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Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, not even Al Capone was more notorious than two well-educated and highly intelligent Jewi...
- Added: Feb 26, 2024
- Length: 29:28
The writer John Nichols first achieved national fame at age 24 with 'The Sterile Cuckoo', but went on to a second act when he moved to Taos, New Me...
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 27:14
The work and life of Joy Harjo, newly-named U.S. Poet Laureate, explores growing up between cultures, part Muskogee-Creek and Cherokee, part Irish ...
Bought by KGLP and Prairie Public
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: 27:23
- Purchases: 2
Meryl Streep narrates an hour-long documentary special about how the Women’s Movement changed poetry, and how women poets changed the culture.
Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, WNMU-FM, KBIA, High Plains Public Radio and more
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 73
The new film 'Mood Indigo' is based on a novel by Boris Vian - so who was Vian? One of France's most popular authors of the 20th Century, musician,...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 14:45
The new film 'Mood Indigo' is based on a novel by Boris Vian - so who was Vian? One of France's most popular authors of the 20th Century, musician,...
- Added: Jul 18, 2014
- Length: 28:30
100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Before becoming the first African American on The Supreme Court, Marshall risked his life in ...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
One of our weekday 100-second modules for May: Author Clay Risen reads a compelling passage from his new book of the same title. This is the 50th a...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 24, 2014
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 1
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, talked to Dr Kate Macdonald ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 54:00
Meet Sam Spade, detective, lady-killer. Before it became a classic film, it was first an incredible moral tale of crime and deception. Find out why.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public, KZYX, KMUN, KPIP-LP and more
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 29:17
- Purchases: 9
WNYC presents "Walt Whitman: Song of Myself." Hour hosted by Carl Hancock Rux, the program peels back Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" and we disco...
- Added: Mar 08, 2006
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 53
