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Andrew Huang: Make Your Own Rules
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about YouTube music influencer Andrew Huang's foray into the music book world, "Make Your Own Rules,' a book packed with...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2024
  • Length: 27:27
Byzantine Chant
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the book "The Past is Always Present," which documents Orthodox chant practices among the monasteries of Mount Ath...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2024
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Apple Seed - Looking For His Luck
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, you know if you're like me every once in a while, you wish you were more lucky than you are. But the truth is, luc...

Bought by WVPE, KTXK, KKRN, KSJE, and WVPE


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 5
The Apple Seed - Chili Cookoff
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Some communities build stories together through the traditions they maintain. Today, we'll visit a community and it's chili cookoff.

Bought by WVPE, KCNP, KTXK, KSJE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920 and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
The Apple Seed - The Story Tree
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, stories about stories. Stories about the telling of stories, why they're important and why people love to tell the...

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, Angelica Community Radio, WVPE, KCNP, KTXK and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 9
Earth, Wind & Fire
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music imbued with Earth, wind, and fire, in actuality or metaphorically.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2024
  • Length: 59:19
Spaceships Over Glasgow
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we looked at the autobiography of Stuart Braithwaite, founder of the long-running post-rock band Mogwai. We listened to some of th...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
An Hour of Storytelling - Fractured Tales and "Test Drive"
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Stories by Diane Ferlatte and Bil Lepp and an original spy thriller

Bought by KSJE, KECG, WVPE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 7
Sound Actions
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we discussed the book "Sound Actions," which reduces musical activity down to its most essential components so that we can re-conc...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:27
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 136: Michael Lewis on What Makes Some People Irreplaceable , 4/16/2023
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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What makes someone impossible to forget?

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:08
The Apple Seed - Fire Fire Pants on Liar
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, a silly story from the great West Virginia tall tale teller, Bil Lepp. It's a story called Fire! Fire! Pants on Li...

Bought by KCNP, KTXK, KKRN, KSJE, and WVPE


  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
The Apple Seed - Blonde Beautiful and Bubbly
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode, sibling relationships can be among the most important we have, but they don't come without sibling rivalry or jealously. We're...

Bought by KCNP, KTXK, KKRN, KSJE, WYAP and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 6
The Apple Seed - Best of Season 2: John Henry the Steel Drivin' Man, Peter Pan, Einstein's Puzzle
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, Philadelphia storyteller and musician Charlotte Blake Alston joins us for a version of a story from American folk ...

Bought by KCNP, KTXK, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KSJE and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
The Apple Seed - Stories Inspired by Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Original retellings and adaptations of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
The Apple Seed - Storyteller Robert B. Jones + A Holiday Chekhov Story
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Stories about connection with those around us.

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  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 6
Do you worry about climate change?
From: Possibly
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Here at Possibly, we try to make climate change feel more manageable and less overwhelming. But there’s no avoiding that this problem is terrifying...

Bought by KMXT and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Aug 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Forgotten Creed: A Conversation with Stephen Patterson
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Stephen J. Patterson
Historian of Religion, Stephen Patterson, reconstructs one of the earliest Christian Creeds that Emphasized Radical Egalitarianism.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
Biblical Mythology and Wholeheartedness
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Carol Delaney and Brene Brown
Carol Delaney deconstructs the myth of Abraham and Isaac and Brene Brown challenges us to Dare Greatly.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Jul 06, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
The World Only Spins Forward: Isaac Butler on Angels In America
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Isaac Butler, co-author of The World Only Spins Forward
2018 is the 25th anniversary of Angels In America. Author of its oral history, The World Only Spins Forward discusses the influence of the play.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jun 22, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Triumph of Christianity: A Conversation with Bart Ehrman
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Bart Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity
Bart Ehrman asks how did a religion that began with a small group of illiterate day laborers become the dominant religion of the Roman Empire in ju...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KPIP-LP, and WETS


  • Added: Mar 31, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
IT Came from Beyond Zen: A Conversation With Brad Warner
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Brad Warner
Soto Zen Priest, Brad Warner, talks about Zen, zazen, and Dogen, the 13th century Japanese Zen Master.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Dec 30, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Ferdinand, The Misunderstood Bull (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In 1936, just as the Spanish Civil War was beginning, an instantly successful and highly controversial children’s book arrived on the bookshelves. ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 1
Tracking Subversives: Alan Wald On the Development of the Literary Left
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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According to or my guest, Alan Wald, the aim of the literary radical is “to endow history with meaning.” We track three “subversives” in our progra...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 57:14
The Mysterious James Tiptree
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Alice Sheldon, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Alice Sheldon served in the OSS and the CIA. And then she went deep undercover posing as a male science fiction writer. It wasn't an assignment, it...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 23:44
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Filmmaker, Pratibha Parmar
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Pratibha Parmar discusses making the recent documentary about an iconic American writer, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, which can be seen on the Am...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 3