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MN Reads: "Spirits Dancing" with Photographer Travis Novitsky
From: WDSE
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Photographer Travis Novitsky talks about his new book "Spirits Dancing"

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:14
Interview with Dan Levitt, author of What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner.
From: KRCL
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This is a 1 on 1 interview with Author Dan Levitt, and Radioactive's Nick Burns. From Levitt's Website "For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse ...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 12:04
Las Cantigas de Santa Maria 2022, a Musical Biography of King Alfonso X
From: DEBRA BOLTON
Caption: King Alfonso X statue, Credit: web
Cantigas de Santa Maria, an exploration of songs and poems dedicated to the Virgin Mary and musical biography of King Alfonso X of 13th century Spa...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:52
  • Purchases: 1
Kim Stanley Robinson: Writing the Future Story People Want
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can a novel become a catalyst to help us address impending climate disaster? That’s one question posed by the legendary Kim Stanley Robinson, in hi...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Arundhati Roy: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction and the Pandemic Portal
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Two years ago this month, the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in the United States. “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Jan 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Not Everyone is a Jerk: Rutger Bregman on Humankind
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Life gives us plenty of reasons for cynicism but best-selling author Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists) summons a wealth of evidence that humanki...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
'Renaissance Fables For The World' 13
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: 'Study Of A Horse', Credit: Leonnardo da Vinci
This 5 minute exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's fables is part of the series of 76 programs available here on Public Radio Exchange.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
The Write Question - Ken Egan - 311
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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This program features a thoughtful conversation with Ken Egan about his historical nonfiction, Montana 1889, including the competing visions for, a...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KWMR


  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - David Owen - 336
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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David Owen discusses his nonfiction book, Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River. He also reads a short segment from the book.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Jonathan Ashley discusses "South of Cincinnati"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Jonathan Ashley is the author of Out of Mercy and The Cost of Doing Business. His work has appeared in Crime Factory, Out of the Gutter, A Twist of...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2017
  • Length: 08:32
Patrick Scully Brings Walt Whitman to Life in St. Cloud for the 100th Episode of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In the 100th episode of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack enjoys a pleasant Saturday afternoo...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: John Pula - "Katzenjammer"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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John Pula was raised in Kelliher, Minnesota and is currently in exile working as an engineer in Florida, plotting his return to Minnesota. He enjoy...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:26
The Beat: Louise Fouquerel-Skoe - "Untitled"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Louise Fouquerel-Skoe is a middler schooler in Sara Breeze's class at Schoolcraft Learning Community in Bemidji. She loves art, loves creativity in...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: :50
The Beat: Jesse Dermody- "The Statuette (In the Alcove)"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Jesse Dermody lives in the woods north of Duluth in a cabin right next to his brother Ryan's cabin. Together they are the band The Brothers Burn Mo...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:01
The Beat: Erin Lynn Marsh - "Allergies Prevail"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:33
A Conversation with Writer, Adam Johnson
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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2010 NEA Literature Fellow Adam Johnson talks the challenges of setting a novel in North Korea. [29:00]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Erin Lynn Marsh "Variations on O'Keefe's Pelvis"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Erin Lynn Marsh is a Bemidji, Minnesota poet. She's published her poetry in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine and Paper Darts. She's a gradua...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:53
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown On Shakespeare - "Proof of Bill's Translatability."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
Subversive Grace (With Music by Brian Vander Ark)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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This episode looks at the difference between conditional and unconditional compassion, and the relationship between compassion and healthy boundari...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Simply In A Complex World (with Joshua Davis)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Folk roots singer songwriter Joshua Davis joins Soulseeds Radio for an inspiring episode in which host Ian Lawton suggests listeners simply live th...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Silhouette of a Sparrow" by Molly Beth Griffin
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Silhouette of a Sparrow" by Molly Beth Griffin
Dan Sinykin gives us a succinct, clear, and intriguing synopsis of Molly Beth Griffin's coming of age novel.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Mike Finley - "Is There NASCAR In Heaven"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems that are simultaneously anxiety provoking and...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
The Beat: Deborah Cooper - "Tikkun (Hebrew for: mending the world; divine sparks)"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Deborah Cooper has recently been named the fourth Poet Laureate of Duluth. Here the Producer of The Beat, Steve Downing reads her poem "Tikkun (Heb...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
The Beat: Deborah Cooper - "Through the Night"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Deborah Cooper has recently been named the fourth Poet Laureate of Duluth. Here the Producer of The Beat, Steve Downing reads her poem "Through the...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:48
Nose
From: Helena de Groot
Series: We're All Strangers
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You're surrounded by strangers on the subway. Can you hide?

  • Added: Oct 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:34