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Episode 31: Van Wallach - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Van Wallach (right)
Bobby speaks, from the steps of the NYC Public Library, with Van Wallach, author of "A Kosher Dating Odyssey: One Former Texas Baptist's Quest for ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2013
  • Length: 50:02
The Opening Door Show - Gangaji
From: Wendy Strgar
Series: The Opening Door - Positivity Series
Caption: Gangaji
The Opening Door with Wendy Strgar, Loveologist, entrepreneur, & educator, is a joyful refocusing on love as the transformative force of life. The ...

  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 28:16
The Things They Carry: Staff Sergeant Christen Cohen
From: Jake Warga
Series: The Things They Carry: U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan
Caption: Staff Sergeant Christen Cohen, Credit: Jake Warga
Part of a series that asks U.S. soldiers serving in Afghanistan what they have to carry around with them every day—from the physical to the emotion...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KZYX, XRAY.fm, KKWE Niijii Radio, KHNS and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 13
Culturology: "Gown" an essay from Anne Dunn
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Anne Dunn
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KHSU


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 2
Quiche in the Woods
From: Cassie Wagler
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This is the true story of a woman who went hiking in the woods . . . and really, never came out.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 03:46
The Beat: CarolAnn Russell - "A Return"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
The Beat: Amy Clark - "Plains"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Amy Clark is a native Iowan and recent transplant to Northern Minnesota. She is a poet, essayist, university instructor, and sometimes producer fo...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 02:20
Centerstage Minnesota: Sasha Mercedes has a conversation with Charlie Pulkrabek
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Sasha Mercedes, Credit: Rachel Schroeder
Sasha Mercedes is a talented singer/songwriter that grew up in northern Minnesota, and currently makes her home in Minneapolis. Her story is very i...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Joyce Sutphen - "Things You Didn't Put On Your Resume"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Things You Didn't Put On Your Resume." The Beat is a daily remind...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
Melissa's Diary, Part 2: Raising Issaiah
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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This is Melissa’s second audio diary. Her son Issaiah is now one-year-old. “I’m a really selfish person…I want to be treated as the baby. I want t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 12:37
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: "All My Elders Are Gone: Fabulous Crone" an essay by Anne Dunn
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Anne Dunn
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate" by Judith Kitchen
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate" by Judith Kitchen
Judith Kitchen is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction. Here Dan Sinkyn reviews "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate" a ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Katie Hae Leo - "How To Leave Iowa"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Katie Hae Leo is an actor, and a widely published and award winning poet living in Rochester, Minnesota. Here Katie Hae Leo recites her poem titled...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
Mountain gorillas save researchers from militia gunfire
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: AFRICA'S WILDEST STORIES
Caption: Silverback Kabirizi, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Fewer than 800 Mountain Gorillas remain making them one the world's most endangered species. For more than 20 years people around the world have be...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 11:06
JazzStories: Erica von Kleist
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Erica von Kleist
“Essentially Ellington…really made me feel like I could be part of something bigger, musically. Meeting all these other young people from around th...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 2
Real Good Words: Cheryl Strayed - "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Minnesota author Cheryl Strayed joins Heidi Holtan to discuss her honest and raw new book.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 26:27
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: Sweet Honey In The Rock
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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“Their music affects your consciousness, it changes your DNA if you really, really let it settle into your soul; Odetta’s voice, Miriam’s energy an...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 23, 2012
  • Length: 12:33
  • Purchases: 3
Joy and freedom onstage
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Classical piano or "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"--makes no difference, as long as Aleksya can be onstage, performing for an audience.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 02:20
More than an office
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It's just a simple office, but for some students it's like a home, complete with an "adoptive mother." It's a routine place made special.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:27
JazzStories: Father Peter O'Brien and Mary Lou Williams
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Father Peter O'Brien and Mary Lou Williams - Monterey Jazz Fest., 1971, Credit: Paul Slaughter Photos
“My father forced me to go to dancing school and take accordion lessons. I was a lousy dancer, couldn’t play, but there was this yearning for that ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC, WNCU and more


  • Added: May 13, 2011
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 6
Everyone Is Beautiful
From: One Hello World
Series: One Hello World
Caption: One Hello World, Credit: http://www.theonlymagicleftisart.com/
I realized the other day that I don’t think there is a single ugly person in this world. I think everyone is so beautiful. Then I realized that if ...

Bought by KUT, WNIN, PRX Remix, and KGLT


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 01:43
  • Purchases: 4
Domestic Violence in the Hispanic Community
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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We take a look on why is the domestic violence a growing problem within Hispanics.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 14, 2009
  • Length: 27:41
  • Purchases: 1
Abigail's Art (Pt.2)
From: Kristen Balagtas
Caption: Freedom from the Cage, Credit: Abigail Bradley: BradleyStudios123
Fine artist Abigail Bradley describes the “conception” of her assemblage piece, donated to Goodwill Industries.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2008
  • Length: 04:00
Gordon Parks High School dedication - a last chance
From: Will Wright
Caption: Cha Lee Vue, Credit: Alexis Trauger
A Gordon Parks HS senior excels by the grace of her daughter's love...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
Virtuoso Voices - Jennifer Higdon (Personal Blue)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm)
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"Blue Cathedral," written by Jennifer Higdon is one of the most performed contemporary orchestral works in the U-S. She composed it with her broth...

Bought by BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Sep 30, 2008
  • Length: :25
  • Purchases: 1