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MN Reads: "The Last Supper Club" by Matthew Batt
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Matthew Batt talks about his new memoir "The Last Supper Club: A Waiter's Requiem"

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 08:33
2023-10-27 Laughing Our Way Through Climate Disaster
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Laughter can be good medicine, but when is it okay to laugh at something as deadly serious as the climate crisis? Jokes help us remember informatio...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
231027: 2023-10-27 Laughing Our Way Through Climate Disaster, 10/27/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Laughter can be good medicine, but when is it okay to laugh at something as deadly serious as the climate crisis? Jokes help us remember informatio...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
The Cruelest Month: Ten Poets Reflect on Love
From: New Letters on the Air
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We're celebrating National Poetry Month with a nod to what Missouri-born poet T.S. Eliot called THE CRUELEST MONTH. Listen to ten poets, reflectin...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNMU-FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Jonah Carden
From: WNCW
Series: Appalachian Vibes
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Jonah Carden is an Americana rock and metal inspired singer/songwriter from Southern West Virginia. We discuss the songwriting group that gave Jona...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:42
Story Prize-winning Author George Saunders
From: New Letters on the Air
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George Saunders reads a passage from his Story Prize-winning collection, TENTH OF DECEMBER. In this public presentation, Saunders discusses his pat...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: “Dumb Dumb Dumb: My Mother's Book Reviews” a memoir by Mary Jo Pehl
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Mary Jo Pehl talks about her 2022 memoir “Dumb Dumb Dumb: My Mother's Book Reviews”

  • Added: Oct 06, 2022
  • Length: 09:38
Working-Class Poets
From: New Letters on the Air
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The rigors and joys of work are celebrated in this special anthology program entitled WORKING CLASS POETS. B.H. Fairchild, Susan Gubernat, Robert S...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
DIY Memoirist and Fiction Writer Ron Tanner
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Ron Tanner
Fiction writer Ron Tanner, the author of the 2022 short story collection FAR WEST,talks about the similarities between renovating a house and writi...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNJR, and WJCU


  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
“Becoming American” with Wajahat Ali
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, Wajahat Ali sits down with Ray Suarez to discuss his new book, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommenda...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Frozen River Film Fest '22 Guest Curator Sharon Mansur
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Today on Art Beat we're talking with Sharon Mansur, the first ever guest curator for the Frozen River Film Festival 2022. She shared more about thi...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 26:41
Book Launch: Junkyard Tough
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we talked with author and publisher Jenny Baertsch and illustrator Sara Pientok for the signing and launch of their first b...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 11:53
Fiction Writer and Essayist Charles Baxter
From: New Letters on the Air
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Fiction writer Charles Baxter reveals some of his motivations for writing short stories and novels. In this interview in front of an audience at th...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Children's Authors Lemony Snicket & Kate DiCamillo
From: New Letters on the Air
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Both Lemony Snicket (the pen name of Daniel Handler) and Kate DiCamillo are authors of children's literature whose work has multigenerational appea...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Back to the Writing Well featuring Elizabeth Gaffney, George Saunders, and the late Pat Conroy
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series continues with "Back to the Writing Well." This time we'll hear about the influence of place and family fro...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, WNJR, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Tim Sanders – "A Silicon Valley ‘Secret’ of Success"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends Tim Sanders, the author of a “Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and In...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Lights, Camera, Author! - Rob Paulsen 2
From: Jim Junot
Series: Lights, Camera, Author!
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An interview with voice actor Rob Paulsen (Animaniacs, Pinky & the Brain, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 25:12
Jesse Iaquinto of Collective Fireside joins Unreal Bluegrass to discuss new CD Elements and the band.
From: Steve Martin
Series: Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass
Caption: Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass, Credit: Steve Martin
Collective Fireside is a progressive bluegrass band .Jesse Iaquinto of the band discusses the band and share some music from the new CD Elements

  • Added: May 24, 2020
  • Length: 57:11
Legendary singer/songwriter on Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass
From: Steve Martin
Series: Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass
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Legendary singer/songwriter Don McLean is a huge fan of bluegrass folk, music.He joins Steve to share his experience and some of the bluegrass sing...

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:01:41
Master Dobroist Jerry Douglas on Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass
From: Steve Martin
Series: Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass
Caption: Flux ...Jerry Douglas
Jerry Douglas, acknowledged master of the dobro returns to Unreal Bluegrass

  • Added: Feb 21, 2020
  • Length: 57:11
The Write Question - Sarah Aswell - 438
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Comedian and humor writer Sarah Aswell discusses her works and stand up. She also reads a selection and shares a live comedy bit.

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


  • Added: Feb 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass , with guest David Morris
From: Steve Martin
Series: Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass
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David Morris is a successful author and songwriter. He shares his insight in this new one hour segment of Unreal Bluegrass

  • Added: Jan 03, 2020
  • Length: 55:54
Jen Sincero of Bad*ss Fame
From: Melanie Harth
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Living From Happiness - deep, thoughtful, provocative public radio

  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:26
S2 E10 The River Styx
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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After hearing a mentor make an inappropriate joke, medical student Jenny Tiskus grapples with humor's place in the world of medicine.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2019
  • Length: 37:22
Dr. Bill Fry – Psychology of Humor
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Our guest in this program was Dr. William Fry, a psychiatrist who has done extensive research in the field of humor. We discussed the psychology an...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:00