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Superstorm: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kathryn Miles
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy smashed into the Eastern seaboard. A monster nobody was prepared to deal with.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jon Bassoff discusses "Factory Town'
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Jon Bassoff was born in 1974 in New York City and currently lives in a ghost town somewhere in Colorado. His mountain gothic novel, Corrosion, was ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 15:50
"James Rollins discusses The 6th Extinction"
From: Steven Nester
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James Rolllins is the New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers that have been translated into more than forty languages. Known ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 19:57
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2013, Natasha Trethewey
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is currently serving as both the Poet Laureate of the United States and of her home state of Mississippi. Trethewey discusses he...

Bought by KQED and WJCU


  • Added: Apr 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Todd Boss - "Dream In Perfect Color Though I Might"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Todd Boss grew up on a cattle farm in Wisconsin, and lives now in St. Paul. His two books of poetry have won rave reviews from all over. His second...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:29
A Conversation about Edgar Allan Poe with Laura Lippman
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Mystery writer Laura Lippman talks about the terrifying brilliance of Edgar Allan Poe and his classic short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher"...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KMXT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
The Beat: Lorie Yourd - "Broadband"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Lorie Yourd is a retired educator and a dedicated advocate for the arts living in the Bemidji area. Here she reads her poem "Broadband." The Beat i...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:47
The Beat: Gail Rixen - "One of Us"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Gail Rixen has been a finish carpenter, a health care aid, and she currently farms near Nebish, Minnesota. Rixen has published three books of poetr...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:25
Dings - radio friendly
From: Brian Bahouth
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Dings is a specially adapted short story about a terrifying end of life car ride.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 12:20
IBRT Season 1, Episode 7; 'The Demon'
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: The Icebox Radio Theater
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The Icebox Radio Theater has been creating great stories about life in the Far-North since 2004. Award-winning, mind bending, spine chilling, laugh...

Bought by KRUA and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Jan 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:04
  • Purchases: 2
Last Day On Earth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
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David Vann's latest work. The true story of Steve Kazmierszak. On Valentine's Day, 2008, Kazmierszak killed five and wounded 18 at Northern Illinoi...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2011
  • Length: 23:01
A Lesson Before Dying: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Ernest J. Gaines poses one of the most universal questions a novel can ask: Knowing we're going to die, how should we live? This program features G...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KMUN, KPIP-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KQED


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 5
Murder in the Himalayas
From: The Tibet Connection
Caption: Jonathan Green, author of "Murder in the High Himalaya", Credit: jonathangreenonline.com
Chinese troops shot and killed a 17-year-old Buddhist nun trying to flee Tibet. Foreign mountaineers got the whole thing on video. (Q&A with Jonath...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 06:40
Virginia Tranel documents abuse in BENITA: prey for him
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Decades after graduating from a Catholic college, Virginia Tranel found out that one of her classmates, Benita Kane, had been in a 20-year relation...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
"Youth, Day, Old Age, & Night" by Walt Whitman, recited by 6-yr.-old Gareth
From: Aaron Sanders
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Six-year-old Gareth has a voice made for poetry. He recites Walt Whitman's "Youth, Day, Old Age & Night."

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio, KRUA and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2006
  • Length: :48
  • Purchases: 6
"Little Boy Lost" by William Blake, recited by 6-yr.-old Gareth
From: Aaron Sanders
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Six-year-old Gareth has a voice made for poetry. He recites William Blake's "Little Boy Lost."

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KRUA, and KGLT


  • Added: Mar 31, 2006
  • Length: :28
  • Purchases: 3
1986 William S. Burroughs - Dr. Benway
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Burroughs reads the provocative Dr. Benway bit

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1