New Hampshire Public Radio

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At NHPR our mission is very clear: To help create a more informed public, one challenged and enriched by a deeper understanding and appreciation of state, national and worldwide events, ideas and culture. To that end, we offer the highest quality news and information and cultural programming that we can achieve within the limits of our resources. We do this through our broadcasts and through our web operations.

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19 Pieces

Patti Smith, Salman Rushdie, Judy Blume, and a wide variety of writers offer advice on living a creative life. You’ll get a quick glimpse of the rituals, distractions, and lessons they’ve learned from years of practice.

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175 Pieces

A podcast refresher course on the basics of how our democracy works.

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5 Pieces

Elections are vital to our democracy. But that doesn’t mean they’re simple. From election security to misinformation to gerrymandering, Civics 101 is your guide to how elections work.

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4 Pieces

Civics 101, the podcast refresher course about how our democracy works, from New Hampshire Public Radio, explores landmark civil rights cases at the Supreme Court. This is a four-part series of broadcast-friendly hour long specials that can both be carried as a series or as stand-alone broadcasts.

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4 Pieces

Add a little humor to your pitch breaks.

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NHPR's Jon Greenberg takes a trip down the Merrimack, uncovering its history and the people who rely on it.

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38 Pieces

Outside/In is a show about the natural world and how we use it. Host Sam Evans-Brown combines solid reporting and long-form narrative storytelling to bring the outdoors to you wherever you are. You don’t have to be a whitewater kayaker, an obsessive composter, or a conservation biologist to love Outside/In. It’s a show for anyone who has ever been outdoors. In short, it’s a show for *almost* everyone.

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20 Pieces

Speeches from the New Hampshire campaign trail

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Raw audio from the closing days of the New Hampshire primary.

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IPR and NHPR team up to look at how voters are looking at the issues in the first-in-the-nation states.


Latest Pieces

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As a writer, Joe Hill's family name could have given him a leg up. Instead, he chose to create his own. In this episode of the 10-Minute Writer's W...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 12:19
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The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - and bonafide Charming British Lady - Helen Simonson lets us in on her writing process, her...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 09:31
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Aaron Mahnke is creator of the spooky folktale podcast Lore which quickly shot up the iTunes charts and landed him a television deal. He's also a n...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 11:36
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Richard Russo is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Empire Falls and Nobody’s Fool - both adapted into films starring Paul Newman. He returns to ...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 07:41
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"Kill 'em and leave" was James Brown's commandment to his band before every show...it's also the title of a biography of the soul legend, the lates...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 09:52
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In this episode, married co-authors Kevin Flynn & Rebecca Lavoie. Together, they have written four true crime books, most recently Dark Heart: A Tr...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 08:13
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Alexander Chee is a careful craftsman of language. As we came to find out, when we talked to him from Argot Studios in NYC, he is as measured, unas...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 10:05
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We spoke to YouTube superstar Grace Helbig after the publication of her second tongue-in-cheek guide, Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
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Marianne Williamson has written six New York Times best sellers, including The Age Of Miracles and A Return To Love. Known in some circles as Holly...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 07:56
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Tom Perrotta is the author behind, among others, Little Children, The Abstinence Teacher, and The Leftovers, now a hit HBO drama which he co-writes...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 12:45