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Will Cockrell on Everest, Inc.
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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Will Cockrell is the author of the book Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World, a fascinating histor...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2024
  • Length: 28:23
Jeffrey Funk and the New Agrarian School
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week’s guest is Jeffrey Funk, a blacksmith from Bigfork, Montana, who’s been crafting public sculpture and architectural metalwork for over 30...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
The Poetry Bug
From: melodically challenged
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Warmer weather brings us sunshine, flowers, trips to the beach, picnics, and BUGS, BUGS, BUGS!!!! And this week, we’ll have bugs: spiders, bees, f...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
Poet Shin Yu Pai
From: New Letters on the Air
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Taiwanese-American poet, Shin Yu(Yee) Pai(Pie), reads from her seventh collection, ADAMANTINE, and her earlier work, SIGHTINGS, in which she not on...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WJCU


  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
One Family and the Technology That Divides Them: Sarah Pinsker's We Are Satellites
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Staff Librarian Tammy Bobrowsky talks with writer Sarah Pinsker. Her new novel is called "We Are Satellites." It's about one family and the technol...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 10:47
Wave Function
From: Ears Adrift
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Ears Adrift explores quantum technology with interviews from U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's top scientists.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 13:27
A Mindfulness Teacher Considers Managing One's Mindset
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable
A Mindfulness Teacher Considers Managing One's Mindset, An Educator Discusses the Importance of Protecting Childhood and a Poet Contemplates his Sp...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
479-Comet Catalina
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Comet C/2018 M1 (Catalina) is eternal in the sense that it will likely wander the vast space between the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy until the e...

Bought by KGLP, KENW, WLPR , KKRN, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Acoustic Space
From: Wind & Rhythm
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It may have grabbed my attention when I first got a chance to experience what playing in a large band was like. The sound is big, loud at times, bu...

Bought by KTXK, WUAL, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KMFA


  • Added: Apr 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 4
A Holiday Duel (Hour 1): Presented by The Appetizer Radio Show
From: D. Grant Smith
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This season is filled with music that has been around for years and years, to the degree that most Christmas albums or collections all contain some...

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Holiday Duel (Hour 2): Presented by The Appetizer Radio Show
From: D. Grant Smith
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Our special continues with a historic and introspective look at other holiday classics including one of the most historic Christmas songs of all-ti...

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
History, Slavery & the Obligation to Remember
From: Daniel Horowitz Garcia
Series: Change Over Time
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Anyone can do history. And anyone who does has an obligation to do it well. This episode is about how in the US we do our best to avoid the history...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 25:35
370-Life's Parts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers have found the basic ingredients of life in an infant solar system.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WOUB, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Treaty Tribute (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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With Thanksgiving just around the corner, Americans are preparing to celebrate that first feast shared between Native Americans and European Pilgri...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KRZA, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 5
Snap 707: The Promise, 3/17/2016
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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Some of them are worthless and some of them have infinite value and some will never know how much they are worth… until you have to cash them in. O...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
What is Puppy Love?
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Is it a big deal?

  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 06:41
Commonalities (hour 2)
From: D. Grant Smith
Series: The Appetizer Radio Show
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In our 2nd hour of indie music Commonalities, we’re going to stick primarily to emerging indie singer-songwriter and folk songwriters who have rele...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Oct 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poetry about Late Summer
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poems fitting for the remaining summer days.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2015
  • Length: 56:04
Poetry for Halloween (October 31, 2014)
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Scary poems and ominous music for Halloween.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: 53:17
The Standard Loneliness Package
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
You must be accountable for your actions.

  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 04:10
Liner Notes: Charlie Rouse
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Charlie Rouse
Charlie Rouse was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and much sought-after sideman. He is known primarily for his collaboration with Thelonious...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 1
Activism in Memory of Aaron Swartz
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re trying also to locate Aaron Swartz as a landmark in the culture and the age.

  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
Classical Winter Travels
From: D. Christine
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A winter's journey from the Arctic to the Antarctic, with familiar works by Mozart, Prokofiev and Debussy along with surprises by newer composers f...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WCQS, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 3
The Beat: Joyce Sutphen - "Rodin On Film"
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, "Rodin On Film." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota p...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
A Citizen's Guide to Updating Your Truth
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
"Updating your truth" is a term not much used these days. We read that somebody "denied", "vetoed", "denounced", "maintained", "refused to consider...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2013
  • Length: 04:07