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A husband reflects on the pros and cons of serving with his spouse
- Added: Sep 07, 2024
- Length: :37
Tess and Brock dive into the unconventional life of Sarah Orne Jewett by first venturing to Berwick Academy, the school that Jewett attended. As an...
- Added: Jul 25, 2024
- Length: 28:31
Tess and Brock explore Nathanial Hawthorne’s childhood home in Raymond, Maine. Hawthorne’s writing colors the house as an idyllic childhood summer ...
- Added: Jul 25, 2024
- Length: 28:11
Tess and Brock travel to Wiscasset, ME, to investigate the scene of James Weldon Johnson’s tragic death in a train accident. Author Russell Rymer g...
- Added: Jul 25, 2024
- Length: 28:14
Tess and Brock put the spotlight on Edna St. Vincent Millay, the 20th century poet and feminist icon. Millay was notorious for her active “social l...
- Added: Jul 25, 2024
- Length: 28:24
Tess and Brock try to get on the same wavelength as Edwin Arlington Robinson, also known as EAR, by visiting his birthplace in Gardiner, ME. To get...
- Added: Jul 25, 2024
- Length: 28:08
Tess and Brock stay close to home while studying Harriet Beecher Stowe, the 19th-century author famous for writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Susanna Aston...
- Added: Jul 25, 2024
- Length: 28:59
30 second generic promo for Dead Writers.
- Added: Jul 24, 2024
- Length: :30
Why are stories that remind us of how deeply humans are connected to the living world so important? In this conversation, author Richard Powers dis...
- Added: Apr 15, 2024
- Length: 52:09
This is the first of five episode charting the life, career and influence of filmmaker Whit Stillman during the rise of a new American auteur movem...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 54:00
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
Library workers often risk their livelihoods when they speak out against censorship, spurring community members to pick up the fight for intellectu...
Bought by WORT
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 25:35
- Purchases: 1
The writer John Nichols first achieved national fame at age 24 with 'The Sterile Cuckoo', but went on to a second act when he moved to Taos, New Me...
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 27:14
Banning of so-called “classics” grabs public attention, but books like To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984 don't need your defense. It's the more recent...
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 19:25
Mike Curato talks about his award-winning graphic novel Flamer, his writing practice, and how it feels to have his story vaulted into national head...
- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 16:39
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
An array of horror tales that tackle the artistic ego, an original score, and field recordings to insulate a unique atmosphere for the mind.
- Added: Apr 04, 2023
- Length: 02:20:37
episode 3: The war in Ukraine is proving to be a real-time lab study of staying one step ahead of the hackers and finding ways to protect and prese...
- Added: Sep 16, 2022
- Length: 20:30
Episode Nineteen – I’ll give the girls a bag for the powder room.
D’laska goes to Juan’s Caribbean Club pretending he’s a drug dealer and befriend...
- Added: Aug 23, 2022
- Length: 17:42
Studio 54 first opened
in April 1977 and became the most famous
nightclub of all time. Its quick ascent was confounding because creators
Steve R...
- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 18:45
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...
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 28:17
The education system can change top-down, or bottom-up. Author Suzanne DeMallie wrote “Can You Hear Me Now?” – a book about how parents and teache...
- Added: Mar 19, 2021
- Length: 59:36
Richard and his daughter Margaret investigate the bird insurrection, while humans attack the U.S. Capitol and President Trump is impeached for the ...
- Added: Jan 24, 2021
- Length: 11:47
- Added: Oct 24, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 1
This series of 76 programs explores the renaissance fables of four great authors. This program presents some of the work of Bartolomeo Scala.
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 05:00
