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The Write Question - Fred Provenza - 368
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Fred Provenza discusses his book, "Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom."

Bought by Prairie Public, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sean Prentiss — "Finding Abbey" — and the way back home (Part One)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes spoke with author Sean Prentiss.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
337: Endings (In Four Novellas) / 338: Thinking With Animals, 12/29/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Endings (In Four Novellas)" - New Year's Eve can be depressing. We don't handle endings very well. This hour, how to end - relationships...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
We are measuring the river
From: Sol Rezza
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Cinco colaboradores de Radio Corax que hablan distintos idiomas (alemán, francés, árabe) junto a Sol Rezza (español) realizaron la caminata graband...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 09:34
245: Imagining Climate Change / 246: Love + Evolution (Live) , 2/10/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Imagining Climate Change" - We have lots of facts about climate change. What we need is more stories. Can imagination save the planet? ...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
The Past American Voice of Poet Kenneth Irby
From: New Letters on the Air
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The late poet Kenneth Irby (1936-2015) traveled the States before settling in Lawrence, where he spent his teaching and writing career at the Unive...

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNJR, and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
241: In the Company of Wolves / 242: Shock Value, 1/27/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "In the Company of Wolves" - Wolves are among the most controversial animals on the planet. We'll track Yellowstone's wolves with the peo...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:59
Author Gail Francis on walking from Mexico to Canada
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Gail Francis is an author and outdoor enthusiast based in Duluth. Her book, "Bliss(ters): How I Walked From Mexico to Canada One Summer," chronicl...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 20:40
Dave & Amy Freeman talk about their new book, "A Year in the Wilderness: Bearing Witness in the Boundary Waters"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Caption: "A Year in the Wilderness," named one of 20 Big Indie Books of Fall 2017 by Publishers Weekly
Explorers Amy and Dave Freeman spent a year in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to bring attention to threats to this area. Now they're ou...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 02, 2017
  • Length: 24:24
  • Purchases: 1
Longtime wilderness guide Douglas Wood on his new memoir, "Deep Woods, Wild Waters"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Douglas Wood, longtime wilderness guide, is also a prolific author, perhaps best known for his first book, "Old Turtle." Now he's out with a memoir...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 16:12
Prose and a Poem about the Eclipse
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Looking into the Sun, Credit: Katie Carter
Many of our listeners were moved by Monday's solar eclipse. We heard from Tom Salwasser who wrote about his experience in Remer Eclipse Story and ...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2017
  • Length: 10:41
193: Imagining Climate Change / 194: Awkward, 8/12/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Imagining Climate Change" - We have lots of facts about climate change. What we need is more stories. Can imagination save the planet? ...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:57
Nature Writer Gary Ferguson
From: New Letters on the Air
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Gary Ferguson speaks about wilderness, loss, grief, and the symbolism of loons as reads from his memoir, THE CARRY HOME: LESSONS FROM THE AMERICAN ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Seth Kantner - 269
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Seth Kantner talks about growing up in rural Alaska -- 100 miles above the Arctic Circle -- and the essays in his collection 'Swallowed by the Grea...

Bought by KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Tim McDonnell's latest book is a 'why-do' manual for paddling
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Tim McDonnell grew up on the edge of the Boundary Waters and has been writing about wilderness for years. He joined WTIP's Dick Swanson to talk abo...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 19:35
Best-selling author Elizabeth Marshall Thomas on her latest book, "Dreaming of Lions: My Life in the Wild Places"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Caption: "Dreaming of Lions: My Life in the Wild Places"
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing other creatures and other cultures, from the African savannah to her own backyard. You may...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 20:31
Former Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
From: New Letters on the Air
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Kansas Poet Laureate (2009-2013) Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the author of multiple books of poetry and prose. She discusses her many books, includin...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Paddle Minnesota - December 9, 2015
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Paddle Minnesota
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Jim Gallagher interviews author and biologist Sue Leaf on her new book, "Portage: A Family, a Canoe, and the Search for the Good Life."

  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 12:27
New book is comprehensive environmental history of Lake Superior's North Shore
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist who has lived and worked on the North Shoreof Lake Superior since 1974; you might know her as the N...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:46
  • Purchases: 1
Troubadours, Activists, and Acrobats: "A Show of Hats"
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Guest Host Andy Mahler is joined by the musicians performing in “A Show of Hats," April 29th, at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater: Dillon Bustin, Travis...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:32
Karen Babine on her new book of essays, "Water and What We Know"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Karen Babine, an English professor who grew up in northern Minnesota, is just out with a book of essays exploring the meaning of place and identity...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 17:28
The Write Question - Liz Carlisle - 225
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Liz Carlisle talks about and reads from Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America

Bought by KGLT, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 4
Memoirist Cheryl Strayed
From: New Letters on the Air
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Cheryl Strayed's memoir, WILD: FROM LOST TO FOUND ON THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL, took over twenty years to write and has since been selected by Oprah'...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KQED, WNJR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WJCU


  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - 284 - Bryce Andrews
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Bryce Andrews talks with Chérie Newman about his decision to move to a cattle ranch in Montana and about the memoir he wrote about his experiences ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WCWP, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Maxine Kumin: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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We begin the celebration of Women's History Month with a tribute to Maxine Kumin, who died on February 6, 2014 at the age of 88. A former Consultan...

Bought by KRZA, KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KQED


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4