Good art - especially independent art - doesn't just happen. Host Garret Godfrey explores some of the best ways we all can be more supportive of faith-based independent music, including interviews and the latest crowdfunding campaigns.
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We help you find the most well-crafted faith-inspired music being made today. You want honest, artistic, non-cheesy, soul-enriching music? Host Dave Trout curates the artists and songs that will help you rediscover your soul-connection to music.
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Cædmon was an Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch (657–681). Originally ignorant of the art of song, Cædmon learned to compose one night in the course of a dream. Cædmon’s only known surviving work is Cædmon’s Hymn, the nine-line alliterative vernacular praise poem in honour of the Christian god he supposedly learned to sing in his initial dream. The poem is one of the earliest attested examples of Old English and is one of three candidates for the earliest ...
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Join Bears expert Caedmon for all the latest news and moves of this critical 2015 off-season. Beardown!
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Weekly in-depth interviews and analysis of TCU sports from the fan's perspective.
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We give you special access to some of today's most gifted songwriters and performers so you can learn about the heart behind the music.
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Unless you dig, you might not ever find out how much blood, sweat, and tears go into the making of the music you love. We are here to help you dig. Host Nick Flora shares stories, topics, and interviews as your audio liner notes on the creative process.
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A book podcast hosted by writing partners Amy Helmes and Kim Askew. Guests include biographers, journalists, authors, and cultural historians discussing lost classics by women writers.
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Every month The SpokenWeb Podcast brings you different stories that explore the intersections of sound, poetry, literature, and history, created by scholars, poets, students, and artists from across Canada.
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A podcast highlighting upcoming concerts and other events produced by the Student Activities Office at Calvin College.
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🔒 Caedmon Records — Lost Ladies of the Audiobook Industry
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Amy discusses the good and bad of audiobook narration in this week’s bonus episode, then dives into the origins of the commercial audiobook industry. Founded in 1952, Caedmon Records was the brainchild of two young women who achieved their smash debut success by convincing Dylan Thomas to record himse…
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The Campus Tour E3: Interview With TCU Baseball’s Caedmon Parker
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In the third episode of the KillerFrogs "The Campus Tour" podcast, TCU Baseball pitcher Caedmon Parker joins hosts Nathan Cross, JD Andress, and Carson Wersal. Caedmon dives into a little about himself and his baseball career at TCU. Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify | Amazon PodcastsBy KillerFrogs.com
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Gridiron Frogs E6: TCU Announces Their 2024 Captains
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KillerFrogs writers Nolan Ruth and JD Andress discuss the 2024 captain selections for the Horned Frogs and invite their listeners to join the "State of The Frogdom" this Friday. Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify | Amazon PodcastsBy KillerFrogs.com
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KillerFrogs Bullpen Episode E28: Anthony Silva
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On this episode of the KF Bullpen, JD Andress and Carson Wersal are joined by TCU shortstop Anthony Silva to talk the cape cod league, his brother joining him on campus, and last season's results. Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify | Amazon PodcastsBy KillerFrogs.com
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Gridiron Frogs E5: Predicting TCU’s Schedule
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KillerFrogs writers Nolan Ruth and JD Andress are joined by Barry Lewis as the trio predicts the outcome of each game on the Horned Frogs schedule as well as what they think the final record for the 2024 season will be. Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify | Amazon PodcastsBy KillerFrogs.com
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Hiatus Encore: The Letters of Zora Neale Hurston with Melissa Kiguwa
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Send us a Text Message. HIATUS ENCORE: Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is widely considered to be a masterpiece, yet were it not for a renewed push by author Alice Walker in the 1970s, Hurston and her legacy might well have been lost. We have Melissa Kiguwa, host of The Idealists podcast, joining us to discuss Zora Neal…
