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The Oldest of Old Worlds
From: KMUW
Series: You're Saying It Wrong
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This week, we're talking about some of the very oldest words in the English language, and how little some of them have changed over thousands of ye...

Bought by KRPS and KECG


  • Added: Jun 06, 2024
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Return of the Confusables
From: KMUW
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We get back to one of our favorite topics: words that sound a lot like other words but that mean totally different things.

Bought by KECG and KRPS


  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
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
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
Take This Waltz
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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The waltz figures prominently in these pieces about the human experience.

  • Added: Jan 30, 2021
  • Length: 54:04
National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Poet Laura Kasischke
From: New Letters on the Air
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SHORT DESCRIPTION: National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet Laura Kasischke explores topics from motherhood to beauty queens in her 2017 boo...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Peter Anderson — Writing the eccentricities of place
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes spoke with writer, poet, and educator Peter Anderson.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Feb 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Arthur Phillips discusses the influence of Shakespeare
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Arthur Phillips
Four hundred years after the death of William Shakespeare and during the Folger Library's year long nationwide tour of The Bard's first folio in 20...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 233 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Singer/songwriter Laura Veirs, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
DAVID NADELBERG & NEIL KATCHER of MORTIFIED, music by ADAM SELZER and LAURA VEIRS

Bought by KUT, KUOW, KCPW Salt Lake City, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 4
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 233
From: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Singer/songwriter Laura Veirs, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
DAVID NADELBERG & NEIL KATCHER of MORTIFIED, music by ADAM SELZER and LAURA VEIRS

Bought by WCPN, KSRQ, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 224
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Author and musician James McBride, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author JAMES McBRIDE, Editor of Found magazine DAVY ROTHBART and musical guests WILD ONES

Bought by KWMR, Rhythm & News Service, KSRQ, 90.5 WESA, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 223 "Monsters of Public Radio" NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Host of This American Life, 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 WCPN, KUT, KUOW, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 4
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 223 "Monsters of Public Radio"
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Host of This American Life, 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 Rhythm & News Service, KWMR, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, 90.5 WESA and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 222 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Animal behaviorist and autism expert Temple Grandin
Author SUSAN CAIN, Animal behaviorist and autism expert TEMPLE GRANDIN, Actor and storyteller STEPHEN TOBOLOWSKY, Late author DAVID RAKOFF, and Imp...

Bought by KUT, KUOW, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 54:49
  • Purchases: 3
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 222 "Think Differently"
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Animal behaviorist and autism expert Temple Grandin
Author SUSAN CAIN, Animal behaviorist and autism expert TEMPLE GRANDIN, Actor and storyteller STEPHEN TOBOLOWSKY, Late author DAVID RAKOFF, and Imp...

Bought by KALW, Rhythm & News Service, KSRQ, 90.5 WESA, KWMR and more


  • Added: Aug 23, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 209 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Improvisational Comedian Reggie Watts, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Note: we are re-airing one of our favorite shows from a previous era, in which Courtenay Hameister was host, in its entirety this week as we morph ...

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


  • Added: Aug 09, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 220 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Actress and Comedian Kristen Schaal, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
KRISTEN SCHAAL & SCOTT JACOBSON - Comedian/voice actress and writer/producer for Bob's Burgers LISA HANAWALT - Well-published cartoonist Musical ...

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


  • Added: Jul 26, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 29
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know! Featuring Grammy Nominee Linda Chorney and Musician Jiggley Jones.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 57:53
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 217 NEWSHOLE VERSION Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: NYTimes Best Selling Author Augusten Burroughs, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author of the NYT best seller "Running with Scissors", AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The Oregonians musical editor, RYAN WHITE Musical Guests, RADIATION CITY

Bought by KUT, KUOW, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Jul 05, 2013
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 3
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 220
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Actress and Comedian Kristen Schaal, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
KRISTEN SCHAAL & SCOTT JACOBSON - Comedian/voice actress and writer/producer for Bob's Burgers LISA HANAWALT - Well-published cartoonist Musical ...

Bought by KSRQ, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, Rhythm & News Service, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8