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Before he became an acclaimed children's writer, Douglas Wood often felt like a failure. A letter from a famous wilderness guru changed all that.
- Added: Mar 21, 2024
- Length: 52:51
We look at some "rules" of the language that were mostly just made up so people could feel like they were speaking proper English.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
An Iranian refugee comes of age in Oklahoma, and he shares with us how his Christian faith informs his writing in unexpected ways.
- Added: Feb 15, 2024
- Length: 52:50
According to the Keep America Beautiful website, Americans generate 251.3 million tons of garbage per year and since 1960, the amount of waste gene...
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 01:00:06
Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KTSW 89.9, Troy Public Radio, KGOU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: Jan 04, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 10
Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...
- Added: Jan 04, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Stories by Donald Davis and Andy Offutt Irwin
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WVPE, Angelica Community Radio, and KSJE
- Added: Dec 28, 2023
- Length: 52:49
- Purchases: 4
Poet Ross Gay on the small, sweet delights of life's daily walk with no fireworks or fanfare.
Bought by WLRH and GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 52:54
- Purchases: 2
Studio 54 first opened
in April 1977 and became the most famous
nightclub of all time. Its quick ascent was confounding because creators
Steve R...
- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 18:45
Fiction writer Charles Baxter reveals some of his motivations for writing short stories and novels. In this interview in front of an audience at th...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Feb 03, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Topic 1: Whitman's poetry sheds light on human connections and national identity; Topic 2: How we can use maps to view American history differently.
Bought by WLRH and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jan 05, 2022
- Length: 52:45
- Purchases: 2
The story of a cryptic children’s book, a real-life treasure hunt, and its very mysterious winner: “He refused to be on camera. It’s just his voice...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 37:07
From: New Letters on the Air
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series continues with "Back to the Writing Well." This time we'll hear about the influence of place and family fro...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, WNJR, WNJR, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Jul 29, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Allison Gill is a musician, stand-up comedian, and host of the Webby Award-winning podcast, Mueller She Wrote. Her art has led to her to tackle top...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:09
On today’s show we’re talking with two enlisted veterans who rose to the top of their respective fields in civilian life: Navy veteran Chef Geoff C...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
“Everything Is A War,” focuses on stories about how serving in a war zone can stick to a person, so deeply that traces of it will magically appear ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 56:23
Today’s show is titled, with our tongues lodged firmly in our cheeks, “The Undesirables,” because it features two wonderful veteran voices who spea...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Today’s episode takes its name after a quote by Lewis Carrol, “All That Is Really Worth Doing is Worth the Doing is What We do for Others,” and we ...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
“Tell me a Story!” He said. “I’ll tell you a story.”
Invasion can be both psychological and literal. We’re very lucky to be able pair up two contr...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
he past doesn’t go anywhere. Time is a river, and you are standing in it. – Utah Phillips
Today’s show is split into three parts and three differe...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
What happens overseas comes home with you, and can find a way to reappear back into your life when you least expect it.
Today’s episode is titled,...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Less than one percent of the entire country serves in the military at any given time nowadays, which is perfectly fine from a national security per...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Interviews with thriller writers Karen Dionne and Brad Thor.
Bought by WCMU Michigan and WKAR
- Added: Sep 13, 2020
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 2
This program is a 5 minute spoken word program that is a recitation of renaissance fables. Part of the 76 episode series available on Public Radio ...
- Added: May 17, 2020
- Length: 05:00
This 5 minute spoken word program is a spoken word recitation of renaissance fables, and is part of the 76 episode series available on Public Radio...
- Added: May 17, 2020
- Length: 05:00
