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On this episode of You Bet Your Garden, Mike McGrath reveals what is in your package of Preen, why its banned for use in the European Union. And th...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
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Mike McGrath warns against handling plants when wet in the Question of the Week!! And as always, your warning Phone Calls!!

  • Added: Jun 04, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
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"What CAN you do with a Greenhouse during the Summer?" Mike McGrath finds out the answer on The Question of the Week!! And finds answers to your ...

  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
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Mike McGrath take a fresh look at an episode from last month highlighting International Compost Awareness!! And ofcouse your International Phone ca...

  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
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"Is Rosemary an Insect repelling plant?!?" Mike McGrath has the answer on the Question of the Week! And as always, your fabulous Phone Calls!!

  • Added: May 15, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
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Mike McGrath excitedly recites the Question of The Week Special Book Series; "The Secret Origins of Lawns, Pesticide, & the American Forest Canopy!...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 54:59
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Every year, tourists from around the world flock to Southern Utah to take in the scenic landscape. Most travel by car, but some opt for a less trad...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 14:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Winter holidays in the High Desert, and problems with the 29 Palms Christmas Pageant. Guest: Brendan Maze.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 25, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A Thai temple replica for Durga Puja, Credit: Sandip Roy
It takes only a few hours to fly from Kolkata to Bangkok, and a weekend in Bangkok is quite common. But there’s very little of Thailand in Kolkata.

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
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The story of girl who copes with feeling like a misfit by inventing imaginary pen pal relationships with Movie of the Week characters. The Mortifie...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2017
  • Length: 24:06
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Driving around Morocco in the late 1950s with counterculture icon Paul Bowles at the wheel, with a case of hot Pepsi, a brick of hash, and a massiv...

Bought by KMUN and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:23
  • Purchases: 2
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There’s good, English, bad English and in a case by itself judicial English - perfect for pontification.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
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Philip Armand misses an opportunity to share cake with Sir Terence Conran because he has his head up his A@%.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2016
  • Length: 06:13
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Lacy Jane Roberts comes from a long line of truck drivers. As a kid, she used ride along with her grandparents on trips from Montana to California....

  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:15
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The world's largest bus station, and a bus driver who wanted to be God.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 27, 2016
  • Length: 54:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Allen Ginsberg reading poetry, Credit: The New York Public Library Digital Collections
One of Allen Ginsberg's first publishers was taken to court for a book that an undercover police officer deemed "not fit for children to read."

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: :59
Caption: Frank O'Hara
American poet Frank O'Hara got into trouble with his overbearing mother.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: :58
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Blobs + Heartbreak is the third episode of the podcast Last Best Stories produced by Jule Banville. It features two stories: The first (9:06), "Cri...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 15:05
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Jan sees every film that comes to Columbia, MO's arthouse cinema. Sometimes she'll see a film five or even ten times. Andrew Leland investigates wh...

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 1
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A Public Service Announcement For Neurotransmitters

  • Added: Jun 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:14
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India has tied itself in knots thanks to a noodle problem. The country has been in an uproar since tests alleged that some packets of Maggi instan...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Vietnam veteran and widower Don Thomas needed a kidney. Hooters waitress Mariana Villarreal had an extra.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 18:25
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In Defense of a National Flag Burning Day

  • Added: Apr 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:26
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Today's show features two stories from our reporters about small agricultural communities.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 1
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, WORT, and GraceRadio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 3