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Tabled Fables 7 Jack and the Beanstalk
From: Amy Kraft
Series: Tabled Fables
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In this episode we discuss how Jack's conquest of the giant relates to 19th century English colonialism with the help of scholar Brian Szumsky. We ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 22:35
210: Conrad and the Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Joseph Conrad (back, center) at sea posing with apprentices aboard Torrens. , Credit: Provided courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill will suggest that the greatest author of such sea-based literature was Joseph Conrad and will...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:37
KUT's Views and Brews: Creativity and Depression
From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix
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Join us for a discussion on the topic of depression and creativity, and how to look at both concepts from various perspectives. KUT's Rebecca McInr...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
The Beat : Tammi Brown - "The Poet Robert Bly Gives His Annual Saint Valentines Day Reading To the Town of Moose Lake, Minnesota, Population 1207"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Tammy Brown is the recipient of a 2011-2012 Loft Literary Center Mentor Series Award. She writes regularly for the Minnesota Women's Press and has ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 03:18
  • Purchases: 1
Tabled Fables Podcast 3 Cinderella
From: Amy Kraft
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This podcast talks about the many versions of Cinderella told around the world and the different kinds of footwear she wore to the ball. My persona...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 21:08
Dan Beachy-Quick on Moby Dick, Part Two
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features part two in a two-part series on the enduring capacity of Moby-Dick, with a focus on one man's particular devotion to Melville's greatest ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 23, 2013
  • Length: 20:31
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown - Minnesota Gifts
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron Brown talks about the subtle quirks that give life in Minnesota its nuances and its hardships in his review of author Chris Niskanen's book, ...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "The Long Shining Waters" by Danielle Sosin
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Danielle Sosin's novel, "The Long Shining Waters," tells three stories of three women living around the shores of Lake Superior in three distinct t...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 2
Book Talk, December 2012
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, TWQ producer Chérie Newman talks with Barbara Theroux and Zed about some of the recently-published books written by authors fr...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 29:52
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" -by Stewart Van Cleve
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" by Stewart Van Cleve
Dan Sinykin provides a comprehensive of the historically illuminating new book "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" by Stewart Van ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Steve Downing talks Poet Laureates in Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Steve Downing
Steve Downing recently attended the inaugural reading and crowning of Deborah Cooper as Duluth's fourth Poet Laureate. Steve recounts a brief histo...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
KUT's Views and Brews: Becoming Tennessee Williams
From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix
Caption: Tennessee Williams
In this Views and Brews Remix on Becoming Tennessee Williams professor Charlotte Canning, joins director Norman Blumensaadt and actress Jennifer Un...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:52
Sounds Familiar #4: The Rule of Threes
From: Blake Cooper
Series: Sounds Familiar
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Is three really the magic number?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUT


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Longfellow was an immensely versatile poet who excelled at virtually every form and genre from the epic to the sonnet. Find out why.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 20:57
  • Purchases: 2
The Grapes of Wrath: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Actor Ed Harris reads from one of his favorite novels, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath---an epic story about the Great Depression told through...

Bought by KMUN, KQED, KRZA, KUCB, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 5
Author Sharon Chmielarz on "Calling" and "The Sky is Great the Sky is Blue"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Sharon Chmielarz has had poems published in several literary magazines including The Laurel Review, The Iowa Review, Water~Stone, Kalliope, Ascent,...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 23:45
  • Purchases: 1
Design Thinking, Collective Action and Peter Drucker
From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial
Caption: Roger Martin, Credit: rogerlmartin.com
Host Phalana Tiller interviews authors Roger Martin and James Quigley. And Bloomberg Businessweek online columnist Rick Wartzman delivers a piece ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: May 12, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Amazing True Story of Paul Revere
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Caption: Paul Revere by Copley
On the 240th anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride, re-visiting the Longfellow poem. What did Longfellow get right or wrong? Who rode that night...

Bought by KUT and Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 2
Best Science Writing 2010 -- Groks Science Show 2010-10-13
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Jesse Cohen discussed the best American science writing in 2010.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 14, 2010
  • Length: 25:23
  • Purchases: 2
HowTo Write For Newspapers
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Mail off your article as soon as you write it.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:51
Lauren Kessler, journalist and author of Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Lauren Kessler worked for minimum wage as an RA (resident assistant) while writing FINDING LIFE IN THE LAND OF ALZHEIMER'S (formerly titled, Dancin...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Adipose Rex Had a Strange Complex
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Adipose Rex was the fattest king in Thebes

  • Added: Apr 02, 2010
  • Length: :23
A Culture of Viagra and Plastic Toys From China
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Can a contemporary bard achieve immortality?

  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: :44
Is Ain't
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Playing With Words

  • Added: Feb 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:43
Homer's Iliad
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Simple storytelling has become complicated.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2009
  • Length: 01:43