Library Podcasts
Each year the Library hosts readings, lectures, and discussions by authors and other public figures. You may watch video recordings of recent programs on our YouTube channel. Our archive of audio recordings goes back more than 10 years and includes thousands of memorable Library events.
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Seattle In Black and White, April 3
Joan Singler, Maid Adams, Jean Durning and Bettylou Valentine gave first-hand accounts of local civil rights activism from members in the Seattle Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). In 1960, Seattle was effectively a segregated town with no black bus drivers, sales clerks, or bank tellers. In the new book "Seattle in Black and White: The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity," the many challenges to this unfair system are documented.
Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 21 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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Alexander McCall Smith, April 1
Alexander McCall Smith read from "The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party." Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the international phenomenon, "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" series, the "Isabel Dalhousie Series," the "Portuguese Irregular Verbs" series, and the "44 Scotland Street" series.Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 29 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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Seattle Biblio Café | Episode 8
A trio of librarians share what they've been reading, including "Revolver" by Marcus Sedgwick, "Ask Me Why I Hurt" by Dr. Randy Christensen, and "Occupied City" by David Peace.Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 7 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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Ursula K. Le Guin & Roger Dorband, March 23
Ursula K. Le Guin read poems and Roger Dorband showed photographs from "Out Here" on March 23, 2011 at The Seattle Public Library.Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 26 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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Charitable Gift Planning Workshop, March 22
Learn more about the types of gifts you can make and how changes in the 2011 tax laws will affect your philanthropic giving by listening to this charitable gift planning workshop. Guest speaker Akane R. Suzuki of Garvey Schubert Barer, Chair of the law firm's Estate Planning, Probate and Estate Litigation Group, brings expertise and insight to help support your philanthropy.
Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 30 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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Urban Agriculture, March 22
"Urban Agriculture" featured a panel discussion of local organizations. Local experts from Mithun, the P-Patch Trust, Alleycat Acres and other organizations discussed the successes and challenges of their unique design processes as well as the many benefits of locally grown food. This program was co-sponsored with the Seattle Architectural Foundation.
Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 35 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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Thrilling Tales: March 7, 2011
"Jean-ah Poquelin" by George Washington Cable. Laissez les bon temps rouler! In this gothic tale set in New Orleans, raucous revelers throw a party fit to raise the dead. Read more in Shelf Talk. (Recorded in March 7, 2011)
Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 19.38MB] [Play time: 0 hr 42 min]
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New Treatments in the Pipeline for Parkinson's Patients, March 2
Hojoong (Mike) Kim, M.D., acting, assistant professor, department of Neurology, discussed new studies and treatments that involve pharmaceutics, gene therapy and stem cell transplantation. If you have Parkinson disease or are caring for someone who does, there are new treatments on the horizon that may provide real hope. This event series was co-sponsored with UW Medicine.Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 37 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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T.C. Boyle, March 1
T.C. Boyle reads from "When the Killing's Done." In Boyle's latest novel, California's Galapagos, the wild Northern Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, become the setting for a dramatic showdown between two factions of environmentalists, each utterly convinced of their beliefs in preserving the islands and the natural world.Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 32 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]
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Seattle Biblio Café | Episode 7
Librarians Misha and David are joined by author Jennifer Worick to discuss publishing, and "Publish Your Passion," an upcoming program at the Library, for everyone who has a book inside them longing to get out. They also share what they've been reading, including Josephine Tey's "The Daughter of Time," "A Discovery of Witches," by Deborah Harkness, and "The Chronology of Water," by Lidia Yuknavitch.Listen to Audio (mp3) [file size: 8 MB] [Play time: 0 hr 00 min]