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Caption: Mike Doyle and Scott Evans, San Francisco, CA 6/26/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Mike Doyle and Scott Evans talk neurological confusion. not scaring the horses. and getting to use the word jejune.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2019
  • Length: 17:08
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On the eastern slope of the Continental Divide, about an hour’s drive east of San Jose, Costa Rica, is the Rain Forest Aerial Tram, a tramway that ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Life Above the Jungle Floor In the middle of the Costa Rican rain forest, about an hour west of San Jose, Costa Rica, on the east side of the conti...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Gaye LeBaron, historian & newspaper columnist; Slavyanka Russian Chorus; Clare Harris: A Rio Nido Life

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 57:30
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Tulsa musician, Brad James, came into the Folk Salad studio to play some songs from his new cd and to talk about the making of his record, Brad Ja...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
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Siblings Abe and Esther Schuster talk about what it was like to grow up as children of Holocaust survivors.

  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:56
Caption: Adam Roseman and Rick Rosenthal pose after their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta, GA in September 2018. , Credit: By Brenda Ford for StoryCorps.
This is a story about Santa Rick Rosenthal of Atlanta, Georgia -- who also happens to be Jewish (Modern Orthodox, to be precise).

  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 02:20
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In the historic city of Magdeburg, Germany, there is a Johnny Cash themed country music festival called Nashville Days – complete with corndogs and...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
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The transcendent experience of street basketball is the topic of two conversations with Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of Black Gods of the Asphalt: ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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John Wilson talks insulting Sherlock Holmes, Oscar™-winners gone wrong, and becoming a category on Jeopardy.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 22:15
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Author of thrillers and mysteries Harlan Coben talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR and WKAR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Within the historic walls of Zion Lutheran Church in Baltimore, Maryland, you’re just as likely to hear a rousing polka band as sacred organ music....

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 11, 2019
  • Length: 23:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Who was Charles Darwin and what led him to describe what we now call the theory of evolution? These curious questions are ones that I have been fol...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
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Community Radio is one of the most personal forms of radio.  It exists world-wide and provides basic information in times of crises and normalcy.  ...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
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Award-winning poet Henritetta Goodman discusses her collection of 48 linked Italian sonnets, "All That Held Us." She also reads a handful of poems ...

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Spencer Katzman (left), Allan Fuks (Right)
Allan Fuks talks with former classmate Spencer Katzman about what it was like growing up with a name that looked like the mother of all curse words.

Bought by Enchantment Radio and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 2
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Dave and Doug talk to Greg Thymius, professional Broadway orchestra musician. Find out how he approaches playing the same music for weeks at a time...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2018
  • Length: 39:18
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William is from the Cheyenne River Reservation and does stand up comedy.

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 04:22
Caption: Michel Hazanavicius, San Francisco, CA 4/14/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Michel Hazanavicius talks art, politics, and the comedic possibilities of extremism.

  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 19:44
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A history and philosophy of the cover song in the rock music tradition, and how it contrasts with the classical music tradition.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
  • Length: 47:28
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Head Berry John Wilson talks a Razzie first, good actors gone bad, and a preponderance of pandering.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 25:36
Caption: Ciaran Hinds
Game of Throne's Ciaran Hinds stars in TWO CROWS APART. A couple braces themselves for unwanted houseguests, political correctness, and a murder of...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 22:11
Caption: Jamie Lee & Pete Holmes, San Francisco, CA 1/17/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Pete Holmes and Jamie Lee talk emotional foreplay, alchemizing experience, and what’s offensive about Pascal’s Wager.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 28:21
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Find out what pickle ball,the word interstitial, and Julie from the Love Boat all have in common. Dave and Doug speak with Belynda Tharpe about the...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2018
  • Length: 14:18
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If you want to understand the opioid crisis, try talking to an addict's mom. KUER's Erik Neumann spent an evening at Village Inn, listening to hon...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 11:37
  • Purchases: 1