Norm Diamond hosts the Moles’ tribute to MLK Day, which includes the
following segments:
Critical Race Theory: Bill Resnick talks to Malik Miah who made a living as
an aviation mechanic and spent most of his life fighting racism in the
unions. He has written several boo...
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On a day celebrating Martin Luther King, writer and photographer Matt Witt
reviews a memoir by another African American from Georgia who also had a day
named after him. The memoir is called Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred
Rembert. Growing up in rural Georgia, Rembert near...
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After she is rejected by her unborn child's father, Helen boards a train,
which crashes on the way to San Francisco. Surviving the accident, she is
misidentifed for another prenant woman who was also on board and did died in
the accident. The Harkness Family, having never ...
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Lynn Steger Strong, author of Want, graces Between the Covers with an
interview on her new novel Flight, a poignant inquiry on social class, love,
and family.
Lily King calls Flight "arresting and powerful".
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Bill Plympton has spent four decades going against the grain of the animation
industry, self-financing his short films and features and drawing each frame
with pencil and paper. Nominated twice for Academy Awards and taking home a
Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival,...
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Today’s episode is a sad one for me. It’s the last interview with one of
my favorite authors and guests – Cai Emmons.
I first met Cai in October 2018 when she came to the KBOO studios for a live,
in-person interview on her novel Weather Woman. Due to the pandemic, our
subs...
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Unfortunate production problems has postponed the return of Jack Webb for
this week's show. Will be re airing a program from January of 2021 which
features a episode of the Superman radio show from the mid 1940's. And lots
of music.
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It’s Thursday, December 22nd, just two eves away from Christmas Eve, and
we’ve been in somewhat of a quandary as to how to celebrate on today’s
show. I think the classic story for this time of year is Charles Dickens’ A
Christmas Carol, first published on December 19th 1843...
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Tonight's edition of Talking Earth is the inaugural edition of Book Stab,
where host Patrick Bocarde discusses the merits and mostly demerits of novels
and poetry with guests. Tonight's guest is Ceylon Anderson. Mr Anderson
was co-producer and co-writer of The Worriers, a...
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Once again we present Katherine Dunn reading excerpts from The Father
Christmas Letters by J.R.R. Tolkien. From the mid 1920s to the start of World
War 2 Proffessor Tolkien would write letters as Santa Claus for his children
would find on Christmas morning. Over the years t...
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