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Five Days in Spain: Muriel Rukeyser and the Revolutionary Muse
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Barcelona - July 1936, Credit: Muriel Rukeyser, permission of William L. Rukeyser
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein describes Savage Coast as a young woman’s political and sexual awakening imbued with the anarchist spirit of the moment; it’...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Of Her Kind: Radcliffe’s Messy Experiment in Women’s Liberation
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her book, The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s, published by Knopf, Maggie Doherty, tells the story o...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
In the Name of the Future: Life After the Human Catastrophe
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Daisy Girl," LBJ's 1964 Campaign Ad
The idea of what it means to be human is changing. With countless catastrophic events looming, from climate instability to biotechnology and wars o...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
José Martí: The Whole Revolution
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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José Martí, who would die in the Cuban Revolution against Spain at the age of 42, believed that knowledge and understanding was a collective constr...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
With Ears to Hear: Voices Against the Heroic
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Chernobyl--Liquidators
Cynthia Wolfe joins us to discuss her “Platinum” ranked audio program “Nuclear Nightingales” which consists of readings from the oral history Voice...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 57:43
Dissecting Male Supremacy: Kate Millett's Sexual Politics
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Kate Millett’s 1970 book, Sexual Politics, is a classic text of Second Wave Feminism, finding sexism and subjection inherent in the institutions of...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
It Has Happened Here: The Handmaid’s Tale
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Margaret Atwood’s response to those who might object to the assertion that the dystopian catastrophe of The Handmaid’s Tale cannot happen here. “Wa...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 57:38
Jon Meacham / Doris Kearns Goodwin
From: Colleen Nelson
Series: Overheard with Evan Smith
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On this episode of Overheard, two Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historians. First Doris Kearns Goodwin on Teddy Roosevelt followed by Jon Me...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Radical Democracy of Henry David Thoreau: A Conversation with Branka Arsic
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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What may seem surprising as you listen is the way in which Thoreau’s understanding of death and life can inform our own considerations of what it m...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 59:14
  • Purchases: 1
Constitutional Law Professor Kermit Roosevelt, author of “Allegiance”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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“It may well be that the Senate Republicans would be better off confirming some moderate Obama nominee to the Supreme Court now, rather than having...

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


  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 09:56
  • Purchases: 2
Joseph Kanon and "Leaving Berlin"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Author of seven post-World War II novels, Joe Kanon takes us back to Berlin, a once grand city now 80% destroyed in the late 1940s. In this book e...

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


  • Added: Apr 02, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
WWI: The Shock of the New
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Out of the mire and death of World War One, even before the shooting stops, comes the strangest thing: the novel of the century.

Bought by WABE and WRPI


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 58:27
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 16 - Writer Sarah Schulman Interview
From: Andy Moore
Series: Andy's Treasure Trove
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Episode 16 features an interview from 2009 with the noted writer Sarah Schulman, the author of After Dolores, Shimmer, People in Trouble, Rat Bohem...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2014
  • Length: 35:31
ANONYMOUS -- Roland Emmerich
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Roland Emmerich, Berkeley, CA 9/29/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Roland Emmerich talks art, politics, and why we need a new word for conspiracy.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 13:16
The American Empire and the American Elite
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Niall Ferguson
This ThoughtCast hour discusses the American "empire" and the American elite, in two back-to-back interviews. The first is with Niall Ferguson, the...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 17, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 2
What were they thinking? And - what are they writing?
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Robert Silvers
What were they thinking?? A talk with MIT economist James Poterba about the motivations behind the economic crisis -- followed by an in-depth inter...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
The Mindful Path to Sustainability
From: Bill Baue
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Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:03
RN Documentary: Verbal Fireworks
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A profile of Alix Olson - award winning spoken word performance artist/activist considered by some “one of the ten most dangerous women in America.”

Bought by KUER, KUT, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 11