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Marshall Urlich - Running on Empty
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this edition of Culture Clique, 57 year old extreme endurance athlete Marshall Urlich talks about his transcontinental run and all the feats lea...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 48:20
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Amy Tan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Author Amy Tan talks about her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, her relationship with her mother, and the art of writing.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 27:50
Tales from the South 003
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Fall 2010 Season
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Marcia Camp parks her unique ride, Joanna Siebert searches for a bird and a connection, Bob Donaldson witnesses the birth of rock and roll, and Ken...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
On The Margins of Music - Alan Lomax & Anthony Burgess
From: Open Source
Caption: Anthony Burgess by David Levine, from The New York Review of Books
First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...

Bought by KRVS, KPIP-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Art of Ken McCullough
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Poetry is an art form in itself and today we have a local authority on it. Ken McCullough is Winona's Poet Laureate. Throughout Ken's career he ha...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 24:29
Poets of the Moment - Elliott Colla & Jaimy Gordon
From: Open Source
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Elliott Colla talks about the poetry of revolution and its role for transformation in Egypt. Then, we're with Jaimy Gordon, whose novel The Lord of...

Bought by WLPR , KWMR, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Wild Comfort
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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In an effort to make sense of the deaths of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of excursion...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Sarahlee Lawrence, author of River House: A Memoir
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Sarahlee Lawrence grew up in remote central Oregon and spent her days dreaming about leaving her small town for adventure. By the age of 21, Lawren...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Death of the Liberal Class, Life of Our Inner Sky - Chris Hedges & Damion Searls
From: Open Source
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This hour brings politics with Chris Hedges and poetry with Damion Searls. Chris Hedges' new book recounts The Death of the Liberal Class. And the ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
MN Author Alison McGhee and "The Song of Middle C."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Pulitzer Prize nominee, #1 New York Times bestseller, and MN Book Award Nominee Alison McGhee about her picture book "The Song of Middle C."

  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 17:49
MN Author Kate DeCamillo and "The Magician's Elephant"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Known for her books and movies like "Because of Winn-Dixie" and "The Tale of Despereaux", MN Book Award Nominee Kate DiCamillo about her latest "Th...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2010
  • Length: 24:57
Craig Lancaster: 600 Hours of Edward
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Craig Lancaster wrote 600 HOURS OF EDWARD, which is his first novel, during National Novel Writing Month, an annual event in which writers are chal...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
This Is Not The Story You Think It Is... A Season of Unlikely Happiness, by Laura Munson
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Caption: Laura Munson, Credit: Heidi Long
Laura Munson is the author of 14 unpublished novels and one memoir, which was published almost immediately after she wrote it. This is Not The Stor...

Bought by KWMR, WFIU, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Rock and Roll Life of Debra Marquart
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Debra Marquart
Debra Marquart talks about her life growing up in rural North Dakota, her rebellious departure, and how she’s returned in her imagination. She rea...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
Take Your Seats, Class!
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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The inner secrets of a comma, a writer, a teacher.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:24
Packets of Dreams
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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Dreams wrapped in curious packages

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:34
Rafe Esquith and the Hobart Shakespeareans (lecture)
From: KUOW
Series: Speaker's Forum
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Rafe Esquith says America's public education system has failed kids, and that is why he can't. He teaches Shakespeare to fifth graders at one of th...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 54:00