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Caption: Ellie the Dog, Credit: Julie Lindahl
Ellie the nine-year-old collie-retriever set out on an unexpected journey across Europe's borders from her home in Sweden to the South of France.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 05:02
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From Bucharest, Romania, here’s Andreea Sirbu, she’s 18, just finished high school, and her story is about a conversation that made her realise -- ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2020
  • Length: 05:09
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From our secure, undisclosed Mojave Desert radio studio, tonight we bring you our 100th episode, with strange tales of the Amboy Ghost Lights and a...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Are places such as Sedona, Arizona, truly "magical"? Is the desert enchanted? Well it can't be proven one way or another, but from Moses to Jesus t...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The superbloom is upon us, as is the superbloom mob. St. Minerva help us all!

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Desert anemone (Anemone tuberosa) is in the Buttercup Family. Buttercups are the genus Ranuculus and so the family name is Ranunculaceae. It’s prob...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 05:22
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Tumbleweed and careless weed are here to stay and though careless weed is an Arizona native (Amaranthus palmeri) it certainly appears, at least to ...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 05:19
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The Ol’ Guajolote is not alive with critters by the time it runs by our home.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 05:05
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Chaya Gilboa falls deeply in love with a library book, and becomes convinced that her soulmate will have felt the same connection to the text. She ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 12:51
Caption: Randy Ross writes from the Loneliest Planet
A third-degree sunburn, a friendly travel agent, and a walk on the not-so wild side.

  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 03:39
Caption: Sedona, AZ, Credit: http://thepuffingtonhost.com/arizona-to-issue-licenses-for-medical-marijuana-dispensaries/gorgeous-sedona-arizona-sunset/
This is the premiere episode of Virtually Everything is Handmade Radio. Stori Sojourner shares the inner workings of her being: From SF to Small To...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 30, 2012
  • Length: 07:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Playwright Werner Trieschmann
This week it's our Tin Roof Project, where well-known Southerners bring their own true stories to life. Featuring award-winning playwright Werner T...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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Brian recounts the first summer in Alaska working the slime lines of a cannery and the time the Captain was drunk, the crew quit, and the ship's an...

Bought by KUT and KRUA


  • Added: Oct 24, 2011
  • Length: 11:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The second show featuring stories from the Greatest Generation. Alma Hahn prays for deliverance from a snake-handling church service, a man speaks ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: May 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Encounter strange characters with Ann Bittick, Mary Beck, and Sheila Keever. Southern-style storytelling in front of a live audience at Starving A...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
Caption: Julia Child, Credit: Christopher Hirscheimer
A gift from the Julia Child Foundation. We hear Julia introducing her late friend, M.F.K. Fisher, who takes us out for a staggeringly gluttonous me...

Bought by KSJD, KSFR, KZYX, and WTIP


  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Tahjin
During my homestay with a family in rural Morocco, I had a tricky cultural experience which many of us can relate to.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: :00
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Visitors to Jane Austen's museum are scattering cremains. Administrators there disapprove. So does Ian.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 02:05