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God Bless
From: Eve Abrams
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In the first month of lockdown during the global pandemic, I made this short poem/prayer. The music in this piece is Falling to Pieces Again, by t...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2020
  • Length: 01:46
I Found an Old, Lost Video Camera and Turned It On
From: Cam Marston
Series: Keepin' It Real with Cam Marston - Short interstitial content.
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It was full of footage of my children acting for the camera, playing with each other with neither my wife or me anywhere near. It was a treasure.

Bought by KXCR


  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 1
Myrtice Allen Instilled My Passion for Travel
From: Cam Marston
Series: Keepin' It Real with Cam Marston - Short interstitial content.
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Myrtice Allen passed away not long ago. She was 98 years old. I had sent her over 500 postcards which she kept in a shoe box in her small apartment.

Bought by KXCR


  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 1
Valentine's Day
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Would you believe that some teens view Valentine's Day as shallow and expensive? Others see it as an opportunity to demonstrate appreciation. Car...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 1
Love Hurts (part 1)
From: Lea Thau
Series: Strangers
Caption: Lea Thau
While doing a story about online dating, Lea gets her heart broken (yet again). (Parts 2 and 3 are also on PRX.)

Bought by Public Radio for All, New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 20, 2014
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 4
What happens when you do puppetry?
From: Brian Cauley
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A short documentary on the Banff Centre Puppet Theatre Intensive.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Aaron Wenger - "Shared Breath"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Aaron Wenger is a retired educator. He is an engineer that became an educator. He is KAXE's staff physicist, and a poet. A daily reminder that, in ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
The Beat: James Henderson - "Entropy"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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James C. Henderson is a graduate of Metropolitan State University's Creative Writing program, and Hamline University's MFA program. He lives in New...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 03:18
The Beat: Joyce Sutphen - "Two Reasons To Keep This Poem"
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, "Two Reasons To Keep This Poem." The Beat is a daily reminder that...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Casiana Siegle - "My Family"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Casiana Siegle was adopted by an American family at fourteen months from the country of Kazakhstan. She's now thirteen years old and living in Dulu...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2013
  • Length: 01:19
Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing on Mothers - "Potty Training, Pondering the Profound, and the Unknowable."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Michael Goldberg: "Snow In the Wind"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
Jim Proebstle on Fatal Incident
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Every Wednesday night on Real Good Words, Heidi talks with authors about their writings. Heard that phrase before? Want to take it on as your own?...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 23:43
  • Purchases: 1
Home Planet: (Christmas) From the outside.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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I was 20 years old and I felt as alone as anyone could be. I was, as Charles Dickens wrote of Ebenezer Scrooge, as solitary as an oyster.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 1