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All Episodes

Borrowed & Returned — 119 episodes

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Title
1

This Guy Sucked: D W Griffith with Kellie Carter Jackson

2

Thresholds: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on the Future That’s Still Possible

3

We are the Environment: Silent Spring’s Enduring Wisdom

4

Molly Crabapple on Making Art in a Turbulent World

5

Art Spiegelman on Resistance, Memory, and Speaking Up

6

Maus and the Power of Images

7

Book Riot: The Untold Story of Black Librarians

8

Matt de la Peña on Small Stories and the Power of Perspective

9

Meg Medina on Latine Stories and Reading as a Family

10

How The Snowy Day Changed Children’s Books

11

The Legacy of Howard Zinn's Radical History

12

Reginald Dwayne Betts on Freedom and Poetic Constraint

13

On Reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X in Prison

14

N.K. Jemisin on Truth, Education, and Speculation

15

What Parable of the Sower Taught Us About the Future

16

Introducing: Borrowed and Returned

17

Tracing the Legacy of Slavery in Brooklyn

18

A New Year’s Plunge (Rebroadcast)

19

Why We Still Read Together: The Joy of Book Clubs

20

Book Sanctuaries, Buttons and Bouncy Houses

21

Banned Books Week: All for a Library Card

22

Rebroadcast: Blocks and Brownstones

23

Bed-Stuy Tea: An Interview with Cookbook Author Nicole A. Taylor

24

Explore Your City This Summer!

25

Drag Story Hour

26

Say His Name: Arthur Miller

27

When the Library's a Stage

28

Rebroadcast: Secret Lives of Librarians

29

Bridging the Gap

30

Browse the Branches

31

The Challenge

32

On the Frontlines

33

An Interview with Maia Kobabe

34

Beloved Blues

35

An Interview with George M. Johnson

36

Battle of the Classics

37

An Interview with Mike Curato

38

Of Parents and School Boards

39

This Day in Esoteric Political History: United States vs One Book Called Ulysses (1933)

40

Seen and Obscene

41

All for a Library Card

42

Introducing: Borrowed and Banned

43

An Episode from Grown: Culture and Identity

44

Jay-Z at the Library

45

Pathways to Leadership

46

Meet Our (Almost) Six-Year-Old Librarian

47

The Teens are Offline

48

Seeking Asylum

49

Buscando Asilo

50

A Place of Refuge

51

What's Your Library Worth?

52

Go, Robots, Go!

53

Happily Ever After

54

La Hora Mágica

55

Dyker Singers, Dyker Lights

56

Rebroadcast: Work in Progress

57

Family Meal

58

Stories of Service

59

Rebroadcast: Weathering the Storm

60

School's Out! Time for a Pop Quiz

61

Books Unbanned

62

A Library Sounds Like This

63

World Wide Web

64

Decolonizing Dewey

65

New Libraries, Old Places

66

Goodbye to All Fines

67

Happy Birthday, BPL!

68

Building Brooklyn: We've Been Here Before

69

Building Brooklyn: Finntown

70

Building Brooklyn: Eighth Avenue

71

Building Brooklyn: Women on the Waterfront

72

Building Brooklyn: Like Coming Home

73

Building Brooklyn: From Gowanus to Canarsie

74

New Yorkers: Rank Your Vote!

75

That All May Participate

76

Good News

77

Education For All

78

Rekindling from Burnout

79

Hear Me Out: Part Two

80

Hear Me Out: Part One

81

Showing Up

82

Secret Lives of Librarians

83

Storytime Anytime

84

Missing Them

85

On Passing

86

Votes for Women

87

From Montgomery to East New York

88

Marching Onward

89

Reopening, Reimagining

90

Your Friendly Neighborhood Fridge

91

Rebroadcast: Free Brooklyn

92

Stories from the Pandemic

93

A Folklorist for the Seven Million

94

In Fifty Years

95

Get Counted

96

Social Distancing? We're Here For You!

97

Three Brooklyn Stories

98

Stroller Parking

99

Borrowed, Live!

100

Carnegie's Legacy

101

Librarians, Live!

102

Plunging into the New Year

103

Blocks and Brownstones

104

Our Garbage, Ourselves

105

Throwing It Out

106

Free Brooklyn

107

Getting Home

108

Check This Out

109

New Americans

110

A Writer Grows in Brooklyn

111

Teens Take Over

112

Work in Progress

113

For Kids' Sake

114

Weathering the Storm

115

Across the Reference Desk

116

Something to Offend Everyone

117

Oil Spills and Moldy Paper

118

Books Are Not Dead

119

Introducing 'Borrowed'