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Caption: Ideas Books: Mike Gonzales
Interview with author Mike Gonzales about his book, The Last Drop. The one indispensable resource, water is increasingly controlled and even owned...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:04
Caption: Ideas Books: Ernest Naylor, Moonstruck
Interview with biologist Ernest Naylor about his book, Moonstruck. Throughout history, the influence of the full Moon on humans and animals has fea...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 27:16
  • Purchases: 1
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
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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
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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
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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
Caption: Dan Fernandez with a fog-catcher in Santa Cruz. Writer Andrew Leonard sees in fog-catchers a real-world analog to the fictional dew-catchers of Dune., Credit: Jeremy Dalmas
The sci-fi epic of "Dune" takes place on a desert planet. There, the water in even a single tear is precious. Can Dune offer lessons for the drough...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 20:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We visit with Jim Perlman, one of the editors of a new poetry collection titled, Amethyst and Agate: Poems of Lake Superior, published by Holy Cow ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 17, 2015
  • Length: 05:21
  • Purchases: 1
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World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill recently witnessed a beautiful full moon rise from an island perch in Maine. The silent, stealthy way that it ro...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:11
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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
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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
Caption: Breath of Wilderness: The Life of Sigurd Olson by Kristin Eggerling, Credit: Fulcrum Publishing
We talk with Kristin Eggerling, author of Breath of Wilderness: The Life of Sigurd Olson (2014, Fulcrum Publishing), about the great wilderness edu...

Bought by KVSC and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 13, 2015
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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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
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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
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THis week we hear about plans to revive the Lester Amity Chalet in Duluth and heara bit of a poem called "October's Bright Blue Weather" by Helen H...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:31
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The farther north you go, the more spectacular the Northern Lights are. This week on The North Shore, host Bryan French shares information - and p...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:51
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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
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The Japanese word "Mottainai" refers to the essence of things, and suggests that objects do not exist in isolation, rather that they are intrinsica...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2015
  • Length: 05:31
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An intelligent race of animals aims to exterminate violent mankind. Robert Repino reads from his book, Morte. Another in our authentic contemporary...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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How do you feel about your... well, eventual remains? Sealed caskets and ash-filled urns strike author Bernd Heinrich as unnatural, and this biolog...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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Award-winning nature writer Gary Ferguson talks about and reads from his memoir 'The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness.'

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


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Marl Lake, Credit: Mark Marnocha
Hear about the importance of poetry in our lives, in addition to three original poems by Dr. Mark Marnocha, a clinical psychologist who has publish...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 01, 2015
  • Length: 08:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Author Deb Larson talks about the experiences in her own family that shaped her story "One Frozen Lake," about a grandfather introducing his grandc...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1