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An acting tour de force from Jason Robards and Judith Ivey.
- Added: Apr 01, 2020
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 18
If you're thinking, wait, I thought it was tenderhooks, you're not alone. Amy explains this early 18th century idiom that describes having a sense ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 1
If your client calls a centimeter a "sontimeter," I'll assume they're medical and you've got a leader.
This is Episode 82 of Engineering Word Of T...
- Added: Feb 07, 2020
- Length: 06:10
Welcome to our funniest episode yet. Scientists avert international tension between Sweden and Russia, learn something we didn't know about herring...
- Added: Jan 13, 2020
- Length: 04:37
I thought about the good old days this week, when I was smart and my phone was dumb, when a blue state was me having a bad day, and when Harvey was...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Jan 07, 2020
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
Barn owls come in three colors, a tawny brown, a mix of brown a white, and all white. It didn't make sense to researchers how a white owl could be ...
- Added: Jan 06, 2020
- Length: 06:15
On this episode of Art of the Song Live from Caffè Lena we bring you none other than Kinky Friedman.
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 59:00
Either way you spell it, you either love that black candy or can't get away fast enough. Amy dives into why.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 1
In the late 19th century, London had the beginnings of homeless shelters. They weren't always comfortable (try sleeping in a four-penny coffin), bu...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 04:42
- Purchases: 1
Before they even hatch, Yellow Legged Gull chicks seem to be communication to their nest mates. Amy dives into the how and why.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
Would you pay eight-thousand dollars to impress your friends with a pineapple? No? Well, the Victorians did.
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 08:19
When the US and Canadian governments decided the border between our two countries, a few places got left on the "wrong" side of the line. Those pla...
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 08:03
The 29th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on September 12 at Harvard University.
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 16:33
Humorist and author Roy Blount Jr. talks with National Writers Series co-founder Doug Stanton.
Bought by WKAR and Michigan Radio
- Added: Oct 30, 2019
- Length: 54:29
- Purchases: 2
In Minnesota, freezing winters and big snowfalls come with the territory. But three feet of snow on Halloween? That was a day to remember. In this ...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 33:50
- Purchases: 1
Josh Patterson loved taking photographs of rare finds in the Mojave Desert. But on one trip, things didn’t go as planned.
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 16:28
- Purchases: 2
Ralph, the philosophy professor, tries to apply logic to everything.
- Added: Sep 17, 2019
- Length: 14:04
Derek Smalls formerly of the band formerly known as Spinal Tap discusses new CD Smalls Change (meditations on ageing) Lukewarm Water tour in 2019 o...
- Added: Sep 16, 2019
- Length: 32:26
Tom Gasko has been a vacuum repairman for some 35 years, but his passion for vacuums extends far beyond that and into a collection of hundreds and ...
- Added: Sep 13, 2019
- Length: 02:21
Who says classical music needs to be stuffy? This week, music with a sense of humor.
- Added: Aug 23, 2019
- Length: 58:30
Like a scaly cheetah, galloping crocs were a terror both on land and in the water. Good thing they lived 100 million years ago.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSFR
- Added: Aug 06, 2019
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 2
A collaborative "Short List" poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: :48
- Purchases: 1
Medical science on the fly. Turns out you only need to pull a few G's to loosen that stubborn kidney stone.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 26, 2019
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 1
The Great Northern Radio Show broadcast live on April 13th, 2019 from the Historic Chief Theater in Bemidji Minnesota.
- Added: Jun 25, 2019
- Length: 02:02:33
How do we not die in the desert this summer? One way is to stay underneath the swamp cooler, reading and writing letters, to and from various deniz...
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
