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The Defining Words of the Spelling Bee
From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong
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After this year's thrilling spell-off in the National Spelling Bee, we try to tease out the definitions of some of the words that won the contest.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2024
  • Length: 28:59
06172024: Banned Books, 6/17/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour, our summer interns Julia Wolfe and Sophie Anderson-Haynie have co-written and produced a program about Banned Boo...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Smooshed-up Words
From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong
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We're looking at words that were made by smooshing together other words, but it all happened so long ago that we completely forgot about it.

Bought by KRPS and KECG


  • Added: May 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Rheturn of Rhetoric
From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong
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We're dipping back into common rhetorical devices today, and talking about how they can be used to win people to your side... or at least make them...

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
If I Were To Talk About The Subjunctive
From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong
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Some of us (Fletcher) can never keep straight what, exactly, the subjunctive is, so fortunately Kathy and Ross are here to remind us.

Bought by KECG and KRPS


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sneaky Rules We Don't Know We Follow
From: KMUW
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Some of us like to be rule breakers, but here are a few rules of the English language we can’t help but follow. And we probably don’t even know the...

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: "As I Am" by Celeste Finn
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author and educator Celeste Finn talks about her new book "As I Am"

  • Added: Feb 09, 2023
  • Length: 08:29
Little Free Libraries
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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There are more than 100,000 Little Free Library sites worldwide. We learn about them from Little Free Library Inc's Shelby King. We've also got boo...

Bought by KECG, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KSTK, WUTC and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
20221031: Little Free Libraries, 10/31/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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There are more than 100,000 Little Free Library sites worldwide. We learn about them from Little Free Library Inc's Shelby King. We've also got boo...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Delaware State of the Arts - Poetry Out Loud 2023
From: Andrew Truscott
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Andy Truscott speaks with Dr. JoAnn Balingit and Dr. Traci Currie, the teaching artists and coaches of 2023's Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest in...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 22:28
Angelica Guillen, Farm Worker, Educator, Activist, and Poet, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Angelica Guillen
Interview by Mike Dumovich and Gary Kanter: Angelica talks about her life after growing up in a migrant camp, her father, being an educator, as an...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
David Jepsen, Author, History Professor, Film Maker, Retired Reporter
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: David Jepsen
Interview by Mike Dumovich: David discusses his new history book called Contested Boundaries.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
Kevin J. Anderson — A writer's life
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents Think People host Alan Wartes spoke with bestselling fantasy and fiction writer Kevin Anderson.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Enneagram, Personality Development, and Spiritual Growth
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Chris Heuretz, author of The Sacred Enneagram and Suzanne Stabile and Ian Morgan Cron, co-authors of "The Road Back to You."
This week we explore the enneagram. It is becoming a big deal. What is this enneagram and why are counselors and spiritual directors finding it so ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
Prince as a 19th Century French Dandy
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Karen Turman, Assistant Professor of French at Winona State University, compares Prince to a 19th Century French Dandy.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 50:38
Becoming Jeffersons People Part One
From: The Thomas Jefferson Hour with Clay Jenkinson
Series: The Thomas Jefferson Hour
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Clay S. Jenkinson discusses his book: "Becoming Jefferson's People: Re-Inventing the American Republic in the Twenty-First Century" in the first of...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
"The Symphony," an African-American poetry collective
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: R. Dwayne Betts of The Symphony Poets
The Symphony is a group of African-American poets originally comprised of John Murillo, R. Reginald Dwayne Betts, Randall Horton, and Marcus Jackso...

Bought by WNJR and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Ideas Books: Gavin Francis, Adventures in Human Being
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
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An in-depth conversation with author Gavin Francis about his book, the human body and his life as a doctor. A beautiful conversation about celebrat...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 24:05
  • Purchases: 1
The Extreme Life of the Sea -- Groks Science Show 2014-04-16
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Stephen Palumbi discusses The Extreme Life of the Sea.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, KFOK-LPFM, and KPVL


  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 25:16
  • Purchases: 4
A Conversation with Penguin's Elda Rotor and John Morgan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The team behind the new app Poems by Heart discuss how they combine gaming with classic poetry. [28:20]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:20
  • Purchases: 1
A Word for Everything
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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What does that word mean?  Why don’t you hear it on this radio station?  Can you use it in Scrabble?  Radio Curious seeks the answers from Steve Kl...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
The Boatmen of The Mississippi River
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Dr. Gregory Schmidt from Winona State University's History Department recently gave a talk on the Boatmen of the early 1800's at the Minnesota Mari...

Bought by KREV-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 39:36
  • Purchases: 2