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A Confederacy of Dunces, by New Orleans-born John Kennedy Toole, is one of the great stories of American literature. A new biography of Toole tells...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 1
Where there’s fermentation, there’s culture. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Sando...
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 28:00
This historical novel brings to life the “Widow of the South,” Carrie McGavock. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place on November 30, 18...
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 09:52
A common historical myth is that Native Americans were an “oral people” who didn't engage in literacy. But one scholar argues that Native Americans...
- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 28:59
News-Friendly Format (1:00 billboard; 5:00 news hole; 52:00 program)
New York Times music and film critic Stephen Holden covered the 1970s singer/...
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 58:00
Part Two - Generational discussion with author Colin Woodard
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Aaron Neville
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Grammy-winning R&B /soul singer Aaron Neville has been a radio ...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Feb 12, 2013
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 1
Brigham Young was a rough-hewn transient from New York whose life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He married more than 50 women, and transform...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 28:59
Herbert Huncke's line "I'm beat, man" gave Jack Kerouac the label for a generation seeking spiritual sustenance and "kicks" in post-war America.
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 28:59
In Istanbul, Cathy Byrd meets Yane Calovski, a transmedia artist and curator based in Skopje, Macedonia to talk about his research-based projects.
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 21:36
William Pope.L, an American performance artist and interventionist, talks about Blink, his magic lantern show for Prospect.2 New Orleans, 2011.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 1
In Barcelona, Cathy Byrd speaks with Carolina Grau, an independent curator from Spain, about the projects she's created internationally with Martin...
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 14:49
More than 20 years after Germans tore down the Berlin Wall, they are still dealing with the stigmas of a formerly divided country.
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 28:59
1619 was the year the first Africans arrived on the North American continent. There were at least 20 of them and they came as slaves from Angola. B...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Cathy Byrd speaks with Franklin Sirmans, curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art about his current projects.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 13:35
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century. Plus, a satire of college football. And, a conversation with the son of a scienc...
- Added: Sep 24, 2012
- Length: 28:59
A photographic study of American consumerism, from the blank stares of shoppers to the mountains of stuff in front of them.
Bought by KBRP Community Radio
- Added: Jul 27, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
What does the Homestead Act have to do with today’s food and agriculture system? Join Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, and her guest, Ro...
- Added: Jul 23, 2012
- Length: 28:00
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview Alelia Bundles on her great-great grandmothers transformation into an entrepreneur and social activist-...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 27:30
A new edition restores Oscar Wilde's famous novel to its original form.
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 28:59
The Radio Rounds crew takes a trip to the famed Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia — a museum that welcomes tens of thousan...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 29:01
A look at the religious lives of the twelve U.S. presidents who have served since the end of World War Two.
- Added: Apr 23, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove talks about her writing with a focus on her most recent book of poems, Sonata Mullatica. [30:44]
- Added: Feb 29, 2012
- Length: 30:45
How the evening news shaped attitudes about race relations during the Civil Rights Movement.
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
An author interview with Arthur Magida on "The Nazi Séance: The Strange Story of the Jewish Psychic in Hitler's Circle"
- Added: Feb 01, 2012
- Length: 27:59
