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In this episode we explore beast bridegroom tales and other stories where pigs marry peasants and men fall for snakes. It's a mad fairy tale world ...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 27:22
Caption: "Y" by Leslie Adrienne Miller
Leslie Adrienne Miller is author of six collections of poetry including "Y," "The Resurrection Trade" and "Eat Quite Everything You See" from Grayw...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "The Last Hunter: An American Family Album." by Will Weaver
Will Weaver is a highly successful writer who has published mainly in the area of young-adult fiction. Here though we have an adult non-fiction mem...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Joseph Koenig is a novelist and seasoned pulp writer.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 22:05
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Radio Curious brings you an archived, 2-part conversation about death and forensics, with Dr. Michael Baden, the Chief Medical Examiner for the New...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2012
  • Length: 58:02
Caption: A play read through in progress, Credit: www.grsf.org
Doug Scholz-Carlson, Associate Producing Director and acting company member of The Great River Shakespeare Festival is joined with Irene ErkenBrack...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 22:24
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Dr. Gregory Schmidt from Winona State University's History Department recently gave a talk on the Boatmen of the early 1800's at the Minnesota Mari...

Bought by KREV-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 39:36
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Wes Weddell, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Wes Weddell discusses his song inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
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Biographer Valerie Boyd talks about the life and work of Zora Neale Hurston.

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 28:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WSLR, WHFR, KUOW, KVNF and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 25:33
  • Purchases: 16
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A journalist for thirty-five years, Mark Seal is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 29:17
Caption: Melani McAlister's book jacket for Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests, 1945-2000
How do war stories work, and where do we find them? Our guests this week are mapping out terrains of conflict and confusion in our lifetimes, from ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Lightsey Darst, Credit: Terese Tenseth
On this edition of Art Beat we feature Minnesota poet Lightsey Darst. Darst was visiting Winona State University Professor James Armstrong's class ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2010
  • Length: 31:07
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Liberal arts colleges are known for their small class sizes, individual attention, and atmosphere meant to inspire intellectual curiosity in its st...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2010
  • Length: 08:46
Caption: Joseph O'Neill
NETHERLAND, the 2009 novel by Joseph O'Neill, won the PEN/Faulkner award. He discusses the arduous process of writing the book, which is set in hi...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
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Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:03

  • Added: Sep 30, 2007
  • Length: 04:36
  • Purchases: 1