Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

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Northern Community Radio is an independent, nonprofit organization that operates a unique community-based public radio station, KAXE and KBXE. NCR serves most of north central, northeastern and northwestern Minnesota with a 100,000-watt signal originating in Grand Rapids at 91.7 FM and a 50,000-watt signal in Bemidji at 90.5 FM. Northern Community Radio also operates translators in Brainerd at 89.9 FM 

Northern Community Radio is a different kind of radio. When you tune in NCR you hear northern Minnesota...its people, environment, communities, attitude. These are the "stars" of NCR programs. NCR is a place where people gather to dance to good music or to find out about the flowers in the ditches and the birds at their feeders. It's a place to learn about the world, laugh, meet good neighbors, and share ideas.

Series

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10 Pieces

Power in the Wilderness: Dramatized episodes about Iron Range historical figure Victor Powers.

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213 Pieces

What We're Reading is Northern Community Radio's discussion on the books we're reading and talking about. Hosted and produced by Tammy Bobrowsky.

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17 Pieces

Each Friday Morning we pull up a chair to one of member's kitchen table and get to know them a little better.

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8 Pieces

A series of interviews with artists that explores a community arts project addressing the aftermath of suicide.

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106 Pieces

Wordish is a writer-centered audio segment that features Minnesota artists reading original poems, short fiction and creative essays. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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21 Pieces

The next generation of youth making real, relevant radio.


Latest Pieces

Caption: The Band - I Like You
Charlie Pulkrabek talks with I Like You. Once in a while a band comes along that are working well within genres and sounds that you've heard before...

Bought by KSRQ and WTIP


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Two Reasons To Keep This Poem." The Beat is a daily reminder that...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Two Reasons To Keep This Poem." The Beat is a daily reminder that...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 2
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Just For the Reocrd." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minne...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 01:50
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "The Book of Hours." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minneso...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:19
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Rodin On Film." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota p...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
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Ron Frannea lives in Moorhead, Minnesota where he was born and raised. He's an adjunct Professor of English at both Minnesota State University - Mo...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:25
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Angela Foster is a Pine City poet who, with her sister Candace Simar, has written a book of poems and essays, "Farm Girls," which was recently publ...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
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Candace Simar is a Pequot Lakes poet who with her sister Angela Foster, has written a book of poems and essays, "Farm Girls," which was recently re...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:06
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Renee Loehr is a part-time freelance writer, a mother of three, and grandmother of eight, who lives in Moorhead. She's published numerous poems, es...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 01:28