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Gridiron Frogs E4: Commitments and Fall Camp Injuries
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KillerFrogs Writers Nolan Ruth and JD Andress discuss the Horned Frog's newest recruits before talking about Gary Patterson leaving Baylor. JD also gives a fall camp update, and injury update Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify | Amazon PodcastsBy KillerFrogs.com
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71: Sara Groves, Third Day, Justin Carlson
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There are a lot of new crowdfunding campaigns this month, and Garret brings you the scoop - plus a new listener challenge. --- SPOTLIGHT CAMPAIGN --- * Sara Groves - Add to the Beauty (20th birthday vinyl reissue) * https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/galaxy21music/sara-groves-add-to-the-beauty-on-vinyl-and-remastered-cd --- OTHER CAMPAIGNS --- * …
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. She was called “the most beautiful woman in the world,” but silver screen siren Hedy Lamarr was much more than just a pretty face. Looking to help combat German U-boats during WWII, she pioneered technology that today serves as the basis for wireless innovations like Bluetooth, GPS and Wifi. Lamar rec…
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Frog Fever Basketball Podcast E27: Women’s Basketball, Janice Dziuk, Induction into Southwest Conference Hall of Fame
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KillerFrogs writer Tori Couch talks with former TCU women's basketball player Janice Dziuk about her upcoming induction into the SWC Hall of Fame and TCU basketball career. Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify | Amazon PodcastsBy KillerFrogs.com
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Gridiron Frogs E3: Discussing The QB Depth Chart
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KillerFrogs writers Jd Andress and Tori Couch discuss the state of the TCU quarterback room, and how they foresee the depth chart shaking out when the season begins. Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify | Amazon PodcastsBy KillerFrogs.com
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The Campus Tour E2: Interview With TCU Rifle Star Katie Zaun
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In the second episode of the KillerFrogs "The Campus Tour" podcast, TCU rifle standout Katie Zaun joins hosts Nathan Cross and JD Andress. Katie dives into her remarkable journey in competitive rifle shooting and celebrates the TCU Rifle team’s journey to becoming National Champions. Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify | Amazon Podcasts…
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HIATUS ENCORE: Noel Streatfeild — Ballet Shoes and The Whicharts with Wendy-Marie Chabot
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Send us a Text Message. Did you know that Noel Streatfeild’s 1936 children’s book Ballet Shoes is based on her earlier novel The Whicharts, a tawdrier and not-for-children “shadow twin” that was published five years prior? Find out why it’s our favorite of the two in this week’s episode with our guest, author and bookstagrammer Wendy-Marie Chabot. …
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Open Door Listening, with Brandon LaBelle at Errant Bodies Press
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ShortCuts as a series on The SpokenWeb Podcast feed is coming to an end. For the past five seasons, ShortCuts producer Katherine McLeod has been bringing you deep dives into the archives. Through this process, ShortCuts has asked the question of what it means to listen closely and carefully to short ‘cuts’ of audio. ShortCuts has become a sonic spa…
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Gridiron Frogs E2: Writers’ preseason rankings for the Big 12
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Writers Nolan and JD make their own preseason rankings for the Big 12 Conference ahead of the upcoming football season. Plus a tease for next week's episode! Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify | Amazon PodcastsBy KillerFrogs.com
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🔒 The Secret Poetry of Austria's Empress "Sisi"
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Long before an insatiable press laid siege to Catherine, Princess of Wales, Princess Diana, Meghan Markle and in-law to America’s “royal family,” Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Empress Elizabeth of Austria was the beautiful royal everyone wanted a piece of. Feeling like a prisoner in a gilded cage, “Sisi” …
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The Campus Tour E1: Interview With Beach Volleyball Star Tania Moreno
