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Why I Really Like This Book
From: Kate Macdonald
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a weekly podcast for curious readers about forgotten books

  • Added: Aug 07, 2011
  • Length: 01:21:44
OPEN SOURCE: History's Tragic Irony with Teju Cole and Simon Schama
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Caption: Teju Cole
Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole is our idea of a post-imperial global mind in motion. His celebrated first novel, "Open City," is about a solita...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: May 20, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
OPEN SOURCE: Moral Maps and Geographies of Conflict - Melani McAlister & Téa Obreht
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Caption: Melani McAlister's book jacket for Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests, 1945-2000
How do war stories work, and where do we find them? Our guests this week are mapping out terrains of conflict and confusion in our lifetimes, from ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE: Cultural Capital - Hamid Dabashi & Andre Aciman
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In the cultural crossroads of Manhattan's West Side, we found two standard-bearers for our most promising American tradition -- the literary and in...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
OPEN SOURCE: Eyesore Opulence - Peter Hessler & Christian Wiman
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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New Yorker correspondent Peter Hessler reports from the road in China on the human side of miracle growth and epic migration. Then, we meet poet Ch...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
OPEN SOURCE: Poets of the Moment - Elliott Colla & Jaimy Gordon
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Elliott Colla talks about the poetry of revolution and its role for transformation in Egypt. Then, we're with Jaimy Gordon, whose novel The Lord of...

Bought by KWMR-FM, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
OPEN SOURCE: Postnational American Literature, from Moby Dick to Joseph O'Neill
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Donald Pease, a Dartmouth scholar of novels and dreams, says Moby-Dick helps explain who Barack Obama is -- and why he won the Nobel Peace Prize. T...

Bought by WEOS, KUOW, KUT, and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Oct 26, 2009
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 4
OPEN SOURCE: Pico Iyer on the Global Citizen and the “Transcendentalist” Dalai Lama
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Christopher Lydon in conversation with author Pico Iyer. In the first half from the beaches of Jamaica at the Calabash literary festival, Pico Iye...

Bought by WEOS, KUOW, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Oct 26, 2009
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 4
Here on Earth: Salman Rushdie (:20 Promo)
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
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"Here on Earth - Radio Without Borders" is Wisconsin Public Radio's live international talk program and podcast. (Promo for program "Salman Rushdie")

  • Added: Aug 11, 2008
  • Length: :20
Here on Earth: Salman Rushdie (Billboard)
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
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The billboard for the "Here on Earth" program "Salman Rushdie."

  • Added: Aug 11, 2008
  • Length: 01:00
Here on Earth: Salman Rushdie
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
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Preview "Here on Earth," Wisconsin Public Radio's international talk program and podcast. In this edition, host Jean Feraca talks to Salman Rushdie...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2008
  • Length: 52:35
Simplify Me When I'm Dead
From: Miranda Diboll
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How the media simplify a life though obituaries or even just a few simple lines.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Apr 03, 2007
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
Tales of an Irish M.D.
From: Jackson Braider
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A collection of diverse tales told in 1962 by a Dublin heart doctor.

  • Added: Jul 18, 2006
  • Length: 59:03
Michael and the DTs
From: Jackson Braider
Series: Tales of an Irish M.D.
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A celebrated Dublin surgeon learns how to diagnose the DTs (the Delirium Tremors) from a local scout.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2006
  • Length: 02:57
How Mulien Saves His Mother from Hades
From: KCUR
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Taiwanese story that is the basis for Ghost Month in Buddhist Culture.

Bought by KZYX and PRX Administrator


  • Added: Oct 30, 2005
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2
1975 Gregory Corso - The Mad Yak
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Beat great Gregory Corso reads in 1975

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 2