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Caption: Clifford Simak
Clifford D. Simak is part of Science Fiction’s Golden Age (1940s-50s), and the author of classics including “City,” “Way Station” and “Goblin Reser...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Southern Gothic writer Harry Crews died in March of this year. Although many people have never heard of him, Crews’ stories about outcasts inspired...

  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
Caption: Luis Alberto Urrea
Known for his book THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction, and his American Book Award-winning memoir, NOBODY'S SON, Luis Al...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Contemporary news icon Dan Rather shares the ups and downs of his career in his memoir, “Rather Outspoken”; and author, Christopher Bram gives the ...

Bought by WCNY and KWMR


  • Added: May 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 2
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A dramatic musical based on "The Diary of Anne Frank," with music by Michael Cohen and libretto by Enid Futterman. Perfect for scheduling in April ...

Bought by KPVL and KENW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Six-time Spur Award winner Richard S. Wheeler talks about and reads from his novel based on the history of Butte, Montana, 'The Richest Hill on Ear...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Abraham Lincoln through Fiction—a conversation with professor and novelist Adam Braver, whose work includes Mr. Lincoln's Wars; also, poetry from D...

Bought by KUCB


  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Alan Weltzein talks about his research into the life of Montana's 20th-century novelist, Thomas Savage. And about Savage's novel, LONA HANSON.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
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The third woman in the Parker Devoe Production Series "Thirty Women Worth Knowing.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2012
  • Length: 04:06
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Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove talks about her writing with a focus on her most recent book of poems, Sonata Mullatica. [30:44]

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: Feb 29, 2012
  • Length: 30:45
  • Purchases: 2
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The Magna Carta is one of most important legal documents in history and it is now being digitized, translated, and uploaded online.

Bought by WJCT and WMNR


  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The original "Ozark Reflections" story, including additional folk music by Becky Stevens at end of narrative.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2012
  • Length: 54:25
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In this interview author Angie Abdou brings to her latest book themes from an ancient English text first made popular in the middle ages to put a m...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 14, 2012
  • Length: 12:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bestselling Author Trenton Lee Stewart, Credit: Arkansas Shakespeare Theater
Three well-known Southern writers tell stories of tragedy and comedy in their own personal lives, and see Shakespeare in themselves, others, and ev...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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An audio drama overview of the places, folkways, history and realities of the Ozark region of mid-America from the early 1800's to the present.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2012
  • Length: 36:21
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Marks was a British code maker in World War II. While still in his early twenties, in charge of wireless communication codes to espionage agents an...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Michelle Boisseau
Poet Michelle Boisseau talks about her collection A SUNDAY IN GOD-YEARS, which examines borders between black and white, free and slave, living and...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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Radio Curious discusses time, as we know it, with Clark Blaise, author of "Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time."

  • Added: Dec 26, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
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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
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Today on "Don't Cha Know" we get to know more about Larry Peterson of Red Wing MN. Larry is an avid collector of Red Wing Stoneware - and is quite ...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 27:34
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Today on Art Beat we examine the author. MN author Eric Dregni is here to talk about his new book "Vikings in the Attic: In search of Nordic Americ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KSRQ, and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 32:34
  • Purchases: 3
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On this episode of Art Beat, we continue our two part interview and lecture series of Minnesota author Ashley Shelby. Ashley's book "Red River Risi...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 35:32
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Literary biographer Brenda Wineapple discusses her book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 1
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A conversation with the author of a new book about the literary history of Brooklyn.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Roland Emmerich, Berkeley, CA 9/29/11, Credit: Andrea Chase
Roland Emmerich talks art, politics, and why we need a new word for conspiracy.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2011
  • Length: 13:16