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The Grapes of Wrath

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

John Steinbeck's masterpiece of hard times and hope in 1930's America.

Bought by KCHW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN and more

Dawn Powell

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

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

799: Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time / 800: Difficult Summer Reading, 6/3/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time" - When you’re on the clock, the hours disappear. Time scarcity is making us and the planet sick. But the...

757: The Hidden Geometry Of Everything / 758: African Cities Of The Future, 1/7/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...

Appalachian Vibes: Colby Helms, A. Jordan, Disco Risque

From: Amanda Bocchi

This week we discover what really happened to the Bondurant boys with Franklin Co country, singer-songwriter and amateur historian, Colby Helms of ...

Soul Sister: The Limits of Empathy

From: Radio Diaries

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...

Like Coming Home

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn

In the middle of the 20th century, a ten square block area in North Gowanus was home to the largest Mohawk settlement outside of Canada. We hear ab...

Under Milk Wood

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

Dylan Thomas' unique "play for voices."

Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMUN and more

'Renaissance Fables For The World' 4

From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World

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 ...

Books Are Not Dead

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman

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

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

Wilde's facility with words contributes to his undoing.

Bought by KKRN, WCPN, KKRN, KMUN, KWMR and more

The Time Traveler Voyages to Futurity

From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler

Rob MacClanahan reads chapters 3 & 4 of H G Well's 1895 classic, "The Time Machine"

Episode #1: "Who the F is that?"

From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES

Caption: Anita Acosta & daughter Stephanie at home in Northern California., Credit: Marcos Nájera

Host Marcos Nájera introduces us to the Zeta podcast series. Who is Oscar Zeta Acosta? If you know, you are way ahead of Nájera who admits the US p...

Get Rhythm (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

-A musical Indiana Jones is pursuing the Holy Grail of American symphonic music: long-lost works by master composers that are housed in the Library...

Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, KRDP and more

Get Rhythm (half)

From: With Good Reason

-A musical Indiana Jones is pursuing the Holy Grail of American symphonic music: long-lost works by master composers that are housed in the Library...

Bought by KRZA and WNMU-FM

Through an Indian's Looking Glass (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

William Apess, a Pequot man who came of age during the Jacksonian era, has been called the Native American Frederick Douglas. Plus: The visiona...

Bought by WJCT, WVAS, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), KRZA and more

A Change of World

From: The Poetry Foundation

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

The Golden Age of Flattery (half)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

-A new book "Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy" investigates how we lose sight on how destructive that behavior can be. -Managers who...

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more

Another Day in the Middle East...

From: Rob MacClanahan

Jean Bouchebel and his family sweat bullets in an olive grove...

Lily of El Dorado

From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler

Louis the German divides the Rhine and the doomed space shuttle Challenger is used by the Department of Defense on its last successful (classified)...