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The Radio Reading Room features the Stories of Americana special Featured Segments feature stories and poetry from some of America's Classic authors, such as, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, Emily Dickerson, T.S. Elliot and many more. The program is hosted and stories read by long time broadcast veteran and voice artist Myron Hieronymous Thomas. First aired over WQSA AM radio in Sarasota Florida in 1989 the program fast became a favorite of listeners and participants.
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In this episode we share more stories of the men who saved the world on Jun 06, 1944. In this episode we feature the story of First Lieutenant David Joseph Marquard, who gave his life for our freedom. Learn more at D-Day, Eyewitness accounts of WW2. Read by Myron Hieronymous ThomasBy Myron Hieronymous Thomas
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Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of Silver Blaze
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In this episode we feature "The Adventure of Silver Blaze", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the first from the 12 in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in December 1892. Doyle considered "Silver Blaze" among his favorite Sherlock Holm…
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D-Day at 80. The Beginning of the End of WWII.
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In this episode we pay tribute to the men who saved the world on Jun 06, 1944. D-Day was the name given to the June 6, 1944, invasion of the beaches at Normandy in northern France by troops from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other countries during World War II. France at the time was occupied by the armies of Nazi Germany, and t…
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The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The race, nicknamed The Test of the Champion, The Test of Champions and The Run for the Carnations, is the traditional third and final leg of the Triple Crown. It is usually held on the first or second Saturday in June, fi…
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Episode 3: ‘Loss of Aus Biodiversity’ Ali Cobby Eckermann, Stuart Cooke & Professor Sarah Bekessy
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Episode Three of our Extinction Elegies radio series explores cultural connections to Country and wedge-tailed eagles with Ali Cobby Eckerman. Meanwhile, poet Stuart Cooke examines the entanglement of human life with the northern long-nosed potoroo and Professor Sarah Bekessy speaks to ways we might increase sustainability in urban areas.Learn more…
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Episode 1: ‘Island Ecologies’ with Michelle Cahill, John Kinsella and Professor John Woinarski
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In Episode One of our Extinction Elegies radio series, poet Michelle Cahill reflects on the eradication of the King Island Emu, while John Kinsella discusses the demise the Christmas Island Pipistrelle. Island and extinction specialist Professor John Woinarski contextualises these losses and what they mean in the bigger picture of extinctions in Au…
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Episode 2: ‘Art and Science’ with Bruce Pascoe, Mark Tredinnick and Dr Thomas Bristow
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Poet Bruce Pascoe honours the azure kingfisher and Mark Tredinnick laments the plastic seas that swallow species and language, while Dr Thomas Bristow explores the history of the elegy and its role in eco-criticism. --Created by Red Room Poetry with Durham University, Extinction Elegies, invites poets to reflect on losses, endangerment and extincti…
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Hands Disappear Into Wood (Rhyming The Dead) Sam Wagan Watson & Melody Paloma
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The Red Room Company has commissioned 10 Australian poets to create and perform new work inspired by a dead poet of their choosing. Rhyming the Dead poems and interviews with the past and present poets explore ways death permeates life. Interviewed and produced by Maisie Cohen.http://redroomcompany.org/rhyming-dead/radioshow/…
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Chalk is Falling (Rhyming The Dead) Bella Li &Jakob Ziguras
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The Red Room Company has commissioned 10 Australian poets to create and perform new work inspired by a dead poet of their choosing. Rhyming the Dead poems and interviews with the past and present poets explore ways death permeates life. Interviewed and produced by Maisie Cohen.http://redroomcompany.org/rhyming-dead/radioshow/…
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