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Must, could, should, shall, might, may... We dig into the weird, wiggly, weaselly world of modal verbs.
- Added: Aug 29, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
With Charli XCX sparking a summer phenomenon, we take a look at the nature of slang: who uses it, why we use it, and how we need to be very careful...
- Added: Aug 15, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Today we look at words that came from other words even though we think the second word should have come first.
- Added: Aug 08, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
We look at language rules that are rules sometimes, and rules that don't make sense. Well, they make some sense. Whatever. They're rules, anyway.
- Added: Aug 01, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
This week, we're talking ambiguous words and ambiguous phrases. Sometimes we think we know what we're saying and sometimes we're really wrong.
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Jul 10, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Latin may be dead, but we still use it every day. This week, we look at some common Latin phrases and what they actually mean.
- Added: Jul 03, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We know what a berry is, we know what a cranberry is, but what the heck is a "cran?" We enter the sometimes murky world of the cranberry morpheme...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Jun 27, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
After this year's thrilling spell-off in the National Spelling Bee, we try to tease out the definitions of some of the words that won the contest.
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
This week, we're talking about some of the very oldest words in the English language, and how little some of them have changed over thousands of ye...
- Added: Jun 06, 2024
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
We're looking at words that were made by smooshing together other words, but it all happened so long ago that we completely forgot about it.
- Added: May 30, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Who are we? What are we doing here? This episode will introduce listeners to host Fletcher Powell and language experts Kathy Petras and Ross Petras...
- Added: Jan 30, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 5
Interview with Scottish author Gail Honeyman. Her debut, highly-acclaimed novel is "Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine."
- Added: Jun 18, 2018
- Length: 10:13
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
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
WTIP's Dave Seaton chatted recently with the delightful Mary Roach, author of quirky science books like "Stiff," "Bonk," and "Packing for Mars." H...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 22:04
- Purchases: 1
In this interview Brian Bahouth chats with Carissa Halston and Randolph Phaff, Co-founding Editors of the literary magazine apt and Aforementioned ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 29:41
Lorna Landvik is the author of eight previous novels including the best selling "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, "Oh My Stars," and "The View Fro...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KVSC
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 20:20
- Purchases: 2
By Mark Sheely. Culture Queue brings you Part Two and the conclusion of our radio play adaptation, The Immortal Ms. Sherlock Holmes. Will Holmes ou...
- Added: Jul 06, 2012
- Length: 01:56
This week from Culture Queue, we're keen as mustard to bring you the thrilling conclusion of our play from across the pond. Join Sherlock, Moriarty...
- Added: Jul 06, 2012
- Length: 24:28
This week on Culture Queue, we "honor" the memories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Orson Welles alike with our lastest radio play. It's "The Immorta...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 33:22
By Brianna Hanson. This week, Culture Queue once again steps into the world of old timey radio drama. Because the University of Minnesota is home t...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: :40
- Purchases: 1
Booking the Trend, by Mitch Skinner: If print is dead, you wouldn't know it by talking to people in the business. Physical books are still selling.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 06, 2012
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 1
California is facing a $13 billion budget shortfall over the next year and a half, and it’s safe to say that the pain will be felt across public se...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 16, 2012
- Length: 06:35
- Purchases: 2
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
