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I worked in a refugee camp in Thessaloniki, Greece this summer and put together an hour long piece meant to humanize the refugee crisis. Listen to...

Bought by KVSC, KPIP-LP, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2017
  • Length: 55:26
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Shared human experience..makes us human., Credit: Susan Cook
Amazon has announced they will soon launch an attempt to eliminate that pesky feature of day-to-day life- ‘the grocery store check-out employee’. ...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 07:13
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As women in this country grieve the lost opportunity to elect a woman President, the widespread sanctioning of Donald Trump’s sexploitation is ther...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 05:11
Caption: Big screen, little truck..., Credit: Susan Cook
In today's Department of Poetic Justice, we offer a musical tribute to a fictional radio host, Rushton Limbo, who poetically longs for the respite ...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 02:53
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In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet John Eikost, the editor-in-chief of the art and culture entertainment website Toledo.com

  • Added: Oct 10, 2016
  • Length: 06:02
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Child prodigies need the chance to find themselves- the moment they become ‘spellbound’ because they have found the field their gift has been looki...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2016
  • Length: 07:04
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Here we are just weeks before the 2016 Presidential election and what seems to be on the line- still- is whether or not Hillary Clinton is a truth...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:40
Caption: Nothing says conspiracy theory like a girl..., Credit: Downeast Magazine
Today The River Is Wide introduces a new specialty item : the two and a half minute Conspiracy Theory. We don’t want to ramble. We’ll keep it brief...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 03:14
Caption: New York City Young Gun, Credit: Photo taken by George Samuals 1984
This is a series of interviews designed to showcase various attitudes held in the African American Community about Gun Ownership in General, and Co...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2016
  • Length: 16:05
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The Rough Draft Diaries visits our local newspaper to interview Taylor Dungjen, a journalist working to understand and help the community around her.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 06:09
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Magic: The Gathering, the international, collectible card has over 20 million players. So when Clinton's friend and "magic buddy," Brent, moves awa...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 32:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Polls don't decide the winner. Voters do. , Credit: Susan Cook
The American voting public has become as gullible about Election polls as they are about quick weight loss plans. In Maine, Election eve, 2010, t...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2016
  • Length: 08:01
Caption: No more Prairie Home Companion ponies to ride, Credit: Susan Cook
I watched the next-to-last Prairie Home Companion live broadcast on my laptop since the show and the 1 and ½ hour encore were live streamed on You-...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:09
Caption: "I don't hate the press, none of them. As a matter of fact, I feel sorry for them.'', Credit: Szep, Boston Globe, July 18, 1974
Maine Public Broadcasting Network has made the perplexing decision to segregate music and poetry to a separate pay-to-hear HD radio service called ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2016
  • Length: 07:16
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Back in 2005, Dana Connors, Maine State Chamber of Commerce president said, "This is not the time or place to expand Maine care coverage to more u...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2016
  • Length: 07:02
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Hollow Earth Radio was founded in the bedrooms of Amber Kai Morgan and her husband Garrett Kelly almost ten years ago. They've since moved the oper...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 09:20
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The River Is Wide today offers a musical tribute to the 2016 Republican primaries to the tune of "Tonight" from the Broadway musical "West Side Sto...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 01:22
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Benji Rogers is the founder of the crowdfunding platform PledgeMusic. He's also a music super fan, and gigantic proponent for the Direct-To-Fan mov...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 24:06
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Seth Godin joined me in an exclusive conversation on what makes real art (and what is just weird), why most musicians aren't building tribes but sh...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 19:40
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks 'Since Apple claims they refuse the order to open the San Bernadino murderer's I-phone to respect the ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:14
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As a young woman in the 60s, Andy Austin talked her way into a job as a courtroom sketch artist in Chicago. She spent 43 years sketching everyone f...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 24, 2016
  • Length: 17:21
  • Purchases: 1
From: Jesse Rhodes
Series: Mannish
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A preview of Mannish: a show that investigates the meaning of masculinity.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2016
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Jonathan Goldstein, Credit: Shane Epping
Writer and radio producer Jonathan Goldstein talks about starting out in radio, working at This American Life, and blurring the line between fact &...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2016
  • Length: 09:53
Caption: Brian "Scoop" Nemeth, Credit: Noel Black
In this episode of Wish We Were here, we tell the story of Brian "Scoop" Nemeth, a man with high-functioning autism whose singular goal in life is ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 59:05
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For years Danna Harman had been reporting the same old political stories for The Jerusalem Post. She wanted out. That’s how she found herself in Ke...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 20:05