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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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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
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Big wave surfers are in a class of their own. But Geologist Lori Dengler encourages sticking with giant waves generated by big storms. On this segm...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Chuparosa is one my of favorite plants from back when we used to live outside of Tucson. I bet we had 5 or 6 of them planted at our little homestea...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:23
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Soto Zen Priest, Brad Warner, talks about Zen, zazen, and Dogen, the 13th century Japanese Zen Master.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Dec 30, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Rebecca Barry talks about her wonderful memoir "Recipes for a Beautiful Life"

  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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We look back on the life of novelist Kent Haruf (1943-2014). September 2017 marks the inaugural Kent Haruf Literary Celebration in Salida for this ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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You Say...Potato Salad! THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS: * (Segment 1) How Much Water Do We Need To Drink? * (Segment 3) E-Cigs & Children

  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
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Alexandra Teague discusses her debut novel, a quirky coming-of-age story. She reads both from the book as well as selected poem from her previous c...

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Breakfast Pasta Frittata THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL TOPICS: * (Segment 1) Mediterranean Diet & Memory * (Segment 3) Exercise Keeps Your Brain Young

  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
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When Sinead Morrissey won the 2013 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for her fifth book, PARALLAX, her work was then published in the U.S. pulling from all f...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Mairead Ní Mhaonaigh, singer, fiddle player and founding member of the legendary Irish group Altan visits with host John Floridis and reviews the g...

Bought by KGLT and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
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It seems that the more I love a film, the harder it is to describe exactly why. I think that’s because the best films reach a place that is deeper ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:56
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Aquarius, a new film by Brazilian writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho, wants to make us comfortable before we enter its main story. In a prologue...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:23
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Many would agree that 2016 was a terrible year in general, and I don’t need to explain why. It is strange to have to admit, then, that it was a gre...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:48
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August Wilson was one of our greatest playwrights, a titan of the American theater. He was careful about his legacy, and didn’t allow his plays to ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:10
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There’s a movie out called Jackie, with Natalie Portman playing Jackie Kennedy, and I kind of avoided it for awhile because I’m wary of films that ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:33
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Two records from 1983 achieved minor novelty fame, and then faded away, only to emerge 20 years later as the originators of a curious genre of pop ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 44:02
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What doesn’t Wayne Coyne have his hand in these days? The Flaming Lips frontman is rarely out of the spotlight, whether it’s with his day job, side...

Bought by KUCB, WLPR , KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Mar 19, 2016
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 4
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Academy Award and GRAMMY winning artist, Melissa Etheridge, will take the stage to perform songs from her new album, This is M.E., as well as some ...

Bought by KMXT, KALH, WTIP, WRNC-LP, KSJE and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 59:22
  • Purchases: 10
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Sending out the old & ushering in the new with a year-end themed set of JazzGrass.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:34
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Segment 1: Mary Higgins Clark/writer Segment 2: Leslie Sbrocco/wine pairings Segment 3: Courtenay Smith/holiday entertaining tips Segment 4: Ann Br...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
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Segment 1: Dannielle Owens-Reid/parenting gay children Segment 2: Deborah Davis/writer Segment 3: Patricia Schultz/1000 Places Segment 4: Vinny Bo...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 54:00