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Amor Towles, Author of "A Gentleman in Moscow"
From: Boise State Public Radio
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Hear Bob Kustra talk with Amor Towles about his novel "A Gentleman in Moscow"

  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Denis Kozhukhin and The Jupiter Quartet #18-08
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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The Jupiter Quartet play Smetana's first quartet and Denis Kozhukhin plays Prokofiev

Bought by WCNY, WNIJ, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
Husband & Wife Writers Geoffrey Brock & Padma Viswanathan
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Padma Viswanathan
Novelist Padma Viswanathan, a 2017 recipient of the Porter Fund Literary Prize, and poet Geoffrey Brock, discuss how they balance their writing car...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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
Untethered Histories
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Writing from History
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Historical fiction is an ongoing balance between fact and fiction, but what if the story takes place outside of reality? Author Sarah Shun-Lien Byn...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 15:12
Place + Memory: Remembering Dreamland
From: Jesse Dukes
Caption: The high dive at Dreamland., Credit: Courtesy Dr. Reginal Shareef.
Memories of an African-American swimming pool and dance club in the Jim Crow south.

Bought by KALW and WABE


  • Added: Jun 16, 2014
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 2