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Borrowed & ReturnedAuthor: Brooklyn Public Library
Brooklyn Public Library is full of stories. Borrowed brings the best of them to you.Current podcast series:Launching July 8, 2025, Borrowed & Returned is a new podcast series that examines what our reading public borrowed in the past, and what were all reading now. In conversations with library workers, authors and readers across the country, well return to the books that changed us, and changed America, too. Previous podcast series: Borrowed and Banned is our limited series about America's ideological war with its bookshelves. From September to December 2023, we released ten episodes featuring the stories of students on the frontlines, librarians and teachers whose livelihoods are endangered when they speak up, and writers whose books have become political battleground. Borrowed, BPL's flagship podcast, is a narrative series about superhero librarians, neighborhood stories and what it means to be a free, democratic place in todays changing world. We tell stories about libraries during natural disasters, the challenges of homelessness, and NYCs fraught relationship with trash.For transcripts, pictures, book lists, and resources, please visit our web page: bklynlib.org/podcasts Language: en Genres: Arts, Books, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Thresholds: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on the Future That’s Still Possible
Episode 14
Tuesday, 21 October, 2025
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, climate scientist and activist. Recently, she sat down with Jordan Kisner, of the Thresholds podcast, to talk about our climate future. You may have heard clips of their conversation in our last episode about Silent Spring. Today, we're playing the full interview as a partnership with Thresholds, a show about about the messiness, overlap, u-turns, revelations, and friction points in the lives and work of artists.If you like what you hear, head on over to thisisthresholds.com to find more great episodes and subscribe!
