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Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, not even Al Capone was more notorious than two well-educated and highly intelligent Jewi...
- Added: Feb 26, 2024
- Length: 29:28
Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 22:02
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time" - When you’re on the clock, the hours disappear. Time scarcity is making us and the planet sick. But the...
- Added: Jan 05, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the...
- Added: Nov 24, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
Pat Livingston talks with bestselling author Ken Follett.
Bought by WKAR
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 54:31
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Against Capitalism" - Congress has passed a Republican resolution "denouncing socialism." But what does that even mean? This hour, a soc...
- Added: Nov 03, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
Happy Halloween! Jess talks with UCLA librarian Megan Rosenbloom about the spooky science of uncovering what makes some old books extra rare.
Bought by WORT
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The Invisible World of Manuscripts
- Added: Aug 15, 2023
- Length: 02:00
Author Michael Schumacher talks about his new book "Too Much Sea For Their Decks: Shipwrecks of Minnesota's North Shore and Isle Royale"
- Added: Aug 10, 2023
- Length: 09:29
HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time" - When you’re on the clock, the hours disappear. Time scarcity is making us and the planet sick. But the...
- Added: Jun 02, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
Author Timothy Cochrane talks about his new book "Making the Carry"
- Added: Mar 09, 2023
- Length: 13:57
HOUR ONE: "How Should We Tell Our History?" - Debates over history are front-page news, from critical race theory to AP history classes. How should...
- Added: Feb 24, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...
- Added: Jan 06, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
Christmas wouldn't be the same without Dickens. And, the railroads changed Christmas forever.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 1
Cantigas de Santa Maria, an exploration of songs and poems dedicated to the Virgin Mary and musical biography of King Alfonso X of 13th century Spa...
Bought by High Plains Public Radio
- Added: Dec 12, 2022
- Length: 01:58:52
- Purchases: 1
Author Jeffrey Sauve talks about his new book “Murder at Minnesota Point"
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 10:36
Salman Rushdie praised A.M. Homes’ latest novel, The Unfolding as, “A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in pitch-perfect dialogue, tha...
Bought by KWMR, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more
- Added: Sep 14, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
HOUR ONE: 'Decolonizing the Mind' - Colonization in Africa was much more than a land grab. It was a project to replace — and even erase — local cul...
- Added: Jul 08, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
Ghosts from the past stalk Europe again today in the wake of Russian tanks and missiles. To find a path forward, we might need to look back.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WHFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WLPR , KUNM and more
- Added: Mar 08, 2022
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 8
HOUR ONE: "Our Time Of Mourning" - Year three of the pandemic. Where should we go to mourn our losses? We'll look for answers from generations past...
- Added: Jan 28, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
Two years ago this month, the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in the United States. “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE
- Added: Jan 12, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
Topic 1: Whitman's poetry sheds light on human connections and national identity; Topic 2: How we can use maps to view American history differently.
Bought by WLRH and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jan 05, 2022
- Length: 52:45
- Purchases: 2
Beth Milligan talks with Alex Michaelides, author of "The Silent Patient" and "The Maidens."
Bought by WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR
- Added: Nov 12, 2021
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 3
In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 12:18
From: Francesca Rheannon
This week: two novels exploring love, trauma and the legacies of war. Both are based on true stories from World War II.
First, Jai Chakrabarti tel...
- Added: Oct 09, 2021
- Length: 59:00
