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The Beat : Charmaine Donovan - "Bad Boy's Blue Shoes Shuffle"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Charmaine Donovan makes her living as a Chemical Dependency Counselor in the Brainerd area. She's a member of numerous regional and national writer...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
The Beat : Marsh Muirhead - "Thin Ice"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Marsh Muirhead, a writer, dentist, flight instructor, and much else besides, lives near Bemidji, MN on the banks of the Mississippi with his dog, S...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
The Beat : John Dallas - "As I Was Trying to Say"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
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Jon Dallas is a poet living in Chisholm, Minnesota. Jon's poetry has appeared in the New Orleans Review, Green Mountain Review, Antigonish Review, ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:13
Acoustic Stories : Steve Downing - "Cherries"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:23
The Beat: Doris Stengel - "Recycling"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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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: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
Putting Fear In Perspective (with Seth Glier)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Ian Lawton's theme in this episode of Soulseeds Radio explores putting fear in perspective. As Emerson said, "Do the thing you fear and the death o...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Casting Your Whole Vote (With Joshua Davis)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Soulseeds Radio host Ian Lawton explores casting your whole vote -- not just voting once every four years, but letting your whole life, all your wo...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:27
  • Purchases: 1
You've Gotta Have Faith (with Josh Rose)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Ian Lawton looks at many sides of Faith -- taking power where you can control things in your life, surrendering where you can't control things in y...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Lorie Yourd - "After Hearing About the Rain"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Retired educator, Lorie Yourd, shares her insightful, reflective poem "After Hearing About the Rain."

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "The Long Shining Waters" by Danielle Sosin
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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Danielle Sosin's novel, "The Long Shining Waters," tells three stories of three women living around the shores of Lake Superior in three distinct t...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 2
Soulseeds Radio: Living Hope (with Channing and Quinn)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Welcome to Soulseeds Radio with host Ian Lawton -- talking today about hope which is not just an idea, not just a philosophy, but something that's ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 1
Holiday Episode: At the Fishhouses
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Each year during the holidays, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen above all oth...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 05:10
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" -by Stewart Van Cleve
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" by Stewart Van Cleve
Dan Sinykin provides a comprehensive of the historically illuminating new book "Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota" by Stewart Van ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
KUT's Views and Brews: Becoming Tennessee Williams
From: KUT
Series: KUT's Views and Brews Remix
Caption: Tennessee Williams
In this Views and Brews Remix on Becoming Tennessee Williams professor Charlotte Canning, joins director Norman Blumensaadt and actress Jennifer Un...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:00:52
The Beat: Louis Jenkins - "Laundromat"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Robert Bly refers to Louis Jenkins, poet from Duluth, as the contemporary master of prose poetry. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 19, 2012
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
Shuffle, a meditation on life, weather and work ... or the lack of it.
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
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Here's an excerpt from an essay by Springfield, Oregon writer Lawrence Elliott. Out of work and afoot in the scruffy neighborhood he calls home, fo...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 03:39
The Beat: Shanthi Siva - "Word Power"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Shanthi Siva is originally from India, and now lives in Rochester Minnesota with her family. She has a Masters Degree in English Language and Liter...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:46
Real Good Words: Will Weaver
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: The Survivors by Will Weaver
Heidi Holtan talked with Bemidji author Will Weaver about young adult novels and his latest “The Survivors” a sequel to the bestselling “Memory Boy...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Joy Luck Club: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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A half-hour audio program that explores Amy Tan's gripping, The Joy Luck Club. It features Amy Tan and readings by actress Ming-Na from the film ad...

Bought by Room Tone Selects, KZYX, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2011
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 6
The Importance of Work
From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial
Caption: Author Richard Ford, Credit: Sahlan Hayes
Host Phalana Tiller interviews Geoffrey Brewer of the Gallup Press and novelist Richard Ford. And Bloomberg Businessweek online columnist Rick Wart...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Design Thinking, Collective Action and Peter Drucker
From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial
Caption: Roger Martin, Credit: rogerlmartin.com
Host Phalana Tiller interviews authors Roger Martin and James Quigley. And Bloomberg Businessweek online columnist Rick Wartzman delivers a piece ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: May 12, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Portrait of an Artist: a semi-regular series
From: KUT
Series: Portrait of an Artist-a semi-regular series
Caption: Tomas Q. Morin
Poet, Scholar and Artist Tomas Q. Morin talks about his life and career, and reads a few of his own works.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2010
  • Length: 10:59
Told and Retold :Spring
From: Sarah Montague
Caption: "Robert Bly & Gioia Timpanelli
A Seasonal celebration of storytelling : Spring

Bought by North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour Five
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour Four
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: 2008 CBC Massey Lectures
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This five part series is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1