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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
Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 22:02
- Purchases: 1
In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 12:18
Andrew Carnegie has a classic rags-to-riches story: an immigrant turned steel magnate who financed the construction of over 2,500 public library bu...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 06, 2020
- Length: 31:06
- Purchases: 1
Books on conveyor belts, book vacuums and books in the mail. This episode of “Borrowed” will take you behind the scenes to see how books travel aro...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 16:48
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 26:22
- Purchases: 1
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
Cynthia Wolfe joins us to discuss her “Platinum” ranked audio program “Nuclear Nightingales” which consists of readings from the oral history Voice...
- Added: Aug 04, 2017
- Length: 57:43
In 1936, just as the Spanish Civil War was beginning, an instantly successful and highly controversial children’s book arrived on the bookshelves. ...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Jan 27, 2017
- Length: 03:48
- Purchases: 1
We tend to remember Maya Angelou for her activism in the United States. But a recent tribute at James Madison University showed her poetry’s global...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: 03:12
- Purchases: 3
Time travel is really possible, in theory...
- Added: Nov 03, 2016
- Length: 02:35:33
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a story about George Washington Cable, and the beautiful danger of writing New Orleans-based historical fic...
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 10:22
The world's largest bus station, and a bus driver who wanted to be God.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 54:12
- Purchases: 1
CONTENT WARNING: Be wary of listening to this episode around young children, as there may be life spoilers. Historian Greg Jenner traces the origin...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 14, 2015
- Length: 25:35
- Purchases: 1
Yeats for a Day: The Dublin Musical Saunter 2015 (an all-day event in the Great Music in Irish Houses Festival on June 15 2015) brought together a...
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 28:28
The dystopian novel, "Nineteen Eighty Four" describes a future society martialed by constant surveillance, tyranny, and torture...
- Added: Aug 22, 2015
- Length: 02:20:44
'Step-', as in stepparents or stepchildren, originated in grief. Family structures have evolved, but are stepmothers now so tainted by fairytale as...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 38:16
- Purchases: 1
You'd think you could trust dictionaries, but it turns out, they are riddled with LIES.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 15:26
- Purchases: 1
David Feinberg started the Center for Genocide & Holocaust Studies at the University of Minnesota more than 10 years ago. This year, a group of Gol...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:59
In a remote corner of Tel Aviv's grimy, labyrinthine central bus station, Mendy Cahan has built a home for Israel's rejected Yiddish books, and it'...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 16:05
The last few years in particular have seen a re-popularization of slave narratives: from Tarantino's fictional Django Unchained to the award-winnin...
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 59:51
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
How magic and law shaped the witch trials of early modern Europe
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 29:33
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
Hosts Doug Storm and Trish Kerle' are joined by historian Jim Madison to discuss the Hoosier through history. Madison has just published a new book...
- Added: Sep 23, 2014
- Length: 01:01:02
