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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
Under Milk Wood
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Dylan Thomas' unique "play for voices."

Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 26
Tartuffe
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A story that began its life under a cloud of controversy.

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, Spokane Public Radio, KKRN, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 16
GUESTS: Michel Banabila & Oene van Geel + Kurt Schwitters 1932 (REMIX)
From: Don Hill
Series: Cafe Acousmatic
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D audio.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 59:13
Technology Brings Long-Silent Voices Of 20th Century Poets Back To Life
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: A rendered image of the etched grooves of a record. IRENE software converts these squiggles to sound., Credit: Julie Martin/NEDCC Courtesy
A innovative technology to preserve endangered sound recordings without playing them (which would further damage them) is bringing the voices of po...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 4
Author David McCullough and "1776"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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David writes both histories and biographies and has narrated many a broadcast program. His latest book is "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris....

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California's Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto
From: California Legacy Project
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Listeners will find Nature Dreaming: Rediscovering California’s Landscapes with David Mas Masumoto both entertaining and enlightening. Two one hour...

Bought by KZYX and KALW


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:16
  • Purchases: 2
The Peabody Sisters: an interview with biographer Megan Marshall on ThoughtCast
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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An interview with Megan Marshall, the biographer of The Peabody Sisters -- three women who helped found the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-1...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 35:58
  • Purchases: 1
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -3: Democracy's Denial: Revolutions in Wilmington (1898 --
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: Wilmington's black newspaper--after the "riot" and coup
In 1898, White Supremacist Democrats in North Carolina overthrew Wilmington's integrated administration. The plotters killed dozens of African Amer...

Bought by WCPN and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 2
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? Shakespearean Queens
From: Modern Language Association
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Gertrude, Cleopatra, and Margaret--perspectives on women and power

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
What's the Word? Medieval Women
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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A literary view of the lifestyles of medieval women.

Bought by KETR-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WKMS, KZYX, WLIW and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 27
What's the Word? Women Warriors
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What' s the Word? - A series of half-hour programs to celebrate Women's History Month in March
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From Joan of Arc to GI Jane--a look at women warriors.

Bought by KETR-FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KVNF, WHFR and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 29:54
  • Purchases: 29
What's the Word? Taking Hip-Hop Seriously
From: Modern Language Association
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Hip-hop culture's roots and influence

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2006
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 12
RN Documentary: For Every Atom Belonging to Me?
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham invokes the spirit of Walt Whitman in his latest book ?Specimen Days? ? part of a wave of post 9/1...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 06, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 2 features former poet laureates from the 1990s: Joseph Brodsky, Mona Van Duyn and Robert Pinsky. They read some of their most famous poe...

Bought by WCPN, WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRUA and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:01
  • Purchases: 10
What's the Word? Famous Love Letters
From: Modern Language Association
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Love letters from some very famous couples

Bought by WLIW, KVSC, Spokane Public Radio, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 19
Dressed to the Nines
From: Chrysti M. Smith
Series: Chrysti the Wordsmith
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"Dressed to the nines," like so many English idioms, is a mysterious expression.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2005
  • Length: 02:02
Rule of Thumb
From: Chrysti M. Smith
Series: Chrysti the Wordsmith
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The genesis of the phrase "rule of thumb" is uncertain.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2005
  • Length: 02:03
Good Samaritan
From: Chrysti M. Smith
Series: Chrysti the Wordsmith
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The story behind the coinage of the common expression "good Samaritan."

  • Added: Apr 15, 2005
  • Length: 02:03
Best Laid Plans
From: Chrysti M. Smith
Series: Chrysti the Wordsmith
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A discussion of the origin of the expression "the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KHSU


  • Added: Apr 15, 2005
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 2
What's the Word? Poetry in Performance
From: Modern Language Association
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From Homer to slam, the special appeal of poetry in performance.

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2005
  • Length: 29:48
  • Purchases: 20
What's the Word? W. E. B. Du Bois
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Two half-hour programs celebrating Black History Month
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Considered by many the most important African American leader of the early twentieth century, sociologist, historian, author, teacher, and activist...

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


  • Added: Feb 03, 2005
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 47