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George Saunders reads a passage from his Story Prize-winning collection, TENTH OF DECEMBER. In this public presentation, Saunders discusses his pat...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The Revolutionary Reader, Leading and Creating Change with Rohi’s Readery Founder Pranoo Kumar. A social justice driven children’s bookstore and ...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 27:17
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This Extended Version of “Captivating Animals” with Thalia Field includes a discussion of Émile Zola and his attempt to recreate in fiction the sci...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 16, 2021
  • Length: 01:23:38
  • Purchases: 1
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This week Professor Valeria Grinberg Pla joins us in the studio for this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. We talk about her work at Bowling Gree...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 26, 2018
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 1
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This week we meet John Adams, the director of dual enrollment at the University of Toledo, local photographer, writer, and student. Find out how al...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2016
  • Length: 05:50
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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
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When the Rough Draft Diaries first met Jan Wahl, we knew we would be in for a treat. Jan's living room is lined with Disney memorabilia, his baseme...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 06:03
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On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with a Minnesota author who grew up in Waseca. This individual recently published a memoir. We visit with Rac...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 29:02
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On this episode of Art Beat we sit down with local author Catherine Alexander. We visit with Catherine about her novel, Frenchie, which tells the s...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 37:51
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The Cutting Edge presents Mary Helen Washington, author of “ The Other Blacklist” which shows how the government targeted African- American as wel...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:02:17
Caption: This American Life's Ira Glass
Host and producer of This American Life IRA GLASS, RadioLab's JAD ABUMRAD and ROBERT KRULWICH, Prairie Home Companion's GARRISON KEILLOR and music ...

Bought by 90.5 WESA, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, KSRQ, and WCPN


  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
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When Ruby Rahman runs away from the (fictitious) Middle Eastern country of Inevia to the United States to avoid an arranged marriage, instead of ac...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 12:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Got time for a good tale? Slip on your ear-buds, get comfortable and listen with fascination as storyteller Gerald Hausman reads Doctor Moledinky's...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2013
  • Length: 37:59
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Thal is wanted for Devil worship and shape shifting but still boldly walks the streets of 16th century Prague. Jesuits hunt him. Mercenaries fear h...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2013
  • Length: 20:28
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Peter Hochstein's story of how and why he became a writer and, for a while, a newspaper reporter. What it boils down to — aside from the fact that ...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 20:41
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Three generations in an all-female Taiwanese family living near Los Angeles in 1980 are each guarding personal secrets. Grandmother Silk finds out ...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 20:59
Caption: Illustration of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth from the American Weekly, ca. 1940
Professor Daniel Shea shares the story of Pearl Curran, who, beginning in 1913, used a Ouija board to transcribe novels, plays, essays, and poetry ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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Six mismatched high school kids start going to a magical universe every time they sleep. There they become the Realm Keepers, heroic wizards, each ...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2013
  • Length: 23:35
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The Savvy Girl’s Guide to Grace – Channel your inner Audrey Hepburn! Simple ways to tap moments of grace and kindness amid the rush of modern life....

  • Added: Oct 29, 2013
  • Length: 26:47
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In Blade of Amber, the traditional motifs of high fantasy—the quest, the talisman, the war against evil—frame the story of a young woman’s effort t...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 17:03
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A special edition of the Eat Sleep Write Podcast: A Conversation with author Abby Vandiver during her Blog Tour. In the Beginning is set in 1997 an...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2013
  • Length: 11:08
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When U.S. DEA Special Agent Lelisa Desmond refuses to follow an order to bury evidence in a high profile case, her superior hires a hit man to kill...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2013
  • Length: 18:10
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On the evening of April 14, 2011 Alex Chappell and David Brehmer were headed back to Richmond from band practice in Alex’s truck when they were str...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 17:44
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Francine's Miracle is a story that tells the life of a young Irish girl named Francine who immigrates with her family to the United States from Ire...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 18:30