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Robert Platshorn once spent thirty years in prison for smuggling marijuana, and in a sign of changing times, over the past weekend, Platshorn organ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2014
- Length: 17:00
Hosts Tricia and Greta bring you the stories of muckraker Nellie Bly, painter Georgia O'Keeffe and jazz singer Nina Simone. We talk to authors, une...
Bought by KUAC
- Added: Jul 14, 2014
- Length: 27:00
- Purchases: 1
For America's birthday, Nerdette highlights the mothers of movements. Hosts Tricia and Greta bring you the stories of journalist Nellie Bly, painte...
Bought by WCNY, KOSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WHRV, KUNM and more
- Added: Jun 30, 2014
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 13
From: WBEZ
Freaks and nerds unite! Freakonomics' Stephen Dubner teaches Tricia and Greta how to think like a freak. Plus a portrait of astronaut Sally Ride on...
- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 3
From: WBEZ
Pop science author Mary Roach tells Nerdette hosts Tricia and Greta about answering gross questions most of us are too afraid to ask. Plus a conver...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 3
Brian Bahouth chats with rocker JD McPherson ... a jumping mix of words and music ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2014
- Length: 18:15
The San Francisco Mixtape Society hosts mix exchanges at the Make Out Room in the Mission District. Music lovers meet, mingle and exchange mixes th...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 05:54
Guitarist Bill Frisell and Brian Bahouth chat about his popularity in Europe, love of John Lennon songs and more … this mix of words and music prod...
- Added: Apr 27, 2014
- Length: 16:39
I walked the Truckee River Trail through downtown Reno this past Saturday and recorded an interview with a man selling cds and playing a drum. Lar...
- Added: Apr 21, 2014
- Length: 06:29
Ben Kaufmann, bass player and singer for the Yonder Mountain String Band, talks about his roots and the band’s latest EP, YMSB EP 13. A funky mix ...
- Added: Mar 30, 2014
- Length: 31:36
Founder of American Babies Tom Hamilton shoots from the hip in this conversation about his forthcoming acoustic EP, Stark and Red … this rocking bl...
- Added: Mar 08, 2014
- Length: 25:44
Singer and musical saw player Ursula Knudson discusses her role in the Fishtank Ensemble and also offers a tour of their album Women in Sin … this ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 09:48
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 06:11
Drummer and founding member of the all-female Led Zeppelin tribute band Zepparella chats with Brian Bahouth … a rocking mix of words and music prod...
- Added: Feb 08, 2014
- Length: 12:35
Jorma Kaukonen made a name for himself by being the guitarist in bands like Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. His distinctive finger pick technique ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2014
- Length: 08:42
Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 16:54
The Circle Square Second Hand Store has become an archive of the people who've passed through Missoula, Montana. There are treasures that are treas...
- Added: Sep 16, 2013
- Length: 03:04
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 01:00:00
Secret Awesome defies categories. But if you press the founder, Zak Kirwin, he describes them as a D.I.Y. artists collective. They are definitely a...
- Added: Jun 02, 2013
- Length: 04:45
- Added: Apr 28, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Most people know Sufism as the religion practiced by the whirling dervishes. But this mystical form of Islam has taken root in America, too.
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 06:41
The short story Chromosome T was written by Amy Scharmann and first appeared in the literary magazine Tin House. Jill Marlene is your reader, and ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 04:24
Interpolation was first published in the Samizdat Literary Journal. Brian Bahouth wrote, read and produced this short short story about the human ...
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 07:30
MAU 2 features four short short stories your spoken word listeners will not forget. Along with the very best contemporary flash fiction we feature...
- Added: Jul 19, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Ramps, the first edible sign of spring, are popping up throughout the woods of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. But this wild cousin of garlic and o...
- Added: Jul 13, 2012
- Length: 03:25
