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“The Future is Disabled”: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“At the core of my work and life is the belief that disabled wisdom is the key to our survival and expansion,” shares Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Constant Wonder - Making the Modern Christmas
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Christmas wouldn't be the same without Dickens. And, the railroads changed Christmas forever.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 19, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
Alice Henderson discusses "A Blizzard of Polar Bears"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Alice Henderson’s love of wild places inspired her new thriller series, which begins with A Solitude of Wolverines, as well as her novel Voracious,...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 25:47
Writer Sharon G. Flake Highlights Human Trafficking and Survivors in "The Skin I'm In"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Tammy Bobrowsky talks with young adult writer Sharon G. Flake. Her new novel is called "The Life I’m In", it’s the story of a young woman trapped i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2021
  • Length: 16:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Jeremy Pataky - 418
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Alaskan poet, editor, and publisher Jeremy Pataky shares work from his debut collection of poetry, Overwinter, as well as new work.

Bought by KTOO, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Raven Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Presence Mechanism
From: Emily T Griffiths
Series: Device
Caption: Still from PC game Auralux: Constiellations , Credit: E McNeill
In Time Out Of Joint, Phillip K. Dick envisioned the same future that NASA did, even if we didn't get there. San Diego Air and Space Museum provide...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 24:08
Ants, Ants, Revolution
From: Emily T Griffiths
Series: Device
Caption: Cover art by Alex Wild (www.alexanderwild.com): Argentine ants (Linepithema humile), an aggressive pest species introduced by human commerce to California, attack a native Pogonomyrmex harvester ant. Native ants in many places around the world have disapp, Credit: Alex Wild
Kingsolver takes us to 1950s Belgian Congo via the Prices, a missionary family. David Holway from UCSD gives us the rundown on local ant species wh...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2019
  • Length: 22:44
The Write Question - Bryce Andrews - 392
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Bryce Andrews discusses his environmental nonfiction, Down From the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear. He also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Interview with Amy Thielen, author of Give a Girl a Knife, winner of the KAXE/KBXE 2018 Book Awards -- Reader's Choice
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Caption: photo from amythielen.com, Credit: William Hereford
Interview with Amy Thielen, author of Give a Girl a Knife, winner of the KAXE/KBXE 2018 Book Awards -- Reader's Choice

  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 15:06
First Annual KAXE/KBXE Book Awards
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Results from the First Annual KAXE/KBXE Book Awards and and interview with the Reader's Choice Award, Amy Thielen.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 26:00
Listener-reader reviews and Show Me Your Shelf!
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
Caption: Grace's wonderful book collection.
We hear about listener-readers' favorite books from the summer, and we learn about a community member's book collection on our new feature, Show Me...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2017
  • Length: 07:59
Ideas Books: Frank Wilczek - A Beautiful Question, Finding Natures Deep Design
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
Caption: Ideas Books: Frank Wilczek
Nobel Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that has guided his pionee...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 27:26
The Ghost in the Machine
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Retellings
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Is there an invisible thread that connects humans to all life around us? Novelist Kathryn Davis explores how the fantastical world in her novel, Du...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 20:51
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: Prose Poet Louis Jenkins talks with Steve Downing and Heidi Holtan
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Poet Louis Jenkins
Duluth based prose poet Louis Jenkins is celebrated around the globe. Jenkins recently joined Heidi Holtan and Steve Downing to talk about his care...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 2
Racial Innocence (Pledge Drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Robin Bernstein
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 19:59
  • Purchases: 1
A Word for Everything
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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What does that word mean?  Why don’t you hear it on this radio station?  Can you use it in Scrabble?  Radio Curious seeks the answers from Steve Kl...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Neil McMahon, author of 'L.A. Mental'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Neil McMahon’s riveting new thriller, L.A. MENTAL is a mind-bending blend of nano-tech paranoia and classic murder mystery, set in a city on the ed...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Nick Tosches discusses "Save the Last Dance for Satan"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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The author of seventeen books, Nick Tosches lives in New York City.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2011
  • Length: 30:45
Tess Gerritsen discusses "The Silent Girl"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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A physician and the author of fourteen novels, Tess Gerritsen lives in Maine.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2011
  • Length: 28:22
Lauren Kessler, journalist and author of Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Lauren Kessler worked for minimum wage as an RA (resident assistant) while writing FINDING LIFE IN THE LAND OF ALZHEIMER'S (formerly titled, Dancin...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Mindful Path to Sustainability
From: Bill Baue
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Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:03