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KillerFrogs Writers Nathan Cross and JD Andress are joined by TCU Beach Volleyball star Tania Moreno helps us kick off the inaugural episode of "The Campus Tour" on KillerFrogs Podcast, sharing her incredible journey to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games qualification alongside her standout career at TCU. Apple Podcasts | Google Play | Spotify | Amazon P…
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We continue to spotlight our UTR Critics Panel's selections of the best music of the first half of 2024 - this time the best individual songs. --- TRACK LIST FOR EP.103 --- Running Back To Love - Russ Mohr Headlights Home - Mat Kearney Keep Your Head Up - Hannah Miller & Lori Chaffer Panic Attack in Hobby Lobby - Justin Carlson Keep Calm and Carry …
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Ann Schlee (Rhine Journey) with Sam Johnson-Schlee and Lucy Scholes
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Send us a Text Message. Pack your steamer trunks! We’re traveling to 19th-century Bavaria this week by way of Ann Schlee’s 1980 historical novel Rhine Journey, newly republished by McNally Editions. This Booker-Prize nominated travel tale features vivid period details, sultry psychological thrills and a protagonist on the brink of a personal revolu…
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70: Starflyer 59, Poor Old Lu, Galactic Cowboys
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Garret shares the value of genuinely listening to music. He also shares the latest crowdfunding campaigns, pre-orders, and an exclusive interview with UTR founder Dave Trout. --- SPOTLIGHT CAMPAIGN --- * Starflyer 59 - Lust for Gold pre-order * https://velvetbluemusic.com/?product=starflyer-59-lust-for-gold --- OTHER CAMPAIGNS --- * Galactic Cowboy…
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Reflecting back on four years of literary “lost ladies,” Amy celebrates our 200th episode with a quirky list of yearbook superlatives to help jog your memory about some of our favorite titles, including the books “Most Likely to Make You Eat Your Vegetables,” “Most Likely to Up Your Selfie Game,” and …
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Send us a Text Message. An Australian author — and the 1979 film adaptation of her work — capture Kim and Amy’s fancy this week on the show. Published in 1901 and written when author Miles Franklin was only eighteen years old, My Brilliant Career became an instant classic of Australian literature and still delights readers with its feisty heroine, …
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SUMMARY How can artists harness algorithmic processes to generate poetry, music, and dance? And what can we learn from the longer history of creative coding and early experiments in human-computer collaboration? In this live episode recorded during June's 2024 SpokenWeb Symposium, producers Nicholas Beauchesne and Chelsea Miya venture into the root…
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It's not easy keeping up on the latest releases, so our UTR Critics Panel is here to help - sharing some of their selections for best albums & EPs from the first half of 2024. --- TRACK LIST FOR EP.102 --- Drowning in Nostalgia (from 'Mat Kearney') - Mat Kearney Heaven is Yours (from 'In Bloom') - Jon Foreman Still Here (from 'Slow Parade') - Gilea…
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Things get weird on the show this week as Amy and Kim commune with some ladies of literature from beyond the veil… with a little bit of help from ChatGPT. Check out our “interview” with Restoration-era author and playwright Aphra Behn, then find out what happens when we play around with prompts for Vi…
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Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, Lost Lady of Translation — with Jo Salas
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Send us a Text Message. You may think you’ve never read anything by Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, but if you’ve read any Thomas Mann, there’s a good chance you’ve seen her handiwork. Lowe-Porter was a writer and translator whose greatest (but largely unsung) success came in the form of translating 22 monumental works by the German literary giant. Her En…
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🔒 7 Middagh Street — The House of Literary Misfits
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Writers Carson McCullers and W.H. Auden, literary editor George Davis, composer Benjamin Britten and burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee... once upon a time they all lived together in a house in Brooklyn Heights, an early 1940s version of the sitcom "Friends," only this one populated by an ever-changing mix…
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69: The Choir, Katherine Perry, Josiah Queen
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This month, Garret's challenge is to support indie music by buying it on Bandcamp. Plus he has the latest in crowdfunding campaigns. --- SPOTLIGHT CAMPAIGN --- The Choir - Free Flying Soul (Vinyl reissue and CD remaster) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thechoir/free-flying-soul-vinyl-and-cd-the-choir --- OTHER CAMPAIGNS --- Katherine Perry - 5…
