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Ernie Pyle: The War Correspondent and his Impact – Exploring the life, reporting style, and enduring legacy of Ernie Pyle, a Pulitzer Prize-winning...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2024
  • Length: 08:26
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Raymond Chandler, born on July 23, 1888, was an American-British novelist and screenwriter renowned for his contributions to the hardboiled detecti...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2024
  • Length: 06:29
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Limited Access to Healthcare Providers and Facilities: Rural areas often need more healthcare resources. This includes fewer hospitals, clinics, an...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2024
  • Length: 04:12
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Upton Sinclair’s novel “The Jungle,” published in 1906, is a seminal work that exposed the harrowing conditions of the meat-packing industry in the...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2024
  • Length: 04:21
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In the aftermath of World War II, Europe lay in ruins. Cities were devastated, economies shattered, and the continent faced a crisis of unprecedent...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2024
  • Length: 03:18
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Scott Joplin often hailed as the “King of Ragtime,” made profound and lasting contributions to developing and popularizing ragtime music. His innov...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 03:21
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Charles Bronson, an emblematic figure in American cinema, had a life as intriguing and resilient as the characters he portrayed on screen. Born Cha...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 04:06
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The Book Nook | wprnPublicRadio.com An Interview with Author Guy Morris by Adam Scull https://wprnpublicradio.com/articles/guy-morris/ Check out ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 18:59
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Andrew Wyeth, an American artistic luminary, transcended the canvas to become a masterful chronicler of the human condition and the natural world. ...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2024
  • Length: 10:27
Caption: " Breathing: American Sonnets" (Shermans.com), Credit: Susan Cook
Black holes still doing what they do. Re-visiting Einstein imagining his most important discovery.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Poetry Month and Einstein creating E=mc squared

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: :55
  • Purchases: 1
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Brain surgeon and unlikely war hero Ryan Brenan has everything: a booming practice, a beautiful home in an idyllic setting, and a happy, loving fam...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 12:55
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ix months after the sudden loss of an unplanned pregnancy, Hannah Moore is almost ready to think about living again. That is until one fateful day ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2024
  • Length: 10:16
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Hosts Patti and Doug Wood revisit some of the highlights of 2023

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2024
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
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The phenomenon of an aging population is reshaping the demographic landscape globally, with its impact being profoundly felt in rural areas. Unlike...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2024
  • Length: 04:26
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Mainstream media’s neglect of rural America is a multifaceted issue with deep-rooted causes and significant consequences. First and foremost, the e...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2023
  • Length: 14:33
Caption: Ben and Kassie Wilson (Goldpine)
Beyond a Song host Rich Reardin talks with Nashville singer/songwriters Ben and Kassie Wilson.

  • Added: Dec 23, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Ben and Kassie Wilson
Beyond a Song host Rich Reardin talks with Nashville singer/songwriters Ben and Kassie Wilson.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: "...to a wider grasp...", Credit: Susan J Cook
Poetry best helps us grasp the Quantum Mechanics topic of the latest Nobel Prize in Physics.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Breathing:American Sonnets on Bookshop.org + at Gulf Maine Books, Credit: Susan Cook
On September 28, 1905 Einstein's paper on the special theory of relativity was published in Annalen der Physik. A Poetic version, "Einstein's So...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 1
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Tonight’s episode comes to you live from Los Angeles, where Desert Oracle Radio opened the show for “Seattle’s Slowest,” the legendary group EARTH ...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On the next Audacious, meet a woman who married a man who was on death row, and had a child with him. Hear his story, too, and their views on love,...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
Caption: The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America series, Credit: Nicole Xu
After the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision in June 2022, Dr. Emily Silverman spoke with Dr. Alison Block – a family medicine physician, abor...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 48:10
Caption: The House, Credit: Catherine Rose McGuigan
Kimberly had talked about her house as if it was a person, her best friend as she put it. Stephanie saw her house as a metaphor for her life, falli...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 24:53
Caption: "When loss and innocence...", Credit: Susan Cook
Three poems of loss, courage and resilience for these times.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 03:05