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Cory Booker's First Meeting with President Obama as Senator
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Caption: Now Senator Cory Booker
Short interview with former Newark Mayor now Senator from New Jersey and his first days in Office in Washington

  • Added: Nov 03, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
Teachings From Turtle Island - Hour Three
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
Caption: Teachings From Turtle Island
This is the third installment of Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People. Teachings From Turtle Island is a series of ten progr...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 56:48
  • Purchases: 4
Culturology: Author Mary Losure Talks To Heidi Holtan in a Real Good Words Interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron." by Mary Losure
Mary Losure began her wandering career path backpacking in the mountains of California and Oregon and kayaking in the Prince William Sound in Alask...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 19:55
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: Finnish Accordionist Oscar Forsman talks to Scott Hall
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Oscar Forsman is a elementary school music teacher from DeKalb, Illinois. Oscar has strong ties to his Finnish American roots on Minnesota's Iron ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 17:27
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: "The Shoemaker's Wife" - Author Adriana Trigiani talks to Heidi Holtan in a Real Good Words interview.
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "The Shoemaker's Wife" by Adriana Trigiani
Beloved bestselling author Adriana Trigiani talks with Heidi Holtan about her latest "The Shoemaker's Wife" a novel based on the love affair of her...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 19:39
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: Steve Downing talks Poet Laureates in Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Steve Downing
Steve Downing recently attended the inaugural reading and crowning of Deborah Cooper as Duluth's fourth Poet Laureate. Steve recounts a brief histo...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:22
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Michelle Mathees - "Pink Horizon In Siberia"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Michelle Mathees has received a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis. The Jerome Foundation, and the Arrowhead...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 02:05
The Greatest Sports Writing
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Homer's 23rd chapter in the 2800-year-old poem The Iliad has no rival. As the western world's oldest sports-writing, it set the standard for the t...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Brenda Child: Holding Our World Together-Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
Caption: Holding Our World Together by Brenda Child
Brenda Child talks with Scott Hall about her new book. They discuss the pre-European and post-European Ojibwe culture, particularly as it relates t...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 23, 2012
  • Length: 17:36
  • Purchases: 3
A Conversation about Duke Ellington and Washington, DC
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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A look at the Washington, DC roots of Duke Ellington and their impact on his development as a musician and composer.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 08:41
King's Last March
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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Although it was one of the most challenging and controversial chapters of his career, the final year of King's life has not been the focus of signi...

Bought by KANW, KUAT, WABE, WWNO, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 249
Interview with Catholic Worker James Douglass on: JFK and the Unspeakable
From: Chris Goldstein
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Chris Goldstein interviews Catholic Worker James Douglass on his book JFK and the Unspeakable. The book reveals a President at odds with the milita...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2009
  • Length: 33:27
Episode 3 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 3 of Life Distilled features former U.S. Poet Laureates Richard Wilbur, Robert Hass, Rita Dove and Stanley Kunitz. Optional 5-minute drop-...

Bought by WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:00
  • Purchases: 11