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Pakistani-American writer Ayad Akhtar has made a living as a screenwriter, but 2012 brought him notice as both a playwright and a novelist. He deb...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The say Sunday at 11am is the most segregated hour in America. But one of the nice things about this land of freedom to worship is that there seem...
- Added: Apr 28, 2013
- Length: 01:00:02
Literary ecocritic George Handley discusses how literature ranging from sacred texts like the Bible to Charles Dickens to Twilight shape our percep...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 26:18
In this episode we talk about a lesser known tale, The Armless Maiden. How does she get her arms chopped off you ask? Maybe her dad does it to save...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 19:56
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Lost Angel is a pulp-fiction mystery in which four characters, in four short stories, have their lives inter...
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 34:45
What happens when a female shock jock from Hackensack, New Jersey finds herself working at a radio station near a polygamist enclave in Utah?
- Added: Feb 21, 2013
- Length: 14:22
Originally commissioned by Radio France Culture, this soundscape radio essay by Jean-Luc Nancy explores the 1967 meeting of Paul Celan and Martin H...
- Added: Jan 04, 2013
- Length: 58:00
Bobby speaks with Dina Rae, a loving wife and mother who resides in the Chicago suburbs and writes novels of fiction about what we both agree to be...
- Added: Jan 03, 2013
- Length: 39:48
Deepak Chopra talks identity, infinity, and the benefits of laughter.
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 10:27
Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:52
Whatever your spiritual path, chances are that the primary tenets of your faith include universal love, acceptance and compassion. Yet three thousa...
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 28:55
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
The Magna Carta is one of most important legal documents in history and it is now being digitized, translated, and uploaded online.
- Added: Feb 27, 2012
- Length: 29:00
A "non-saccharin", "non pie-in-the-sky" exploration of the power of Hope.
Bought by Nevada Public Radio and WLRN
- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 2
Oncologist and poet C. Dale Young talks about the influence of medicine upon his creative life, and reads poems from two of his three books, THE SE...
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Amy-Jill Levine, Professor of New Testament and Jewish studies at Vanderbilt University’s Divinity School, explores the bible passages of Luke 10.2...
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 01:05:51
Theologian Amy-Jill Levine explains how story telling and interpreting are the key to understanding the parables of Jesus, which are designed to ch...
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 01:13:02
Tom Perrotta, the author of "Little Children", "Election" and the upcoming novel "The Leftovers", speaks with ThoughtCast about a writer who fascin...
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 30:00
Poet Kazim Ali discusses ways portrayals of biblical characters vary in Islam, and the similarity between the Persian poet Rumi and Emily Dickinson...
- Added: Feb 03, 2011
- Length: 29:00
On this edition of "Art Beat" we feature a new personification of an artist - The Writer. John Reimriner is the author of the newly released book e...
- Added: Nov 23, 2010
- Length: 24:21
On this edition of "Art Beat" we feature a new personification of an artist - The Writer. John Reimriner is the author of the newly released book e...
- Added: Nov 23, 2010
- Length: 24:56
A Grand Rapids man recently wrote and illustrated a picture book about a cowboy… a cowboy who finds
himself a pawn in a parlor game between God a...
Bought by mnartists.org
- Added: Oct 07, 2010
- Length: 11:27
- Purchases: 1
Legendary poet Gary Snyder talks about his nearly 60 year-long career as a poet, from his early days with Allen Ginsberg in San Francisco to his pr...
- Added: Oct 06, 2010
- Length: 29:00
A forgotten word makes a comeback in the book ACEDIA & ME, by poet and essayist Kathleen Norris. She examines the origin of acedia--a kind of emot...
- Added: Jul 07, 2010
- Length: 29:00
A conversation about the Bible's universality and relevance in pop culture, with the author who aims to give "people what they don't get in church ...
Bought by WFIU
- Added: Jun 09, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
