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Caption: More poems in the tradition: Breathng: American Sonnets, Credit: Susan Cook
On her birthday, a Sonnet Sequence "The Rage of the World" .

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets, Credit: Poems by Susan Cook
On the anniversary of September 11, In Memoriam , "The Fall" (submitted 9/16/2013 in "Blue: American Sonnets" to the Beatrice Hawley (now Alice Ja...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Breathing:American Sonnets on Bookshop.org + at Gulf Maine Books, Credit: Susan Cook
On September 28, 1905 Einstein's paper on the special theory of relativity was published in Annalen der Physik. A Poetic version, "Einstein's So...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 1
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A behind-the-scenes account of a scandal that rocked “Pa’amoney Ha’Yovel” (Bells of Jubilee), Israel’s fiftieth anniversary celebration. Yet the fi...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 10:28
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Nearly a quarter of Israel’s population gathered to watch the 20th anniversary military parade in a newly unified Jerusalem. We’re taken back to th...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 11:21
Caption: https://unsplash.com/photos/2x-dj_r0H9Y, Credit: Jeremy Bezanger
This is a Veterans Day program. "Veterans Day [Honoring Those Who Served]" is a musical program containing Patriotic Songs and music praising the ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:48
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On August 9, 2001, 22-year-old Izz al-Din al-Masri blew himself up at a Sbarro branch in downtown Jerusalem, killing 15 people and injuring over 13...

  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 01:09:37
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Three hundred years ago this Easter, Europeans landed on what they called "Easter Island," and ever since, the statues there have been a mystery. B...

Bought by WKSU, KWIT, WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 18
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Ears Adrift interviews Hispanic Sailors and discusses how Hispanic culture influences America's Navy.

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 10:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Fanya and the Forest, Credit: La Kingsbeer
97-year old Holocaust survivor Fanya tells us her story of messy, human resilience and resistance in Lithuania.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2020
  • Length: 24:09
Caption: Bob Buntin, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Back in 1933 when Bob Buntin was just a little boy, shortly after an event that rocked the entire structure of his family, he heard part of a speec...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:48
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On this episode of Art beat we talk to the director of the Frozen River Film Festival Crystal Hegge. She tells about some of the films being played...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 16:08
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This is the 100th episode of The Rough Draft Diaries! We'll celebrate this moment with a few different people. You may have heard documentary filma...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: 06:20
  • Purchases: 1
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An exploration of regional memories of the American Civil War and the ways we use story to hide or confront our complicated past.

  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 20:40
Caption: Walter Price, 314th Combat Engineers
Commemorate the 100th anniversary of US involvement in World War I by accompanying Walter Price and the 314th Engineers on their tour of duty.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2017
  • Length: 08:19
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A Nation of Immigrants is what we are, always have been, and always will be, as long as we remain the United States of America. Bans on immigrants ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A tour guide shows where Abby Borden was murdered., Credit: Barbara Paulsen
On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with an ax at their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Can a century-old brutal murder save t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1
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How the heck do you get a silent film star on the radio?

  • Added: Sep 24, 2016
  • Length: 02:16:54
Caption: Shenandoah National Park, Credit: Charles McGuigan
More than 75 years ago Shenandoah National Park opened to the public for the first time. One of the most scenic routes in Virginia— Skyline Drive w...

  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 53:41
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A story of three friends, a disease, and the opera.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 20:25
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Brittney Packnett gives a passionate speech to honor the civil rights leader birthday.

Bought by WSLR


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Rabin is a symbol. An icon. But in Israel of 2015, twenty years after the Prime Minister's murder, it isn't so simple to understand what the reall...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:05:56
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Carrie Parker's 40 some relatives are speaking in her honor at Indiana University. Carrie Parker was the first African American to attend IU

  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:28
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Madison County, Credit: Charles McGuigan
More than 75 years ago Shenandoah National Park opened to the public for the first time. One of the most scenic routes in Virginia— Skyline Drive w...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2013
  • Length: 53:40