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Rob MacClanahan reads chapters 3 & 4 of H G Well's 1895 classic, "The Time Machine"

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 01:25:52
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Oh how fair these days flick'ring in lustrous bounty of poetry, st'ry, and song. Cometh hith'r and lift up thine ears of rapturous wond'r as thund'...

  • Added: May 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:47:33
Caption: Stephen Thomas Oney and his cast rehearse for a live broadcast of “The Legacy of Euriah Pillar” at the University of Portland, Maine, Credit: Stephen Thomas Oney
For many, Cape Cod means sunshine and sandy beaches. But to one West Barnstable writer and producer, the Cape means foggy cemeteries at night, dang...

  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 04:36
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle part one, directed by Jason Merrin, composed by...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:44
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The poet, Danny Klecko runs a bakery in St. Paul. Some of his poems are written while his Capital City bread is in the oven. If you listen to "The ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:07
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Cate Belleveau is a retired educator, who's written poetry and plays and a children's book. She's also the artistic director of the Mask & Rose Wom...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 03:55
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Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:41
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Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:34
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Our Spring 2012 Edition features five short stories specially adapted to audio. Unique sound design illuminates the best contemporary short fictio...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Paul Revere by Copley
On the 240th anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride, re-visiting the Longfellow poem. What did Longfellow get right or wrong? Who rode that night...

Bought by KUT and Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 2
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
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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
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confessions of a Colin Firth groupie

  • Added: Feb 15, 2008
  • Length: 05:25