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Lumbering giants, shape shifters, and devious beauties… The students at Schoolcraft Learning Community have been busy creating their own tall tale ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 05:56
Imagine what lurks in the north woods of Minnesota. That was the basic prompt for a group of Bemidji students to write and illustrate their own tal...
- Added: Feb 19, 2016
- Length: 06:09
Comedians Stuart Goldsmith and Tom Price join Olly Mann to discuss their impending fatherhood. Do we need to know about the mucus plug?
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 21:04
What do acting, literature and philosophy have in common with branding, fascism and incarceration? How can the humanities confront the problem of t...
- Added: Jan 19, 2016
- Length: 58:22
- Added: Jan 14, 2016
- Length: :00
- Purchases: 1
We give thanks for all the idiots in the world. They keep us in business.
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 52:47
With the spooky holiday on our doorstep an intelligent person, like you, would never submit your friendships and relationships to the guidance of m...
Bought by KTSW 89.9
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 1
They had me at homemade shiv wall. “Shiv” is a slang term for an improvised weapon. I heard the San Quentin Museum has enough shivs to make an enti...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 07:27
No New Yorkers were harmed - or used - in the making of this episode. It's just Hitler and suicide and anal feeding, and all that other mellow West...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 52:02
I killed my first deer in the backwoods of Wisconsin when I was 13 years old. This was the first time I really understood the existential price of ...
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 11:58
What happens when two gluttons push each other to the limits... of food.
- Added: Mar 31, 2015
- Length: 08:04
We have two guests with us tonight to discuss the play both as production or performance and as text; the deed and the word. As Harold Goddard said...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 59:19
A series of tourist murders leads to a national conversation on cruel and unusual punishment for teenagers, two street artists become public enemy ...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and XRAY.fm
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 50:59
- Purchases: 2
The primaries are over and Governor Hoffman is in Chicago for the Democratic Convention. Everyone is where they should be except for Senator Craig ...
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 23:01
We’re joined by Scott Herring, author of <em>The Hoarders</em>, a cultural history of the recent DSM-5 diagnosis of Hoarding Disorder. We talk abou...
- Added: Dec 23, 2014
- Length: 59:36
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
Series: "The Cutting Edge: Black News and Views- Where Journalism, Culture, Politics and Activism Converge"
Musician George Clinton has written his memoirs in a new book ”Brotha Be Like, Yo George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard on You?”. He was recently ...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:00:28
Ralph Cusack is one of the founding members of The Harbor Masters and has been organizing gay kinksters in Portland, Maine for over 30 years.
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 07:01
For Women's History Month with a nod to St.Patty's Day, we revisit Irish author Anne Enright, who discusses her dark but humorous approach to writi...
- Added: Mar 19, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
From the 19th century freak show to the East African black market in body parts to the modern cinema, the image of the albino has seized the popula...
- Added: Feb 01, 2014
- Length: 54:00
Robert Jevne lives, works, and talks about himself in the third person in the greater Jacobson area. This manner of speaking is most likely an outg...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 15, 2013
- Length: 01:53
- Purchases: 1
Of all the five senses, taste is the most intimate.
Bought by KZYX, KZYX, WRIR, KFAI Minneapolis, KZYX and more
- Added: Nov 12, 2013
- Length: 23:12
- Purchases: 7
Robert Jevne lives, works, and talks about himself in the third person in the greater Jacobson area. This manner of speaking is most likely an outg...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Oct 21, 2013
- Length: 03:19
- Purchases: 1
What if you knew your teacher was lying to you? In 1956, ten year old Carolyn Himmer watched the classic "Duck and Cover" film in school, knowing i...
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 06:34
Meet Harvey Washington Wiley, the mastermind behind this experiment where young government employees were fed poison-laced foods months on end. He...
Bought by WHYY, New Hampshire Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Hark!, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 08:03
- Purchases: 8
A new program created for UnFictional by radio storyteller Joe Frank.
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Radio Catskill, and KFCF FM
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
