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We talk with journalist Nina Burleigh about Trump’s failure on Covid and what that says about our public health system—and capitalism. Her book is ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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We talk with Eliot Peper about his Cli-Fi novel, Veil. It’s about what happens when a tech CEO decides to geo-engineer the climate—in secret. Then...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:03
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Gretchen Bakke discusses her terrific new book, The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future. It’s about how our outdated el...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 59:06
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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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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


  • Added: Oct 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:15
  • Purchases: 1
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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


  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 10
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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


  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
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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


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
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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


  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 7
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The first 24 hours after a city declares bankruptcy, there’s a reckoning: what gets to stay and what has to go. (And more...)

Bought by WCNY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WABE, KPVL, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: May 22, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 6
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The first 24 hours after a city declares bankruptcy, there’s a reckoning: what gets to stay and what has to go.

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, KKRN, WLPR , KVSC and more


  • Added: May 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
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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


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
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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


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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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


  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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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


  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
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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


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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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


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 4
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Feminist poet Honor Moore talks about the anthology she edited, Poems From The Women’s Movement.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 19:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mary Bowser
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


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
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Susan Cheever talks about her acclaimed 2010 biography, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT and about her 2007 book, AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Wa...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 59:07
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Africa is rising, but some fear the spread of Ebola is a sign the continent has a long way to go.

Bought by WJCT, KKRN, WXDU, and WLIW


  • Added: Nov 14, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Africa is rising, but some fear the spread of Ebola is a sign the continent has a long way to go.

Bought by WCNY, KKRN, WTJU, Accessible Media Inc., and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 14, 2014
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
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


  • Added: Nov 07, 2014
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
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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.


  • Added: Nov 07, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4