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MN Reads: "Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight" by Shannon Gibney
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Shannon Gibney talks about her new picture book "Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight"

  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 08:04
StoryCorps: Margaret Powell and Folashade Alao
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Margaret Powell and Folashade Alao at their StoryCorps in Decatur, Georgia on January 31, 2023, Credit: Kevin Alarcon
Folashade Alao remembers when she presented a Bill of Rights to her mother, Margaret Powell, and how it shaped their relationship.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Jericho Brown
From: New Letters on the Air
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For National Pride Month, we'll hear from 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown, who describes the joy he finds in writing poetry and how his wo...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNJR


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Art
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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From the author of "God of Carnage," a Tony Award-winner for Best Play.

Bought by KWMR, KMUN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 24
Whose Memento Is It?
From: Lori Mortimer
Series: Mementos
Caption: The memento that spawned a podcast, Credit: Steve Nelson
Mementos Podcast pilot: How did an old dusty box in the back of a garage spawn a burst of grief, a period of reflection about a mother and daughter...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 29, 2019
  • Length: 12:06
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Benjamin Busch
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Author, actor and veteran Benjamin Busch talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.

Bought by WKAR and WKAR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2019
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 2
Musician's Spotlight - Nathan East- 681
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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One of the most respected bass guitarists in popular music, Nathan East is also a producer and writer who has collaborated with an all-star caliber...

Bought by WZRE, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 3
Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promo - The Wood Brothers - 673
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos
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Brothers Oliver and Chris Wood pursued their successful musical journeys separately until their mother’s battle with and subsequent death from ALS ...

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: :45
Dang Makes A Film!
From: Rene Dongo
Caption: Shooting the first scenes on Long Wharf, near the Boston Aquarium.
Dang Nguyen, an aspiring filmmaker, revisits friends in his old college town of Boston to shoot a personal video project that's been on hold for 4 ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 16:49
  • Purchases: 1
More from Husband and Wife Writers Geoffrey Brock & Padma Viswanathan
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Geoffrey Brock
In part two of this interview with husband and wife writers, poet Geoffrey Brock and novelist Padma Viswanathan, the couple discusses their shared ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Musician's Spotlight Promo- Anders Osborne - 661
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight MTPR Promos
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Between the potency of his richly detailed songwriting, his intensely emotional, soulful vocals and his piercing, expert guitar work, New Orleans’ ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2017
  • Length: :45
Attention by Holly Walter Kerby
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Steven Boyer
In Holly Walter Kerby’s Attention, Amber (Tony nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger) is bummed out that her boyfriend has visited his family without her. Sh...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 17:56
The Write Question - James Lee Burke - 231
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Award-winning author James Lee Burke talks about and reads from 'House of the Rising Sun,' the latest novel in his Hackberry Holland Series.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Fun, Fun, Fun - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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At 15, Melanie Clarance's world was turned upside down.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2015
  • Length: 03:54
Musician's Spotlight - Azar Lawrence - 602
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Legendary saxophonist for McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, Elvin Jones and many others talks shop with host John Floridis.

Bought by KGLT, KCMJ Community Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 27, 2015
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Antonya Nelson - 222
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Antonya Nelson talks about writing short stories and reads from her collection FUNNY ONCE.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KGLT and more


  • Added: May 30, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 9
The Guardians of History
From: Mary Samouelian
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The Guardians of History features seven archivists working at Duke University’s Rubenstein Library. It explores why we archivists do what we do. It...

Bought by KLCC, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: May 05, 2014
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Alexandra Fuller - 282
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Alexandra Fuller talks about and reads from her third memoir, 'Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness.'

Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
An Interview with Brandon Schrand
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Brandon Schrand talks about the influence reading literature had on his early life, when he was a boy growing up in Soda Springs, Idaho, and during...

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


  • Added: Dec 16, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
An Interview with Gwen Florio
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Gwen Florio talks about her transition from newspaper reporter to fiction author and the process of writing her mystery novel, 'Montana,' the first...

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


  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 4
Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy (Muscle Shoals Musician, Formerly of Drive-By Truckers)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Press photo from the band
If you think you know Shonna Tucker from her years playing bass with Drive-By Truckers, then you are in for a surprise with her debut album of her ...

Bought by Prairie Public, Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KKRN, KMXT and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Dearly Departed, Two Comedies
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Peter Sagal
Two short plays. In MILTON BRADLEY by "Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me" host Peter Sagal, a flummoxed Rabbi has to eulogize a mother whose son has only te...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUER, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2012
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
Persona Non Grata
From: Michelle Boyd
Series: Meet the Budget Cuts
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Kevin Van Kanegan worked at the University of Illinois at Chicago for 27 years before being fired during the 2010 Illinois state budget crisis. He ...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2012
  • Length: 03:28
Ricky Gervais on Atheism and Jetpacks
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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Comedian Ricky Gervais:"So what I’m really wishing for is justice in the world, honor really and wishing that every one gets their reward, which cl...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 08, 2012
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 1
Kelly Kathleen Ferguson, author of 'My Life As Laura'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Not long ago, a middle-aged woman, Kelly Ferguson, left Missoula, Montana, with a crazy-sounding mission: wear a prairie dress, an apron and a bonn...

Bought by Prairie Public and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2