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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.
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
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
Sex is hard to talk about. We often speak about it so indirectly. In Minnesota, many of us are even more adept to tiptoeing around the issue. But S...
- Added: Jun 13, 2023
- Length: 07:42
In 1898, a farmer dug up a stone engraved with a Nordic language in a field in Kensington, Minnesota. People have been arguing about it ever since...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 25:48
This week on On Story we’re joined by screenwriter Michael Schur who had a hand in some of the biggest comedy shows of the last decade including Th...
- Added: Jul 18, 2022
- Length: 54:00
You know how they say that your life flashes in front of your eyes? Well, that's not always the case. A micro narration in a minute or so.
- Added: Mar 26, 2022
- Length: 01:00
Radio Earuption youth producers explore all things Halloweenie, including the psychology of fear and local creepy haunted stories
- Added: Dec 21, 2021
- Length: 32:54
This week on On Story we’re taking a trip out west with Babaloo Mandel and Lowel Ganz, the screenwriting duo behind the classic American Western co...
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 54:00
This week on On Story we’ll bring you conversations with two comedy titans. VEEP showrunner and Seinfeld writer David Mandel will discuss the widel...
- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 54:00
On this episode of The Apple Seed we're bringing you a rendition of the Cinderella story. The story of Cinderella has hundreds of versions from all...
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- Added: Sep 02, 2021
- Length: 54:59
- Purchases: 5
On this episode of the Apple Seed you're going to hear a story called "Onions" from Cindy Rivka Marshall. It's a Jewish folktale about a young girl...
- Added: Jul 20, 2021
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 5
Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many hero...
- Added: Jun 18, 2021
- Length: 28:00
As we come out of our holes and return to our beloved American Desert, it's time to remember a dozen simple rules to keep your day hike from becomi...
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 28:00
If your client calls a centimeter a "sontimeter," I'll assume they're medical and you've got a leader.
This is Episode 82 of Engineering Word Of T...
- Added: Feb 07, 2020
- Length: 06:10
Thriller writer Lee Child talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.
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- Added: Oct 28, 2019
- Length: 54:29
- Purchases: 1
Tom Gasko has been a vacuum repairman for some 35 years, but his passion for vacuums extends far beyond that and into a collection of hundreds and ...
- Added: Sep 13, 2019
- Length: 02:21
Internationally renowned sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, and his trusty cohort in crime-solving, Dr. Watson, discover that sometimes murder can be downrig...
- Added: Jun 18, 2018
- Length: 22:00
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Internationally renowned sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, and his trusty cohort in crime-solving, Dr. Watson, discover that sometimes murder can be downrig...
- Added: Jun 14, 2018
- Length: 27:40
- Purchases: 2
The wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University have been busy compiling nominations and votes for their annual "List of Words Banished from the Q...
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 17:18
Hour One of the program "Ballad Singer" features 11 original interpretations of old ballads, most of them to be found in the Child Ballads collecti...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 54:38
Four hundred years after the death of William Shakespeare and during the Folger Library's year long nationwide tour of The Bard's first folio in 20...
- Added: Jun 06, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
Segment 1: Dr. Richard Besser /Tell me the truth Doctor Segment 2: Kris Valencia /Alankan Vacation Segment 3: Sally Abrahms /Shared Housing Segment...
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- Added: May 06, 2016
- Length: 54:00
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After more than 20 albums (including Live from the Big Top) and more than three decades of performing, this co-founder of the influential indie roo...
- Added: Mar 12, 2016
- Length: 59:21
- Purchases: 10
We interview the only person from Alaska to make the first cut for the Mars ONE program and also speak to a scientist who thinks sending humans to ...
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 29:01
