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MN Reads: "Native Love Jams" by Tashia Hart
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Tashia Hart talks about her new book "Native Love Jams", a nominee for the Minnesota Book Award

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 09:30
How Craigslist's 'Missed Connections' is humanity’s story
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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In this week's episode of Audacious, hear stories from Craigslist’s 'Missed Connections,' including what a researcher learned from studying over 10...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
(Holiday Re-Air 2022-12-28) The Impact of Sitcom Abbott Elementary: Putting a Critical Eye on Public Education
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can you remember the last time when the challenges that inner city public school teachers face were the subject of a popular TV series? Abbott Elem...

Bought by KWMR, KDNK, WNYE, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
Ethnobotany, Cultural Fire, and Indigenous Stewardship with Payoomkawish Elder Richard Bugbee - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Host Carry Kim will be interviewing Payoomkawish Elder Richard Bugbee, Instructor of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology at Cuyamaca College through Kumey...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
The RDD's Thanksgiving Special with my Mom!
From: WGTE Public Media
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This marks the 7th Thanksgiving special for The Rough Draft Diaries! Traditionally, we head into the kitchen of a local chef as they share a family...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2021
  • Length: 06:30
Christmas At Home with Hanif Abdurraqib
From: work x work
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Join host Hanif Abdurraqib for a special episode of Object of Sound, from PRX and Sonos, taking a deep dive into the world of Christmas music. Whe...

Bought by WITF, WABE, 90.5 WESA, WEJP-LP 107.1, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 21
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil is a first-generation American, whose parents are from India and the Philippines. She pays tribute to them with quirky,...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 07/23/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Science on the move - On the ground, up in the air, and in the belly of a barge — science is everywhere. Zip around wi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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
The Write Question - Rob Schlegel - 379
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet Rob Schlegel discusses his collection, "In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps." He also reads several poems.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Spectrum 03/12/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: My computer and me - Addicted to your smartphone? Just wait 'til you hear about what's coming next. Come follow us throug...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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
Spectrum 10/16/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Tapping into the science of Oktoberfest!!! Just why DO so many people go to Oktoberfest? And how does nearly 8 million l...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
203: Rethinking Reviewing / 204: Original Sin, 9/16/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Rethinking Reviewing" - Social media allows readers to bypass gatekeepers and publish their own opinions. So if everyone's a critic, doe...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
PN 17-03 "I Wanna Be Ur Lover (1979)" by Douglas Kearney
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Douglas Kearney, poet, Credit: Rafael Hernandez
Douglas Kearney pays tribute to the late music icon Prince.

Bought by KALW, KHSU, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Listening to Ladies: Pamela Z
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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Composer Pamela Z lets us know what a phonolog was, how great the Museum of Jurassic Technology is (about which she co-wrote an opera), and how to ...

  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
Embracing Comic Tragedy
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Mary Astor's Purple Diary
Two authors bring out humor in tragic situations.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 2
RDD: Aayan Naim and the Blues
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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The Rough Draft Diaries is feeling the blues this week as we hang out with Aayan Naim, leader singer of the blues band, The Good, The Bad, and The ...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 06:04
Musician's Spotlight - Dweezil Zappa - 610
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Guitarist and composer Dweezil Zappa discusses his first recording in a decade, "Via Zamata", as well as his continuing journey performing the musi...

Bought by WZRE, KGLT, KCMJ Community Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
Musician's Spotlight - Madeleine Peyroux - 606
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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A visit with the distinctive folk-jazz vocalist Madeleine Peyroux

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, KCMJ Community Radio, KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 5
Troubadours, Activists, and Acrobats: "A Show of Hats"
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Guest Host Andy Mahler is joined by the musicians performing in “A Show of Hats," April 29th, at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater: Dillon Bustin, Travis...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:32
5 Songs We Can't Stop Listening To: Film Festival Edition
From: RadioMilwaukee
Series: 5 Songs We Can't Stop Listening To
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The Milwaukee Film Festival is my favorite two weeks of the year. It is a two week celebration of Art that the entire city participates in. As a ra...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 18:54
5 Songs We Can't Stop Listening To (with guest Glass Animals)
From: RadioMilwaukee
Series: 5 Songs We Can't Stop Listening To
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5 Songs We Can’t Stop Listening to is the best of the best. Usually it is the absolutely newest/latest, but true to it’s name, there are songs from...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 25:09