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Linda Back McKay is an independent advertising and marketing director. She is widely published. Linda Back McKay is also a long time volunteer and ...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 02:29
Julie Hathaway grew up on farm in southeastern Minnesota, and currently lives in Rochester. She's been writing for as long as she can remember, but...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 03:18
Mike Rollin has worked as a translator, writing instructor, and community organizer. He lives in Minneapolis. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 02:47
Carolyn Williams-Noren's poems have appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Water-Stone Review, and in other journals. She lives in Minneapolis with...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 02:12
A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets prove that every day. The voice of "The Beat," Steve Downing recites one of...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 02:53
For more than a century, radio—in its various forms—has changed the way we experience the world. What began as a means of military and ship-to-shor...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 07:38
- Purchases: 1
Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...
- Added: Sep 23, 2013
- Length: 02:23
LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...
- Added: Nov 27, 2012
- Length: 02:02
Anthony Swann Has written a novel about jazz people in the Twin Cities in the early 1960's. He like physical books and coffeehouses. And Anthony Sw...
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 01:45
Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Work." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry mat...
- Added: Sep 10, 2012
- Length: 01:53
Apparently, students' safety is the latest casualty of Governor Corbett's education budget cuts.
- Added: May 15, 2012
- Length: 04:44
Washington D.C.'s Petworth neighborhood has been a historically black, working-class community. Now, as property values in D.C. are climbing, a wa...
Bought by WCSU-FM, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 20, 2011
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 3
A Gypsy, he never lived in a house or wore a suit until age twenty. At age 18, a late-night caravan fire left him with only two, useful fingers on ...
- Added: May 10, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Self-described as a simple mountain coolie, he became one of the world's foremost mountaineers and, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, the first ... ev...
- Added: May 04, 2011
- Length: 03:00
He was born John Luther Jones, but we knew him as Casey. And even though Casey Jones died in an obscure, single fatality train accident more than 1...
- Added: Apr 20, 2011
- Length: 03:22
- Purchases: 2
Not THAT Martha Washington, but a 29-year-old Passenger Pigeon who spent her entire life in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. Of billions of birds f...
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Daily rundown of Tech History
- Added: Oct 06, 2009
- Length: 06:17
- Added: Oct 02, 2009
- Length: 04:40
Crossing the Border: a story or two
- Added: Nov 13, 2008
- Length: 03:49
Madelyn Dunham, inspired not only her grandson, Barack Obama, America's 44th president, but also many others. In Hawaii, Dunham is remembered as a...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KCUR, and KRUA
- Added: Nov 06, 2008
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Sep 09, 2008
- Length: 06:05
Family and friends who knew Barack Obama when he was growing up in the Aloha State share their insight about the presidential candidate and how Haw...
Bought by PRX Election Podcast and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 12, 2008
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 2
Are wheat pasted posters informative public art or vandalism?
Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 17, 2007
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 4
Billy Higgins was reportedly the most recorded jazz drummer in history. Higgins talks about his music and life. This profile also features intervi...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WNCU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KRCB 104.9 and more
- Added: Jan 09, 2007
- Length: 09:14
- Purchases: 6
- Added: Nov 29, 2006
- Length: 01:05
