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The Write Question - Chris Turner - 322
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Chris Turner discusses his book ,The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands. He also reads a short passage.

Bought by Prairie Public, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KWMR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Paige Embry - 316
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Paige Embry discusses her book Our Native Bees: America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KWMR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
The Write Question - David Owen - 336
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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David Owen discusses his nonfiction book, Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River. He also reads a short segment from the book.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Author travels over 100 miles along Maumee River
From: Great Lakes Today
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The Maumee River runs more than 100 miles before emptying into Lake Erie in Ohio. And it carries a lot of the farm runoff that triggers algae bloom...

Bought by WBFO, WCPN, and WKSU


  • Added: Oct 31, 2017
  • Length: :45
  • Purchases: 3
Episode One: "Taxes & Taxonomy"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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A conversation with biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson on what winning a second Pulitzer Prize meant for him and his Harvard colleagues. A look ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 24:59
New book on "Death and Life" of Great Lakes
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Dan Egan, Credit: W.W. Norton & Company
A new book by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Dan Egan examines Great Lakes history and current issues facing the region.

Bought by WCMU Michigan, WBFO, North Country Public Radio, and WKSU


  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: :55
  • Purchases: 4
Poetry Says It Best
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: “Polychrome Vase in the Form of a Fish” British Museum Postcard El-Amarma, XVIIIth Dynasty, (c. 1365 BC) Glass. 1.2 3/4? , Credit: The British Museum, London
In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill reads “The Fish,” a poem by Marianne Moore from a collection entitled "American Sea W...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 04:11
Falconry: Fed Up and Looking Haggard
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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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
Muscle: Flex Your Mouse
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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Roll up your sleeve past your bicep, flex your arm at the elbow, and squeeze — or contract — your bicep muscle. Take a look at it. What do you see?...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2017
  • Length: 09:32
Coccyx: Please Don't Sit on the Cuckoo
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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Coccyx is a small triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and other apes. Representing a vestigial tail and most commonly c...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2017
  • Length: 05:37
At the Fishhouses (A Holiday Episode)
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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At each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite poem was chosen not o...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2016
  • Length: 04:51
Bob King's new book, "Night Sky with the Naked Eye," tells how to find night sky wonders without a telescope
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Bob King, creator of the Duluth News-Tribune's Astro Bob blog, has written a great new book about how to find planets, constellations, satellites, ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 18:13
  • Purchases: 1
New book tells story of one of the worst shipwrecks in Great Lakes history
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Great Lakes historian and author Michael Schumacher spoke with WTIP's Dave TerSteeg recently about his latest book, "Torn in Two, " which recounts ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 25:22
  • 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
When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors
From: Gordon Whiting
Series: In Deep with Angie Coiro: Live at Kepler's
Caption: Angie Coiro, author Beth Pratt Bergstrom and California mountain lion P-22, Credit: Gordon Whiting
Did you know that a mountain lion, known as P-22, lives in the middle of Los Angeles, that the Facebook campus in Silicon Valley provided a home fo...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:01
  • Purchases: 1
Great Ocean Reads for Summer
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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(with a new book by Greenpeace Captain Peter Wilcox) Summertime again, and what better time to pack a few books and head to the beach? In this epi...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:33
Pulitzer 100: Stories in Science (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on how a small town fought against pollution and the polluters. -Marc Edwards who helped uncover the water...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
Pulitzer 100: Stories in Science (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin on his book "Tom's River: A Story of Science and Salvation" that tells the story of a how small town fough...

Bought by WSKG, KEDT, and WXDU


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 3
Barry Lopez, Arctic Nature Writer
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Barry Lopez, Arctic Nature Writer, Credit: BarryLopez.com
Fourth in a four-part series on authors who write about the ocean and the natural world.

  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 05:12
Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: "The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot", Credit: Robert Macfarlane
In the third of a four-part series on writers who have shaped his interest in the ocean and the natural world, host Peter Neill reads from essayist...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 16, 2016
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 1
Nature Writer Loren Eisleley
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Loren Eiseley
In the first of a four-part series on writers who have shaped his interest in Nature and the ocean, host Peter Neill highlights the work of 20th ce...

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
Ideas Books Interview Mini - Sean B Carroll
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Author Interviews (non-fiction)
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Biologist Sean B Carroll talks to Craig Barfoot about his latest book, The Serengeti Rules. We find out how wolves can change the physical shape of...

  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 07:21
Ideas Books: Frank Wilczek - A Beautiful Question, Finding Natures Deep Design
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
Caption: Ideas Books: Frank Wilczek
Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that has guided his pionee...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 27:26
It's a Crazy World (but not as crazy as California!)
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: Highlights
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California wants to deprive you of fuel, and that's why you're already paying a new "global warming" tax.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 15:58