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Can you really trust your first impression of someone…especially if it’s a bad first impression?

Bought by KHNS, Nevada Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 11
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When naming the most important stories of the 20th century, gossip writer Liz Smith rattled off the assassination of JFK, the Lindbergh kidnapping,...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
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The birth of Armageddon.

Bought by KRUA, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR-FM, KUOW, KKRN and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Charles Dickens turns 200 this year, and two new films based on his books are in the works. But one scholar says there’s more to Dickens than his m...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 02:27
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Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, and Kevin Bacon lead an all-star cast in a timely portrait of an American civil-rights struggle. "...every...

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM, KISU, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WCPN, WNPR and more


  • Added: May 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 19
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The unsung hero of a scientific odyssey.

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, KUOW, KMUN, KRCB-FM, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 6
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Meet Sam Spade, detective, lady-killer. Before it became a classic film, it was first an incredible moral tale of crime and deception. Find out why.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 1
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A Hollywood remake of The Lone Ranger is in the works, with Johnny Depp playing Tonto. An author of a new book says the Lone Ranger series was an e...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jul 25, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Ace Atkins is the author of eight novels. He lives on a farm in Mississippi.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 29:45
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The human side of Bobby Kennedy's rise to statesmanship.

Bought by WCPN, Nevada Public Radio, KUT-HD, KMUN, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 01:57:54
  • Purchases: 8
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James Marsters stars in the enduring social comedy.

Bought by WCPN, Nevada Public Radio, KUT-HD, KUOW, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 6
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The Lincoln-Douglas debates come alive, courtesy of David Strathairn and Paul Giamatti.

Bought by KREV-LP, KUT-HD, Nevada Public Radio, WNJR, KRCB-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Hundreds who have overdosed are rememberd at an April State House rally. , Credit: Tinker Ready
Massachusetts is using a nasal spray to prevent fatal heroin overdoses.

  • Added: Oct 15, 2010
  • Length: 06:15
Caption: Brian Bedford as Tartuffe
A story that began its life under a cloud of controversy.

Bought by WCPN, Nevada Public Radio, KRCB-FM, KUT-HD, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Brian Bedford
Two classic short works from Molière, in the definitive translations by Richard Wilbur.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Nevada Public Radio, KUT-HD, KALW, KRCB-FM and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 8
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The famous court battle over the right to teach evolution in public school comes to life.

Bought by WRVO, WCPN, Nevada Public Radio, KRCB-FM, KUOW and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 6
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Democracy-Anglo/American Style-Nationbuilding from the days of the Divine Rights of Kings to Lincoln's Immortal Words at Gettysburg.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2009
  • Length: 01:12:47
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Image of the Other

  • Added: Nov 07, 2007
  • Length: 01:02
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"All the World a Stage"

  • Added: Oct 25, 2007
  • Length: 01:03
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"And the rest is silence" is the famous, much-praised last line of Hamlet - it applies to the cut to sudden-black at the end of The Sopranos, doesn...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 03:55
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we're all closure-junkies - craving resolutions in the endings of the stories we encounter - can we break the habit long enough to appreciate the e...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 07:09
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first of series of special analysis of The Sopranos' ending ... here, I compare it to the famous ending of Stockton's The Lady or The Tiger...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:41
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The Fishko Files, produced by WNYC's Sara Fishko, are personal, essay-like radio pieces on music, art, culture and media.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KFAI, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 19, 2006
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 3