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In honor of National Poetry Month, Distillations looks at Lord Byron and his classic Don Juan. Also, opium and The Age of Wonder.
- Added: Apr 09, 2010
- Length: 11:41
What do Isaac Newton, yeast, and Harold Urey have in common?
- Added: Apr 07, 2010
- Length: 12:28
Made For Goodness and The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg...this week on Prime Time Radio.
- Added: Mar 29, 2010
- Length: 59:55
Get the skinny on trans fats and learn why a popular crash diet is not likely to help you shed pounds.
- Added: Feb 18, 2010
- Length: 12:15
St. Cloud businessman Nick Barth, the owner and operator of Cru Wine Specialists, shares his passion and sommelier skills in this lively conversati...
- Added: Feb 10, 2010
- Length: 31:33
It's not often one gets to speak with best in the world athletes, but we lucked out here on The Mikie Show. Show eleven features an interview with ...
- Added: Jan 21, 2010
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 2
This week, there's a pink skull in my beach house.
Bought by WTIP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio
- Added: Jan 11, 2010
- Length: 57:07
- Purchases: 3
A very interesting discussion with Skylar Kahn, certified master grapho-analyst and forensic document examiner. In other words, a handwriting analy...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Dec 13, 2009
- Length: 28:13
- Purchases: 1
Jonny Porkpie is a novelist, burlesque impressario,
and the self-proclaimed Burlesque Mayor of New York.
He is married to the burlesque artist Na...
- Added: Dec 13, 2009
- Length: 29:21
Holy cow they ordered another show. Our first adventure: let's learn about gardening in the desert! Very different. Our friends Meanie the Clown an...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Dec 13, 2009
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Our inauspicious beginning. We introduce Señor Glow and The Hi There’s. A guest interview with dance music artist and dj Rob Rives. We discuss the ...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Dec 11, 2009
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 1
City High junior A Greene asks, "What would you be like if you were the opposite sex?" and finds the answers surprising.
- Added: Dec 08, 2009
- Length: 04:56
Everyone loves being the only ones in the Masai Mara, one of the worlds most spectacular wildlife experiences. But the absence of tourists is not g...
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: 05:29
You can't help but love insects when you listen to Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins. In this short piece he explains the natural history of the Coc...
- Added: Oct 28, 2009
- Length: 01:37
The 16th U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan talks about what led her to become a poet at 19, how she justifies and legitimizes being a poet to herself and...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 28:56
Mick Dodge has been going barefoot--all the time, everywhere he goes--for almost 25 years. He believes that our feet connect us to nature. KUOW's J...
- Added: Sep 21, 2009
- Length: 09:29
What makes a good neighbor? Should neighbors be friends? Who was the worst neighbor you ever had?
- Added: Sep 12, 2009
- Length: 02:10
A novelist, poet, and furniture maker, Jim Nisbet lives in San Francisco.
- Added: Sep 10, 2009
- Length: 31:07
An Evening of music and Interviews with Cajun Music Icons Beausoliel, recorded live in 2004 at Mountain Village in Telluride, Colorado
Bought by Prairie Public and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)
- Added: Jul 30, 2009
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 2
Every Sunday in Roosevelt Park, a bunch of former bike messengers get together to play bike polo.
- Added: Jul 08, 2009
- Length: 02:08
We find out how brownfields are converted into something useful and why Dow Chemical chose Midland, Michigan, for their plant location. Chemical Ag...
- Added: Jul 08, 2009
- Length: 11:57
The music by Argentinean composer Astor Piazzolla is often charged with romantic and melodramatic urges. When it comes to playing Piazzolla, violi...
- Added: May 29, 2009
- Length: :24
Dealers of Americana talk about the allure of old books.
Bought by Remix Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WBHM
- Added: Apr 20, 2009
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 4
The Camp's Neo Economist, Jim Smith, revisits the virtual campfire with insights about the economic crisis we face as he covers topics that challen...
- Added: Feb 09, 2009
- Length: 01:00:01
- Added: Nov 21, 2008
- Length: 05:47
