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We're back from the road with a new episode to celebrate the most glorious time of year: October, Autumn, Harvest, Fall, whatever you all it. With ...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Oct 01, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many hero...
- Added: Jun 18, 2021
- Length: 28:00
In 1971, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled his drug-fueled haze during an off-road-desert race, the Mint 400, in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Veg...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 11:17
Richard and his daughter Johanna explore the physical, emotional, and spiritual planes of our existence while exercising on Zoom.
- Added: Sep 18, 2020
- Length: 08:47
Ellie the nine-year-old collie-retriever set out on an unexpected journey across Europe's borders from her home in Sweden to the South of France.
- Added: Aug 30, 2020
- Length: 05:02
Veronica Tosetti takes us on a journey around the Spomeniks - a trail of statues commemorating former Yugoslavia, and the people who died in conflict.
- Added: Aug 30, 2020
- Length: 06:13
From Bucharest, Romania, here’s Andreea Sirbu, she’s 18, just finished high school, and her story is about a conversation that made her realise -- ...
- Added: Aug 30, 2020
- Length: 05:09
We hear from authors Kristin Higgins, Anne Enright, and David Pepper--they all have new novels to tell us about, and later in the show we’ll hear f...
- Added: Jul 01, 2020
- Length: 59:54
An appropriate new hourlong episode for these interesting times we are cursed to live in. With guest Erik Davis, bestselling author of High Weirdne...
- Added: Apr 03, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
Nora is a 5th grade student in Austin, Texas, and is continuing her grandmother's tradition of Irish step dancing.
- Added: Mar 19, 2020
- Length: 03:22
Community Member talks about favorite books -- Khalid Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.
- Added: Mar 01, 2020
- Length: 09:24
Action figure collectables for adults is booming, even when kids are loosing interest in little plastic guys.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 27, 2019
- Length: 18:11
- Purchases: 3
Author Samuel Shem --his new satirical novel is "Man’s 4th Best Hospital;" author Ruta Sepetys--her new book is called "The Fountains of Silence"--...
- Added: Nov 27, 2019
- Length: 59:46
Many wonders over the desert skies—both known and unknown—give reason to be out on cool autumn nights, celebrating rituals.
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Nov 09, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Helping the environment isn’t just about recycling and abandoning plastic straws. WXXI’s Caitlin Whyte explored the concept of citizen science, and...
Bought by WBFO
- Added: Aug 21, 2018
- Length: 03:48
- Purchases: 1
It has always been my dream to live on a sailboat and travel the world. In this short audio piece, I invite the listener into the first step in the...
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 05:03
What is a raptor?
Naturalist Ken Burton offers up some details on these amazing birds, including addressing the concept of convergent evolution.
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: Feb 28, 2018
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
He's a familiar face around Boston. Now hear what this mystery man has to say about music, race, street violence and bringing joy to the city he lo...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 06:10
- Purchases: 1
Bill Frisell was heavily influenced by surf rock and space travel. Hear him in his own words tell you his origin story. Lots of great music in this...
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 12:15
Preyas Roy has performed in famous venues like the Jazz Showcase. But he makes his living on a downtown Chicago street corner — despite the unwield...
- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 02:56
What's it like to experience total memory loss? Oyevind Aamot experienced the unimaginable. After traveling the world for years, he awoke from a fa...
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- Added: Jul 08, 2016
- Length: 32:40
- Purchases: 1
What does it feel like to be an outside in the middle of a national crisis? A Japanese-Canadian perspective on the earthquake and tsunami that shoo...
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 22:37
Do you know that feeling you get when you’re about to leave a place? Like you’re seeing it all for the first time? That all the sounds and sights ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2016
- Length: 22:59
Paddle Minnesota producer Jim Gallagher shares an audio postcard from a canoe trip he took during the summer of 2015 in the barren lands at the cen...
- Added: Feb 04, 2016
- Length: 07:39
A young man's journey from his home in Chile to his host family in suburban Minnesota quickly turns from exciting adventure to a nightmare.
- Added: Dec 26, 2015
- Length: 30:20