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Twin Cities Flamenco Collective Performs Next Sunday at Icehouse in Minneapolis
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Twin Cities Flamenco Collective, Credit: Acer C. Wang
The Twin Cities Flamenco Collective continues at Icehouse in Minneapolis, Sunday March 17. It features its cast of local players as well as a singe...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
Constant Wonder - A Cartoonist Uses Pen & Paper to Rediscover Her Lost Grandparents
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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A cartoonist’s journey: an unlikely path to finding awe, family, and a place in the world.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 52:49
Annual Minneapolis Battle of Jug Bands Presented Next Weekend
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: jazz88 logo 2022, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
The February 17th – 18th weekend brings the annual battle of Jug Bands to 2 Minneapolis venues. Saturday February 17 from 3 till 7 at Palmer’s Bar ...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
Constant Wonder - Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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What can turtles teach us about what it means to be human?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - A Normal Childhood with Down Syndrome
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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An anthropology professor makes unexpected discoveries about his profession and himself when his second child is born with Down Syndrome.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 52:48
Constant Wonder - Snorkeling Right in Your Own Backyard
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Is snorkeling just for a tropical vacation? Well, Keith Williams wants people to look into their local freshwater, literally look into that water w...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 1
Constant Wonder - Mysterious Tattoo Reunites Korean Adoptee With Birth Family
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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When Korean adoptee Sara Jones went looking for her birth family, she wondered if a strange tattoo given to her in childhood could unlock any secrets.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - A Pediatric Neurosurgeon Shares Stories of Triumph and Resilience
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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This pediatric neurosurgeon has saved the lives of countless children–from fetuses in the womb to teenagers. Here are their stories.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
Constant Wonder - Magic In Neglected Spaces: Reaching People with Bookmobiles, Micro-museums and Street Mosaics
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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What good is a library or a museum if you can't get to it?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 11, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Uncovering Archaeology's Hidden Treasures . . . Out of Desert and Ice
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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National Geographic's Ann Williams has been an eyewitness to some of the greatest archaeological treasures of the last century.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Top of Mind - Can the News be Trusted? Americans Aren’t Too Sure.
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Many Americans are asking themselves this question: can the news be trusted? They think mainstream media is biased, or sloppy. Are they right?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KMXT, RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
Constant Wonder - Can Iceland's Elves Save the Planet?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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A belief in elves–or in the possibility of elves–could change the way we care for our planet.

Bought by KUHF, GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 22, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Constant Wonder - Going Blind With Vigor and Aplomb
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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When a congenital condition began to destroy Andrew Leland's eyesight, he decided that the result didn't have to be tragic.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - A Chinese-American Family's Quest for Inclusion
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Children are often shielded from a painful family past. For Ava Chin, a deep, personal hunger to reclaim her Chinese-American legacy led her to sto...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:25
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Death-Defying Botanists Brave the Colorado
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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How a pair of courageous botanists became the first women to run the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 2
Swedish Band Tjärnblom Celebrates New CD
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Tjårnblom, Credit: Erika Pirness
Tjärnblom celebrates its third CD, “Woods,” and a new member, cellist Erin Walsh, joining Val Eng on the harmonium, mandolinist Joe Alfano and nyck...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Tjärnblom Celebrates New CD w ith Performance this Friday at the American Swedish Institute
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Tjårnblom, Credit: Erika Pirness
Tjärnblom celebrates its third CD, “Woods,” at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, this Friday at 7PM. But this new project marks big ch...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Mila Vocal Ensemble Sings Eastern European Folk Songs Learned from Traditional Singers
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Mila, Credit: Larry Morisette
Members of the Mila Vocal Ensemble have been singing together for over 40 Years. Today, Mila is a group of nine women who travel to eastern Europe ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Top of Mind - Who is Responsible for Combating Pollution?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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When we drink the water, breathe the air and dig in the soil in our communities, we expect it to be safe. Who is responsible for combating pollution?

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KMXT, KOWS and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 6
Constant Wonder - Sprouting a Seed That Survived the Roman Siege
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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When Romans put down a Judean rebellion in 73 AD, they also extinguished the Judean date palm. Two thousand years later, an unlikely pair of scient...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Dreams Before Dying
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Dr Christopher Kerr and his team have videotaped hundreds of terminally ill patients to hear about their end of life experiences. He's convinced th...

Bought by WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
Constant Wonder - Blue Mind: Finding Emotional Healing in Water
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Jay Nichols is convinced that water is very good for us. Not just the conventional wisdom of keeping hydrated, being in, near, on, or around water ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Infrasound
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Deep rumbles in the Earth, through the Earth. Frequencies below the threshold of human hearing. Infrasound, if we can detect it around volcanoes, m...

Bought by WVTF, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, and WYAP


  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
Constant Wonder - Snowfall, Snowflakes, and Ice Instruments
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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How snowfall fits into climate change, snowflake science, and instruments fashioned from ice actually work...and sound good!

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 27, 2022
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 2
Constant Wonder - Audrey Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: This movie star knew what depravation felt like; Topic 2: How Jimmy Stewart stole our hearts

Bought by WYAP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 52:47
  • Purchases: 4