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Vonnegut on Tralfamadore: Billy Pilgrim and PTSD
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In today's show we explore the history of recognizing the trauma experienced by soldiers in war - PTSD is only the most recent iteration of this di...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KNCT FM, RADIOLEX, and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 4
Migdalia Cruz, MACBETH & Michael Blanding NORTH BY SHAKESPEARE
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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Shakespeare on the brain! We talk with Nuyorican playwright Migdalia Cruz about her adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for modern audiences. Then...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2021
  • Length: 58:36
Babo In the Sunshine: Herman Melville and the Tryal Rebellion
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Anthony Imbert. Wrapper illustration for “Life in Philadelphia” (ca. 1829-30).
Today we revisit the great novella of Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno,” serialized in 1855 in Putnam’s Magazine. Written with the US Civil War on t...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Practicing Exile: Timothy Brennan on Edward Said
From: WFHB
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Edward Said, a Palestinian American, born in Jerusalem, was one of the most influential literary scholars in the United States, transforming the ac...

  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
How to Change the Education System, with Suzanne DeMallie
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Cover of the book "Can You Hear Me Now?" by Suzanne DeMallie.
The education system can change top-down, or bottom-up. Author Suzanne DeMallie wrote “Can You Hear Me Now?” – a book about how parents and teache...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 59:36
Frankenstein’s Children: Science, Politics, and Fiction after Mary Shelley
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Eileen Hunt Botting's new book, Artificial Life after Frankenstein, asks what are the obligations of humanity to the artificial creatures we make, ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 23: Young Blood with Matthew Gallagher
From: Justin Hudnall
Series: Incoming
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Before he would ever know it, Matt Gallagher was at the forefront of new veteran voices fighting the Global War on Terror. Literally. He unknowingl...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:09
San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck
From: New Letters on the Air
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We begin Native American Heritage Month with Cherokee citizen, Kim Shuck, the author of the recently released poetry collection, WHOSE WATER. San F...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Out of a Brick Throat: How Poets and Poetry Matter
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A drilling crew poses for the above photo in 1931 (without respirators) in the Hawks Nest Tunnel. Courtesy of Elkem Metals Collection, West Virginia State Archives.
Today, we’ll resurface three poets on the political Left who wrote during the 1930s and 40s: Muriel Rukeyser, Genevieve Taggard, and Martha Millet....

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
2020-05-15 Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

Bought by WUTC, WJCT, KICI Iowa City, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Tell It Slant: The Truth of the Bombs Bursting in Air
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: B-24J Liberators of the 579th Bomb Squadron drop incendiary bombs made from fighter plane drop tanks filled with napalm on targets near Royan, France, Apr 15 1945.
H. Bruce Franklin (Crash Course) returns to help us connect lots of dots. He’ll argue, among other things, that we need to learn what three particu...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 1
191213: Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells, 12/13/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming," David-Wa...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
2019-12-13 Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming," David-Wa...

Bought by WJCT, MPR News Stations, WMUU-LP, KUNM, WFHB and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
191004: Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather, 10/4/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer wri...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
19-10-04 Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer wri...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WMUU-LP, KBBI Alaska, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Living Deliberately: Laura Dassow Walls On The Whole Human Life of Thoreau
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life, Laura Walls shows us a man deeply engaged with friends, relatives and neighbors, a man thoroughly of...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:55
The Persistence of Patriarchy: An Interview with Carol Gilligan
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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For today’s show we focus on Gilligan’s two recent books, both out from Polity Press. These are Joining the Resistance and Why Does Patriarchy Pers...

  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 59:02
Radicals and Reactionaries: Tony McKenna’s Political Angels and Demons
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Jeremy Corbyn and Hugo Chávez
Today’s show, “Radicals and Reactionaries,” is a 90-minute special with journalist and novelist Tony McKenna, whose new book is Angels and Demons: ...

  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 01:29:31
#1581 - Andy Mientu, 11/06/18
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
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Broadway actor, musician and writer Andy Mientus has just written his debut novel, “The Backstagers and the Ghost Light,” the first book in a middl...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 25:00
National Writers Series: Margaret Atwood
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
Caption: Margaret Atwood with Doug Stanton
A conversation with bestselling author Margaret Atwood.

Bought by Michigan Radio, KWMR, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 11, 2018
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Anne Helen Petersen - 319
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Anne Helen Petersen discusses her book, Too Fat, Too Slutty, To Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Giving Account: Thoreau at 200
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Thoreau's grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery , Credit: Doug Storm
On this occasion of the birth of Thoreau we are forced to confront the vexed nature of our reception of his genius. So many of us hate Thoreau, whi...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 58:05
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
The Write Question - Carmen Giménez Smith - 268
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Carmen Giménez Smith talks poetry, politics, and feminism, and reads from 'Milk and Filth.'

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KSJD and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending July 29, 2016
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Leaked Documents Reveal TTIP Free Trade Agreement Would Undermine Climate,...

Bought by WRIR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2