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Next year, Carrol Henderson has a memoir coming out from Afton Press about his 41 years as the Minnesota DNR's first Nongame Wildlife Program Super...
- Added: May 22, 2024
- Length: 06:00
For today’s dumb idea, meet Barry Marshall. An Australian medical student, in 1982 he claimed that bacteria cause gastritis… then peptic ulcers, th...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 02:30
Wonder drugs have snuffed out some terrifying diseases. But first they must be approved by the U.S. government’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 02:30
We don’t hear the word “anarchy” much today, but a century ago it was a worldwide social movement. In 1894 Charles Rodolf wrote: “The true anarchis...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 02:30
Over the past 500 years the scientific method has spurred huge gains for humanity. Scientists engage in research to test theories, which advance kn...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 02:30
Meet people who collect uncommon items like barf bags, tiny chairs, and bricks.
Bought by KTSW 89.9
- Added: Mar 29, 2024
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 1
Today, we'll hear stories about conning morning shows, sneaking into meet and greets, impersonating a famous megachurch pastor, a photographer posi...
Bought by KTSW 89.9
- Added: Mar 29, 2024
- Length: 48:59
- Purchases: 1
We get back to one of our favorite topics: words that sound a lot like other words but that mean totally different things.
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Yes, we are a little late with the topic but here are some of the big predictions found around the internet discussing 2024 and the future of music.
- Added: Jan 28, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 22:02
- Purchases: 1
Looking down the barrel at 2024, from our perch in the High Desert. Mojave thunderstorms, the strange maxims of the ancient temples, Christmas-tree...
- Added: Dec 09, 2023
- Length: 28:00
Pat Livingston talks with bestselling author Ken Follett.
Bought by WKAR
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 54:31
- Purchases: 1
Laughter can be good medicine, but when is it okay to laugh at something as deadly serious as the climate crisis? Jokes help us remember informatio...
Bought by Maine Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more
- Added: Oct 26, 2023
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 11
Laughter can be good medicine, but when is it okay to laugh at something as deadly serious as the climate crisis? Jokes help us remember informatio...
- Added: Oct 26, 2023
- Length: 58:58
Eva Apelqvist talks about her award-winning book "Mörker Över Skateparken" and the upcoming release of her English-translation of "Fire From the Sk...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 07:49
Grammy-winning storyteller Bill Harley tells us a story about candy that makes a teacher exclaim, "This is the best candy in the whole world!"
Bought by KTXK, WVPE, KSJE, KKRN, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920
- Added: Jun 22, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 5
Sex is hard to talk about. We often speak about it so indirectly. In Minnesota, many of us are even more adept to tiptoeing around the issue. But S...
- Added: Jun 13, 2023
- Length: 07:42
"El dia que se apareció el diablo" takes us back to a time when "the devil" appeared on the poor side of the tracks. The terrifying experience lead...
- Added: Mar 25, 2023
- Length: 12:18
What do spy balloons and inflation have in common? Amusing and informative ... great news piece covering current events
- Added: Feb 05, 2023
- Length: 05:18
In 1898, a farmer dug up a stone engraved with a Nordic language in a field in Kensington, Minnesota. People have been arguing about it ever since...
- Added: Feb 02, 2023
- Length: 25:48
Max Henning, Neuroscientist and President of Novus Think Tank [https://www.maxahenning.com/], sheds light on why the future of humanity depends upo...
- Added: Jan 16, 2023
- Length: 58:00
Join the cast of The Red Jacket Jamboree and guests: singer-songwriter John Davey and author T.Marie Bertineau for a special that explores the myth...
Bought by Southern Branch Bluegrass and WNMU-FM
- Added: Oct 26, 2022
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 2
This week on On Story we’re joined by filmmakers Gina Prince-Bythewood and Amy Talkington for conversations on writing and directing for film and t...
- Added: Sep 28, 2022
- Length: 54:00
Well the world's a mess, but isn't that really what the show is all about. A kid turns in dad for Jan 6th, I've been drinkin' Whiteclaw, Ivana Trum...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 29:02
This week on On Story we’re joined by screenwriter Michael Schur who had a hand in some of the biggest comedy shows of the last decade including Th...
- Added: Jul 18, 2022
- Length: 54:00