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Episode one explores how circuit benders, hackers and artists are building teaching and education into their practice.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
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In this episode, Bo interviews Dale McGowan, Executive Director of Foundation Beyond Belief. David left a 15-year career as a college professor in...

Bought by KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Anna Ingalls is a sophomore at Bemidji High School she enjoys writing poetry and especially poetry about the natural world. The Beat is a daily rem...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:14
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Cheri Lindsay talks with her father, Phillip, about vitiligo, a rare skin condition they share...

Bought by WEZU, WMUU-LP, and KMUD


  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 3
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It's a countdown from 50 to number 1 of the best guitar solos in rock this week. Listen for Steve Vai, Stevie Ray Vaughn and, yes, The Eagles.

Bought by KSKQ and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 12, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: BLAME IT ON HOBOKEN: a funny, smart novel with songs by Sharon Glassman, Credit: Cover design by Luis Ruiz
Happy Mother's Day! Sharon Glassman, writer/performer of the funny, smart novel-with-songs BLAME IT ON HOBOKEN and her band offer a Mother's Day sh...

  • Added: May 07, 2014
  • Length: 03:19
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In this episode, Bo interviews Chris Johnson, author of A Better Life: 100 Atheists Speak Out on Joy & Meaning in a World Without God.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
Caption: Blackbirds Sheet Music
The review, Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds of 1928, opened at the Liberty Theatre on 42nd Street in May of that year.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Alyssa Joy is a student at Bemidji State University who is from North Minneapolis. Her poetry is an exploration of the painful struggle of human ex...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Cool Dude, Credit: Joe Duncan
Three-year-old beatboxer Edward never knew he was part of such a dynamic audio community. Listen as he explores his own sound. Hear more at baskhau...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 01:11
Caption: Deana Shaaban's The Fortitudo Collection, Credit: Deana Shaaban
This audio documentary aims to show the journey of a young woman in Egypt who gave up on the corporate world to follow her dream. Join Deana Shaaba...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 10:24
Caption: Alley Rat by Jimmy Blythe
Pianist and composer James Louis Blythe is lost in obscurity today, but during his all too brief career, he was considered among the very best. Bly...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 05, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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If the popular children’s TV show, Reading Rainbow, could help children fall in love with reading, can a new program about where our food comes fro...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
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Daniel Alvarez, a former corporate lawyer, started kayaking from Northwest Angle to Key West in June 2012. He liked it so much that when he arrived...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 22, 2013
  • Length: 21:22
  • Purchases: 1
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Western swing, cowboy songs and cowboy poetry, songs of inspiration, and western history.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Count Basie 78s on Jazz-O-Rama
Cheek to Cheek, Rat Race, and Open the Door, Richard are among the tunes that will fill the air when the Count Basie 78 RM Records is heard on the ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 58:21
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sam Lanin
Largely forgotten, bandleader Sam Lanin is possibly the most prolific recording artist of the 1920s. No one really knows just how many records he ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow
Sidney Bechet was one of the early jazz virtuosos. Born in New Orleans, he began his professional career long before jazz was put to wax. Then the...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Taj Vaccarella discusses the exciting potential of a new time in art history. Taj prescribes, and fights for, a necessary rebuilding of beauty in c...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2013
  • Length: 08:53
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What if everybody ran everywhere, and walking seemed as slow as crawling?

  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Catherine King reads at Tales from the South
We go way back in time for this very special show, featuring true stories from the 1930's and 40's, told by the Southerners who lived them. Stories...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2013
  • Length: 34:00
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard signs up with his roommate to work amidst the lakes and falls and trees in Upstate New York. Richard and Jim preach on Sundays and spend th...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 23:05
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 24:55
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From 5th February, the Brussels Shakespeare Society takes to the stage with The Merchant of Venice. Just two weeks before the curtain raising, Re...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 17:01