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Story of Writing June 6, 2023
Season 1 Episode 13
The first, patented drive-in, Midway, D-Day, Alexander Pushkin, and Thomas Mann - with a reading from Mann's "Death in Venice and Other Stories."
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 5, 2023
Season 1 Episode 11
A day that repeatedly brought sweeping changes: the end of the Ming Dynasty and beginning of the Qing Dynasty, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Elvis plays "Houn…
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 4, 2023
Episode 11
Turning away the MS St. Louis, evacuating English forces from Dunkirk, and a reading from Winston Churchill's "We shall fight on the beaches."
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 3, 2023
Season 1 Episode 10
A Dutch charter establishes the West India Company, Memphis Minnie, Allen Ginsberg, Eric Carle, Larry McMurtry, and Curtis Mayfield - with a reading …
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 2, 2023
Season 1 Episode 9
The Quartering Act, Marconi gets a patent for wireless, Thomas Hardy, Dorothy West, and Norton Juster - with a reading from Dorothy West's column in …
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing June 1, 2023
Season 1 Episode 8
What a day: Scotch whisky, Baudelaire, and the Declaration of Conscience. The Heimlich maneuver is published on the birth date of Alanis Morissette, …
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing May 31, 2023
Season 1 Episode 7
The UCMJ, Walt Whitman, Fred Allen, Al Young, Svetlana Alexievich and a reading from Whitman's A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown.
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing May 30, 2023
Season 1 Episode 6
Joan of Arc, the Man of a Thousand Voices: Mel Blanc, James Chaney, Idina Menzel, and a reading from Willa Cather's "My Antonia."
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing May 29, 2023
Season 1 Episode 5
Memorial Day in the U.S. and Sojourner Truth's speech "Ain't I a Woman?" Igor Stravinsky, Everest, Patrick Henry, and Bob Hope. Today's reading is fr…
2 years, 11 months ago
Story of Writing May 28, 2023
Season 1 Episode 4
The Indian Removal Act, the Sierra Club, "The Forgotten Prisoners," Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, "T-Bone" Walker, and Maeve Binchy - also a reading from …
2 years, 11 months ago