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643: If Your Clothes Could Talk / 644: Why The Classics Matter, 12/4/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'If Your Clothes Could Talk' - Whether you know it or not, your closets are filled with personal information. Do you think about what are...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
617: Traveling By Book / 618: What's Wrong With Work?, 9/4/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Traveling By Book' - From Africa to England, to a kamikaze cockpit, and to realms of fantasy. Books aren’t just books. They’re passports...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
Night of Philosophy
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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Hi-Phi Nation stays overnight at the Brooklyn Public Library during the 2018 Night of Philosophy. From 7pm to 7am on a Saturday night, thousands of...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2018
  • Length: 45:13
Locking Up Our Own
From: Sally Tucker
Series: Thinking CAP
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James Forman Jr., a former Washington, D.C., public defender, Yale University professor, and author of the Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York’s...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 24:54
The Beat: Julie Gard - "Processions"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Julie Gard is a prose poet that lives in Duluth and teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. She writes about art, travel, family, ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 01:38
Episode One - Fan Mail
From: Binnie Klein
Series: The Thread: Conversations with Arts and Culture Makers
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In the age of texts, twitter and email, do people still write fan letters? What compels us to do so?

  • Added: Dec 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:40
The Beat: Doris Stengel - " Lost Birthright"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:20
The Beat: Mark Christensen - "The Final Breath of a Pope"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 1
#4
From: Brian Bahouth
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Elise Rosen reads her untitled poem, #4.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:05
#5
From: Brian Bahouth
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Elise Rosen reads her untitled poem, #5.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:36
#6
From: Brian Bahouth
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Elise Rosen reads her untitled poem, #6.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:25
Verse Farm 5
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: Verse Farm
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Poet Elise Rosen reads five original poems, a mix of words, sounds and music.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
Robert Penn Warren Archive Humanizes Leaders Of The Civil Rights Movement
From: Eleanor Boudreau
Caption: Pulitzer Prize winning poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren., Credit: Vanderbilt University
In 1964, Southern man-of-letters Robert Penn Warren traveled the country with an old reel-to-reel tape recorder and spoke with dozens of men and wo...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Shock 1913
From: WNYC
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What a year was 1913! Many have called it the true beginning of 20th century culture. From New York, where the first large-scale show of modern ar...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KPIK-LP, WFMT Station Account, WGBH Radio Boston, KZYX and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 33
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" -by Stewart Van Cleve
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" by Stewart Van Cleve
Dan Sinykin provides a comprehensive of the historically illuminating new book "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" by Stewart Van ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
"To Kill a Mockingbird" and Justice
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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In "To Kill a Mockingbird" an innocent man is wrongfully sentenced. The author argues that all we can do in the face of injustice is try, accept, a...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
What's the Word? The African Novel
From: Modern Language Association
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An exploration of the African novel

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Director Lee Daniels on his film PRECIOUS
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Director Lee Daniels talks to Andrea Chase about making the film, PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE

  • Added: Nov 01, 2009
  • Length: 11:35
A Musician's Life: Tim Easton
From: WXPN
Series: A Musician's Life
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Singer-songwriter Tim Easton doesn't drink much anymore but he still writes about people who do. His latest album called "Porcupine" is a raucous ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2009
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
What's the Word? Mystical Poets
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Celebrating National Poetry Month in April
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How do those who have experienced the direct presence of God capture this heightened state in words?

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
WTW Texts of Resistance
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Two half-hour programs celebrating Black History Month
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How did slaves resist their oppression? Three works explore what it means to resist and to survive.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, KUOW, KVNF, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 24
What's the Word? Returning Veterans
From: Modern Language Association
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Three powerful films about American veterans returning home.

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Oct 30, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 4
What's the Word? American AIDS Drama
From: Modern Language Association
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A look at three landmark Amercian plays dealing with the AIDs crisis

Bought by WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRNC-LP, and KPFA


  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 4
What's the Word? Al Pacino's Shakespeare
From: Modern Language Association
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Actor Al Pacino's mission to bring Shakespeare to a wider audience...

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 4
Projectiles, a poem by Raymond Carver
From: Teresa Goff
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"Projectiles", a poem written by American short story writer Raymond Carver, is read by poet Tess Gallagher, Carver's widow. The poem was written ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 19, 2007
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 1