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Writer’s Voice: Simon Winchester, LAND & Isabella Tree, WILDING
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Simon Winchester about his new book Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World. Then we revisit part of our 2020 int...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
From: New Letters on the Air
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Ted Kooser describes his journey from insurance executive in Nebraska to being tapped as the first U.S. Poet Laureate from the Great Plains in 200...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Waters (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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We have a lot to do with what happens to rainwater from the time it hits the ground, to the time we drink it. And our small efforts can add up over...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Ohm Radio , and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Waters (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We have a lot to do with what happens to rainwater from the time it hits the ground, to the time we drink it. And our small efforts can add up over...

Bought by WTJU, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
The Waters (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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We have a lot to do with what happens to rainwater from the time it hits the ground, to the time we drink it. And our small efforts can add up over...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, WJCT, WFHB, KRDP and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Waters (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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We have a lot to do with what happens to rainwater from the time it hits the ground, to the time we drink it. And our small efforts can add up over...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Writer’s Voice: Jenny Offill, WEATHER & Ben Ehrenreich, DESERT NOTEBOOKS
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Jenny Offill about her acclaimed cli-fi novel, Weather. Then, Ben Ehrenreich tells us about Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End o...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 58:30
2021-02-19 Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Ohm Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
210219: Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson, 2/19/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
Frontier Music
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind
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Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do. Featuring Gary Farmer, Rion Amilcar Scott, Jeff Grace and Kathryn Kali...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 50:00
New book tells the story of Quetico's longest serving interior ranger
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Joe Friedrichs is just out with a book about Janice Matichuk, Quetico’s longest-serving interior ranger. The book is called Her Island. Ann spoke ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 20:01
Praising Fireflies with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
From: Southern Foodways Alliance
Series: Gravy Podcast
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A conversation with poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil about her book, World of Wonders.

  • Added: Jan 08, 2021
  • Length: 31:24
At the Fishhouses
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Our annual gift to fellow ocean lovers: a reading of "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop, a poem from 1955 that distills Bishop's seaside medit...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Sarah Aronson
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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This episode features an interview with poet, therapist, and outgoing host of The Write Question, Sarah Aronson.

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


  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 4
535: Poetry In A Troubled Time / 536: Listen To Your City, 11/21/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Poetry In A Troubled Time" - Why do people turn to poetry during troubled times? Poetry is often the one language we need. Join us for a...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:59
Prologue
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind
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An introduction to The Wind.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:14
533: Solace Of Nature / 534: Is The Universe A Number?, 11/14/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Solace Of Nature" - Time to get outside. Despite all the changes, there are still signs of renewal everywhere. We'll show you where to l...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
Poet Martha Serpas on the disappearing Louisiana Gulf Coastline
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Martha Serpas
In today's classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR, we revisit Gulf Coast poet, Martha Serpas, whose 2020 book, DOUBLE EFFECT, won the L.E. Phillabaum Poetr...

Bought by KMXT, WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
505: Searching For Order In The Universe / 506: Guilt Tripping, 8/8/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Searching For Order In The Universe" - The universe is full of mystery. This hour, what do fish and eels have to do with the maddening s...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:57
Cultivating Place: Botanical Mythology and The Imagination of Plants with Matt Hall, NZ
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
Caption: Images from The Imagination of Plants (SUNY Press, 2019), used courtesy of Matthew Hall
A good read often plumbs the depths of imagination, for Matthew Hall - gardener & researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand – it...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Human Planet
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio we review a new book by photographer George Steinmetz with essays by Andrew Revkin. "The Human Planet: Earth at the ...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 04:34
The Write Question - David Axelrod - 436
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet and essayist David Axelrod discusses his book "The Eclipse I call Father: Essays on Absence." He also reads a short selection.

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


  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Gary Ferguson and Dr. Mary M. Clare - 433
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Gary Ferguson and Mary M Clare discuss Gary's book, The 8 Master Lessons of Nature along with their work with Full Ecology.

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


  • Added: Jun 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
200515: Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis, 5/15/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
2020-05-15 Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

Bought by WUTC, WJCT, KICI Iowa City, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8