PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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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...
- Added: Jan 05, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
Ariel Burger talks about his book WITNESS: Lessons from Elie Wiesels Classroom. And later in the show, we re-air our 2016 interview with Ani Tuzman...
- Added: Dec 13, 2018
- Length: 59:00
Recently discovered texts show the peaceful relationship Islam and Christianity enjoyed for centuries.
Bought by WETS
- Added: Jul 03, 2018
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 08, 2018
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 1
Bart Ehrman asks how did a religion that began with a small group of illiterate day laborers become the dominant religion of the Roman Empire in ju...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KPIP-LP, and WETS
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 3
HOUR ONE: "Renunciation" - January is the season of diets and cleanses. Why do we feel compelled to give up our pleasures? HOUR TWO: "Owning The ...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
From Alexander the Great's "pillow book" (The Iliad) to the Mayan Popul Vuh; from Gilgamesh to Harry Potter by way of Goethe and the notion of “wor...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 59:01
Historical Jesus scholar makes the case for Christians to retire the argument that Jesus was a fulfillment of prophecy.
- Added: Aug 25, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
Lillian Daniel on the problems of being spiritual but not religious; Katy Scrogin on The Still Point of the Turning World.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 32:00
Lillian Daniel on spirituality vs. religiosity; Katy Scrogin on A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 31:18
S. Brent Plate on experience, materiality, and physical objects. Excerpt from TV documentary, Divided Families: Responding with Faith.
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 39:21
Reza Aslan on Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth; Katy Scrogin on Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 46:35
“Passages: Treasures of the Bible,” currently is in Springfield, Mo, the fifth stop on a national tour. Learn more about the traveling exhibit here...
- Added: Sep 30, 2014
- Length: 08:16
In this episode, Bo interviews Dr. Bart Ehrman. Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at...
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 53:24
Making sense of the most talked about book of all time.
Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WTJU, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 6
Making sense of the most talked about book of all time.
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 53:51
- Purchases: 2
Originally commissioned by Radio France Culture, this soundscape radio essay by Jean-Luc Nancy explores the 1967 meeting of Paul Celan and Martin H...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 1
The Magna Carta is one of most important legal documents in history and it is now being digitized, translated, and uploaded online.
- Added: Feb 27, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A conversation about the Bible's universality and relevance in pop culture, with the author who aims to give "people what they don't get in church ...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Jun 09, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible - the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer - in his "Life of David."
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 06, 2009
- Length: 28:26
- Purchases: 1
Author Wendy Marcus reflects on a storytelling tradition that goes back to Wendy's childhood. KRAK
- Added: Jul 30, 2008
- Length: 09:00
The story of one man who saved Jefferson's estate from ruin and one "being" that captured authors' fancies.
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Dec 15, 2005
- Length: 29:55
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 07, 2005
- Length: 07:30
