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In this Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, we take a look at the continuation of an exciting arts program at St. Cloud State University that is i...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2015
  • Length: 29:19
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In another installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits once again with SCSU Arc...

Bought by Morton College Radio


  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kathleen Gillette and her family in the mid-1990s., Credit: Credit Courtesy of Kathleen Gillette
Kathleen Gillette has had a passion for singing for as long as she can remember. But after spending 15 years as an opera singer, her career began t...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:15
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Sit in any prison classroom or recreation room in any prison in the country and ask yourself: How many writers are in the room. How many people ar...

Bought by KUNM and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 54:35
  • Purchases: 2
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We're revisiting the birthplace of the American mind. Five houses on three streets within a period of five years in Concord, Massachusetts launche...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WRPI, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 3
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We’re reading a famous story called “The Student.” It’s a late winter, early spring night in the 1890s, Easter weekend. A student is coming home f...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 20:08
  • Purchases: 2
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Chekhov wrote “Gusev” on shipboard, returning from his stark study mission to the prison island of Sakhalin in 1890. He was 30 years old, ten years...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 52:19
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In which I interview a fourth person, one who argues against video game causing violence in children.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 16:24
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El Sistema is not an instruction method so much as a shared conviction: that every child wants to make music, and can. It has big social implicatio...

Bought by KWMR and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 50:57
  • Purchases: 2
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Professor William Bubelis explains how numismatics, or the study of ancient coins, can reveal unique information about ancient cultures.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 11:35
Caption: Andre Noel is the manager of Figures In Flight Released., Credit: Natalie Ivis
This episode features a story by producer Chris Remington about a group of ex-cons who were inspired to start their own dance troupe, called Figure...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:53
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Missouri’s first Poet Laureate, Walter Bargen, sits down with Quiddity‘s Assistant Editor, John McCarthy, to discuss the importance of silence in p...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 15:32
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
Caption: Kyes Stevens
We asked poet Kyes Steven of Auburn University's Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project to record a workshop for us. Take a listen. Prison Poetr...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Susan Carol Hauser is a poet, essayist, and natural history writer who recently retired from her position at Bemidji State University. She's won th...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 27, 2013
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Sep 05, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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We explore both the lyrical and ethical heart of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring as we ask what are the ecological and moral effects of the banal and...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:05

  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Conversations with artists of all kinds doing work in and about the real world. Hour long, magazine format episode of Word of Mouth.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Roswell Artists in Residence participants, Spring 2012
Traveling to Roswell, NM, Cathy Byrd meets artists Sarah Bostwick, Jon-Paul Villegas, Brian Kluge, Corwin Levi (aka RadioSebastian), and Siobhan Mc...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 13:25
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All of us at Art of the Song are deeply saddened by the untimely passing of Eagles founding member Glenn Frey on January 18, 2016. An inspiration t...

Bought by KREV-LP, KGLP, KUNM, WOMR, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9

  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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MY SHINGLE IS A CANDY STICK...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sherwin Bitsui
Sherwin Bitsui reads from FLOOD SONG, his poetry collection that won the 2010 American Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Raised in a border t...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Vijay Iyer
"I kind of had a revelation once seeing him [Randy Weston] play live. It happened for me in a particular time in my life when I recently made the d...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 12:02
  • Purchases: 3