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Jonathan Elmer, director of Indiana University's College Arts and Humanities Institute discusses Herman Melville's novella, Benito Cereno, a master...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2013
  • Length: 29:46
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WTIP's Dave Seaton chatted recently with the delightful Mary Roach, author of quirky science books like "Stiff," "Bonk," and "Packing for Mars." H...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 22:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Aaron Wenger is a retired educator. He is an engineer that became an educator. He is KAXE's staff physicist, and a poet. A daily reminder that, in...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
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Ron Capps helps returning service members write their way home. [27:06]

Bought by WRVO


  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 27:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Dr. David Levy, neurosurgeon and author, discusses the role that prayer can play in the healing relationship between physician and patient.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:29
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Physicians have long been compared with detectives, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was himself a physician. This episode f...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2012
  • Length: 28:52
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During this program, science writer Jim Robbins talks about the importance of trees and reads from 'The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champio...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious discusses the close relationship we humans have with other primates, with Dario Maestriprieri, author of “Games Primate Play: An Unde...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
Caption: James Richardson
Poet James Richardson has called himself an "accidental aphorist," but his well-crafted works are no accident. He reads from his 2010 book, BY THE ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Feb 01, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A report on Tuenti, a unique blend of American and Spanish content that is competing with Facebook in Spain

  • Added: Nov 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:15
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During the first half of this program, Marc Hendrix talks about his book, 'Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country.' In the second half, KC Glaste...

Bought by KREV-LP and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 07, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Well-regarded amongst fellow poets, Gjertrud Schnackenberg talks in this rare interview with NEW LETTERS magazine editor Robert Stewart about the t...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Jesse Cohen discussed the best American science writing in 2010.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 14, 2010
  • Length: 25:23
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Poet Philip Schultz
Host Francesca Rheannon spends the hour with poet Philip Schultz talking about his poetry, his method of teaching writing — and his dyslexia. His l...

Bought by WXXI


  • Added: Aug 11, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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How do we make the big decisions in our lives? Who to vote for?-or who to choose as a life mate or form an opinion about politics or war? Most of ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2010
  • Length: 58:01
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Brynie's latest book is the focus of this program: BRAIN SENSE: THE SCIENCE OF THE SENSES AND HOW WE PROCESS THE WORLD AROUND US.

Bought by WFIU and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
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What would you do when a seemingly unhappy or self entertaining bull is running full speed, headed right for you… and what does your pet mean to yo...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2010
  • Length: 29:02
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What is the importance forgetting has played throughout human history? What will be the effects on society, relationships and humanity now that so...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2010
  • Length: 58:22
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The conclusion of Tom Stoppard's crash course in landscape gardening, literature, and chaos theory. Plus, a special BBC play about a heart transpla...

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


  • Added: Jan 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 6
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A crash course in mathematics, landscape gardening, literature, and chaos theory, courtesy of Tom Stoppard.

Bought by WCPN, WRVO, Nevada Public Radio, KUOW, WBEZ and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 6
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Why do you buy what you buy? What do you hope to gain from it and will it make you a happier, sexier and more successful person? In these days of e...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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The development of the large human head and broad shoulders provide many evolutionary benefits for our species but also require assistance for a sa...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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The message of Fahrenheit 451 in the age of DVD and electronic books: We run the risk that the literary and intellectual canon of the coming centur...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 03:34
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Robert Harris's novel Pompeii does an incredible job of teaching about Roman Civil engineering and waterworks, although make no mistake, this alway...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:44
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Friedman goes inside his son's head to write first person examination of Tourette's Syndrome

  • Added: Aug 13, 2009
  • Length: 33:31