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Return of the Confusables
From: KMUW
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We get back to one of our favorite topics: words that sound a lot like other words but that mean totally different things.

Bought by KECG and KRPS


  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
MN Reads: "Lily Leads the Way" by Margi Preus
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Margi Preus talks about her Northeastern Minnesota Book Award nominated picture book "Lily Leads the Way"

  • Added: Aug 03, 2023
  • Length: 08:39
MN Reads: "The Big Sugar" by Mary Logue
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Mary Logue talks about her new book "The Big Sugar"

  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 08:52
Delaware State of the Arts - Gregory Hammond
From: Andrew Truscott
Series: Delaware State of the Arts Podcast
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Andy Truscott speaks with Greg Hammond, an author from Wilmington, Delaware – and one of the Delaware Division of the Arts’ 2022 Emerging Individua...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 22:13
MN Reads: "Rafferty's Last Case" by Larry Millett
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Larry Millett talks about his new book "Rafferty's Last Case"

  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 08:35
Nonfiction Writer Justin Martin Discusses Walt Whitman
From: New Letters on the Air
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With Walt Whitman's 200th birthday on May 31st, we're revisiting the time just before the Civil War with Justin Martin's book, REBEL SOULS: WALT WH...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: A Forest Getting Lost in the Woods
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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MN Reads has a conversation with Phyllis Root, the author of The Lost Forest, illustrated by Betsy Bowen and published in 2019 by University of Min...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 15:11
The Write Question - Henrietta Goodman - 331
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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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
The Write Question - Paige Embry - 316
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Paige Embry discusses her book Our Native Bees: America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them. She also reads a short passage.

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


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Comics Kapow! - It's All Geek to Me Episode 1
From: Chris Dane
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In the premiere episode of It's All Geek to Me, Host Chris Dane talks a brief history of comic books, their impact on society and he and his friend...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2017
  • Length: 25:56
Prince as a 19th Century French Dandy
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Karen Turman, Assistant Professor of French at Winona State University, compares Prince to a 19th Century French Dandy.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 50:38
African-American Poet Angela Jackson
From: New Letters on the Air
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In this public reading entitled "Love Letters to Generations," Angela Jackson shares some of her work, including a reading from her first novel, th...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
James Dean in Mendocino
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Bruce Levene, author of “James Dean in Mendocino: The Filming of East of Eden.”

  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
The Write Question - Josh Hanagarne -278
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Josh Hanagarne talks about and reads from 'The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the P...

Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, WCWP, KSJD and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
An Interview with Sharma Shields
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Spokane author Sharma Shields tells the stories behind a few of the stories in her collection, 'Favorite Monster,' winner of an Autumn House Fictio...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 4
Culturology: "Mayor of the Universe" - Author Lorna Landvik talks with Heidi Holtan
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Mayor of the Universe" by Lorna Landvik
Lorna Landvik is the author of eight previous novels including the best selling "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, "Oh My Stars," and "The View Fro...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KVSC


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 20:20
  • Purchases: 2
Hallie Ephron discusses "Come and Find Me'
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Hallie Ephron is a journalist and fiction writer living in New England.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 121
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: John Roderick
Guests include: Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Richard Russo. Farm to Table organization Plate & Pitchfork. Musical guest John Roderick.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 59:38