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189: Empathy for Monsters / 190: Telling a Life, 7/29/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Empathy for Monsters" - The American soldiers who guarded Saddam Hussein came to like and care about him. This hour: Should we feel empa...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Show business veteran Dudley Riggs, founder of the Brave New Workshop, on The Roadhouse
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Dudley Riggs is a fifth-generation member of a distinguished show business family. He's worked in many areas of the biz, as everything from an aeri...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 18:32
Minnneapolis performance artist Patrick Scully portrays Walt Whitman in one-man show
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Minneapolis performance artist Patrick Scully has created a one-man show about the life and times of Walt Whitman. It's called "Leaves of Grass--Il...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 31:02
  • Purchases: 1
New book offers letters of St. Paul woman who volunteered for service in WWI France
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Caption: "Alice in France" by Nancy O'Brien Wagner
"Alice in France" is a collection of letters home from Alice O'Brien, a young St. Paul woman who volunteered in France in various roles during Worl...

  • Added: May 29, 2017
  • Length: 14:52
Polish Poet Adam Zagajewski
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet Adam Zagajewski (zah-gah-yev-ski), the 2016 recipient of the Griffin Lifetime Achievement Prize for Excellence in Poetry, was born in Lwow, Po...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 26, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Paula McLain - 267
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Paula McLain talks about and reads from her latest novel Circling the Sun, which tells the story of the (actual) Beryl Markum with a first-person n...

Bought by KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, KGLT, KSJD and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Duane Swierczynski discusses "Revolver"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Duane Swierczynski is an Edgar-nominated novelist.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 09:54
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey & Eva Urcia
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” that explores an historical labor event o...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 28:22
Emily Dickinson: Hiding in Her Own House
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Emily Dickinson about her life and times. She speaks to us from the person of actress Wendy Norris.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
A Meaningful Man
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Viktor Frankl’s book 'Man’s Search for Meaning' is part memoir, part manifesto and part discourse on human psychology. Written in 1946, after Vikto...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 50:26
New book explores huge role women played in founding Mayo Clinic
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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March is Women's History Month. A new book, "Women of Mayo Clinic:The Founding Generation," explores the significant contributions women made to th...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 17:51
  • Purchases: 1
Coming of Age
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Anton Disclafani discusses the writing process behind her acclaimed debut novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 13:33
A Life in Verse
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Poet Carl Phillips explores how life influences the creation of his poetry. Professor Timothy Moore then takes us back to ancient Greece and how an...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:05
The Write Question - James Lee Burke - 231
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Award-winning author James Lee Burke talks about and reads from 'House of the Rising Sun,' the latest novel in his Hackberry Holland Series.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - Shann Ray - 258
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Award-winning author Shann Ray talks about and reads from his novel AMERICAN COPPER.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KCMJ Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Poet and Novelist Philip Lee Williams
From: New Letters on the Air
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Philip Lee Williams talks about how science, literature, music and visual art have helped shape his writing life. In this first half of a two part ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Allusionist 15: Step Away
From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist
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'Step-', as in stepparents or stepchildren, originated in grief. Family structures have evolved, but are stepmothers now so tainted by fairytale as...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 38:16
  • Purchases: 1
New book is comprehensive environmental history of Lake Superior's North Shore
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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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
A Box Within a Box Within a Box: The Riddle of the Raintree
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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As I considered making a show to serve as a kind of year in review, I first thought to choose my favorite program from each month of the year, 12 s...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 57:06
Passages: Treasures of the Bible
From: Kristen Eicher
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“Passages: Treasures of the Bible,” currently is in Springfield, Mo, the fifth stop on a national tour. Learn more about the traveling exhibit here...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2014
  • Length: 08:16
John Updike on Rabbit Remembered
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Open Source in 2001 with John Updike, reflecting on and reading from his novella Rabbit Remembered, the last in a five-part series about an America...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 2
"Zenith City" offers personal & historical take on the city of Duluth
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Michael Fedo has just written a new book, "Zenith City," a collection of essays about his growing up in Duluth. WTIP's Ann Possis spoke with him re...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 18:28
Notes from No Man's Land
From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities
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Essayist Ula Biss, author of Notes from No Man's Land, offers candid reflections on the role of race in her own life and in American history.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 11:20
  • Purchases: 1
Cook County native Tim McDonnell's new memoir about growing up on the Gunflint Trail
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson welcomed retired teacher Tim McDonnell to Studio A recently to chat about his memoir, "The Whole Forest for a Backyard: A Gunfli...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2013
  • Length: 20:10
The Hustler Who Inspired the Beats
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Herbert Huncke's line "I'm beat, man" gave Jack Kerouac the label for a generation seeking spiritual sustenance and "kicks" in post-war America.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WJCT, KRZA, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4