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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
An interview with the author Jamie Holmes about his book, Nonsense. A look at the surprising upside of ambiguity—and how, properly harnessed, it ca...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 1
Melody loves words, but she can't speak or write or even walk across a room. Until a new computer opens up her life. Students from St. Lucy School ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 19:48
Book Club for Kids goes to LA for a discussion of Roald Dahl's first book for kids "James and the Giant Peach." Public radio legend Cash Peters is ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 21:34
Kite fighting on the National Mall - it's all part of the Cherry Blossom Festival. It's also at the center of Natalie Dias Lorenzi's novel "Flying ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2016
- Length: 18:27
An unusual and irreverent comic strip about a misfit cat served as inspiration to 20th century poet e e cummings.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: :58
J. California Cooper loved playing with paper dolls--even as an adult.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 01:00
Responding to his editor about why he wrote his most famous children's novel, E.B. White replied in characteristic good humor.
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :58
American poet Frank O'Hara got into trouble with his overbearing mother.
- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: :58
Two short plays. In Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn’s Fifth Planet, a professional astronomer played by Amy Ryan (Birdman; Gone, Baby, Gone) an...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 4
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring the Artist AmarA, Director Sue Zizza, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Grave...
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 58:34
Robert Jevne lives, works, farms and occassionally writes in the greater Jacobson area.
- Added: Oct 08, 2015
- Length: :44
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Featuring Director and Writer Don Thacker, Author Dr. Frank Romano, and The Finest Hours i...
- Added: Oct 07, 2015
- Length: 58:45
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
Congressman Brad Ashford reads from Rainbow Rowell's unlikely romance "Eleanor & Park". Kids from the Book Worm Girls book club discuss the book.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 21:03
My friend Archie Meade is developing a new literary genre. It's called "arithmefiction." He said "it's like science fiction, only it's about math...
- Added: Aug 11, 2015
- Length: 02:49
Jeanne Lutz grew up on a dairy farm in southern Minnesota and lives in St Paul now. She loves to write poetry because its something she can do anyw...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 01:12
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
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
Summer is here again. . . Let’s celebrate the commencement of the hot and sweaty season with a batch of lovely sun soaked tunes. Join Winding River...
- Added: Jun 17, 2015
- Length: 01:49:41
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Featuring the New Zealand band Ivy Blue, Author Martin Lastrapes, and Night Fall by New Yo...
- Added: Jun 10, 2015
- Length: 57:31
Margaret Hasse is a Twin Cities consultant, working primarily in the arts and art education. She's published four books of poetry and has received ...
- Added: Jun 10, 2015
- Length: 02:20
Raw, young and heartfelt Brooklyn, NY up and coming act along with Big Top Chautauqua's Blue Canvas Orchestra.
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 10
The Point Reyes Light, a weekly newspaper in West Marin, is known for a lot of things. It won a Pulitzer Prize, it’s done muckraking reporting on a...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 1
A few years ago Lisa Potts was looking behind her dresser when she saw a cassette tape. She’d forgotten about the tape--a recording of an interview...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 5