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While at the Woodneath Library Center, novelist Larry Watson reads from his tenth book, AS GOOD AS GONE, now out in paperback. He reveals how cowbo...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
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It’s Garage Sale Season in central Minnesota, but before you put that $1 sticker on the broach you inherited from Aunt Betty, you might want to lis...

  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 30:02
Caption: Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon
The chance meeting of Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon shortly after World War I lead to one of the most successful bands of the 1920s. You could say,...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Bringing listeners back to historic rock moments with clips of breaking media coverage...again!

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight Part One

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
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Potpouri - Program #1 Featuring the Bikersons, Andy Griffith, Tom Lair, Florence Foster Jenkins, Harry Brewer Group, Arch Obler (The Dark)

  • Added: Oct 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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In the last few decades, the general belief that habitual, high-octane swearing should remain the domain of criminals, vagrants, and frustrated hou...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 06:35
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This is a commercial for a fake product I created to air in the middle of a Sherlock Holmes radio play. It's for a product that acts as an umbrella...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2013
  • Length: :30
Caption: Joe Bev hosts an hour of 78s from 1929., Credit: Lorie B. Kellogg
"When My Dreams Come True" from Marx Brothers movie THE COCOANUTS by the Australian Cinema Orchestra is among the 78 RPM records heard on the tenth...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: The Mound City Blue Blowers
This segment on the early years of jazz is devoted to the small group session between 1924 and 1930. Oh, yes, we also drift over to 1945.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 58:58