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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KIYU-FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KECG, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WTJU, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
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In the 19th century, French doctors were finally on the cusp of treating pain. It was a new horizon in the history of medicine. Sara Black says the...

Bought by KIYU-FM and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
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A public domain reading of Sappho's "Epigrams" set to public domain jazz from Pixabay.

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 03:45
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Countee Cullen (1903-1946) was a well known African American poet during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 30s. In this video I have set a r...

  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 03:06
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Author and dancer Georgia Finnegan talks about her new book "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota"

  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 08:08
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On this episode, we talked about the new book "Living Space" by Michael E. Veal, which is a thorough and creative examination of John Coltrane's fr...

  • Added: May 05, 2024
  • Length: 28:27
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Did you really want to eat that last piece of cake, or were you secretly thinking about your mother?

  • Added: Apr 30, 2024
  • Length: 53:58
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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


  • Added: Apr 17, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 37
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Do Shakespearean dramas have more in common with modern-day soap operas than we think?

  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
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In Good Faith welcomes two guests to discuss "Rumi: Studying the Sun".

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 52:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Who decides what makes a language? In countries all over the world, there are official organizations with that job–in France, Croatia, India, Denma...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KECG, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Who decides what makes a language? In countries all over the world, there are official organizations with that job–in France, Croatia, India, Denma...

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, KEDT, and WRGY


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Who decides what makes a language? In countries all over the world, there are official organizations with that job–in France, Croatia, India, Denma...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KIYU-FM, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows three different women as they find safety in books in The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan.

Bought by WUTC, RADIOLEX, WCNY, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 11, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
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On this episode, we talked about the book "The Past is Always Present," which documents Orthodox chant practices among the monasteries of Mount Ath...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2024
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
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This Black History Month special episode features the 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, writer and poet Saeed Jones, and music from singer-so...

Bought by KUT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WLPR , WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
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Jack Kerouac’s influence on American literature cannot be overstated, particularly as a leader of the Beat movement and his connection to the post...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 10:26
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Herman Wouk, a literary giant renowned for his profound engagement with historical themes, is influential in World War II literature. His magnum op...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 08:38
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Author Sue Leaf talks about her new book "Impermanence"

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 08:20
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This is my reading of my own short story. It is a sort of horror story set in Victorian London.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 13:36
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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...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00