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Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Judge Reinhold
The Honorable Jack Holt and actor Judge Reinhold take the stage on special Tin Roof edition of Tales from the South. The two “Judges” perform toget...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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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
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Lives can change in the flash of a moment: Helen Austin never sees the face of a stranger who saves her life, Susan Toone's life changes with one l...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A Fall Garden, Credit: Flickr/Gemma Grace
When you want fresh vegetables through the fall, you'll want to plant now. Charlie also explains why it's good to be merciless in the mid-summer ga...

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  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Roadtrip! Pat Callaway unknowingly rides into a dry county, Joy Rockenbach heads to funeral in Greenville, Mississippi via a Lake Village must-see,...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Fishing expert Jerry McKinnis on a special edition of Tales from the South. The owner of B.A.S.S. and host of ESPN's "The Fishin' Hole" tells of a ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Signs and omens--words, items, and incidents that give us pause, give us a funny feeling that something is just not right. Buck Marsh has a bad fee...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Winners of the Arkansas Literary Festival share their winning stories: Jill Duvall visits an asylum, Wyatt Jones stands on the edge and tries not t...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Madelyn Young reads "Good Intentions"
This week's stories are about words, and the silences between sentences. Madelyn Young reaches out to one of her students, Robin Satterfield strugg...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week's stories are about changes that can happen in moments, years, or even lifetimes. Anne Perry is pulled into a bloody predicament, Rod Lor...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week is about finding strength and confidence in big moments and in small. Darinda Sharp makes a famous correction, Holly Patton is shown kind...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Church holds unexpected surprises. George S. Smith challenges his Sunday school teacher, Marvin Schwartz witnesses a resurrection, and Wetzel LaGro...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Freelance writer Jay Jennings, on a special edition of "Tales from the South", takes us along as he sits in the bleachers of an old Little Rock, Ar...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Roadtrip! Our writers take us on various adventures, beginning with Jackie Manning in a European railway station. Phillip Taylor travels across the...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Graham Gordy, playwright and screenwriter of "War Eagle, Arkansas" and "The Wreck", takes us back to his teenage years with a basketball, a Rebel f...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Annual Mothers Show: Amy Manning Burns is in the very first stages of becoming a mother, Ardee Eichelmann's newborn son cries in pain as the pain o...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Actress Natalie Canerday humorously remembers her first film role. A special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their ow...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Humility and gratitude: Arthur Paul Bowen watches as his uncle must let his aunt go, Joanna Seibert travels to the other side of the world to give ...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Elderberries, Credit: Jim Mead/Flickr
Jellies, syrups, and tonics are some healthful and delicious ways to enjoy the fruits of the elderberry bush. Charlie discusses the finer points of...

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Culprit Caught Eating Petunias, Credit: NHN 2009/Flickr
Charlie Nardozzi addresses one of the most persistent of pests; the woodchuck. Learn a no-nonsense approach for ridding your landscape of woodchuck...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Go back to 1936 with Shervena Grubbs, her twin sister, and their daddy on a train to Little Rock, get in a car with Wetzel LaGrone in the 1940's, a...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Special Breast Cancer Survivors Show: Kristi Moody decides to not take her doctor's advice, Penny Burkhalter is shopping for maternity clothes when...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00