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A gender transition means a lot of changes in a person's life — and a lot of changes for their romantic partner. Two couples share their experience...
- Added: Mar 25, 2024
- Length: 58:23
March 31st marks the 15th annual International Transgender Day of Visibility. TDOV uplifts the contributions of trans folks in the Queer Rights Mov...
Bought by WWNO, WRKF, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Mar 25, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 3
Humans are the only animal to produce emotional tears. Asking questions about this behavior can help us better understand how we live our lives.
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 58:23
For older Americans, social isolation is a public health crisis. As we age, our relationships evolve and our communities change — how do we accept ...
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 58:23
This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some photos taken over 60 years ago. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 04:42
I’ve told the story of the yucca moths and the soaptree yuccas many times. I love to tell it when I give talks and I’m not making this up, many yea...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 04:06
Listen to Producer Christopher Golab explore his career with The Scene, featuring old and new material.
- Added: May 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Leonard Slatkin on Schoenberg.
- Added: Feb 13, 2020
- Length: 06:30
- Added: Feb 13, 2020
- Length: 02:21
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 13, 2020
- Length: 02:52
"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of..." Radio has been a tonic for almost half-a-century. I have radio obligations to fu...
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 02:52:34
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Fathers…and mothers…on fatherhood and how it’s changing. Traditional ideas about what a dad is supposed to be are slowly disappearing, but what wil...
Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KZYX, XRAY.fm and more
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
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, KSRQ, and KHSU
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 05:13
- Purchases: 3
Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota.
- Added: Dec 10, 2012
- Length: 02:34
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: Dec 10, 2012
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 1
Kellie Rhae Theiss is an artist and writer living in Floodwood. She brings us this essay about a snapping turtle that that appears periodically on ...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 1
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year Erika Kooda will be checking in with essays reflecting on her senior ye...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 1
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year Erika Kooda will be checking in with essays reflecting on her senior ye...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 07:36
- Purchases: 1
This week's show is all about the powerful pull of memories. Stories by Tina Bodiak, Sara Etkin-Baker, and Janet Smith Post. True stories told by t...
- Added: Sep 10, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This week’s Moth theme is “silver lining,” so here is a piece about the one bright spot in the worst summer of my life.
- Added: May 01, 2012
- Length: 06:56
From JFK Elementary in Babbitt, Minnesota as child to Pike Bay on Cass Lake, Minnesota, long after her father's passing, Jamie Lee is still held up...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Dec 29, 2011
- Length: 04:03
- Purchases: 2
Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton tells his own true story of his childhood in racially-divided south Arkansas. These encore presentations of our Tin...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 27, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Jobs: some drive us to extreme measures, some we think we can't do, and still others we love to hate. Mike Rush isn't so sure he has what it takes ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