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Elaine May — Miss May Does Not Exist with Carrie Courogen
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Send us a Text Message. Guest Carrie Courogen, author of the acclaimed new bio "Miss May Does Not Exist," joins us to discuss comic genius Elaine May. Known for her groundbreaking work in comedy, screenwriting, directing, and acting, May rose to fame as part of the iconic comedy duo Nichols and May. Despite her significant contributions to films li…
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ShortCuts Live! Talking about Listening with Moynan King, Erica Isomura, and Rémy Bocquillon
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SUMMARY In this month’s episode of The SpokenWeb Podcast, ShortCuts is taking over the airwaves. ShortCuts is the monthly minisode that takes you on a deep dive into archival sound through a short ‘cut’ of audio. In this fifth season, ShortCuts producer Katherine McLeod has been presenting a series of live conversations recorded at the 2023 SpokenW…
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🔒 A Urinal, a "Punk" Baroness and a Dinner Party
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Marcel Duchamp created one of the most influential works of art in the 20th century. Or did he? There are some who theorize that a woman — “proto-punk” poet and Dada-ist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven — is the true genius behind the groundbreaking “Fountain” urinal sculpture that rocked the art world in…
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We put the playlist into the trustworthy hands of YOU, our listeners. We received music requests from all over North America, and from a wide variety of artists - both new and old. --- TRACK LIST FOR EP.101 --- Don't Give Up on Me - Colony House Rock My Soul - Josh Garrels You Are So Good To Me - Waterdeep The Lust, The Flesh, The Eyes and the Prid…
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Send us a Text Message. In this special catch-up episode, we take a breather to share updates and insights from our recent reads, including works by Sylvia Townsend Warner and Radclyffe Hall. Amy introduces a quirky new business idea inspired by silent disco and Shakespeare, and we invite listeners to text feedback using a new ‘text us’ feature. Pl…
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S07 E08: On our season finale episode, we are excited to have a full interview with Dan Haseltine - songwriter, composer, author, nonprofit leader, and Grammy Award-winning frontman of Jars of Clay. --- TRACK LIST FOR S07 E08 --- "Fade To Grey" - Jars of Clay "Hero" - Jars of Clay "Cry Me A River" - The River Cryers --- CREDITS --- Host/Producer - …
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ShortCuts Live! Turning Our Bodies Toward Sound with Xiaoxuan Huang
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This month, we’re back with another Shortcuts Live, talking with researchers in person and starting those conversations with a short ‘cut’ of audio. These ShortCuts Live conversations were recorded on-site at the 2023 SpokenWeb Symposium held at the University of Alberta. In this conversation, Xiaoxuan Huang talks about hybrid poetics (and more) wi…
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Inspired by Barbara Comyns, who lived with an unusual assortment of pets over the years, this bonus episode explores female authors who owned pet monkeys. Amy discusses Virginia Woolf and her Nazi-disarming marmoset Mitz, Nellie Bly’s fez-wearing travel companion, McGinty, and other primates who captu…
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68: Stephen McNeill, Daniel Wheat, Porchlight
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Have you ever hosted or attended a house-show concert? It's a unique experience, and becoming a host can be really supportive to indie artists. Garret has some exclusive conversations on the topic, plus a rundown of the latest crowdfunding campaigns. --- SPOTLIGHT CAMPAIGN --- Stephen McNeill - Centerpiece Volume III: Life Together https://www.kick…
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Barbara Comyns — Our Spoons Came From Woolworths and The Vet’s Daughter with Avril Horner
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Send us a Text Message. Barbara Comyns was recently called, “the best English novelist you’ve never heard of” and her unsettling gothic novels are equal parts enchanting and horrific. Joining us is Avril Horner, author of "Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence," who offers insight into Comyns' unique blend of dark humor and her empathetic portrayals o…
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Notes from the Underground: Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll at the Ultimatum Urban Poetry Festival
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For most people, the “poetry reading” conjures stuffy intonation styles, cheap wine in plastic cups, and polite clapping. But for a riotous underground scene in 1980s Montreal, the poetry reading was the site for radical experimentation in artistic performance. At the Ultimatum Urban Poetry Festival, which first took place in 1985, literary all sta…
