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891: Deep Time: How Earth keeps time / 892: Hope: Where does it come from?, 4/20/2024

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: How Earth keeps time" - No one understands time like a geologist. And with the climate convulsing and the future breathing do...

The Grapes of Wrath

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

John Steinbeck's masterpiece of hard times and hope in 1930's America.

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

A Tale of Charles Dickens

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

Charles Dickens - detective?

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

871: To All The Dogs We've Loved / 872: Rewriting The Romance Script, 2/10/2024

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "To All The Dogs We've Loved" - Picture yourself half way through a thousand mile sled dog race. What do you think about? This hour, adve...

Found in Translation

From: KALW

Caption: Tamil writer Perumal Murugan (center) conversed with his moderator at the Kolkata Literary Meet via an interpreter, Credit: Sandip Roy

Lit fests in India have historically been rather Anglophone affairs but now translated works of Indian literature are finding a much bigger place i...

The Winter of Content

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: A queue on a rainy evening for author autographs and books at the Kolkata Literary Meet. , Credit: Sandip Roy

As lit fest’s, lit meets, literary carnivals pop up all over India, 3 in Kolkata alone in a month, some wonder whether whether this is about books ...

Read And Ride

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour

The Children's Hour Kids Crew meets Ms. Caitlyn Gooch from Saddle Up And Read, a North Carolina based organization encouraging literacy through rea...

Bought by KRSC, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, KECG, KDLG and more

Dawn Powell

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

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

100 Years of Nonsense

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: A building in the Hatibagan neighborhood in North Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy

Sukumar Ray is sometimes called the Edward Lear of Bengal. Abol Tabol his book of nonsense rhymes was part of my growing up. And I dare say every B...

Bought by WTJU

An End-of-Year Reading of "At the Fishhouses"

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

At each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem, a perennial favorite, was chosen n...

Christmas at Sea

From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio

This holiday season on World Ocean Radio we return with a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson writte...

845: Whose Land Is It? / 846: Writing The Climate Change Story, 11/11/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Whose Land Is It?" - Owning land is a big part of the American dream. But there’s a problem with that: That land is often stolen. So who...

Sublime Thanksgiving Jazz

From: PJ Ewing
Series: Lester the Nightfly

Thanksgiving Jazz | Thanksgiving in Oldtown Combining the most thematic of jazz standards and new additions with a few excerpts from Harriet Beeche...

Bought by WJSU and KRCB 104.9

The Great Gatsby

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”

Bought by KUNM, KMUN, KKRN, KFCF FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more

831: Reframing The Portrait / 832: Writing As A Political Act, 9/23/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Reframing The Portrait" - Have you ever stood in front of a portrait at a museum and wondered what was that person thinking? Portraits h...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

Simon Helberg, Jamie Belber, Glenne Headly, David Krumholtz, and Stacy Keach lead an all-star cast in Shakespeare's timeless comedy.

Bought by KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KCHW, KMUN, KWMR and more

Independent Chitra

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni with Sandip at the Kolkata Literary Meet in 2023., Credit: Sandip Roy

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a beloved author now but when she started writing about her South Asian community in America in the 90s not everyone ...

Bought by PRX Remix

801: To All The Dogs We've Loved / 802: New Voices In Native American Writing, 6/10/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "To All The Dogs We've Loved" - Picture yourself half way through a thousand mile sled dog race. What do you think about? This hour, adve...

799: Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time / 800: Difficult Summer Reading, 6/3/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

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...

UpFront Soul #2023.16-April 18-24, 2023- Poetry Month Special

From: WERU
Series: UpFront Soul with Sanguine Fromage

We'll hear poets- many from the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movements- reading their work, along with poetry set to music, and hip-hop. We'll...

Bought by KMUN, WOMR, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KZUM, RADIOLEX and more

Macbeth

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

One of the darkest and most unsparing tragedies from the pen of William Shakespeare.

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

Poetry Palooza

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour

It's National Poetry Month in the USA, and we are celebrating with a Poetry Palooza on The Children's Hour!

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KRSC, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WUTC and more

20230403: Poetry Palooza, 4/3/2023

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)

It's National Poetry Month in the USA, and we are celebrating with a Poetry Palooza on The Children's Hour!

Limeric Lovers Are Like No Others

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: The Limeric Lovers Publishers stall at the Kolkata Book Fair, Credit: Sandip Roy

If you think limericks just means Edward Lear, think again. The Limeric Lovers Publishers of Kolkata are devoted fans of limericks in Bengali, a lo...

Mishti Mukh

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: An artist's rendition of a woman moira or sweetmaker., Credit: Sandip Roy

Kolkata is famous for its love of books. And its love for sweets. And Sandip Roy just went to Jugal's Literature Festival - the first ever literat...

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