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Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis
From: Samuel Robinson
Caption: Spiral design on the street
'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 09:06
581: Reading While Young / 582: Up All Night, 5/1/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Reading While Young" - Having trouble reading? Maybe the answer is a younger read. We'll celebrate the new season of our "Bookmarks" mic...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:01
Voluptuous Veils, Vigorous Voyage Part III
From: tenali hrenak
Series: Muddy Boots
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Funny how a crow caws and a roster crows. What’s this have to do with anything? Likely, nothing. Or mayhap it does. Join Tenaciously Tender tenali ...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:56:03
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 232
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Cartoonist Peter Bagge, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Cartoonist PETER BAGGE, author KAREN KARBO, and music from OLD LIGHT.

Bought by WCPN, KSRQ, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, and 90.5 WESA


  • Added: Nov 08, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 232 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Cartoonist Peter Bagge, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Cartoonist PETER BAGGE, author KAREN KARBO, and music from OLD LIGHT.

Bought by KUT, WRIR, KCPW Salt Lake City, KUOW, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2013
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 6
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 231 Newshole version
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis, Credit: Duane Bolland for Live Wire! Radio
Comic book writer BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, Toro Bravo chef and cookbook author JOHN GORHAM, comedian BRANDIE POSEY, and music from 1939 ENSEMBLE.

Bought by KUT, KUOW, KCPW Salt Lake City, and Oregon Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Nov 01, 2013
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 4
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 231
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis, Credit: Duane Bolland for Live Wire! Radio
Comic book writer BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, Toro Bravo chef and cookbook author JOHN GORHAM, comedian BRANDIE POSEY, and music from 1939 ENSEMBLE.

Bought by WCPN, Spokane Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 217 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: NYTimes Best Selling Author Augusten Burroughs, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author of the NYT best seller "Running with Scissors", AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The Oregonians musical editor, RYAN WHITE Musical Guests, RADIATION CITY

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, KWMR, and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Jul 05, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 181 Encore NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: New York Times Best-selling author of Wild, Cheryl Strayed, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
CHERYL STRAYED - Best-selling Author LAUREN WEEDMAN - Actress, Writer, Humorist LAURA GIBSON- Singer/Songwriter

  • Added: Aug 16, 2012
  • Length: 55:00
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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When Jack Beck and Wendy Welch decided to move to the small mountain town of Big Stone Gap, they hadn’t planned on opening a used bookstore.

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
On The Margins of Music - Alan Lomax & Anthony Burgess
From: Open Source
Caption: Anthony Burgess by David Levine, from The New York Review of Books
First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...

Bought by KRVS, KPIP-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5