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A tribute to singer/songwriting legend Leonard Cohen who passed away November 7, 2016 at the age of 82.
Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, WUTC, KRCB 104.9, KVMR, KMSU and more
- Added: Nov 11, 2016
- Length: 58:52
- Purchases: 21
Raymond Chandler is often called the greatest American crime novelist. But something very important to Chandler had gotten lost. No one noticed u...
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 16:08
- Purchases: 2
We take to the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana to ask folks about their connection to the criminal justice system. In the state of Louisiana, ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 50:03
- Purchases: 2
John Lomax and his son Alan toured the South in the 1930s gathering music for the Library of Congress. Life then, and now, can be pretty tough in ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WWNO, Troy Public Radio, and KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 54:18
- Purchases: 4
Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction is still a study in detail and dialogue and wit. Her settings were often ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 13:47
- Purchases: 2
Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima is about pride and assimilation, faith and doubt. This half-hour program includes readings by actor Cheech Marin a...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZYX, KMUN, KUPR low power FM, KPIP-LP and more
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 8
A beloved American classic, Willa Cather's My Ántonia is best summarized by its epigraph---"the best days are the first to flee." Garrison Keillor ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 3
A rural-legend from the Colorado River.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Jun 29, 2008
- Length: 08:18
- Purchases: 2
Another San Franciscan Entertainment Icon, gone. This is his memorial party, and some of the characters recalling who he was, and what he stood for.
- Added: Dec 04, 2007
- Length: 10:34
93-year-old Clive Haswell is a poet who spent his youth riding the rails and playing poker
Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio
- Added: Apr 28, 2006
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
