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The Write Question - Sneed & Braden Collard - 364
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Sneed Collard and his teenage son, Braden, discuss the book, "Warblers and Woodpeckers: A Father-Son Big Year of Birding." Sneed also reads two sho...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Bjorn Dihle - 329
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Bjorn Dihle discusses his book, "Haunted Inside Passage: Ghosts, Legends, and Mysteries of Southeast Alaska." He also reads two short passages.

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


  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
183: Roadtrippin' / 184: Do Protests Still Matter?, 7/8/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Roadtrippin'" - What makes a road trip something special? It's not the destination. HOUR TWO: "Do Protests Still Matter?" - In the wa...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:56
#1 Pax Bill
From: Regina Revazova
Series: Cab Talks
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Pax Bill tells the driver his story

  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 04:53
Episode Two: "The Small Town through the Literary Lens"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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In this episode we're looking at the small town through the literary lens. Hear how Shirley Ann Grau author of "Keepers of the House" hung up on th...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 24:59
Jonathan Evison, author of "The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Jonathan Evison about his novel.

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 11, 2017
  • Length: 30:32
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Chris Dombrowski - 274
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Chris Dombrowski talks with Sarah Aronson about 'Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World's Most Alluring Fish,' which is part memoir, part r...

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


  • Added: Jan 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Author Felicia Schneiderhan talks memoir, writing, and living on a boat in Chicago
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Felicia Schneiderhan is an award-winning author who lives in Duluth. WTIP's Dave TerSteeg read her memoir, "Newlyweds Afloat: Married Bliss and Mec...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 19:16
Best-selling author Elizabeth Marshall Thomas on her latest book, "Dreaming of Lions: My Life in the Wild Places"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Caption: "Dreaming of Lions: My Life in the Wild Places"
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing other creatures and other cultures, from the African savannah to her own backyard. You may...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 20:31
MN Reads: "Portage: A Family, a Canoe, and the Search for the Good Life" by Sue Leaf
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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MN Reads talks with Sue Leaf, author of Portage: A Family, a Canoe, and the Search for the Good Life, published in 2015 by the University of Minnes...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 09:17
RDD: Big Fish - Part 2
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Since the story of Jan Wahl was divided into two episodes, we thought we'd add part two a lil early so you can enjoy the rest of his story.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 06:08
The Write Question - Annick Smith - 257
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Annick Smith talks about and reads from her memoir 'Crossing the Plains with Bruno.' She also comments on the importance of story during life trans...

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


  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - Amy Ragsdale - 255
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Amy Ragsdale talks about the year she and her family spent in a small town in northeastern Brazil, and the memoir she wrote about their experiences...

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


  • Added: Oct 12, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - Marc Beaudin - 246
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Marc Beaudin's stories from 15 years of hitchhiking adventures have been published in a travel memoir 'Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, KGLT, KSJD and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Award-winning nature writer Gary Ferguson talks about and reads from his memoir 'The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness.'

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


  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
MIW #8 Megan Gebhart - Author of 52 Cups
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Megan Gebhart on MIW, Credit: Allegra Bandy
Making It Work Season 1-Episode 8 with Megan Gebhart, author of 52 Cups

  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 24:26
Delightful new book assembles stories from the Boundary Waters
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Boundary Waters lover Barry Johnson has put together a book of essays about his favorite place, the "BWCA Reader." Several dozen stories from diffe...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 14:13
  • Purchases: 1
Why don't you choose your own adventure?
From: Taylor Tower
Caption: Taylor Tower at CKUT studios in Montreal, Canada
Edward Packard, the man behind the Choose Your Own Adventure books, talks about how he came up with the concept and what role adventure has played ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 1
Arctic explorer Lonnie Dupre on his third attempt at Denali & his recently published memoir
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson chatted recently with explorer Lonnie Dupre, just back from his third unsuccessful attempt to summit Denali solo in January. Lo...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 27:28
The Write Question - Jo Deurbrouck - 279
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program Jo Deurbrouck talks about and reads from her book 'Anything Worth Doing: A true story of adventure, friendship and tragedy on t...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, KMXT, KISU and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 8
Ontario environmental/adventure travel journalist on his first book, "The Greatest Lake"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson visited recently with award-winning environmental & adventure travel journalist Conor Mihell, on his new book, "The Greatest Lak...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 19:44
  • Purchases: 1
Real Good Words: Cheryl Strayed - "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Coast Trail"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Minnesota author Cheryl Strayed joins Heidi Holtan to discuss her honest and raw new book.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 26:27
  • Purchases: 1
First Americans to reach the North Pole unsupported and unassisted
From: WTIP
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Tyler Fish of Ely, MN and John Huston of Chicago became the first Americans to reach the North Pole unassisted and unsupported in April 2009 after ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2012
  • Length: 19:56
From the Volga to the Mississippi and Back
From: With Good Reason
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, American and Russian traveled to each other's countries and wrote about their experiences and observa...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Julian Smith, author of 'Crossing the Heart of Africa'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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A few months before he was to be married to his long-time girlfriend, Julian Smith was experiencing anxiety about making such a "huge commitment." ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 17, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1