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Piping Hot (#1503)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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The game of baseball has always inspired colorful commentary. Sometimes that means using familiar words in unfamiliar ways. The word "stuff," for e...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, WYAP, KTSW 89.9, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: May 22, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Folding Money (#1616)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Barbara Kingsolver's book Demon Copperhead is a retelling of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield set in today's Appalachia. Martha shares memories o...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WYAP, KECG, WPCA-LP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Mimeographs and Dittos (#1502)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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How colors got their names, and a strange way to write. The terms "blue" and "orange" arrived in English via French, so why didn't we also adapt th...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KECG, WYAP, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WNIN and more


  • Added: May 08, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Program 185
From: KCME
Series: American Landscapes
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Gershwin celebrates a trip to Cuba, Lukas Richman dances through some piano variations, Romeo Cascarino gives us the beautiful Blades of Grass, Got...

Bought by WDPR, GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, and KWAX


  • Added: May 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:22
  • Purchases: 4
20230501: World War II, 5/1/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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We take a step back in time, to over 80 years ago to World War II, one of the biggest conflicts in human history, which changed modern humanity for...

  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Takes the Cake (#1615)
From: A Way with Words
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What do you call a long sandwich filled with lots of ingredients? Whether you call it a sub, a hoagie, a grinder, or something else entirely depend...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Untold Story of the Civil War Roundtable
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with members of the Civil War Roundtable group t...

  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:55
World War II
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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We take a step back in time, to over 80 years ago to World War II, one of the biggest conflicts in human history, which changed modern humanity for...

Bought by KECG, KRSC, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK and more


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Truth and Beauty (#1499)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Vocabulary that trickles down from the top of the world. Malamute, kayak, and parka are just some of the words that have found their way into Engli...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KTSW 89.9, WYAP and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Broadway on the Charts
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week, back in 1968, the Broadway musical Hair opens up. It will spawn multiple top 40 hits including a number one, Aquarius/Let the Sunshine ...

Bought by WMTNradio, KHNS, WYAP, KWIT, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Dessert Stomach (#1498)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Funny cat videos and cute online photos inspire equally adorable slang terms we use to talk about them. When a cat leaves its tongue out, that's a ...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KECG, WYAP, KTXK, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Food for Thought (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We all remember what it was like entering the social battleground known as the school cafeteria.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
Food for Thought (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We all remember what it was like entering the social battleground known as the school cafeteria.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WTJU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KXCV, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Food for Thought (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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We all remember what it was like entering the social battleground known as the school cafeteria.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Kansas Public Radio, KXCV, WFHB, KVSC and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Food for Thought (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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We all remember what it was like entering the social battleground known as the school cafeteria.

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


  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
From: KXCI
Series: Flicks with the Film Snob Chris Dashiell
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A documentary about the 1921 Tulsa race massacre not only explains the full story of the shameful attack on the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa tha...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:23
Blessing Box (#1613)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Is there such a thing as a "neutral" accent, and if so what does it sound like? And that quirk in the way Southern Californians talk about freeways...

Bought by KECG, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RADIOLEX, WYAP, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 18
Cats and Dogs (#1614 Spring 2023 Pledge Show)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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It's cats and dogs, and a few other critters, too. Animals prowl around inside several English words, including sleuth, which was originally sleuth...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KTXK, KVSC, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WYAP and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 30:50
  • Purchases: 8
The Untold Story of the Stearns History Museum's Upcoming Programming
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits with Amy Degerstrom and Caitlin Carlson from th...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
Cool Your Soup (#1495)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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According to Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, it's important to master the basics of writing, but there comes a time when you have to strike out on y...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, WPCA-LP, WNIN and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
Fair Dinkum (#1612)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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This week on "A Way with Words": A magnificent new book celebrates the richness and diversity of 450 years of written and spoken English in what is...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RADIOLEX, WPCA-LP, KTXK and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Program 184
From: KCME
Series: American Landscapes
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Miguel del Aguila takes us on a Journey to the New World, David Raksin illustrates the beauty of Laura, 3 early pieces by Amy Beach, chamber music ...

Bought by KVNO, WDPR, GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, and KWAX


  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 57:34
  • Purchases: 5
Program 183
From: KCME
Series: American Landscapes
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Some jazzy bassoon music from Ken Cooper, alternate film music from Henry Mancini, Legends of the Hudson River from Ferde Grofe and more.

Bought by KVNO, GCR (Global Community Radio), KVNO, and KWAX


  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 57:14
  • Purchases: 4
Put on the Dog (#1494)
From: A Way with Words
Series: A Way with Words
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Ever wonder whatever happened to responding to "Thank you" with the words "You're welcome"? A listener asks why so many radio interviews end with t...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WYAP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 17
Who Owns Band Names
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Who owns a band name? It depends on what legal document the band has created. If there is no legal document, then things get sticky.

Bought by KECG, WMTNradio, WYAP, KHNS, KWIT and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9

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