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AG 24-21: The Songs of 1923, 5/20/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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We’re once again turning back the clock to the Roaring Twenties on Afterglow, to hear the songs from last century that have stuck around. We’ll foc...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
MN Reads: "Impermanence" by Sue Leaf
From: WDSE
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Author Sue Leaf talks about her new book "Impermanence"

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 08:20
Desert Trivia Night
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Caption: DESERT ORACLE RADIO
“Known as the ‘apostle of the cacti,’ this advocate for the creation of desert national parks was named after this ancient Roman goddess ….” If tha...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
The Sierra Club’s Ben Jealous: Parables of Healing for the Environmental Movement
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Earth's temperature is rising and time is running out to change direction according to the IPCC. But veteran organizer/strategist Ben Jealous (...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
MN Reads: "Surface Displacements" by Sheila Packa
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Minnesota Book Award Finalist Sheila Packa talks about her book of poetry "Surface Displacements"

  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 09:42
Holiday Episode: A Reading of "At the Fishhouses"
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Our annual gift to World Ocean Radio listeners. In this episode, host Peter Neill reads "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop, a poem from 1955 t...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 04:40
Bill McKibben & Akaya Windwood: Boomers, Big Banks & Solving the Climate Crisis (Release Date: 10/12/2022)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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(Release Date: 10/12/2022) Hey Boomers: When it comes to the climate crisis, are you the problem, the solution or both? In this episode Laura sits...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, WNYE and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Childhood, Wildhood
From: KXCI
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This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some photos taken over 60 years ago. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember ...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 04:42
Wonderful Town, Wonderful Vine
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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San Miguelito (Antigonon leptopus) is quite the Mexican native plant. I read that it’s found in habitat not only in Sonora and Chihuahua and southw...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 05:08
Yellowstone at 150: Can Indigenous Stewardship Save Our Parks?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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150 years after Congress established Yellowstone National Park, it remains the jewel of a system that comprises some 400 national parks. But for In...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Story of the Yucca Moth
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I’ve told the story of the yucca moths and the soaptree yuccas many times. I love to tell it when I give talks and I’m not making this up, many yea...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 04:06
Jacob Parr
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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What do House of Dow, Fowl and Fodder, Old West End Festival, The V Project, Maddie and Bella all have in common? They all have logos created by Ja...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 06:02
  • Purchases: 1
At the Fishhouses: 2019
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Each year during the holidays, longtime World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses", a poem by Elizabeth Bishop. This is a perenni...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:38
Christmas at Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: A heavy sea crossing the deck of the Parma (1902) , Credit: Alan John Villiers, 1933 © National Maritime Museum Collections
This week on World Ocean Radio we have a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson written in 1883. Steven...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 24, 2019
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 1
The Start Of Festival
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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The Rough Draft Diaries is finally covering The Old West End Festival! This week we'll chat with members of the OWE Festival board to get a behind-...

  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 06:01
Memories of a neem
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A typical neem tree, Credit: exoticflora.in
Sandip remembers a bitter part of his childhood.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
At the Fishhouses (The Holiday Episode)
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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At the end of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads the poem "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite is chos...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KSFR


  • Added: Dec 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 2
Essayist and poet Dave Smith on memory, creative writing and hunting dogs...
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Dave Smith
In the other half of this conversation with Dave Smith, the author of more than 20 books of poetry, essays, memoir and fiction, he talks about the ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 24, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Holiday Episode: At the Fishhouses
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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At the close of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen not only for its ...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea
From: New Letters on the Air
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Vermont Poet Laureate (2011-2015), Sydney Lea reads for the Writers Series sponsored by the literary magazine, PLEIADES at the University of Centra...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNJR, KWMR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 13, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Minnesota 13's nefarious reputation
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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“Minnesota 13” is the name of a corn seed developed at the University of Minnesota to suit the shorter growing season in the upper Midwest. But dur...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 04:48
A Conversation with Caron Atlas
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Bread and Roses in a Brooklyn shelter: Caron Atlas demonstrates how the arts can be a critical component of disaster relief. [31:45]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 31:45
  • Purchases: 1
209: Canals
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: The Göta Canal, Credit: Insightguides.com
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will take us on a tour of the canals of the world.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 06:11
Culturology: "Summer Nights, Summer Lights," an essay by Michael Forbes
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Michael Forbes
Bemidji area writer Michael Forbes recites his essay written in contemplation of Aurora Borealis, family, and home.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: An essay from Robert Saxton about living in Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Robert Saxton
In the first of a series of essays, Robert Saxton reflects on perspective and some of the unique characteristics of living in northern Minnesota. I...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 2