The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and in cooperation with Arts Midwest.
Audio files from the radio program To Kill a Mockingbird. The following audio files and their particular content and contributions are the copyright of the National Endowment of the Arts, Dan Stone, writer and producer, Elmer Bernstein, Harper Collins publishers, Arts Midwest, The Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Boeing Company. A Novel Idea is a program of KRCB 91.1fm.
Dana Gioia introduces the program and the Big Read.
Rosemary Manchester's A Novel Idea. Some sketches...
A Reading from the Book
Commentaries on the content and context of the book.
Dana Gioia, biographer Charles J. Shields and novelist Elizabeth Spencer.
Featured artists: David Baker, Robert Duvall, Horton Foote, Sandra Day O'Connor, Charles J. Shields, Curtis Sittenfeld, Elizabeth Spencer and Anne Twomey
These events are part of The Big Read,
an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.
