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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Kevin Lindsey from the Minnesota Humanities...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
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How can a building express a political viewpoint?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
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It’s the 12th season of the Granite City Radio Theater, and our season opener was spicier than a frosty pumpkin and spookier than an exorcist’s to-...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2023
  • Length: 01:55:49
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How can a building express a political viewpoint?

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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'Potluck' literally means "luck of the pot" in reference to feeding unexpected guests. Our modern interpretation recalls a community meal consisti...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Modern art, runway fashion, and music today are in the middle of a cultural reckoning, where artists must find a balance between cultural appropria...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
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Welcome to melodically challenged, where this week’s show is She’s a Maneater!—a collection of poems featuring history’s most dangerous and misunde...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we look through the lenses of creativity, environment, and sustainability at what to do about vacant ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:44
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On this episode, we talked about "Switched On," the great new biography of Bob Moog that documents his life and work. We would have a very differen...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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On this episode, we talked about the music of Toby Driver, and his essay in the book Arcana Volume IV, which you can borrow from the library. Drive...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2023
  • Length: 28:19
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged whe...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Can art be broadly accessible without sacrificing quality? Can it be cognitively challenging without being elitist?

Bought by KMUN, KTSW 89.9, KICI Iowa City, KTSW 89.9, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
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Can art be broadly accessible without sacrificing quality? Can it be cognitively challenging without being elitist?

  • Added: Jul 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about the book "Recombo DNA," an in-depth biography of the band Devo that focuses on th...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:31
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Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time. Ron Hall Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged when we will ...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:04
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about "The Mandorla Letters," the new book by flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell Gan...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2023
  • Length: 27:30
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Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged, when we’ll hear an hour of poetry and music about husbands: Mr. Right, Mr. Wrong and everyone in-bet...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:02
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Welcome to Melodically Challenged.  Today, we continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number ...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Can art help us fall in love with a wounded world?

  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, so you’ll have to keep checking your radio during this week’s melodically challenged when we bring you an hour o...

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:01
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We turned it up to 11 for Granite City Radio Theater's Season 11 Finale! Trampled by Turtle's Dave Simonett stopped by to join house band Collectiv...

  • Added: May 05, 2023
  • Length: 01:56:27
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson famously wrote “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” All of Cupid’s victims might beg to diff...

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
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We will NOT run out of radio coffee this show…Don’t spill any now, liquid gold ya know. Veteran alto saxophonist Bobby Watson opens music up, from ...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, WYAP, WEJP-LP 107.1, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KHNS and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Claire Zach performing with their band Wet Denim behind the Weinery in Minneapolis, Credit: Cyn Collins
Art can be an expression of many elements of the self. So what happens when your sense of self is evolving or fluid? That’s something that local ar...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 07:39
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In a healthy stealthy frame of mind we present 21st Century charanga music from Senegal, Babacar y Sabor Internacional including traditional violin...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KMXT, WEJP-LP 107.1, KHNS, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:03
  • Purchases: 9