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Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 25
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Episodes from two of Wyoming Public Media’s Award-winning podcasts.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 49:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Sleep
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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It’s hard for me to believe that I’ve been doing this show for 17 years, and yet I haven’t talked about one of my favorite movies, The Big Sleep, u...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 03:25
F-Word: The Media’s Quadrennial Eclipse
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"All this how’s-he-doing coverage is par for the course as we transition to the next administration, but someone’s missing from this picture of our...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:30
That Which Is But Isn't
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Are they trying to ram a space-alien story down your throat again? Yeah they are, it happens sometimes. Every couple years, for reasons even they c...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tragedy: A Goat's Lament
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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Tragedy n. “goat song” Named for the dramatic plays of the ancient Greeks, characterized by a protagonist whose flaw or error in judgment leads to ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 16:26
Trumbo: Offstage with Academy Award Nominated Best Actor Bryan Cranston & Director Jay Roach
From: Donna Granata
Caption: Bryan Cranston and Jay Roach, Credit: Donna Granata
The feature film Trumbo (2015), staring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston, is based on the true story of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. The followin...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2016
  • Length: 04:38
Translating Dante
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Poet Mary Jo Bang explores the process of translating Dante Alighieri's Inferno, and professor Jessica Rosenfeld explains the origins of literature.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:23
The Last Man on the Mountain
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mining Pigeonroost Hollow. Now Jimmy Weekley is the last person left there.

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, PRX Remix, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 13:59
  • Purchases: 4
The Last Word on Brushes with the Law
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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High up on that list of the shocks of aging is the first time a cop calls you "sir."

  • Added: Mar 29, 2010
  • Length: 03:14
Action Speaks! - What Now? 1949: Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' First Produced
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial air...

Bought by KREV-LP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRNC-LP, WRVO Public Media, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2009
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 5
WNYC's Fishko Files: Film Noir
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Fishko Files
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The Fishko Files, produced by WNYC's Sara Fishko, are personal, essay-like radio pieces on music, art, culture and media.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 19, 2006
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 4
Lee Strasberg
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Acting teacher Lee Strasberg reflects on the creative nature of acting. (1959)

Bought by WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1