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Should Certain Books Ever Be Banned in School?
From: Open to Debate
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Are certain books beyond reproach? It’s a fundamental question making its way across America’s school boards. Those who argue “yes” say schools sho...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
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
Voices and Perspectives on Democracy
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Right: Grace Lee Boggs, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Left: John Trudell
What is your perspective on Democracy? This week we explore what democracy means.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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
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....

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
"Stokely: A Life"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: The Cutting Edge
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Kwame Ture, once known as Stokely Carmichael was born in Trinadad, later moving to the United States at the age of eleven. He would become a lead...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:35
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of India - Namita Gokhale & Ashis Nandy
From: Open Source
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Open Source is in New Delhi with two stars of the writing class. Namita Gokhale is a novelist, publisher, and sparkplug of the Indian literary boom...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Death of the Liberal Class, Life of Our Inner Sky - Chris Hedges & Damion Searls
From: Open Source
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This hour brings politics with Chris Hedges and poetry with Damion Searls. Chris Hedges' new book recounts The Death of the Liberal Class. And the ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Moving Forward in Iraq
From: Woodrow Wilson Center
Series: Lee H. Hamilton Commentaries
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We arrived in Iraq carelessly; we should leave carefully. Former Congressman Lee Hamilton discusses America's goal in Iraq and how it might achieve...

Bought by WBFO


  • Added: May 21, 2009
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
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
1998 Amselm Hollo - Big Shoes
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Caption: PRX default Piece image
New American Poet Anselm Hollo reads his anti-Nike poem

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 1
1995 Anne Waldman - Simulacrum (Not a Real Life, Cheap Imitation)
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Waldman in a strong political performance of her poetry

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1