53
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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
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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
Caption: Amy Sherald, Credit: moniquemeloche gallery
Fresh Art International presents a live podcast event with American artist AmySherald at moniquemeloche gallery in Chicago.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 15:55
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On this episode of art beat, we visit with a jack of all trades who works behind the scenes at Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona MN. Catie...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 24:48
Caption: Billy McComiskey, Credit: Edwin Remsburg, Remburg Inc.
Button accordionist and 2016 National Heritage fellow billy McComiskey plays beautifully and builds a community for irish music.

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:23
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: No more Prairie Home Companion ponies to ride, Credit: Susan Cook
I watched the next-to-last Prairie Home Companion live broadcast on my laptop since the show and the 1 and ½ hour encore were live streamed on You-...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:09
Caption: Glexis Novoa, El Vacio, Credit: Glexis Novoa
Cuban artist Glexis Novoa Explores Cuba's Past and Present Inside the Ruins of an Abandoned Building During the 12th Havana Biennial

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 06:01
Caption: Lin-Manuel Miranda and cast, In the Heights, Credit: Joan Marcus
Lin-Manuel Miranda's life in theater didn't begin with Hamilton. He already won a 2008 Tony for Best Musical with In the Heights.

Bought by WRIR, WNJR, WMUU-LP, and WABE


  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: "Alive" Victory Dance Project, Credit: Jordan Hiraldo
Founding her company after a near-fatal accident, Amy Jordan’s choreography is an exuberant affirmation of dance.

Bought by WNJR, WABE, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Cartoon Paul Buhle, Credit: Steve Chappell
Our guest is Paul Buhle, one of the foremost historians of American Radicalism and the American Left having authored or edited over 30 books, inclu...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 59:36
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In her new book The Artist's Compass, Rachel Moore gives practical advice and strategic insight for creating a career in the performing arts.

Bought by KZUM, WMUU-LP, WRIR, and WNJR


  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4