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HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: How Earth keeps time" - No one understands time like a geologist. And with the climate convulsing and the future breathing do...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "To All The Dogs We've Loved" - Picture yourself half way through a thousand mile sled dog race. What do you think about? This hour, adve...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:01
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Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 22:02
  • Purchases: 1
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HOUR ONE: "Whose Land Is It?" - Owning land is a big part of the American dream. But there’s a problem with that: That land is often stolen. So who...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
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HOUR ONE: "Reframing The Portrait" - Have you ever stood in front of a portrait at a museum and wondered what was that person thinking? Portraits h...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
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HOUR ONE: "To All The Dogs We've Loved" - Picture yourself half way through a thousand mile sled dog race. What do you think about? This hour, adve...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
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HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time" - When you’re on the clock, the hours disappear. Time scarcity is making us and the planet sick. But the...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "The Hidden Geometry Of Everything" - The human brain is naturally mathematical. But there's one particular kind of math that's the secre...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "Writing As A Political Act" - In peaceful times, and in moments of violence, writers have used their art as protest, remembrance, and so...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "To All The Dogs We've Loved" - Picture yourself half way through a thousand mile sled dog race. What do you think about? This hour, adve...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
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Are you drowning? With extreme temperatures, a global pandemic and other crises how do we take a breath? Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ UNDROWNED: Black F...

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


  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Episode Twenty-one – Authority, power, and money never lose. Though there is confusion swirling about him, another death, and a sickening occurren...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 13:45
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HOUR ONE: "Reading While Young" - Having trouble reading? Maybe the answer is a younger read. We'll celebrate the new season of our "Bookmarks" mic...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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HOUR ONE: "You're Not OK. That's OK." - One of our producers created a yard sign. It reads: "You're not OK. That's OK." 300 signs later, it's causi...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
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In 1969, a white journalist named Grace Halsell, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2021
  • Length: 12:18
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There are more than 100,000 Little Free Library sites worldwide. We learn about them from Little Free Library Inc's Shelby King. We've also got boo...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KSTK, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRSC and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
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There are more than 100,000 libraries placed worldwide. We learn about them from Little Free Library Inc's Shelby King. We've also got book reviews...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
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Centuries after Cinderella meets Prince Charming, girls team up to overthrow the kingdom in this dark and imaginative retelling of the classic fair...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 13:31
Caption: 'Terrestrial Paradise', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This program presents the living fables of renaissance writer Bartolomeo Scala. His emphasis on the exploration of human nature is refreshing.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'The Adoration Of The Mystic Lamb', Credit: van Eyck
This program is a 5 minute spoken word exploration of renaissance fables. Leon Battista Alberti is one of the four great authors presented in this ...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'The Garden Of Earthly Delights', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This program explores the fables of Bartolomeo Scala. He is one of the four great authors of renaissance fables explored in this series in 5 minute...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'The Mystical Nativity', Credit: Botticelli
This 5 minute program explores through the spoken word the fables of Bartolomeo Scala. Part of the 76 part series here on Public Radio Exchange, th...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:01
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Megan Angelo’s debut novel "Followers," Tammy Bobrowsky's review of Washington Post reporter, Christopher Ingram's new book "If You Live Here You’d...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00

  • Added: Nov 21, 2019
  • Length: 13:12
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"Hogzilla Chuck Norris Duck Ape" is the creation of a special ed class in St. Louis and winner of the Global Monster Project. And, Gothic Literatur...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WLPR , WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Oct 11, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7