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RIVER OF THE GODS by bestselling historian Candice Millard is her fourth book. Known for her meticulously researched work, her newest book is an ad...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 10:08
Caption: Eva Enciñias, Credit: Courtesy of NIF
Flamenco Artist and 2022 National Heritage Fellow Eva Enciñias has spent her life to elevating flamenco while weaving it into the fabric of communi...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 5
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Novelist Marjan Kamali talks about her recent novel The Stationery Shop-- a story that begins in 1953 in Iran and spans 60 years. We talk about Per...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 3
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Ford’s Theatre commemorates the anniversary of 9/11 with Come From Away: In Concert at the Lincoln Memorial. We speak with Producer Sue Frost and D...

Bought by WMPG, Spokane Public Radio, KZUM, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Aug 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 5
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During WWII Diet Eman acted heroically to save Jews from extinction in the Netherlands. These are 2 conversations with her that originally aired o...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 56:39
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Will McGrath, author of "Everything Lost is Found Again: Four Seasons in Lesotho," tells the story of the twenty months he & his wife spent in Leso...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2019
  • Length: 09:59
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Georges Mourier describes Napoléon as “not just a masterpiece." The Cinémathèque Française restoration expert says the 1927 silent film "is also a ...

  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 43:30
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In “Himalayan Bound: One Family’s Quest to Save Their Animals–And an Ancient Way of Life” New Mexico-based Michael Benanav travels to northern Indi...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Eleanor Brown is the editor of this collection of all-new essays. It features the work of 18 popular women fiction writers who present their own p...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 09:53
Caption: Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen
Documentary filmmakers Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen look at a small Tuscan village where each year life is translated into art.

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Manal grew up in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city. In her teens she was a religious radical, by her twenties she was a college-educated computer securit...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 09:57
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author describes the journey of Liberia’s Sirleaf, honors the amazingly resilient Liberian women who put her into office, an...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2017
  • Length: 09:48
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Chitra, an American Book Award winner, is known for creating tales of vivid women characters who live in either India or America. She is the author...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2016
  • Length: 09:54
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
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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
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Many observers including his biographers would say he’s the most famous artist in the world. Master of sunflowers and starry skies, Vincent Van Gog...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
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This river is a tributary of the mighty Amazon. It snakes through one of the world’s most treacherous jungles and it’s where President Teddy Roosev...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Here's how a writer created the music magazine he wanted to read.

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


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Edwidge Danticat, Credit: Jonathan Demme
In this conversation, Edwidge explores the writing of her powerful memoir, Brother, I’m Dying.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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As runners gear up for race season, Christopher McDougall's book is timely. He spurred on the barefoot running revolution several years ago with hi...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and Radio Newark


  • Added: May 22, 2015
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 2
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Based on a time-traveling English nurse in the 20th century who is married to an 18th century Scotsman, Diana’s eight books in The Outlander series...

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


  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
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Fen’s book, “Fraser’s Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica,” shows his passion for this otherworldly place and many of its two-footed in...

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


  • Added: Feb 10, 2015
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 3
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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
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In “1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus,” science writer Mann describes what some of the North and South American nations looked ...

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


  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 3
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Though she identifies herself as just an ordinary person with a dream, au contraire, Jenny’s accomplishments are stunning. She is an American who...

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


  • Added: Apr 12, 2014
  • Length: 09:53
  • Purchases: 2