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Acoustic Stories: Steve Downing On Westerns - "Bang! Bang! You've Been Run Through, Brought Low."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:35
Bringing storytime to the long wait for social services
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Oakland Public Library children’s librarian reads at the Eastmont Social Service Agency, Credit: Holly J McDede
For many, the Eastmont Town Center in East Oakland is the go-to place to apply for food stamps, get medical coverage, find childcare, and get job a...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 06:27
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
Sounds Familiar #4: The Rule of Threes
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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Is three really the magic number?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUT


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 2
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
Hallie Ephron discusses "Come and Find Me'
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Hallie Ephron is a journalist and fiction writer living in New England.

  • Added: Apr 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
Spalding Grey & Jeffrey Bleam
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack sits down with SCSU Theater and Film Studies Department Chair Jeffrey Bleam to...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2011
  • Length: 21:14
T. Jefferson Parker discusses "The Border Lords" and "Iron River"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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The author of seventeen novels, Parker lives in Southern California.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 30:12
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 121
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: John Roderick
Guests include: Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Richard Russo. Farm to Table organization Plate & Pitchfork. Musical guest John Roderick.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 59:38
Costume Party 54 minute version
From: Liner Notes
Series: LINER NOTES
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Halloween is not just kids and candy. It is about masks and identity, horror as well as grown-up fun.

Bought by WNJR, KXOT Public Radio, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 3
Ray Bradbury Shares How He Wrote "Fahrenheit 451"
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Literary Moments
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Author Ray Bradbury discusses how he wrote his classic novel "Fahrenheit 451."

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WNKU, and KOSU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Writers On A New England Stage - Elmore Leonard
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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Crime author Elmore Leonard talks with NHPR's Laura Knoy at a live event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire,

  • Added: May 21, 2007
  • Length: 57:01
Novel-Writing Marathon (NaNoWriMo)
From: Janis Jaquith
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I have one month in which to write a 50,000-word novel--and this is the month.

Bought by WSCS-FM


  • Added: Nov 15, 2005
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1