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Duane Swierczynski discusses "Revolver"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Duane Swierczynski is an Edgar-nominated novelist.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 09:54
270-Space Opals
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Opals from space are likely to have brought some of the water we drink to planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
269-Gamma Ray Eyes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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With gamma ray eyes one half of your sky would be dominated by two huge bubbles coming from the center of the Milky Way.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
268-Mars Weather Report
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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You will need long woolies and a spacesuit to survive on Mars.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Bill Schutt discusses "Hell's Gate"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Bill Schutt is a zoologist, professor of biologist, and author.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 13:39
Thomas O'Malley and Douglas Graham Purdy discuss "We Were Kings"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Thomas O'Malley and Douglas Graham Purdy are writers in the Boston area.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2016
  • Length: 16:52
260-Gliding to Space
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An engineless glider will take two humans and scientific gear to the edge of space.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Steve Hamilton discusses "The Second Life of Nick Mason"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Steve Hamilton is a two-time Edgar-winning mystery writer.He lives in upstate New York.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 13:01
256-Pale Blue Dot
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The light reflected by a distant planet can tell us if we could live there.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW and more


  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Matthew Quirk discusses "Cold Barrel Zero"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Matthew Quirk is a widely published journalist.

  • Added: May 23, 2016
  • Length: 16:00
253-Lunar Village
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The world's spacefaring community is preparing to build a village on our moon.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KENW and more


  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Murders have been performed too terrible for the ear.
From: Richard Paul
Series: Shakespeare Unlimited
Caption: l-r: Rex Daugherty (Tybalt), Aaron Bliden (Benvolio), and Brad Koed (Mercutio) in Romeo and Juliet, directed by Aaron Posner, Folger Theatre (2013)., Credit: Teresa Wood
Elizabethan Street Fighting

  • Added: Dec 20, 2017
  • Length: 30:18
225-Greg Scores
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey team mate Greg Leonard finds an interesting potentially hazardous asteroid.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Spirit of '74: How the American Revolution Began
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ray Raphael
We’ve all read about “the Boston Tea Party,” as well as the famous “shot heard ‘round the world”. These two important events occurred 28-months apa...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
223-Back Home
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A mysterious piece of space hardware comes back to Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Lawrence Berman discusses "The Priest, the Prince, and the Pasha: The Life and Afterlife of an Ancient Egyptian Sculpture"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Lawrence Berman is Norma Jean Calderwood Senior Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2016
  • Length: 16:28
Charles Ardai discusses Gore Vidal's "Thieves Fall Out"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Charles Ardai is an American entrepreneur, writer, editor, and television producer. He is best known as founder and CEO of Juno, an Internet compan...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2016
  • Length: 16:51
She's Going to Mars!
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO: NOVEMBER, 2015
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Would you like to go? People are signing up for this trip to colonize Mars. Author and indie entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki reads from his new book, ...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Science and the Supernatural in the 17th Century
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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Once upon a time science and the supernatural were not so far apart.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:42:26
Economic Heresy: Herman Daly #113
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Robust economic growth has become the Holy Grail of public policy and politics. But some economists and many scientists have come to believe growth...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Big Rockets and Little LightSails
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Space Launch System on the Launchpad, Credit: NASA
Digital editor Jason Davis is a lucky guy. He follows and reports on human spaceflight progress, as well as the progress of the LightSail solar sai...

Bought by WRGY, KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
Chris Holm discusses "The Killing Kind"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Chris Holm is an award-winning short-story writer whose work has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies, including Ellery Queen's Myster...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 19:12
Terrence McCauley discusses "Sympathy for the Devil"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Terrence P. McCauley is an award-winning writer of crime fiction. He has published two novels and his short stories have been featured in Thuglit, ...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2015
  • Length: 09:19
Sportswriter Barry Svrluga talks about baseball's "Grind"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Reader's Corner host Bob Kustra talks with Barry Svrluga about his new book, "The Grind: Inside Baseball's Endless Season."

  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 30:41
Thomas O'Malley and Douglas Graham Purdy discuss "Serpents in the Cold"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Thomas O'Malley was raised in Ireland and England, and emigrated to the U.S. from Ireland at the age of sixteen. Douglas Graham Purdy grew up in Bo...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 11:38

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