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Live Wire! Radio - Episode 228 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Author T.C. Boyle, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Authors T.C. BOYLE, M.K. ASANTE, IAN DOESCHER, and music by TANYA DONELLY.

Bought by WCPN, KUT, KSRQ, KCPW Salt Lake City, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 11, 2013
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 5
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 227 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Jonathan Coulton, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author/artist MOLLY CRABAPPLE, Chef CHRISTINA TOSI, musical guest JONATHAN COULTON.

Bought by KUT, KCPW Salt Lake City, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 04, 2013
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 3
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 227
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Jonathan Coulton, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author/artist MOLLY CRABAPPLE, Chef CHRISTINA TOSI, musical guest JONATHAN COULTON.

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


  • Added: Oct 04, 2013
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 8
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown On Shakespeare - "Proof of Bill's Translatability."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 226 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Comedian Todd Barry, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Comedian TODD BARRY, Congressman EARL BLUMENAUER, music guest RAMONA FALLS.

Bought by KSRQ, KUT, KUOW, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 6
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 226
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Comedian Todd Barry, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Comedian TODD BARRY, Congressman EARL BLUMENAUER, music guest RAMONA FALLS.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, 90.5 WESA, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
The Beat: Joyce Sutphen - "Two Reasons To Keep This Poem"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Two Reasons To Keep This Poem." The Beat is a daily reminder that...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 209 NEWSHOLE VERSION Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Improvisational Comedian Reggie Watts, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Note: we are re-airing one of our favorite shows from a previous era, in which Courtenay Hameister was host, in its entirety this week as we morph ...

Bought by KUT, KCPW Salt Lake City, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 09, 2013
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 3
Poet and Aphorist James Richardson
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: James Richardson
Poet James Richardson has called himself an "accidental aphorist," but his well-crafted works are no accident. He reads from his 2010 book, BY THE ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jul 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Gary Lee Joyner - "I Itch"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Gary Lee Joyner is a musician, visual artist, and poet from the Twin Cities. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Mi...

  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 01:52
Murray's Mustache by Susan Barnett
From: Rick Tannenbaum
Caption: The View From Outside, by Susan Barnett, Credit: Hen House Press, LLC
Syndicated radio host Susan Barnett (51%, The Women's Perspective, WAMC-New York) reads 'Murray's Mustache' from her short story fiction collection...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 15:27
"My Brunch with A"
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bev Shorts
Caption: Joe Bev & Lorie Kellogg read "My Brunch with A", Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
A short fiction by Daws Butler, read by Joe Bev and Lorie Kellogg. Great for Wallace Shawn's birthday, the anniversary of "My Dinner with Andre", ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2013
  • Length: 09:31
The Beat : Ryan Vine - "Psalm at Last Call"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Ryan Vine is a Duluth poet. He is a Professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica. And Ryan Vine has been widely published including in su...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 1
Dave Barry
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
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The humorist and author talks about his novel, "Insane City," and the real-life insane city that inspired it...Miami. He then sits down with Virgin...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 56:30
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 203 - NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Sexologist Cheryle Cohen Greene, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
CHERYL COHEN GREENE - Sexologist & Author MATTHEW DICKMAN - Poet CHRISTINE MCKINLEY - Writer, Musician, Mechanical Engineer PURE BATHING CULTURE...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Mike Finley - "Is There NASCAR In Heaven"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems that are simultaneously anxiety provoking and...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
The Beat: Mike Forbes - "Free Range"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 01:32
The Beat: Charmaine Donovan - "Love In the Ticket Booth"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Charmaine Donovan makes her living as a Chemical Dependency Counselor in the Brainerd area. She's a member of numerous regional and national writer...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 03:03
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 193 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Issa Rae, Creator of the web series, "The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl", Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Writer and Director of ParaNorman CHRIS BUTLER. Writer and web series director ISSA RAE. Musical Guests FINN RIGGINS.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 04, 2012
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 193
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Issa Rae, Creator of the web series "The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl", Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Writer and Director of ParaNorman CHRIS BUTLER. Writer and web series director ISSA RAE. Musical Guests FINN RIGGINS.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Oregon Public Broadcasting, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WCPN, and 90.5 WESA


  • Added: Oct 04, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
The Beat: Will Weaver - "The Tow Rope"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Will Weaver grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota. He's attended St. Cloud State, the University of Minnesota, and Stanford. He was a Professor of E...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:07
The Beat: Nathan Bergstedt - "Kim Kardasian Gets A Divorce"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Nathan Bergstedt is a writer from Grand Rapids. He is the Art and Education Editor for the Grand Rapids Herald Review. He is also responsible for T...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
The Beat: Ryan Vine - "Rule 14"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Ryan Vine is a Duluth poet. He is a Professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica. And Ryan Vine has been widely published including in su...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 01:55
The Beat: Katie Hae Leo - "How To Leave Iowa"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Katie Hae Leo is an actor, and a widely published and award winning poet living in Rochester, Minnesota. Here Katie Hae Leo recites her poem titled...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
The Beat: Marsh Muirhead - "Jesus Is Coming"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:52