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🔒 Ina Eloise Young, Lost Lady of Sports Reporting
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Inspired by watching Caitlin Clark play in this year’s NCAA tournament, Amy is feeling uncharacteristically “sporty” in this week’s bonus episode. She’ll dive into the history of Ina Eloise Young, America’s first female sports editor at a daily newspaper whose coverage of the 1908 World Series so impr…
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Re-Listening to Improvisation in the Archives
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As April is the month of poetry, we’ve taken a pause in this year’s ShortCuts Live conversations to listen back to one of the first episodes of ShortCuts, “ShortCuts 1.2 / Audio of the Month: Improvising at a Poetry Reading.” In the archival clip played in this episode, we hear Maxine Gadd pausing during a reading with Andreas Schroeder. She asks A…
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Enayat al-Zayyat — Love and Silence with Iman Mersal
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Send us a Text Message. Dying by suicide shortly after her novel, Love and Silence, was rejected for publication in 1963, Egyptian writer Enayat al-Zayyat gained brief recognition when the book was finally published four years after her death. Discovering the novel in a Cairo market some 30 years later launched acclaimed Egyptian writer Iman Mersal…
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. Have you ever wanted to hit the “pause” button on your life and simply start over? In 2022, Anne Boyd Rioux did just that, making the bold and audacious decision to leave her job as a tenured English professor, sell all her earthly possessions and embark on a European adventure. In this episode, Anne …
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To celebrate the GMP's 100th episode, Dave hand picks some of his favorite tracks from the 7-year history of the show. This podcast has featured over 1,000 songs - so picking 21 favorites of those was NOT easy. Also listen for a special "Episode 100 only" listener contest. --- TRACK LIST FOR EP.100 --- Take My Hand - Russ Mohr (ft. We Are Root Mod)…
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Kay Boyle — Fifty Stories with Anne Boyd Rioux
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Send us a Text Message. An eyewitness to monumental moments in the 20th century, author Kay Boyle hung out with Left Bank artists and literary giants, chronicled the ravages of WWII, was blacklisted in the 1950s and was jailed for her Haight-Ashbury activism in the late 1960s. An intrepid modernist committed to a “Revolution of the Word,” this two-…
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We have more ways for you to move from being a fan to being a good patron of the music you love - including a rundown of several current crowdfunding campaigns. Garret also has a one-on-one interview with indie singer-songwriter LOVKN. --- SPOTLIGHT CAMPAIGN --- * Gileah Taylor - Slow Parade * https://gileahtaylor.bandcamp.com/album/slow-parade-2 -…
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S07 E07: It's our first ever multicast shared interview with the 'Between You & Me' podcast with Jessica Morris. Together we interview husband-wife purveyors good Charlie Peacock and Andi Ashworth. --- CREDITS --- Host/Producer - Dave Trout Jessica's 'Between You & Me' podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/between-you-me-podcast/id1440975…
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Subscriber-only episode Send us a Text Message. In this episode Amy explores the history of the 19th-century dance craze that made political leaders nervous, religious leaders aghast, dance instructors insecure and the masses primed for revolt! From Johann Strauss Jr.'s "pop star" status to popular representations in film, we're covering everything…
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They Do the Police in Different Voices: Computational Analysis of Digitized Performances of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
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T. S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land is arguably not a poem at all. To some readers and critics, it’s more like a play: a collection of voices thrown together without quotation marks or speaker tags. That’s how Eliot himself saw it; his working title was He Do the Police in Different Voices. The work comes alive in performance, where each reader must …
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Send us a Text Message. In this week’s episode Kim and Amy discuss the life and work of “Speranza,” a.k.a Lady Jane Wilde, a.k.a. Oscar Wilde’s mom! An outspoken, rabble-rousing poet who championed Irish independence, she stirred up members of the Young Ireland movement while writing for Dublin’s radical newspaper “The Nation” in the 1840s. Oscar m…
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