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In search of inefficiency in an overly efficient digital world, Jakob Lewis entered the ‘typosphere,’ an online community of typewriter enthusiasts...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: 'Monk With A Bookk', Credit: Titian
This program is a spoken word presentation that is 5 minutes in length. Leon Battista Alberti was a true 'renaissance man' whose apologues are aliv...

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'The Virgin And The Child Enthroned', Credit: Jean Fouquet
This program is 5 minute spoken word presentation of the renaissance fables of Bernadino Baldi.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Venus With A Mirror', Credit: Titian
This program is a 5 minute exploration of some of the living fables of Bartolomeo Scala...one of the four authors celebrated in this series...'Rena...

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Venus Anadyomene", Credit: Titian
This is a spoken word recitation with renaissance music accompaniment to celebrate the prolific Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Isabella d' Este', Credit: Leonardo da Vinci
This 5 minute spoken word program presents some of the fables written by Leonardo da Vinci.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Portrait Of The Court Jester', Credit: Jean Fouquet
This 5 minute program is a spoken word presentation of the fables of Bernadino Baldi. Renaissance music is also present as we explore the apologues...

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Pallas And The Centaur', Credit: Botticelli
This series presents 5 minute programs of spoken word tributes...This show highlights some of the prolific work of Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:01
Caption: "Charles VII As One Of The Three Magi', Credit: Jean Fouquet
This 5 minute spoken word program explores the work of Leon Battista Alberti.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Self Portrait', Credit: Jean Fouquet
This 5 minute program is a spoken word account of some of the incredible fables written by Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Sacred And Profane Love', Credit: Titian
This 5 minute program highlights some of the fables written by Leon Battista Alberti. One of the three great fablists of the renaissance, this show...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Salome With The Head Of John The Baptist', Credit: Titian
This 5 minute spoken word program is accompanied by renaissance music, and explores the world of the fable according to Leon Battista Alberti...a t...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'The Hermit Saints', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This series presents 76 separate programs of 5 minutes in length. Four great authors of fables from the renaissance are explored here through spoke...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'The Mystical Nativity', Credit: Botticelli
This 5 minute program explores through the spoken word the fables of Bartolomeo Scala. Part of the 76 part series here on Public Radio Exchange, th...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:01
Caption: 'Venus And Organist And Little Dog', Credit: Titian
This program series has 76 shows each of 5 minutes in length. Four great authors of the Renaissance are explored. This program, through the spoken ...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:01
Caption: 'A Man With A Quilted Sleeve', Credit: Titian
Spoken Word readings of some of the renaissance fables of Bartolomeo Scala. This program is exactly 5 minutes in length, and is part of a series th...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Poet alicce Notley and composer/poet Jeff Gburek in front of Alice's bookcase in Paris., Credit: Marjorie Van Halteren
An intimate conversation with poet Alice Notley at her home in Paris. Produced by award-winning producer Marjorie Van Halteren.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2020
  • Length: 34:02
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On Friday, June 9, the Great River Shakespeare Festival and the Winona Public Library held a Storytelling Showcase. To prep for the showcase, Great...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 38:53
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Open Source in 2001 with John Updike, reflecting on and reading from his novella Rabbit Remembered, the last in a five-part series about an America...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 2
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Tammy Brown is the recipient of a 2011-2012 Loft Literary Center Mentor Series Award. She writes regularly for the Minnesota Women's Press and has ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 03:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
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In this second of a two-part series highlighting the winners of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards to be held in Cleveland on Sept. 13th, producer...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 58:04
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Virgil's Georgics: an interview with poet David Ferry, who recently translated Virgil's second great poem, The Georgics. We're joined by Virgil sch...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1