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Simeon Mills discusses his novel about growing up robot in the 1990s, The Obsoletes. He also reads two short selections.
Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 28:53
- Purchases: 3
Jeffery McHale talks turning tides, cracking intentions, and crossing lines.
- Added: Jul 21, 2019
- Length: 14:26
Mike Doyle and Scott Evans talk neurological confusion. not scaring the horses. and getting to use the word jejune.
- Added: Jul 17, 2019
- Length: 17:08
On the eastern slope of the Continental Divide, about an hour’s drive east of San Jose, Costa Rica, is the Rain Forest Aerial Tram, a tramway that ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Life Above the Jungle Floor
In the middle of the Costa Rican rain forest, about an hour west of San Jose, Costa Rica, on the east side of the conti...
- Added: Jul 09, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Gaye LeBaron, historian & newspaper columnist; Slavyanka Russian Chorus;
Clare Harris: A Rio Nido Life
- Added: Jun 17, 2019
- Length: 57:30
This hour begins with a short history of the area, the “Return of the River Ranger,” a former local radio personality; children reading aloud to do...
- Added: Jun 17, 2019
- Length: 57:30
Tulsa musician, Brad James, came into the Folk Salad studio to play some songs from his new cd and to talk about the making of his record, Brad Ja...
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 58:58
Siblings Abe and Esther Schuster talk about what it was like to grow up as children of Holocaust survivors.
- Added: May 21, 2019
- Length: 02:56
This is a story about Santa Rick Rosenthal of Atlanta, Georgia -- who also happens to be Jewish (Modern Orthodox, to be precise).
- Added: Mar 27, 2019
- Length: 02:20
In the historic city of Magdeburg, Germany, there is a Johnny Cash themed country music festival called Nashville Days – complete with corndogs and...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 27, 2019
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 2
The transcendent experience of street basketball is the topic of two conversations with Onaje X. O. Woodbine, author of Black Gods of the Asphalt: ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
John Wilson talks insulting Sherlock Holmes, Oscar™-winners gone wrong, and becoming a category on Jeopardy.
- Added: Feb 21, 2019
- Length: 22:15
Author of thrillers and mysteries Harlan Coben talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.
- Added: Jan 26, 2019
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 2
Within the historic walls of Zion Lutheran Church in Baltimore, Maryland, you’re just as likely to hear a rousing polka band as sacred organ music....
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 11, 2019
- Length: 23:04
- Purchases: 1
Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass with Billy Strings
- Added: Dec 12, 2018
- Length: 20:33
Who was Charles Darwin and what led him to describe what we now call the theory of evolution? These curious questions are ones that I have been fol...
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 29:00
A piece about the history of one of the most overlooked things, drag.
- Added: Dec 05, 2018
- Length: 02:02
Community Radio is one of the most personal forms of radio. It exists world-wide and provides basic information in times of crises and normalcy.
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- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 29:00
Winner of San Francisco's 2015 LitQuake essay contest. Published in Word Riot (with audio) December 2015.
- Added: Nov 26, 2018
- Length: 03:18
Cuales son los peligros de cruzar el desierto en el verano?
- Added: Aug 02, 2018
- Length: :30
Hi-Phi Nation stays overnight at the Brooklyn Public Library during the 2018 Night of Philosophy. From 7pm to 7am on a Saturday night, thousands of...
- Added: Jul 25, 2018
- Length: 45:13
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
Unhappy with contemporary America, Avery Thompson travels to Plymouth, Massachusetts to consult the man responsible for bringing his family to thes...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 15, 2018
- Length: 12:13
- Purchases: 1
Allan Fuks talks with former classmate Spencer Katzman about what it was like growing up with a name that looked like the mother of all curse words.
Bought by Enchantment Radio and WVBI-LP
- Added: Jun 11, 2018
- Length: 02:44
- Purchases: 2
