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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about "The Mandorla Letters," the new book by flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell Gan...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2023
  • Length: 27:30
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Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged, when we’ll hear an hour of poetry and music about husbands: Mr. Right, Mr. Wrong and everyone in-bet...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:02
Caption: Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN
Charlotte Helgeson, Director of the Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN, has the "lowdown" on "puzzling and eatable" activities at Camp...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 14:28
Caption: Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN
Charlotte Helgeson, Director of the Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN shares "Hot Reads" for hot weather! Along with other important...

  • Added: May 31, 2023
  • Length: 12:04
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Welcome to Melodically Challenged.  Today, we continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number ...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, so you’ll have to keep checking your radio during this week’s melodically challenged when we bring you an hour o...

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:01
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson famously wrote “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” All of Cupid’s victims might beg to diff...

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
Caption: Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN
Director Charlotte Helgeson of the Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks fights off another round of "winter weather" in April to share all o...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 18:35
Caption: Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN
Charlotte Helgeson, Director of the Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN, has the scoop on upcoming events and activities at Campbell! P...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 18:09
Caption: Books That Should Be Adapted Into Movies
The new book from film writer Kristen Lopez asks, “But Have You Read The Book?” Kristen joins Adam and Josh for a conversation about books they hav...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMTNradio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTXK, KRSC and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Bushra Rehman, Credit:  Andrea Dobrich
Novelist and poet Bushra Rehman celebrates the Pakistani-American community of 1980’s Corona, Queens and the coming of age of a queer Muslim girl a...

Bought by WSLR, RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, KECG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 8
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU and KVSC alumni Kenneth Watson. Watso...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 29:47
Caption: Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN
Campbell Library Director Charlotte Helgeson shares a big basket full of news and upcoming activities from the East Grand Forks, MN library!

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 09:50
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In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about better list...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KALW, WUFT, and KRCU Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:23:32
  • Purchases: 4
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features a program of readings and conversation at Commerce Bank's The Box Gallery. Poets Wyatt Townley, H.C. Palmer, Brian ...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Havre, Montana-based poet Charles Finn discusses his collaborative collection, co-authored with photographer Barbara Michelman, "On a Benediction o...

Bought by KWMR, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio, WETS, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: King Alfonso X statue, Credit: web
Cantigas de Santa Maria, an exploration of songs and poems dedicated to the Virgin Mary and musical biography of King Alfonso X of 13th century Spa...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:52
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on melodically challenged, we look to the heavens. We’ll be celebrating several successful NASA missions in 2022 that have extended human...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Poet Michelle Boisseau died November 15, 2017 from cancer at age 62. In this interview conducted earlier this year at the Kansas City Public Libra...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN
Andrea Lorenz of the Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN conveys an interesting "blend" of activities and new books at Campbell!

  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 09:24
Caption: Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN
Charlotte Helgeson, Director of the Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN shares a "ghostly" story........and it's Pat Sajak's birthday!

  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 16:08
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“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.”— Eavan Boland Welcome to another edition of melodically c...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Andy Truscott speaks with Don Foster, a 2019 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellow in the field of fiction literature.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 21:57
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Emily Dickinson said, “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” Welcome to another edi...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Bobby Knight said, “Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.” Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged, when this week, we’re...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06