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HOUR ONE: "Giving up" - Our lives are full of lists and responsibilities. Things to do, things to be. Maybe it's time to let go and give something ...
- Added: Apr 26, 2024
- Length: 01:58:59
HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: How Earth keeps time" - No one understands time like a geologist. And with the climate convulsing and the future breathing do...
- Added: Apr 19, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Luminous: What Can Psychedelics Teach Us About Dying?" - Could psychedelics change the way we approach death and dying? We'll explore th...
- Added: Feb 16, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
Poet, farmer, and Missoula, Montana, county commissioner Josh Slotnick discusses his second collection of poetry, "If Only." This is part one of a ...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Have you ever wished there was a different way to read – or hear - the news? For generations, through wars and political upheaval, poets have been ...
Bought by WRKF, Boise State Public Radio, KUOW, WKSU, and KECG
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Student activists in York, Pennsylvania organized a silent protest when hundreds of books were banned from their classrooms, paving the way for las...
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 28:10
HOUR ONE: "Against Capitalism" - Congress has passed a Republican resolution "denouncing socialism." But what does that even mean? This hour, a soc...
- Added: Nov 03, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
Author Carmen Maria Machado's book “In the Dream House” appeared on high school classes’ recommended reading lists, and was subsequently targeted b...
- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 25:22
When a high school teacher in Norman, Oklahoma shared a QR code with her students that would grant them access to BPL’s digital collection, she too...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 25:47
- Purchases: 1
HOUR ONE: "Reframing The Portrait" - Have you ever stood in front of a portrait at a museum and wondered what was that person thinking? Portraits h...
- Added: Sep 22, 2023
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: "Avian Obsessions" - It’s summer and the birds are singing. Building nests, eating worms. Watching them makes a lot of people happy – but...
- Added: Jun 16, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
Are certain books beyond reproach? It’s a fundamental question making its way across America’s school boards. Those who argue “yes” say schools sho...
Bought by WMUU-LP and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 18, 2023
- Length: 54:02
- Purchases: 2
When the lifeless body of Eric Castle, a weapons technician for a major American defense contractor, is found under his hotel balcony, both his emp...
- Added: Mar 29, 2023
- Length: 31:01
On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin searches for a killer with Bernie Sanders and his intern in Feel the Bern.
Bought by RADIOLEX, WRMU, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Feb 06, 2023
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 4
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...
- Added: Jan 06, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Writing As A Political Act" - In peaceful times, and in moments of violence, writers have used their art as protest, remembrance, and so...
- Added: Dec 16, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Writing Truth And Lies" - It's a long walk from the truth to the whole truth. A biographer, a poet, a memoirist and a filmmaker describe...
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
Salman Rushdie praised A.M. Homes’ latest novel, The Unfolding as, “A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in pitch-perfect dialogue, tha...
Bought by KWMR, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more
- Added: Sep 14, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
HOUR ONE: "Telling A Life" - How do you tell the story of your life? Songwriter Patti Smith says try writing "about nothing." HOUR TWO: "The Powe...
- Added: Sep 09, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
On this week’s episode, Yascha Mounk joins Ray Suarez to discuss his new book, “The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart And How Th...
Bought by WLPR , Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more
- Added: Jun 24, 2022
- Length: 59:45
- Purchases: 6
HOUR ONE: "You're Not OK. That's OK." - One of our producers created a yard sign. It reads: "You're not OK. That's OK." 300 signs later, it's causi...
- Added: Jun 17, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...
Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jun 02, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Josh Weiss is a novelist who lives in Philadelphia.
- Added: Jun 01, 2022
- Length: 26:48
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...
- Added: May 27, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "How To Be An Ethical Traveler" - Uttakleiv, Norway, population 13, is inundated by 250,000 tourists every year. This hour, how can we tr...
- Added: May 13, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
