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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. I have to admit I kind of admire the courage it took for a producer to approve such an awkward title for...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
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Regular listeners to this show may be aware that I’m not a fan of most Christmas movies. Occasionally, though, I offer suggestions during the holid...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2017
  • Length: 04:19
Caption: John Webb
John Webb as written and presented by Richard Caldwell

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 08:30
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Tragedy n. “goat song” Named for the dramatic plays of the ancient Greeks, characterized by a protagonist whose flaw or error in judgment leads to ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 16:26
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The practice of hunting wild birds with trained birds — for fun — is called falconry. Though it came into its own almost 1,000 years ago in England...

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 31:40
  • Purchases: 1
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A poem about Thanksgiving by Sharon Olds, read by Eliza Foss

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:47
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Grant Hawkins is a Masters student in Music and a lover of sounds. His Song Story is about love and winter and his song, “Myth” by Beach House, is...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2015
  • Length: 05:41
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Jonathan Vallis remembers the first time he heard Billy Bragg.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2015
  • Length: 03:43
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Colin Bartlett takes us to East Germany before the wall came down.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2015
  • Length: 04:20
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In his Song Story, Rod Clarance reminds everyone born in Montreal something we all intuitively know. You can leave Montreal, but Montreal will neve...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2015
  • Length: 06:06
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Here's a Song Story guaranteed to make you smile, if not tear up.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:41
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At 15, Melanie Clarance's world was turned upside down.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2015
  • Length: 03:54
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Steve Downing attended the exhibit "Davidson At Eighty, A Retrospective" at the Watermark Art Center in Bemidji. The exhibit celebrates the work of...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Pickers and neighbors from the South, Minnesota that is, Pert Near Sandstone.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KMSU, WRNC-LP, KALH, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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In the age of texts, twitter and email, do people still write fan letters? What compels us to do so?

  • Added: Dec 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:40
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An Acceptance Speech

  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 06:11
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Dolly Parton, Norah Jones, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris and more great female singers share their insightful, deeply personal stories about Willie ...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KPIP-LP, KISU, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Lena Horne
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe talks about the revolutionary life and work of Lena Horne.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Robert Jevne is a new contributing writer to KAXE - he offers his thoughts radio as theater of the mind and on what being a part of a community rad...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
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This is an adventure story about how I met a girl who couldn’t laugh, and my quest to get my laugh back, which I lost somewhere under the pile of l...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 21:14
Caption: Ashford & Simpson
The musical story of "ASHFORD & SIMPSON", today plus the celebration of the life of NICHOLAS ASHFORD (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011). ASHFORD & SIM...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WJAB, and WVAS


  • Added: Sep 26, 2011
  • Length: 57:46
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Dianne Reeves
"I don't ever want you to open for me again" said Sarah Vaughan. The diva was paying her a compliment, but the modest Dianne Reeves didn't' know that.

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WCSU-FM, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 8
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By dancing around the world, Internet video star Matt Harding believes he’s helping to unite people.

Bought by WEZU, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU and more


  • Added: May 07, 2009
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 6