Life Sentences

Life Sentences

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Life Sentences episodes

  • Episode 11: Rilke Condensed

    If you're looking for that spark of inspiration to thrust you into writing, look no further. Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a number of Letters to a Young Poet -as you may be - on how to begin a literary career. All you have to do now is to listen.

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    22 min
  • Episode 9: Roco Manifesto

    The Roco Manifesto is a meditation and touchstone on leadership for our times. Listen to the words of a timeless hero and statesman, 17 years after it was first delivered. Coincidentally, that day was also the 17th Anniversary of the EDSA Revolution. 

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    20 min
  • Episode 7: Valentine's Day Poems

    There are many forms of love, but none of them can be expressed without words. In this episode, we'll delve into the love for language, through the help of Garrison Keillor's Good Poems, as well as the team behind Project Marayum.

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    16 min
  • Episode 6: Gift of Gattaca

    Why this work of art matters, over 20 years since it championed the power of the human spirit in an increasingly dystopian age.

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    13 min
  • Episode 4: A tribute to Twink Macaraig and Mary Oliver

    A tribute to veteran journalist Twink Macaraig, a woman larger-than-life, for succumbing to a battle well-fought. And two of Mary Oliver's poems: one to comfort those who are grieving, and another to inspire those who were left behind.

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    9 min
  • Episode 3: Riverrun, through it

    Riverrun, through it: an exploration and exclusive reading of author Danton Remoto's groundbreaking novel

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    15 min
  • Episode 2: Year End Poems
    New Year's resolutions: a pair of spiritual and secular readings to start the year right

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    8 min

About Life Sentences

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Words to live by and die for. Life Sentences provides a pathway to greater knowledge and drive for inquiry through multiple wells of literature: fiction, poetry film, non-fiction, and speeches.…