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The Mikie Show #62, Mary
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Episode Sixty-Two, Mary! Thank you for supporting all that episodic exposition! This episode we speak with romance novelist Mary Tate Engels. Autho...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
Goodnight Moon!
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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First published in 1947, Goodnight Moon has become one of the most popular books for young children. Yet the book’s author, Margaret Wise Brown, al...

Bought by WJCT, XRAY.fm, WFHB, and KVLU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
The Mikie Show #56, Jane
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Well, well, here we are again. Another episode hits the airwaves or cyber-lanes, whichever you like, we’re there for you! We’re all the way up to e...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
The legacy of Harry Crews
From: With Good Reason
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Southern Gothic writer Harry Crews died in March of this year. Although many people have never heard of him, Crews’ stories about outcasts inspired...

  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
Restful, Shady Places
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
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The authors of "Trailer Ahoy!" and "Trees as Good Citizens" enjoy a written correspondence relating to their books' proximity in the library.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shakespeare in London
From: Christopher Werth
Caption: Shakespeare
An old church in London may hold secrets concerning Shakespeare and the great English actors of his era.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 1
Boulder's Poetry-only Bookstore
From: Nadia Khasawneh
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The Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, in its cozy setting on the University Hill, is a place for poetry-lovers. Dedicated only to poetry, this n...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2011
  • Length: 04:03
Poetic Port of Entry
From: Eve Abrams
Caption: Meena 3
Meena means "port of entry" in Arabic -- a fitting name for the journal of poetry, art, and literature produced in the ports of New Orleans, Louisi...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2010
  • Length: 05:34
Sweet Science
From: Tom Niemisto
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A new boxing clinic focuses on both physical fitness and philosophical growth.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 11, 2010
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 2
Crazy Heart Author Thomas Cobb Not The Weary Kind With Novel In Spotlight
From: Rhonda J. Miller
Series: Folk River
Caption: Crazy Heart author Thomas Cobb is a professor at Rhode Island College., Credit: Rhonda J. Miller
With Crazy Heart winning Academy Awards for best actor and best original song, Rhode Island author Thomas Cobb says the seeds of his book were pla...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2010
  • Length: 04:00
From Thoreau's rural journal to the future of farming - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Lovejoy Brook Farm, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
From Thoreau's rural journal to the science of the mind to 36 arguments for the existence of God to classical music to the future of farming (whew!...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #5 Glenn
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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We speak with psychotherapist Dr. Glenn Berger. An uplifting discussion about finding out how to live up to our full potential. This is a heavy cat...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 14, 2009
  • Length: 28:08
  • Purchases: 1
The Cutting Place
From: Lu Olkowski
Series: In Verse: Women of Troy
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A documentary poem about DJ Guerin, who’s 32, with 7 kids.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), New Hampshire Public Radio, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2009
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 5
A Musician's Life: Tim Easton
From: WXPN
Series: A Musician's Life
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Singer-songwriter Tim Easton doesn't drink much anymore but he still writes about people who do. His latest album called "Porcupine" is a raucous ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2009
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
Names
From: Judith Sloan
Series: Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America
Caption: Crossing the BLVD, Credit: Judith Sloan, Warren Lehrer, Scott Johnson
Seven people from six different countries tell stories about their names. Produced by Judith Sloan

  • Added: May 29, 2009
  • Length: 04:07
A Well Read Book Fair
From: Emma Jacobs
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Dealers of Americana talk about the allure of old books.

Bought by Remix Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WBHM


  • Added: Apr 20, 2009
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 4
Chesapeake Mornings
From: Tom Niemisto
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America's rivers have always had a sacred sense of place, and we must protect them for future generations

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:45
Traveling Light
From: With Good Reason
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If you take a bus ride this holiday season, it's probably just to get where you need to go. But when Kath Weston travels on buses, it's usually pa...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
You Sound like You're Not from Around Here
From: With Good Reason
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Within seconds of hearing someone speak, we make judgments about that person and their background, just based on their accent.

  • Added: May 29, 2008
  • Length: 29:42
The Cult of Colin (Firth)
From: kitty felde
Caption: PRX default Piece image
confessions of a Colin Firth groupie

  • Added: Feb 15, 2008
  • Length: 05:25
Unintended Detours Episode 2: Tic-Toc
From: Sue Mell
Series: Unintended Detours
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Creativity in the face of time.

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 20:55
  • Purchases: 2
Unintended Detours Episode 1: Shelf Life
From: Sue Mell
Series: Unintended Detours
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Musings around the theme of shelf life.

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 25, 2007
  • Length: 14:15
  • Purchases: 2
An Angel-headed Hipster's Howl
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Fifty year's after the publication of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" and its subsequent obscenity trial, poets and friends look back at its origins, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, KRZA, KSFR, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
CURIUM: E.E. CUMMINGS FRIED IN A HARD DRIVE
From: John Diliberto
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A POET GETS DIGITIZED

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KSFR, KRUA, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 13, 2007
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 4
RN Documentary: Imagination is the Instrument of Compassion
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Of the many books which have appeared in new genre which has been called ?post-9/11 fiction? one of the most striking is Jonathan Safran Foer?s ?Ex...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 30, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1