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This holiday season on World Ocean Radio we return with a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson writte...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 04:03
Caption: SUBLIME THANKSGIVING JAZZ
Thanksgiving Jazz | Thanksgiving in Oldtown Combining the most thematic of jazz standards and new additions with a few excerpts from Harriet Beeche...

Bought by WJSU and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 05, 2023
  • Length: 58:24
  • Purchases: 2
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Our annual gift to World Ocean Radio listeners. In this episode, host Peter Neill reads "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop, a poem from 1955 t...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 04:40
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After watching “Tales of the City” on Netflix, Sandip reflects on his own tale of the city.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Nabaneeta Dev Sen with her daughter at Antara at the Kolkata Literary Meet, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy remembers on of India’s most beloved writers. Nabaneeta dev Sen

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Norma Cole, poet
Norma Cole meditates on the Syrian refugee crisis.

Bought by KVNO, PRX Remix, KALW, KENW, and KHSU


  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Anjuli Raza Kolb, poet
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb describes how her grandfather rewrote verses of the Qur’an using only the @ sign on his typewriter.

Bought by KUER, KHSU, KALW, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Vi Khi Nao, poet
Vi Khi Nao’s poem inhabits the scene of a painting composed in 1998.

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, KALW, and KENW


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
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RadioWest and Plan-B Theatre Company bring you O. Henry's classic Christmas story "The Gift of the Magi." Originally published in 1905 and adapted ...

Bought by WUTC


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 14:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Sharon Chmielarz's poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines nationwide. She's also published travel memoirs and three childrens picture b...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 01:36
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Ben Westlie graduated from Bemidji State University in 2006 with a BFA in Creative and Professional Writing. He's published three chapbooks of poet...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:42
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 03:01
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:58
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James Wright, was an internationally acclaimed poet who taught at the University of Minnesota for a time. This is a recording of James Wright readi...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:53
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America's rivers have always had a sacred sense of place, and we must protect them for future generations

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:45
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The timeless love story of Abelard and Heloise, complete with period music.

Bought by KZUM and Public Interactive


  • Added: Sep 12, 2005
  • Length: 20:49
  • Purchases: 2