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Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Safety, Credit: Julia Meek
Relax! This Folktale comes with a safety harness!

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), and WFIU


  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Scratch & Sniff Logo, Credit: Walker Raigh
A special Mother’s Day episode where Walker reads a letter she sent to her mom years ago to tell her why her desire to never have children does not...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 05:14
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Take a look at any percussion section in a wind band or orchestra, and it’s generally full of men. This week, we’ll turn that on its head, as we l...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 58:31
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“P.S. to Johnny: I am happy about the baby except the name. Couldn’t we find something a little less far out?” Rain’s mother dies young, and in a ...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
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A story about a boy getting rejected and giving a girl a Valentine, then it being unappreciated by going with another man.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 04:01
Caption: Martha Serpas
In today's classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR, we revisit Gulf Coast poet, Martha Serpas, whose 2020 book, DOUBLE EFFECT, won the L.E. Phillabaum Poetr...

Bought by KMXT, WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Regulation, degradation, shaming, blaming - enough! Is it time for sexual liberation yet? We talk a lot about sex but not often enough about pleasu...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KDNK


  • Added: Aug 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Richard Fifield discusses his young adult novel, "The Small Crimes of Tiffany Templeton." He also reads a short section.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Orange Mighty Trio, Credit: Nik Powell
Three Great Groups that Combine Traditional Styles in New ways play at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis on Thurs January 16. They are Orang...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
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Bob Kustra talks with novelist Gary Shteyngart about "Lake Success"

  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Patrick Adkins, Credit: Andrea Canter
Jon Morgan curates Wednesday nights at Jazz Central Studios in Minneapolis. It is a night when local jazz players try out musical ideas and experim...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
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Today on the RDD, we meet Lucy M. Long, Phd, is Director and founder of the Center for Food and Culture, an independent non-profit that promotes de...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 02, 2018
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 1
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After interviewing his two challengers, Rob MacClanahan questions El Dorado Supervisor Ranalli, even though he's not there...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:09:21
Caption: One Ukulele, Credit: Dan Wilder
One Ukulele. Well, it’s actually three men who sing with ukuleles and guitars, too. The group performs and spreads the word about how fun it is to ...

Bought by PRX Remix and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: David Apkarian (left) and Russell Lehmann (right)
Air travel can be a stressful experience for just about anyone. But for 26-year-old Russell Lehmann, a flight delay or cancellation isn’t just a sm...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:37
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Three broadcast-ready segments with out-cues (one hour total) of weekly new music show, radio UNLEASHED, based out of Woodstock NY.

Bought by WSGE and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 55:32
  • Purchases: 2
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At the Really, Really Free Market, the concept of quid pro quo is banished. Sarah and Kelley talk with organizers and participants at a market wher...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 1
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What she calls “real,” others may call superstition. Sarah Levai, a Romanian immigrant to the United States, came with hopes and dreams, but also w...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 01:08
  • Purchases: 1
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In the second episode of a podcast produced by the advanced audio class at the University of Montana School of Journalism: three deeply human stori...

  • Added: May 06, 2016
  • Length: 16:57
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It's hard to let go of owning a car. What passes through those pipelines we hear so much about?

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 14:05
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Israel Story producers crisscrossed the small country, visiting every 48 Herzl Street and collecting stories from whomever they encountered.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 37:16
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1
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Dean Brooks graduated from Bemidji State University in 2012 with a degree in Creative Writing. He looks for inspiration in dusty corners, early mor...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:29
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Ann Niedringhaus is a Duluth poet who has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She belongs to a Duluth writers group that is currentl...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 01:35
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Ellie Schoenfeld, in her own words, is a poet from Duluth who has never once been a trapeze artist in real life. The Beat daily reminder that, in M...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 03:45