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The Apple Seed - Looking For His Luck
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, you know if you're like me every once in a while, you wish you were more lucky than you are. But the truth is, luc...

Bought by WVPE, KTXK, KKRN, KSJE, and WVPE


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 5
The Apple Seed - Chili Cookoff
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Some communities build stories together through the traditions they maintain. Today, we'll visit a community and it's chili cookoff.

Bought by WVPE, KCNP, KTXK, KSJE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920 and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
The Apple Seed - The Story Tree
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, stories about stories. Stories about the telling of stories, why they're important and why people love to tell the...

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, Angelica Community Radio, WVPE, KCNP, KTXK and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 9
An Hour of Storytelling - Fractured Tales and "Test Drive"
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Stories by Diane Ferlatte and Bil Lepp and an original spy thriller

Bought by KSJE, KECG, WVPE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 7
The Apple Seed - Fire Fire Pants on Liar
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, a silly story from the great West Virginia tall tale teller, Bil Lepp. It's a story called Fire! Fire! Pants on Li...

Bought by KCNP, KTXK, KKRN, KSJE, and WVPE


  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
The Apple Seed - Blonde Beautiful and Bubbly
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode, sibling relationships can be among the most important we have, but they don't come without sibling rivalry or jealously. We're...

Bought by KCNP, KTXK, KKRN, KSJE, WYAP and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 6
The Apple Seed - Best of Season 2: John Henry the Steel Drivin' Man, Peter Pan, Einstein's Puzzle
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, Philadelphia storyteller and musician Charlotte Blake Alston joins us for a version of a story from American folk ...

Bought by KCNP, KTXK, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KSJE and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
The Apple Seed - The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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A reading of Oscar Wilde's Classic Ghost Story

Bought by KTXK, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, WVPE, and KSJE


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Story Prize-winning Author George Saunders
From: New Letters on the Air
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George Saunders reads a passage from his Story Prize-winning collection, TENTH OF DECEMBER. In this public presentation, Saunders discusses his pat...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Anthology: A Night of Storytelling, at No Name Bar. Part Two
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we stopped by No Name Bar for a night of storytelling. The event was inspired by the popular podcast The Moth. Several diff...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 52:17
Anthology: A Night of Storytelling, at No Name Bar. Part One
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we stopped by No Name Bar for a night of storytelling. The event was inspired by the popular podcast The Moth. Several diff...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 47:52
Chris Bohjalian, author of "The Flight Attendant"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews novelist Chris Bohjalian about his latest best-seller "The Flight Attendant"

  • Added: Apr 06, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
Cosmic Connections: Two Short Plays by David Auburn and David Ives
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Amy Ryan
Two short plays. In Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn’s Fifth Planet, a professional astronomer played by Amy Ryan (Birdman; Gone, Baby, Gone) an...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Jane Smiley
From: New Letters on the Air
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Jane Smiley discusses her 2014 book, SOME LUCK, the first in a trilogy that follows an Iowa farm family for more than a century. Smiley talks about...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR


  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 2
Food and Wine Books in the News
From: The Book Report
Series: The Book Report
Caption: Elaine Charles, Credit: Former Library of Congress and Miami Herald staffer
A spread of new books about food: from evil sugar to wonderful wine.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2014
  • Length: 54:10
Pretty LIT 2.1
From: BJ Love
Series: Pretty LIT
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Featuring some totally pretty literature by Mike Young, Montreux Rotholtz, Ted Berrigan, Jeff Hipsher, Josephine Rowe, Eric Baus, and Elizabeth Bis...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 21:37
Tom Owens, The Vegetarian
From: Gwen yfar
Series: Contract Killer: Memoirs of a Reluctant Reaper
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Our Killer meets her first victim

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:20
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
Chapter 2: Soldier of Fortune
From: Gwen yfar
Series: Contract Killer: Memoirs of a Reluctant Reaper
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The world's only contract killer not to own a gun discovers she is in business.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:33
"Heart of Darkness, Part 3"
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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In this episode: "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad, part 3 of 10

Bought by WMUU-LP and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 29:24
  • Purchases: 2
"The Awakening, Part 7"
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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In this episode: "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin, chapters 21-25

  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 29:49
"The Awakening, Part 5"
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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In this episode: "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin, chapters 15-17

  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:40
"The Awakening, Part 4"
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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In this episode: "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin, chapters 11-15

  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:40
"The Awakening, Part 3"
From: WFHB
Series: Books Unbound
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In this episode: "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin, chapters 8-11

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 29:50