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Fathers Encore
From: Wind & Rhythm
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Whether it's with a father, a grandfather, or a father-figure, celebrating this Father's Day connects us the same way music connects the listener w...

Bought by 'The Sea', GCR (Global Community Radio), KAAD-LP, and KMFA


  • Added: Jun 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Joyce Lynette Hocker - 328
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author and therapist Joyce Lynette Hocker discusses her memoir, "Trail to Tincup: Love Stories at Life's End." She also reads a short selection.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Discusses Irish Lore and Language
From: New Letters on the Air
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We continue Women's History Month with Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. Considered one of the country's leading poets writing all in Irish, she’s won numerous ...

Bought by WDCB and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Husband & Wife Writers Geoffrey Brock & Padma Viswanathan
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Padma Viswanathan
Novelist Padma Viswanathan, a 2017 recipient of the Porter Fund Literary Prize, and poet Geoffrey Brock, discuss how they balance their writing car...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
Mother Leila
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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This mother’s Day I was thinking about a very particular mother. Not mine but a woman named Leila Seth. Leila Seth was the first woman to top th...

  • Added: May 17, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Irish Poet Anne-Marie Fyfe
From: New Letters on the Air
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Irish poet Anne Marie Fyfe explores parallels in her poetry with work of the renowned William Butler Yeats for the "Mapping Yeats Symposium" at the...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Coccyx: Please Don't Sit on the Cuckoo
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
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Coccyx is a small triangle-shaped bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and other apes. Representing a vestigial tail and most commonly c...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2017
  • Length: 05:37
Episode 4 - Cash Peters reads Roald Dahl's "James and the Giant Peach"
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
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Book Club for Kids goes to LA for a discussion of Roald Dahl's first book for kids "James and the Giant Peach." Public radio legend Cash Peters is ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 21:34
An Impossible Enchantment
From: Rachel Liu
Series: Anthology
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Join us for the perfect bedtime story full of kings, queens, princes, princesses, fairies, merfolk, giant eagles, trained cats, magic, and lessons ...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 28:31
Poets Off the Page: Music & Poetry
From: New Letters on the Air
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POETS OFF THE PAGE: POETRY & MUSIC features an interesting look at the works of three different poets who have recently merged their poetry with mu...

Bought by KWMR, WNJR, WNMU-FM, and WJCU


  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Bear King at the Window
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Margi Preus reading an excerpt from her book "West of the Moon."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Alex George
From: New Letters on the Air
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After working for years as a corporate lawyer in England, Alex George moved to the states with his family and opened his own law practice in mid-Mi...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Husband and Wife Poets Terrance Hayes & Yona Harvey
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Terrance Hayes and Yona Harvey
African-American poet and National Book Award-winning author of LIGHTHEAD, Terrance Hayes and his wife, Yona Harvey, author of the 2013 release, HE...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 200 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: NPR's White House Correspondent Ari Shapiro, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
ARTHUR BRADFORD - Documentarian ARI SHAPIRO - NPR's White House Correspondent THOMAS LAUDERDALE - Pianist for Pink Martini SARAH JACKSON-HOLMAN ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 22, 2012
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 200
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: NPR's White House Correspondent Ari Shapiro, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
ARTHUR BRADFORD - Documentarian ARI SHAPIRO - NPR's White House Correspondent THOMAS LAUDERDALE - Pianist for Pink Martini SARAH JACKSON-HOLMAN ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Rhythm & News Service, KWMR, 90.5 WESA and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!: Galen Green on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
Caption: Galen Green
Songwriter Galen Green discusses his approach to writing songs inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Written and performed for the mont...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!: Debbie Miller on writing songs inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
Caption: Debbie Miller
Songwriter Debbie Miller discusses her approach to writing songs inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Written and performed for the mo...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 03, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!: Nova Devonie on writing songs inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
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Songwriter Nova Devonie discusses writing songs inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Written and performed for the monthly showcase Th...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents! Michael Wallenfels discussing Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
Caption: Michael Wallenfels, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Michael Wallenfels discusses writing songs inspired by Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Written and performed ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Music Played in His Head and He Began to Dance
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Storytelling, like radio, brings pictures to the mind of the listener and allows each one of us to imagine what we hear. Radio Curious visits with ...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio Episode 169 - NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Indie Rock Band Viva Voce, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
CHRIS GILLEBEAU -World traveler & author of The Art of Non-Comformity. ROLLIN SOLES - Award-winning chief winemaker for Argyle Wines. VIVA VOCE ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 54:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!: Kate Graves on The Dark Knight Returns
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
Caption: Kate Graves, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Kate Graves discusses her song inspired by Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, written and performed for the monthly showcase The Bu...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!:Kate Graves discussing her approach to writing songs inspired by The Time Traveler's Wife
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
Caption: Kate Graves, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Kate Graves discusses her approach to writing songs inspired by The Time Traveler's Wife

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Amy Tan
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Author Amy Tan talks about her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, her relationship with her mother, and the art of writing.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 27:50
Jim Proebstle on Fatal Incident
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Every Wednesday night on Real Good Words, Heidi talks with authors about their writings. Heard that phrase before? Want to take it on as your own?...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 23:43
  • Purchases: 1