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This is a reading of two slightly humorous letters written to and from the former director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover (1875-1972).
They both dea...
- Added: Jun 25, 2024
- Length: 09:28
Author Kirstin Cronn-Mills talks about her new book "Rules for Camouflage"
- Added: Jun 20, 2024
- Length: 09:50
Acting like a responsible adult can be challenging at the best of times. Add dealing with climate chaos to the mix, and keeping it all together can...
Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KOWS and more
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 9
Acting like a responsible adult can be challenging at the best of times. Add dealing with climate chaos to the mix, and keeping it all together can...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 58:56
Summer is coming soon, and for many that means vacation. While traveling far and wide can be an amazing experience, the carbon cost of traveling is...
Bought by KUNM, Troy Public Radio, KCNP, KWGS, WWNO and more
- Added: May 23, 2024
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 21
Summer is coming soon, and for many that means vacation. While traveling far and wide can be an amazing experience, the carbon cost of traveling is...
- Added: May 23, 2024
- Length: 58:57
Brian Dunning delves into urban legends surrounding three of the greatest classical composers as well as the renowned Stradivarius violin.
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Author and dancer Georgia Finnegan talks about her new book "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota"
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 08:08
Eddie Miles is one of a dying breed: a Windy City hack who knows every street and back alley of his beloved city and takes its recent descent into ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2024
- Length: 27:08
Minneapolis-based artist Alondra Garza has been adding a little crunch to her recent body of work. And that crunch comes in the form of hot cheetos.
- Added: Apr 30, 2024
- Length: 06:13
Sam Dunning and Stimson Snead talk jibs, self-acceptance, and the power of entropy.
- Added: Mar 13, 2024
- Length: 22:42
John Wilson, Head Berry and Founder of the Razzie Awards, talks dodging bullets, buying a sense of humor, and ruining a perfectly bad movie.
- Added: Mar 09, 2024
- Length: 20:00
This episode focuses on the making of Whit Stillman's third film, The Last Days of Disco, the conclusion in what is often referred to as his Doomed...
- Added: Feb 23, 2024
- Length: 54:00
In this second episode of our series on the career, legacy, aspirations and regrets of Whit Stillman, we hear from the filmmaker — as well as actor...
- Added: Feb 23, 2024
- Length: 52:44
- Added: Feb 21, 2024
- Length: 03:03
We talk about some iconic movies from the 1970s, and their infamous villains–the killer hillbilly and his degenerate rural family.
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 37:16
In this episode we talk about who the instigators of terror are in horror movies, and why it matters whether they are from urban or rural areas
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 36:38
Author Matthew Batt talks about his new memoir "The Last Supper Club: A Waiter's Requiem"
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 08:33
In our third episode, we turn our attention to the fear of isolation — both physical and emotional —and how it’s connected to portrayals of grief i...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 35:35
Join us for a closer look at a set of iconic movies that made a horror trope out of an over-the-top stereotype, introducing us to an infamous class...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 37:16
What jokes would George Carlin have deemed offensive today? What makes us laugh has come under scrutiny. Old jokes or skits are deemed offensive in...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUNM, and WMUU-LP
- Added: Nov 09, 2023
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 3
Sex is hard to talk about. We often speak about it so indirectly. In Minnesota, many of us are even more adept to tiptoeing around the issue. But S...
- Added: Jun 13, 2023
- Length: 07:42
Songs that ask questions along the spectrum ranging from bluegrass to jazz music.
- Added: May 12, 2023
- Length: 01:57:37
The Life Of A Musician, Nashville, Alimony, and the Hangman in Dollar Country this week.
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KIYU-FM, KSTK, and KHNS
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 4
National Poetry Month continues with this "Classic" program featuring our current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón (lee-moan). In this 2020 reading at ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
