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Caption: Tennessee Williams
In this Views and Brews Remix on Becoming Tennessee Williams professor Charlotte Canning, joins director Norman Blumensaadt and actress Jennifer Un...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:52
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Charmaine Donovan makes her living as a Chemical Dependency Counselor in the Brainerd area. She's a member of numerous regional and national writer...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 03:09
Caption: Soila Sayialel saves elephants , Credit: Soila Sayialel
After the release of the second book 'Owen and Mzee: the Language of Friendship,' a letter from a young girl was received which explained how the b...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2012
  • Length: 02:16
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We all know a bad translation when we see one… or do we? I spoke with Jay Rubin, translator for the best-selling author Haruki Murakami, among othe...

  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 11:35
Caption: Eclectic Indie Band Typhoon, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Current Oregon Poet Laureate PAULANN PETERSEN. Her latest book is The Voluptuary. KATE BEATON, cartoonist for The New Yorker, brings her highly a...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Feb 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Improvisational Comedian Reggie Watts, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Comedian Reggie Watts, Musician and Author Josh Ritter, Radio Talk Show Host Peter Sagal and Author Sarah Vowell.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 54:58
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The Icebox Radio Theater has been creating great stories about life in the Far-North since 2004. Award-winning, mind bending, spine chilling, laugh...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:02
  • Purchases: 1
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The Icebox Radio Theater has been creating great stories about life in the Far-North since 2004. Award-winning, mind bending, spine chilling, laugh...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Wes Weddell, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Wes Weddell discusses writing songs inspired by Stephen King's The Shining. Written and performed for the monthly showcase, The Bushwic...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Tai Shan, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Tai Shan discusses her song inspired by Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Jennifer Egan, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Steve Almond, author and journalist, and Portland synth-pop musical guests, Wild Ones

  • Added: Oct 20, 2011
  • Length: 54:53
Caption: Pulitzer-Prize winning Author Jennifer Egan, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Steve Almond, author and journalist, and Portland synth-pop musical guests, Wild Ones

Bought by WNJR and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 20, 2011
  • Length: 58:49
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bridget Quigg, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Bridget Quigg talks about her approach to writing songs inspired by Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.

  • Added: Oct 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
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Comedian/Author Karen Bergreen tells us about Moms killing Moms and has words for Nancy Grace.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:21
Caption: Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Isabel Wilkerson, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Graphic Novelist Craig Thompson, Pulitzer Prize winning Author Isabel Wilkerson, Musical guest Stephanie Schneiderman w/ chorus and string quartet.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, KUOW, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 13, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Andrew Nunez, Credit: Wade Trenbeath
Songwriter Andrew Nunez talks about his musical approach to Slaughterhouse Five.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Mark Blasco, Credit: MJ
Mark Blasco talks about his approach to writing songs inspired by S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
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Lee Cowan goes for a walk in the woods with her furry children, Jillian Burgess returns to her small, childhood school with her own young boys, and...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
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William Dietrich is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, an educator, and a novelist.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 30:54
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In this news feature, Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack sits down with SCSU Theater and Film Studies Department Chair Jeffrey Bleam to...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2011
  • Length: 21:14
Caption: Anis Mojgani
Some of our favorite Memorable Moments, including The Decemberists' Colin Meloy, Christopher Moore, The Lonely Forest, Taylor Mali

  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: 59:11
Caption: Harvey Pekar, Credit: michaelz1 via FLICKR
Give your listeners a look at life's unpredictable pageant through the eyes of the engagingly grumpy comic book author Harvey Pekar.

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jul 14, 2010
  • Length: 36:07
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bill Oakley
Guests include: Author Steve Almond. Television writer Bill Oakley. Musical guest Damien Jurado.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2010
  • Length: 59:22
Caption: The Baseball Project
Guests include: Congressman Earl Blumenauer. Writer & blogger Stacy Bolt. Musical guests The Baseball Project.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2010
  • Length: :00
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It sucks we lose so many talented people so young, perhaps they're not gone after all...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2010
  • Length: 09:18