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The Oldest of Old Worlds
From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong
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This week, we're talking about some of the very oldest words in the English language, and how little some of them have changed over thousands of ye...

Bought by KRPS and KECG


  • Added: Jun 06, 2024
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Smooshed-up Words
From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong
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We're looking at words that were made by smooshing together other words, but it all happened so long ago that we completely forgot about it.

Bought by KRPS and KECG


  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
If I Were To Talk About The Subjunctive
From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong
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Some of us (Fletcher) can never keep straight what, exactly, the subjunctive is, so fortunately Kathy and Ross are here to remind us.

Bought by KECG and KRPS


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Return of the Confusables
From: KMUW
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We get back to one of our favorite topics: words that sound a lot like other words but that mean totally different things.

Bought by KECG and KRPS


  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Jenny Odell on Saving Time
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Excerpt from the book cover, reading "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" superimposed on top of orange and pink geological features., Credit: Penguin Random House
We speak with Jenny Odell, author of "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock," about how the ways we think about time shapes our lives. A...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
MN Reads: "Ferns and Lycophytes of Minnesota" by Welby R. Smith
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Welby R. Smith talks about the new book "Ferns and Lycophytes of Minnesota"

  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
MN Reads: Friends of the Library and MN Book Awards with Alayne Hopkins
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Alayne Hopkins talks about The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library and the Minnesota Book Awards

  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 11:33
MN Reads: "Making the Carry" by Timothy Cochrane
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Timothy Cochrane talks about his new book "Making the Carry"

  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 13:57
Constant Wonder - Making the Modern Christmas
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Christmas wouldn't be the same without Dickens. And, the railroads changed Christmas forever.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Anne Helen Petersen
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author Anne Helen Petersen discusses her new book, "Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home," written with her partn...

Bought by WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Jonathan Thompson — The day the river was orange (Part two)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes spoke with author and journalist Jonathan Thompson.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Muscle: Flex Your Mouse
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. What do you see?...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2017
  • Length: 09:32
Coccyx: Please Don't Sit on the Cuckoo
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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Coccyx is a small triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and other apes. Representing a vestigial tail and most commonly c...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2017
  • Length: 05:37
Ideas Books: Frank Wilczek - A Beautiful Question, Finding Natures Deep Design
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
Caption: Ideas Books: Frank Wilczek
Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that has guided his pionee...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 27:26
The Politician and the Poet
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Summer with the Bard
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Professors Derek Hirst and Steven Zwicker discuss the life and work of Andrew Marvell.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 16:04
"The Symphony," an African-American poetry collective
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: R. Dwayne Betts of The Symphony Poets
The Symphony is a group of African-American poets originally comprised of John Murillo, R. Reginald Dwayne Betts, Randall Horton, and Marcus Jackso...

Bought by WNJR and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Mark Sandberg on Brands Homelessness
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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We take you to Lanesboro MN's Ibsen Fest 2014 with a talk by Proessor Mark Sandberg. Sandberg is the current president of The Ibsen Society of Amer...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 05, 2014
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 1
"Fat Blame" with April Herndon, Ph.D.
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of "Art Beat" we visit with a local writer, who, in a new book - addresses the war on obesity, specifically when it comes to childr...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KPIP-LP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 32:37
  • Purchases: 3
An Interview with Walter Kirn
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Walter Kirn talks about and reads from his memoir 'Blood Will Out: The True Story of Murder, a Mystery and a Masquerade.'

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, and WCWP


  • Added: Apr 15, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Conversation with Penguin's Elda Rotor and John Morgan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The team behind the new app Poems by Heart discuss how they combine gaming with classic poetry. [28:20]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 1
Skyway: The True Story Of Tampa's Signature Bridge pn Thirty Four 50
From: Joseph Sr Dobzynski
Series: Thirty-Four50 - Joseph Dobzynski - Florida Series
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Noted Journalist and Florida native Bill DeYoung discusses his book SKYWAY: THE TRUE STORY OF TAMPA'S SIGNATURE BRIDGE AND THE MAN WHO BROUGHT IT DOWN

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 24:17
  • Purchases: 1
Midwives and Murder
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with historian Sam Thomas, author of “The Midwife's Tale” a mystery series based on the real life of Bridget Hodgson, a lady a...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 38
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring the Cherokee National Youth Choir, Author Ellen Kushner, and The Death of a Pres...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 57:59
The Art of Minnesota Author, Tom Berg
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of, Art Beat - we visit with an individual who penned a book about Minnesota politics during the span of 1968 through 1978. The boo...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 27:42
  • Purchases: 2
Rockwell Kent, Illustrator for Moby Dick
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Today on Art Beat we continue our coverage of Rockwell Kent in Winona, A Centennial Celebration. We feature Emilio DeGrazia, Winona’s Poet Laureate...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2013
  • Length: 29:41
  • Purchases: 1