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A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets prove that every day.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:25
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A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets prove that every day. The voice of "The Beat," Steve Downing recites one o...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:52
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A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets prove that every day.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:12
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A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets prove that every day.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:23
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A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets prove that every day. Minnesota's current Poet Laureate recites her poem t...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:08
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A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets prove that every day. Minnesota's current Poet Laureate recites her poem ...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:41
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A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets prove that every day. Steve Downing reads one of his own poems, "Wayfaring ...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:44
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A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets prove that every day. Steve Downing recites "Henry's Understanding" from a...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
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We debut this new series with a poet who was a charter member of "The Beat Poets," Gregory Corso.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
Caption: Gabby Pahinui (center), playing music in his backyard with Leland “Atta” Isaacs (left), and his sons – Phillip, Cyril and Martin Pahinui (from left to right).  , Credit: Photo courtesy of the Pahinui Ohana.
The groundbreaking soundtrack of "The Descendants," marks the first time a Hollywood movie has ever been scored entirely with Hawaiian music. It fe...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2012
  • Length: 07:17
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He was one of the pioneers of jazz on the violin. Though largely self taught, his career lasted some 77 years, and he recorded hundred of albums. p...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Duckbill dinosaur footprints and other Cretaceous-era fossils that were recovered in local coal mines are preserved in the Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah., Credit: Ross Chambless
Do you know where your electricity comes from?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Stairs hydroelectric dam in Big Cottonwood Canyon, one of the oldest sources of electricity for Salt Lake City., Credit: Ross Chambless
Do you know where your electricity comes from?

  • Added: Sep 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:12
Caption: Ross Chambless stands outside a substation near his home in Salt Lake City., Credit: Ross Chambless
Do you know where your electricity comes from?

  • Added: Sep 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:12
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As a child in the 1930s, Irwin predicted he would travel to the moon ... at a time when anything written on the topic was clearly labeled "science ...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
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For more than fifty years ... an unbroken streak of more than 4500 games, Bob Sheppard was the voice of Yankee Stadium. As Reggie Jackson said, "t...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
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Who was Sim Webb? Well, fifty-seven years earlier, April of 1900, he was the man who lived. It happened like this ...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
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His was a life that nearly didn't happen. He fell under a boxcar, his left arm mangled as a child, yet went on to own and manage one of the greates...

  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
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His father was the only one of Custer's men to survive at Little Big Horn and his mother was the daughter of a Sioux chief. Viggo Mortensen played ...

  • Added: May 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
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Lou Gehrig's retirement speech from baseball is one of the most poignant and meaningful moments in all of American sport.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 03:58
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East Alabama Art's Kyle Gassiott interviews Juan Malizia and dancer from the Argentinian based troupe Tango Fire who will perform at the Opelika Ce...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 14:15
Caption: Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro, Credit: Heidi Chang
The Hawaii Ukulele Festival attracts thousands of people from around the globe. Hear from musicians like Jake Shimabukuro, who's inspiring a resurg...

Bought by KUOW and WILL


  • Added: Jul 27, 2010
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2
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A sound postcard from Antillanca, a ski resort in Chile. It's summer, so only the animals are there.

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Jul 23, 2010
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Imagine your skin as a giant ear. What does your skin hear while you're sleeping?

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2010
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
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A cacophony of birdsong greets the dawn in Kauai, Hawaii.

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2010
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1