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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
771: How Should We Tell Our History? / 772: Reading While Young, 2/25/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "How Should We Tell Our History?" - Debates over history are front-page news, from critical race theory to AP history classes. How should...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Little Free Libraries
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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There are more than 100,000 Little Free Library sites worldwide. We learn about them from Little Free Library Inc's Shelby King. We've also got boo...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KSTK, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRSC and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
2021-07-26: Little Free Libraries, 7/26/2021
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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There are more than 100,000 libraries placed worldwide. We learn about them from Little Free Library Inc's Shelby King. We've also got book reviews...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
Peter Anderson — Writing the eccentricities of place
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes spoke with writer, poet, and educator Peter Anderson.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Feb 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Truth in Storytelling: The Reality of Teachers’ Lives
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Author Roxanna Elden discusses her new satirical novel Adequate Yearly Progress, which tells the story of the teachers’ lives across one year in th...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 45:49
"They're Just People" (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Learning lessons on immigration in one of the nation's largest detention centers -- Tracking poachers in Appalachia -- Violent TV turning viewers o...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
"They're Just People" (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Learning lessons on immigration in one of the nation's largest detention centers -- Tracking poachers in Appalachia -- Violent TV turning viewers o...

Bought by WCNY, WCWP, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 9
Pulitzer 100: The Wondrous Junot Diaz (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
Pulitzer 100: The Wondrous Junot Diaz (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood. -Jon Pineda's memoir "Sleep in Me" chronicles his s...

Bought by KZYX and KEDT


  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 2
"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
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
Pearl Curran - "Ghost"-writer
From: Hold That Thought
Series: People, Places, and Ideas to Explore
Caption: Illustration of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth from the American Weekly, ca. 1940
Professor Daniel Shea shares the story of Pearl Curran, who, beginning in 1913, used a Ouija board to transcribe novels, plays, essays, and poetry ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
The Last Word on Libraries
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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The particular and universal state of mind of libraries is one of random discovery.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Feb 08, 2011
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1
Commentator Guido on Libraries
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Guido has always been overly interested in books, and he tells about some of his favorite libraries.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Feb 08, 2011
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1