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Live Wire - Episode 128 NEWSHOLE VERSION Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Humorist & Author David Rakoff, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author, Commentator, Humorist David Rakoff, Author Jonathan Lethem plus musical guest 21 year old sensation Sara Jackson-Holman

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 181 Encore NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: New York Times Best-selling author of Wild, Cheryl Strayed, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
CHERYL STRAYED - Best-selling Author LAUREN WEEDMAN - Actress, Writer, Humorist LAURA GIBSON- Singer/Songwriter

  • Added: Aug 16, 2012
  • Length: 55:00
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 181 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: New York Times Best-selling author of Wild, Cheryl Strayed, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
CHERYL STRAYED - Best-selling Author LAUREN WEEDMAN - Actress, Writer, Humorist LAURA GIBSON- Singer/Songwriter

Bought by 90.5 WESA and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Aug 16, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 185 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Indie Pop band Lost Lander, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
AJ JACOBS - New York Times bestselling author. DAVID WOLMAN - Author and Journalist. LOST LANDER - Portland indie pop band.

Bought by KUT, 90.5 WESA, Rhythm & News Service, and Oregon Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 182 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Singer/Songwriter/Author Storm Large, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
STORM LARGE - Singer, songwriter, author SUSAN SALADOFF - Documentary filmmaker

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUOW, and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 182 NEWSHOLE VERSION Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Singer/Songwriter/Author Storm Large, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
STORM LARGE - Singer, songwriter, author SUSAN SALADOFF - Documentary filmmaker

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 55:01
Alan S. Kesselheim, author of 'Let Them Paddle'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program Alan Kesselheim talks about the three coming-of-age river trips he and his wife, Marypat, took with their three children. He al...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
David George Ball: A Marked Heart
From: Liz Humes
Series: Wordy Birds
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview author and political activist David George Ball about his book, A Marked Heart, and the historic day he...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 27:30
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 175 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis & Illustrator Mike Oeming, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Comic book writer and former artist for Marvel comics, BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS. International Cheesemonger winner, STEVE JONES. Portland based alter...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and WCPN


  • Added: Jul 05, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Stephen Crane - Sport and War
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Author Stephen Crane uses images and descriptions from sport to describe a war he never experienced in his classic novel about the American Civil ...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Interfaith Alternative
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: New Society Publishers jacket, Credit: cover design by Diane McIntosh
Whatever your spiritual path, chances are that the primary tenets of your faith include universal love, acceptance and compassion. Yet three thousa...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:55
WorldCanvass: Art and Memory
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:52:21
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 167 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Singer/Writer Christine McKinley, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Science Author, Michael Nielsen. Writer and Musician, Christine McKinley. Musical Guests, Crooked Fingers.

Bought by WCPN and KUOW


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 186 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Kelly Carlin - Daughter of George Carlin & Creator of A Carlin Home Companion, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
KELLY CARLIN - Writer/Performer and Creator of, A Carlin Home Companion: Growing up with George MATT LOVE - With Singer-Songwriter MICHAEL DEAN D...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 186
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Kelly Carlin - Daughter of George Carlin & Creator of A Carlin Home Companion, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
KELLY CARLIN - Writer/Performer and Creator of, A Carlin Home Companion: Growing up with George MATT LOVE - With Singer-Songwriter MICHAEL DEAN D...

Bought by Rhythm & News Service and WCPN


  • Added: May 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 181 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: New York Times Best-selling author of Wild, Cheryl Strayed, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
CHERYL STRAYED - Best-selling Author LAUREN WEEDMAN - Actress, Writer, Humorist LAURA GIBSON- Singer/Songwriter

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 13, 2012
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 181
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: New York Times Best-selling author of Wild, Cheryl Strayed, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
CHERYL STRAYED - Best-selling Author LAUREN WEEDMAN - Actress, Writer, Humorist LAURA GIBSON- Singer/Songwriter

Bought by WNJR and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Apr 13, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
On Opening an Independent Bookstore
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Wendy Welch has written a memoir about what it means to open an independent bookstore at a time when physical books seem to be disappearing. Alliso...

Bought by Prairie Public, KENW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 3
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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When Jack Beck and Wendy Welch decided to move to the small mountain town of Big Stone Gap, they hadn’t planned on opening a used bookstore.

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 180
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: David Javerbaum Author of "The Last Testament: A Memoir by GOD", Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
DAVID JAVERBAUM - Dazzling Author MICKEY HUFF - Director of Project Censored REVA DeVITO - Singer/Songwriter

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 179
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Best-Selling Author Susan Orlean, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
SUSAN ORLEAN - Best-selling Author of "The Orchid Thief" and "Rin Tin Tin." JOHN RODERICK - Talented American musician and writer. PORTLAND CELLO...

Bought by WNJR and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Mar 30, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 179 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Best-Selling Author Susan Orlean, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
SUSAN ORLEAN - Best-selling Author of "The Orchid Thief" and "Rin Tin Tin." JOHN RODERICK - Talented American musician and writer. PORTLAND CELLO...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Mar 30, 2012
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 1
Poetry Out Loud: Regional competition coverage
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Caption: Poetry Out Loud Participants, Credit: Patty Polasky
A documentary piece featuring citation and commentary from high school students from Fosston, Clearbrook-Gonvick, and Trek North High Schools durin...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 11:09
Story-Tell Lib by Annie Trumbull Slosson
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
These are original stories told by a badly crippled 13 year old girl to her friends and neighbors.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:03:10
Live Wire! Radio Episode 162 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Jennifer Egan, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Steve Almond, author and journalist, and Portland synth-pop musical guests, Wild Ones

Bought by KUOW and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2

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