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Humans are the only animal to produce emotional tears. Asking questions about this behavior can help us better understand how we live our lives.
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Author Sue Leaf talks about her new book "Impermanence"
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 08:20
This holiday season on World Ocean Radio we return with a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson writte...
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 04:03
The classic holiday tale by Oscar Wilde is interpreted along with sacred Christmas music.
Bought by Michigan Radio and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 58:28
- Purchases: 2
Thanksgiving Jazz | Thanksgiving in Oldtown
Combining the most thematic of jazz standards and new additions with a few excerpts from Harriet Beeche...
Bought by WJSU and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Nov 05, 2023
- Length: 58:24
- Purchases: 2
Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik talk about their new book "Blood in the Tracks"
- Added: Sep 14, 2023
- Length: 13:41
There are no visitor facilities. Roads are mostly washed-out jeep tracks. There is no water. And there's no way out, unless you come back the way y...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jun 03, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Author Karen Fults Kaler talks about her new book "Eastcliff"
- Added: May 11, 2023
- Length: 08:52
Minnesota Book Award Finalist Sheila Packa talks about her book of poetry "Surface Displacements"
- Added: Mar 02, 2023
- Length: 09:42
Our annual gift to World Ocean Radio listeners. In this episode, host Peter Neill reads "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop, a poem from 1955 t...
- Added: Dec 29, 2022
- Length: 04:40
One man's trash is another man's treasure! A garbage truck driver in Columbia is enriching the lives of thousands of children by recovering thrown-...
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
“Shakespeare with Veterans” is a counseling focused theatre troupe, run by Kentucky Shakespeare.
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 02:30
In this special anthology program novelist Meg Wolitzer and poet Molly Peacock both discuss the importance of writing about the lives and work of w...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Poet Mark Gibbons discusses his collection, Mostly Cloudy. He also reads a few selections.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jun 03, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
A collection of stories that revolve around poetry and its effects on our lives.
- Added: Jan 30, 2020
- Length: 55:31
After watching “Tales of the City” on Netflix, Sandip reflects on his own tale of the city.
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Each year during the holidays, longtime World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses", a poem by Elizabeth Bishop. This is a perenni...
- Added: Dec 30, 2019
- Length: 04:38
This week on World Ocean Radio we have a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson written in 1883. Steven...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 24, 2019
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy remembers on of India’s most beloved writers.
Nabaneeta dev Sen
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 11, 2019
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s hard to go anywhere on Cape Cod these days and not see litter on the side of the road or on hiking trails. Local poet Ralph Bousquet has start...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
Norma Cole meditates on the Syrian refugee crisis.
- Added: Apr 01, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
Sandip Roy remembers his boyhood fascination with Hergé's famous comic, Tintin
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 06:00
It is an experimental radio piece based on the poem by the Argentine poet Oliverio Girondo. 25 seconds of life was created in the context of the ne...
- Added: Aug 14, 2018
- Length: 15:11
Whether it's with a father, a grandfather, or a father-figure, celebrating this Father's Day connects us the same way music connects the listener w...
Bought by 'The Sea', GCR (Global Community Radio), KAAD-LP, and KMFA
- Added: Jun 15, 2018
- Length: 58:29
- Purchases: 4
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb describes how her grandfather rewrote verses of the Qur’an using only the @ sign on his typewriter.
- Added: May 07, 2018
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 5
