Dangerous Books

Megan Nollet and Patrick Woodward talk about several people who were very successful in more than one career.https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/a-second-beginning/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for iOS at http://bit.ly/spot ... Show More

Roger Basick and Gillian Woodward talk about a poor, uneducated janitor who thought of a great idea that made millions of dollars.https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/the-flamin-hot-janitor/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app for ... Show More

Andrew Devis and Alice Irizarry talk about how a man filmed the murder of the President of the United States.https://spotlightenglish.com/uncategorized/twenty-six-seconds-that-changed-one-mans-life/Download our app for Android at http://bit.ly/spotlight-androidDownload our app fo ... Show More

Books are being banned from schools and public libraries at alarming rates, and stories from LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC authors are disproportionately being pulled from shelves. How do book bans harm learning and access to information? What do these challenges say about the American educ ... Show More

Books are being banned from schools and public libraries at alarming rates, and stories from LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC authors are disproportionately being pulled from shelves. How do book bans harm learning and access to information? What do these challenges say about the American educ ... Show More

What are the most commonly banned books? In this classic episode, Cristen and Caroline read between the (banned) lines of history, from a legal timeline of book banning to the primary reasons books are banned in the first place: sex, language and the occult.See omnystudio.com/lis ... Show More

What’s so dangerous about some words? Exploring what books are banned, how they get banned, what it means for the authors in question, and what we can to keep information accessible to all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Banning books from classrooms and school libraries is nothing new, but it's recently become a topic of considerable political debate. How should parents react to this news, and to the books their children are reading? In this episode of NPR's It's Been A Minute senior editor Barr ... Show More

He escrito ya varios libros (lecturas graduadas) para aprender español. En general han tenido una buena acogida entre los estudiantes, pero algunas personas interpretan mis historias de una forma equivocada. Bueno, en realidad no estoy seguro de si estos lectores no interpretan c ... Show More

<p>If you want to control the masses, control what they read. After all, books are seeds that germinate new points of view. As a result, the struggle against banning books is contentious and continual. Learn more about banning books in this classic episode.</p><p> </p> Learn more ... Show More

The movement to ban books from public school reading lists is not new, but lately it's been gaining momentum throughout the country. In part, because fights over children and schools is a tried and true political tool.Revida Rahman, with One WillCo, discusses efforts to ban books ... Show More

Quello di oggi è un episodio un po’ particolare. Lasciamo per un momento il campo della cultura italiana e torniamo alla letteratura. Ti racconto dell’Indice dei libri proibiti. Cos’è, quando nasce, esiste ancora? Ti racconto di alcuni autori italiani che sono stati proibiti e ce ... Show More