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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
T Jefferson Parker discusses "A Thousand Steps"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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A Thousand Steps is a beguiling thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:49
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 Untold Story of the 10 Year Anniversary of the Great River Regional Library's St. Cloud Branch Building
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Where can you find a book on traditional lefse recipes? Where can a 5 year old, a 15 year old, and a 55 year old all find something to read? Wher...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 27:57
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
Chekhov’s Three Sisters: Where There’s a Will…
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Olga Knipper and Anton Chekhov
Three Sisters is being performed by the Indiana University Theatre Department at the Wells-Metz Theatre on campus beginning this Friday, October 13...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 34:55
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
Getting Down and Dirty with the Classics
From: renee wilde
Series: Culture Couch
Caption: Jonathan Crocker, Credit: renee wilde
William Shakespeare famously said “ all the worlds a stage” and Jonathan Crocker has taken those words to heart. For the past 26 seasons, this Yell...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Allusionist 9: The Space Between
From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist
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Forget words for a moment; look at the spaces between the words.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 10:21
  • Purchases: 1
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: Prose Poet Louis Jenkins talks with Steve Downing and Heidi Holtan
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Poet Louis Jenkins
Duluth based prose poet Louis Jenkins is celebrated around the globe. Jenkins recently joined Heidi Holtan and Steve Downing to talk about his care...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 2
NYT best-selling author Mary Roach visits The Roadhouse
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Dave Seaton chatted recently with the delightful Mary Roach, author of quirky science books like "Stiff," "Bonk," and "Packing for Mars." H...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 22:04
  • Purchases: 1
Tabled Fables 7 Jack and the Beanstalk
From: Amy Kraft
Series: Tabled Fables
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In this episode we discuss how Jack's conquest of the giant relates to 19th century English colonialism with the help of scholar Brian Szumsky. We ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 22:35
Episode 002: Ami Greko
From: Emily Schultz
Series: Truth & Fiction
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Publishing women talk tech, sexism and the future.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 43:51
Charles Ardai discusses "The Cocktail Waitress"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Charles Ardai is a writer, editor, and proprietor of Hard Case Crime.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2012
  • Length: 12:04
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
Judith Jones interview by Marion Kane
From: Marion Kane
Caption: Judith Jones
Judith Jones, Julia Child's editor, discusses her favorite author with Canada's food sleuth, Marion Kane.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 09:12
Lincoln through Fiction
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Abraham Lincoln through Fiction—a conversation with professor and novelist Adam Braver, whose work includes Mr. Lincoln's Wars; also, poetry from D...

Bought by KUCB


  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1