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The Write Question - Pete Fromm - 414
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Pete Fromm discusses his novel, "A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do." He also reads a short selection from the book.

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Jeremy Smith - 372
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jeremy Smith discusses his nonfiction novel, "Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien." He also reads a short pass...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Hummingbird Squash
From: KDKO 89.5 fm
Series: Ohomni Iyotaka
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A children's story about a Pumpkin that is considered a squash in a pumpkin growing contest written in a indigenous point of view.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2019
  • Length: 10:44:22
Passion within Parameters
From: Kathryn Petruccelli
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A story about my life-long love of language and poetry -- its richness as a spoken form and how it solidified despite (and because of) the confini...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 07:58
John Grisham Writers Hour - James McBride
From: WMRA
Series: The John Grisham Writers Hour
Caption: John Grisham & James McBride, Credit: JMU Creative Media
Recorded in front of a live audience, WMRA and James Madison University present The John Grisham Writers Hour with special guest James McBride, a N...

Bought by WCVE


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - James Lee Burke - 367
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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James Lee Burke discusses his 22nd novel in the Dave Robicheaux mystery series, "The New Iberia Blues." He also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Robert Jevne
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Wordish
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Poet Robert Jevne shares his poem "In Praise of Shag" on this segment of Wordish.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2019
  • Length: 01:59
The Write Question - Chad Dundas - 365
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Award-winning author, Chad Dundas discusses his childhood fascination with professional wrestling and how he came to write the graphic novel, "Unde...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Sneed & Braden Collard - 364
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Sneed Collard and his teenage son, Braden, discuss the book, "Warblers and Woodpeckers: A Father-Son Big Year of Birding." Sneed also reads two sho...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
National Writers Series: Harlan Coben
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Author of thrillers and mysteries Harlan Coben talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR and WKAR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
Arcadia (Part Two) and The Unexpected Man
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The conclusion of Tom Stoppard's crash course in landscape gardening, literature, and chaos theory.

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 16
Arcadia (Part One)
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A crash course in mathematics, landscape gardening, literature, and chaos theory, courtesy of Tom Stoppard.

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, KKRN, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 16
Tartuffe
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A story that began its life under a cloud of controversy.

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, Spokane Public Radio, KKRN, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 16
The School for Husbands and The Imaginary Cuckold
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
Caption: Brian Bedford
Two classic short works from Molière in the definitive translations by Richard Wilbur, starring the late Tony Award-winner Brian Bedford.

Bought by KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, KKRN, KUNM, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 20
Pride and Prejudice
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Can you really trust your first impression of someone…especially if it’s a bad first impression?

Bought by KKRN, KUSU, KKRN, WNJR, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 22
The School for Scandal
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The timeless comedy from Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Bought by KKRN, KCHW, KKRN, WNJR, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:56
  • Purchases: 21
She Stoops to Conquer
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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James Marsters stars in the enduring social comedy.

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:57
  • Purchases: 16
Hundred in the Hand
From: KDKO 89.5 fm
Series: Ohomni Iyotaka
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First in Joseph Marshall's groundbreaking Lakota Westerns series, this riveting novel takes place during the Battle of the Hundred in the Hand, oth...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 07:53:16
Jeff Tweedy memoir book talk -- extended version
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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KAXE/KBXE music director Kari Hedlund, Centerstage MN host and producer Brett Carter, and What We're Reading's Tammy Bobrowsky discuss the book Let...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 27:46
National Writers Series: Diana Gabaldon
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Diana Gabaldon talks about her "Outlander" series of books with Deb Leonard.

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Dec 09, 2018
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 2
How to Read This Essay
From: Kathryn Petruccelli
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Winner of San Francisco's 2015 LitQuake essay contest. Published in Word Riot (with audio) December 2015.

  • Added: Nov 26, 2018
  • Length: 03:18
The Write Question - Chris La Tray - 389
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Rockstar author and freelance photographer Chris La Tray digs in to his book, "One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Pie & Whiskey With Kate Lebo and Sam Ligon - 346
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Dynamic duo Kate Lebo and Sam Ligon share their event-turned-anthology, "Pie and Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter and Booze."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Misadventure of the Malevolent Mathematician
From: PETALUMA RADIO PLAYERS
Series: The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes
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It's a world where 2 plus 2 equals four times the fun. And where the sum of all mischief almost always totals MURDER. In this latest installment in...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 38:09
  • Purchases: 1
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

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