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Science fiction writer Paolo Bacigalupi & "The Water Knife"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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This Paonia, Colorado National Book Award finalist describes a thriller version of possible future water wars in the American Southwest. Is this an...

Bought by KRZA, Radio Newark, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 3
Why did a 13-year-old become a soldier? Ishmael Beah explains...
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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He used to be one of the many thousands of child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in dozens of conflicts around the world. Ishmael...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 2
Who Decides What’s Fair? Author Ausma Zehanet Khan
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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An international human rights lawyer, Ausma Zehanet Khan in “The Unquiet Dead” introduces two Canadian police inspectors, Rachel Getty and Esa Khat...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2015
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. Vanessa Neumann on Conversations With Allan Wolper
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Dr. Vanessa Neumann has won an international reputation for investigating the relationship between criminal and terrorist organizations from Colomb...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 30:14
#1414 - The Miracle on Capitol Hill: John Mauck, Part 1
From: Sandburg Media
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John Mauck tells the story of the passage of the Religious Land Use Act; Natasha Alford reviews Orange is the New Black

  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 37:40
Measured by Mistakes: The Reality and Representation of Policing
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Tonight’s program seeks to shine a light first on what’s been called the “militarization” of police across the country due to something like a fede...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 57:53
WWI: The War of the Century
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re talking the causes and consequences of what MIT professor Stephen van Evera calls “the war that poisoned a century.” We’re still putting out ...

Bought by WRPI and KZYX


  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 2
Psychiatrist Judith Orloff with "Ecstasy of Surrender"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Orloff is an Asst. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA who incorporates energy medicine in her practice. In her fifth book she invites reader...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2
Colombian President Santos on Rebel Negotiations and the War on Drugs
From: Matthew Cadwallader
Series: Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast
Caption: Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast
An interview with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on negotiations with rebel militias and the war on drugs.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2014
  • Length: 07:07
Edward Snowden: Hero or Traitor
From: Matthew Cadwallader
Series: Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast
Caption: Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast
Was Edward Snowden justified in leaking classified materials? HKS Lecturer Chris Robichaud explores the moral dilemma.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 16, 2014
  • Length: 18:46
  • Purchases: 1
Author George Saunders, Master of the Short Story
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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George’s “The Tenth of December” has already appeared on many a best-book and award-finalist list. As we readers know, it's not every day that you ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
Author Doris Kearns Goodwin, a biographer of presidents
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “Bully Pulpit” Doris focuses on the friendship and eventual falling out of Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft while describing t...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 2
Author Michael Pollan and "Cooked"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Food guy Michael Pollan’s new book is “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation.” He is a personable, well-spoken walking encyclopedia of Ameri...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
Author David McCullough and "1776"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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David writes both histories and biographies and has narrated many a broadcast program. His latest book is "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris....

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
What the Prez Reads Every Day: Author Eli Saslow
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Eli, a staff reporter for The Washington Post and author of “Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President,” chronicles the personal stor...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
Author Michael Moss and "Salt Sugar Fat"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Moss describes “bliss point” and “mouth feel,” two of the terms common in the trillion-dollar processed food industr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 3
Author Siobhan Fallon and “You Know When the Men Are Gone”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Siobhan’s debut collection of short stories is that most unusual of war books. It's not about the battlefields. Most of the stories take place at F...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
The Voice of Sports: Author Frank Deford
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Frank has a 50-year sports writing career dating back to the beginnings of Sports Illustrated, and his NPR program, Sweetness and Light, has aired ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and Kansas Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 10:04
  • Purchases: 3
Cultural Regionalization - Colin Woodard Part One
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Author Colin Woodard discusses his recent book in generational terms on Yesterday Today & Tomorrow. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Fresh Talk: ARCO Madrid 2012
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: artist Voluspa Jarpa, Credit: Cathy Byrd
On location in Madrid, Cathy Byrd shares her first encounter with Spain's annual contemporary art fair, ARCO Madrid, conversing with Suzanne Rietd...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 13:02
Real paybacks when you get involved
From: Good Dirt Radio
Series: Good dirt...for a change
Caption: Grassroots efforts give you more.
Hear how grass roots groups can empower citizens to get involved in creating the kind of world they want.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
El Poder del Voto Hispano (Parte 2) - The Power of the Hispanic Vote (Part 2)
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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La importancia de votar y el papel decisivo del voto hispano. The importance of voting and the decisive role of the Hispanic vote.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 57:04
El Gobierno Boliviano y la Inclusión de los Indígenas (Bolivia and the Inclusion of Indigenous People)
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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Cómo los nativos participan de la vida cívica. How natives take part in civic life.

Bought by KDNA Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2012
  • Length: 29:06
  • Purchases: 1
El Poder del Voto Hispano (The Power of the Hispanic Vote)
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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Análisis de cómo el voto hispano impactarás las elecciones presidenciales. A closer look at how the Hispanic vote will impact the presidential...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2012
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 1
Cuánto Cuesta la Presidencia?
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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En este año electoral le damos seguimiento a la campaña "Amend 2012" en contra de las contrubuciones de corporaciones a campañas electorales.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2012
  • Length: 28:01