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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
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Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 22:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Pat Livingston talks with bestselling author Ken Follett.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Eva Apelqvist talks about her award-winning book "Mörker Över Skateparken" and the upcoming release of her English-translation of "Fire From the Sk...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2023
  • Length: 07:49
Caption: 'The Adoration Of The Mystic Lamb', Credit: van Eyck
This program is a 5 minute spoken word exploration of renaissance fables. Leon Battista Alberti is one of the four great authors presented in this ...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
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Thriller writer Lee Child talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Oct 28, 2019
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Jeremy Smith discusses his nonfiction novel, "Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien." He also reads a short pass...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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James Lee Burke discusses his 22nd novel in the Dave Robicheaux mystery series, "The New Iberia Blues." He also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Author of thrillers and mysteries Harlan Coben talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR and WKAR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
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First in Joseph Marshall's groundbreaking Lakota Westerns series, this riveting novel takes place during the Battle of the Hundred in the Hand, oth...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 07:53:16
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HOUR ONE: "Guilt Tripping" - From our diets to our accomplishments, none of us are perfect. So why do we feel so guilty? HOUR TWO: "Skill Vs. Luc...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:57
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Keith McCafferty talks about Ernest Hemingway, elk antler elixir, and what it takes to write a novel. He also reads from his book.

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


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Cellist Alisa Weilerstein, Credit: Decca / Harald Hoffmann
We'll hear music by Steven Stucky, Elena Ruehr, Osvaldo Golijov, Jennifer Higdon, Paul Moravec, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and Elliott Carter on this ep...

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), 'The Sea', WETS and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Arthur Phillips
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...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Arlo returns to Big Top to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the event that inspired his seminal song, ‘Alice’s Restaurant Massacree’. We’re pleas...

Bought by KRCB 104.9, KMXT, WPCA-LP, KALH, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 12
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KVSC is honored to present an interview with Booker Prize winning, Canadian speculative fiction author Margaret Atwood. Ms. Atwood spent an hour wi...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2015
  • Length: 01:06:06
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Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes travel to Stoke Moran to investigate the death of Helen Stoner’s sister… and to try and prevent history from repeati...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 27:21
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Segment 1: Jowita Bydlowska - drunk mom Segment 2: Tippi Hedren/actress Segment 3: Steve Berry/author poe, lincoln Segment 4: Denise Chaykum/Myst...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
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Poetry and music about entering a natural realm.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2015
  • Length: 48:22
Caption: Tent Show Radio
Having collaborated with one another for two decades, Rusted Root, has honed the perfect combination of musical intuition, freedom and virtuosity, ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KALH, KMSU, WDSE, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 8
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Frank Wheeler, Jr. is a novelist living in Wisconsin.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 13:47
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Robert Zink's new book, "The Three-Minute Outdoorsman," distills the latest news from the world of science & nature into three-minute tidbits of in...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 16:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Singer/songwriter Laura Veirs, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
DAVID NADELBERG & NEIL KATCHER of MORTIFIED, music by ADAM SELZER and LAURA VEIRS

Bought by KUT, KUOW, KCPW Salt Lake City, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Singer/songwriter Laura Veirs, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
DAVID NADELBERG & NEIL KATCHER of MORTIFIED, music by ADAM SELZER and LAURA VEIRS

Bought by WCPN, KSRQ, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Author and reality TV producer Anne Swan (The Real World, Real Housewives of Atlanta) talks about how reality TV is changing the way we write our n...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 48:10
  • Purchases: 1